Southampton vs Aston Villa Pre-Match Thread

[Taylor]

How bad a keeper must Bunn be if he cannot get in ahead of Guzan?

[auntiesledd]

Saints 2 - 3 Villa.

Villa 2-0 down until the 85th minuite, until Garde shouts "Sacré bleu!"; takes off his suit to reveal his replica kit; yanks off Gestede to take the field; and scores a left & right footed brace before stealing all three points - in front of the delirious away following - with a 20 yard diving header.

[The Edge]

How bad a keeper must Bunn be if he cannot get in ahead of Guzan?

In my lifetime I can't remember the villa having such piss poor goalkeepers.  We are desperate for quality keepers.

[Richard E]

We'll get something from this one. The rot has to stop somewhere and they're not in great form. Plus you don't usually get beat twice in quick succession at the same place. 1-1.

[eamonn]

Saints 2 - 3 Villa.

Villa 2-0 down until the 85th minuite, until Garde shouts "Sacré bleu!"; takes off his suit to reveal his replica kit; yanks off Gestede to take the field; and scores a left & right footed brace before stealing all three points - in front of the delirious away following - with a 20 yard diving header.

That all sounds believable apart from the bit about Remi pleasuring Rudi. Garde is blatantly hetero.

[SoccerHQ]

Remember when we beat this lot two years ago with about 20% possession, oh for those days again when we were shite but probably had about 20 more points on the board than we do now.

3-1 Southampton.

[VillaAlways]

They've lost a couple of games recently, seem to be in a bit of a rut

Shit!
3-0 Saints

[auntiesledd]

Saints 2 - 3 Villa.

Villa 2-0 down until the 85th minuite, until Garde shouts "Sacré bleu!"; takes off his suit to reveal his replica kit; yanks off Gestede to take the field; and scores a left & right footed brace before stealing all three points - in front of the delirious away following - with a 20 yard diving header.

That all sounds believable apart from the bit about Remi pleasuring Rudi. Garde is blatantly hetero.

Kerboom-Tish!   

[kippaxvilla2]

If we win this never mind Remi Garde, I think I will be at least semi hard at the end.

[Des Little]

4-0 home win. Sob

[tomd2103]

I can't see the point of making wholesale changes at this juncture, so I wouldn't make too many.  I'd go with:


                   Guzan

Hutton  Richards  Clark   ?

                   Sanchez

           Veretout.     Gana


Sinclair          Gestede       Ayew


Yes Gestede is not good enough, but we don't have a lot of other options and I think Ayew looks better cutting in from a wide position.  I would drop Guzan, but don't really know how good Bunn is and would like to see a youngster like Kinsella given a go at LB but the same applies.  As much as I like Gil as a player, there is literally no point in playing him wide in the above system.  He ends up getting the ball on the halfway line where he doesn't really hurt teams.

[villadelph]

I just hoped we don't get destroyed. But, seeing as we just shipped out four goals to Everton and three goals to Watford it's more than likely. It can't be worse than last years match..

[CT Villan]

Isn't Clark suspended for the Saints game ?

This could be the silver lining that drives us on to victory...I'm going for a Villa win.

[Toronto Villa]

we are going to win eventually. It might as well be this game. 1-0 us.

[conman]

If we win this never mind Remi Garde, I think I will be at least semi hard at the end.

i know how you feel