Aston Villa vs Man City pre match thread - Jan 12th - 4.30pm

[Toronto Villa]

Another very tough game. We will likely go with the same team as Leicester. False 9 formation of whatever it was the other night. We will need the same effort and organization. We simply cannot give the ball away as wastefully as we did vs Leicester as we will get beaten. But there’s more confidence about the club right now, so I’ll take a draw.

1-1 Jack for us. Colin Bell for them.

[TaxDodger]

Charlie Nicholas has gone for 0-5. Fuck off Charlie Nicholas.

[Des Little]

Not a hope in hell of even a point.

I’ve voted home win.  Come on Villa

[cdbearsfan]

Charlie Nicholas has gone for 0-5. Fuck off Charlie Nicholas.

He's my second least favourite former Bully Wee player after Steve Evans. He's a right twat.






Probably not far off right, though 😥

[SoccerHQ]

1-3.

I think we'll be good for an hour and be at 1-1 (remember we held them scoreless first half up there) and then we'll do our usual of being scared at about to hold a decent team to a draw and Nakamba or Luiz (one of them will probably be on the pitch) will just start passing De Bruyne or Bernardo Silva the ball at random which won't end well.

Man. City are very good of course but they did draw 2-2 at Newcastle five weeks ago and of course the infamous Norwich loss in September. Also only scraped past Southampton 2-1 a week after they lost 9-0 so they don't always demolish relegation strugglers.

[Chipsticks]

I'll be chuffed if we keep it competitive and look as solid as we did against Leicester. Can we reasonably ask for any more?

We're overdue a win against a big team...

We have more to play for than them...

Wolves beat them...

Dare a man dream?

[enigma]

Gonna be grim. We'll have about 3 shots all match as the game is played almost entirely in our third of the pitch.

Yeah, I'm not optimistic about this one.

[VILLA MOLE]

They are not great at back , but we have no strikers hmmmm 2-2  we get 2 own goals

[SoccerHQ]

I'll be chuffed if we keep it competitive and look as solid as we did against Leicester. Can we reasonably ask for any more?

We're overdue a win against a big team...

We have more to play for than them...

Wolves beat them...

Dare a man dream?

Spurs is the one to watch for that. Lots of injuries and they remain s*** away under Mourinho who dosen't exactly enjoy his season outings to VP.

That's actually a game where I'd be disappointed if we draw, got a good feeling for it.

[KRS]

Damage limitation exercise against one of the best teams in the world. We have fragile confidence so a good team battling performance is what we need. Let’s keep the score line respectable...and you never know, we might even scrape a draw or an unlikely win. With all that being said, they aren’t unbeatable so going out there thinking we’ve lost before we’ve kicked a ball is completely the wrong mindset to have going into the game.

0-3 Citeh

[PeterWithesShin]

Us 4 Them 1

[Deano's Mullet]

Only consolation from this weekend is our other relegation rivals all have tough opponents too. 0-4 City.

[TaxDodger]

I'll be chuffed if we keep it competitive and look as solid as we did against Leicester. Can we reasonably ask for any more?

We're overdue a win against a big team...

We have more to play for than them...

Wolves beat them...

Dare a man dream?

Spurs is the one to watch for that. Lots of injuries and they remain s*** away under Mourinho who dosen't exactly enjoy his season outings to VP.

That's actually a game where I'd be disappointed if we draw, got a good feeling for it.

Spurs are a big team?

[Mossie Hennebry]

1-0. We learn from our mistakes in midfield and remain tight at the back. O.G. off a Luiz shot from 30yds.

[mallo]

City win - we just need to keep the goal difference in mind. I know if you have a go at them like Norwich you might get a result, but bearing our 0 forwards formation, another hard game being hard to beat will do me.