Aston Villa v Wolverhampton Wanderers - Pre match thread

[aj2k77]

                      Gollini

Bacuna   Elphick Chester   Cissokho


        Westwood Gardner  Lyden

                 
              McCormack  Grealish         
                         Kodija

[David_Nab]

And I reckon we have 3 players 1 booking away from a ban. Elphick, Ayew and Jedi.

2 of them not much loss with recent performances ..

[mr underhill]

Well he better get a wiggle on; it's nearly Wednesday and no sign of him yet

[Lobsterboy]

I'm working on the basis Clarke will be in charge but with Tish and Ayew possibly absent would like to see us line up as follows:

Gollini, Bacuna, Chester, Elphick, Cissokho, Gardner, Jedinak, Westwood, Grealish, McCormack, Kodjia

Subs - Steer, Hutton, Baker, Amavi, Gestede, Adomah, Lyden

I've gone for a draw as that's what we tend to do...

[levico]

Clarke in charge = home defeat

Bruce in charge = draw

But who really knows

[claret+blue ed]

Don't care who manages or who plays on Saturday, just any old scrappy win will do

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I think that will have to be my mantra until the end of the season.

[berneboy]

Win 1-0

[Matt Collins]

Is Tshibola definitely suspended?

He's just tweeted that he's looking forward to the weekend and he doesn't seem to be on a list of suspended players

[VancouverLion]

2-0 win

[Sexual Ealing]

                      Gollini

Bacuna   Elphick Chester   Cissokho


        Westwood Gardner  Lyden

                 
              McCormack  Grealish         
                         Kodija

That looks like the best we could do in the circumstances.

[KRS]

Not quite a must win fixture but beating this lot will set us up nicely for the next 4 games. Bruce will only have a couple of days with the players so he needs to get to work quick or at least get these players organised and ready to run through walls for 3pts.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

all home games are must win fixtures

[avfcpg]

Tsihbola said on social media he's looking forward to the game...however this says he's out. Not sure how accurate this is given that it has Gabby out suspended (no bad thing).
http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/aston-villa/sperrenundverletzungen/verein/405

[CJ]

Tsihbola said on social media he's looking forward to the game...however this says he's out. Not sure how accurate this is given that it has Gabby out suspended (no bad thing).
http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/aston-villa/sperrenundverletzungen/verein/405

Weird one - I was convinced he was suspended for two yellows picked up in an under-23 game, but doesn't show as suspended or awaiting suspension on the official FA site - and it's pretty accurate with our players one card away from suspension.