Aston Villa vs Preston North End Pre-Match Thread

[Chipsticks]

A chance to redeem the reverse of this fixture, as well as the shite we've seen in the last 3 games.

I expect us to win, and we very much need to. Preston sit four points above us in 9th, so we must close this gap along with the 10 point gap to the play-offs.

I'm saying a narrow 1-0, though I have as little clue as anyone else about where the goals are going to come from.

Who would you play up front?

[LukeJames]

0-0

[maigrait]

0-0...

[andyh]

0-0

[cdbearsfan]

Who would you play up front?

ABG.

[cdbearsfan]

Oh, and... 0-0.

[eamonn]

Their tails are up after beating Brighton last week, Simon ''Larry'' Grayson had the measure of us in Di Matteo's last stand and we're not playing any better now than we were then.
Our home record and a bit of psychological steel that goes with that is the main thing we have going for us right now.

Another low-scoring draw or a narrow defeat. Robinson and Johnson probably to have the games of their lives too. Villa's Law - whatever can be miserable, will be.

[class-of-82]

Play Adomah green and rhm up front and hit them with pace
Gardner tish and grealish in midfield
Bacuna amavi baker (if fit) Chester
Sam the man in goal
Think it's got to the time where Jedi needs a break out of the team need a win so badly and I think we will

[Chipsticks]

Play Adomah green and rhm up front and hit them with pace

Interesting front 3, I'm just not sure Bruce would opt for this. I can definitely see him giving a first start to a young striker though.

I'd like to see Grealish playing behind McCormack and RHM. We've had far too little going forward in our previous games.

[darren woolley]

We really need to win this one to close the gap on the top six so I'm going for a 2-1 win to us.

[l_mckay]

Can't see where the goals are going to come from. 0-0

[oldtimernow]

Who would you play up front?

ABG.

Surely some mistake here?

I would go with XYZ

even that's better than the last two combinations we've put out

[wittonwarrior]

Question has to be where will our goals come from.  Can see nothing better than a draw

[frank black]

0-1

[Legion]

2-0