Aston Villa v Manchester City Pre-Match Thread

[Dave Cooper please]

Guzan/Hutton Richards Clark Amavi/Sanchez Gana/Veretout Gil Sinclair/Ayew

[SoccerHQ]

Guzan
Hutton
Clark
Richards
Amavi
Gana
Sanchez
Gil
Veretout
Ayew
Sinclair

[Monty]

Grealish is on the bench, which is a tough decision but I completely understand why he's done it.

THE MANAGER MADE A DECISION AND IT MAKES SENSE

[richard moore]

Much better line up though where the goals will come from is going to be a real problem up the transfer window when hopefully we can get someone in!

[richard moore]

And delph on their bench! Enjoy the walk to the dugout you little twat

[Karlos96]

Finally a decent line up, pretty much what most people have wanted to see for weeks.

[SoccerHQ]

Not too bad, Gil starting was a no brainer, good Amavi is back and I'm intrigued how middle trio of Gana, Sanchez and Veretout looks, could be balanced.

Now off to the pub.

[Ormy Droid]

Well bugger me, he's only gone and dropped the inherently useless, and picked a line up that makes some kind of sense!

Come on Villa!

[taylorsworkrate]

Much much better line up than of late.

Finally, no Lescott which has been long overdue

[Jimbo]

It wasn't that difficult after all.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

I see Charlie is on the bench. In from the cold.

Still, not a bad looking team, though he can't know everything about the players yet.

It'll be interesting to see what our game plan is and what the players do. I can't remember the last time our players knew what they were supposed to be doing.

Need to be extremely luck to get anything today, but here's hoping.

[saunders_heroes]

Is Traore injured?

[Axl Rose]

Decent team. Come on Villa. Good luck Remi and the team.
2-2

[charleeco7]

On paper that's probably our best side. Debatable whether I'd have stuck gestede in instead of Sinclair but man city are decent in the air so would have played a part in his thought process I guess.

[CT]

Not that hard to pick a half decent team.

That looks a lot better.