Aston Villa vs Sunderland Pre-Match Thread

[Dave]

Saturday August 29th, 3pm
Villa Park

Could really do with winning this one.

[Goldie.7]

Us 3 Them 0

[silhillvilla]

We've just had an 8 goal thriller, they had a 9 goal thriller.

0-0.

[Ron Manager]

Need to win this one badly for confidence.Sinclair must play.

Villa 2-0

[gervilla]

Need to win this one badly for confidence.Sinclair must play.

Villa 2-0

Just as much as Gabby must not.
2-1 to us.

[Matt Collins]

We either draw these games 0-0 or thrash them. Back six picks itself.

I'd ideally go: Westwood gueye - Adama grealish Sinclair - gestede

If Adama is out i think he might retain the diamond, with Sinclair up top along with gestede. But I'd go with width for this one.

[Risso]

I think we need to stay unbeaten in the next three games, starting with a win against Sunderland.  My worry is that we don't really appear to have a settled striker or settled way to play.  Gestede is very different to the likes of Ayew and Sinclair, who are more secondary strikers/wingers.  But they look utterly inept, so I'll go for a routine 2-0 win.  A loss would be very, very concerning indeed.

[silhillvilla]

It will be interesting to see how far we've come since the corresponding fixture last December (0-0), think this was the game Tom Fox had Tim Sherwood with him as a guest.

[Matt Collins]

It's times like this we could really do with some good set piece delivery and consistent defending. We had countless routine victories under oneill on that basis. Despite very limited attacking play at times

Get jack on the corners and get rust, Richards and Clark really attacking it

[PaulWinch again]

Could really do with a win here.

[bob]

Got to beat these.

Sinclair up front.

[Des Little]

3-0 to us.  Gabby hat trick.


Nurse!

[Legion]

2-0

Sinclair
Grealish

[Lobsterboy]

I'll go 3-1 to us

Sinclair, Grealish and Agbonlahor - Defoe for them

[UK Redsox]

The key question is, of course................. is Legion going ?