Aston Villa vs Cardiff City Pre-Match Thread

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Joe Bennett is apparently having a cracking season for them according to their fans. They highly rate him.

[Ads]

Massively important that we win. Keep up the momentum and closing that gap on 6th.

Very winnable game. You know ow they'll be hard working and organised, but so are we. You'd hope that if they let us have 71% of the ball that with our quality we'd give them a battering.

[willenhall villa]

A first headache for Bruuuuuuce with all of the attacking options now available.
I think I would start with Albert, Grealish, kodjia & Rudy. I think we missed a focal point to our lineup v Brighton. I thought we looked nervous about playing the ball in to the "one who offers nothing."

[sid1964]

For me Kodja has to play down the middle of our attack, does not offer as much when playing out wide.

[Bestmate]

For me Kodja has to play down the middle of our attack, does not offer as much when playing out wide.
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Agreed. Replace Gabby with kodija and Ayew out wide. A more attacking option for a home game is Grealish ahead of Gardner too.

[b23]

Cardiff City boss Warnock wanted Aston Villa job in summer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38106321

[Ad@m]

For me Kodja has to play down the middle of our attack, does not offer as much when playing out wide.

Bruce has gone on record to say that Kodja plays out wide because he wants prefers to.  I agree that I think Kodja looks more dangerous in the middle but given how many strikers we have (three who scored 20+ goals the last time they were in the Championship) we can afford to let Kodja play where he wants and still have a threat in the centre.

[Richard E]

I'm missing this one as I'm in Penzance visiting the in-laws so it will undoubtedly be a 6-0 home win.

[Sleeuwenhoek]

Richard, you can celebrate with a pint of Proper Job in the Benbo after

[Ads]

We've moved up a place tonight. Let's hope we move up some more come 5pm tomorrow.

[Steve kirk]

3-1 to the Mighty Villa with us hopefully creeping up to half way, I was so gutted that a draw at Brighton eventually left us in 16th place

[olaftab]

Wow 84% confident we will trounce them tomorrow... When was the last time we had this level of optimism?

[olaftab]

I'm missing this one as I'm in Penzance visiting the in-laws so it will undoubtedly be a 6-0 home win.

If it is I will pay you to miss all future home games😀

[villan from luton]

Will be interesting to see the team that is picked tomorrow, really like Jack in the number 10 position. I read someone commenting that Kodjia prefers playing wide, that does surprise me tbh. Anyway, I am going for a 3-1 win

[ciggiesnbeer]

Cardiff City boss Warnock wanted Aston Villa job in summer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38106321

"I thought at the time that's their loss not mine."