Aston Villa v Watford match thread

[QuintonVilla]

No Vassilev or Luiz is a very negative selection. Midfield of Nakamba and Drinkwater scares me.

[Risso]

Vassilev is nowhere near ready. He’s hardly touched the ball when he’s come on.

[manic-road]

Disappointed Vassilev isn't starting, desperate for a win.   

[manic-road]

Vassilev is nowhere near ready. He’s hardly touched the ball when he’s come on.

Maybe that's because of how we are set up.

[itmustbe_it is!]

Urgh, won’t be sad not to see that side picked ever again.

Any chance of you giving this a rest for a bit ?

[Legion]

Vassilev is nowhere near ready. He’s hardly touched the ball when he’s come on.

Still can't get my head round the fact Archer has not been given a chance to come on from the bench yet given the circumstances especially when he was rated so highly after his performance in the Crewe game.

[PeterWithesShin]

Drinkypoos to score tonight.

[supertom]

Nakamba needs to get stuck in. He seems reluctant to make challenges and it's supposed to be his strength to shit up the opposition a bit and cause a nuisance. We've got to be up for a scrap today. Hopefully Drinkwater improves too. AEG and Trez need to improve too. They can make things happen, so I don't want us to be living in hope for some Grealish magic and not much else.

[Legion]

Get your scorchios ready, PWS.

[JUAN PABLO]

would have prefered Luis to start but maybe its because the watford midfielders are big buggers

gonna be a hard one but lets hope its one of those nights

[Legion]

Fingers crossed for a Deeney red card as opposed to a match-winning performance. Can't stand the thug.

[villa `cross the mersey]

I'm beginning to think Drinkwater is Dean Smith's`drinking partner   or Smith is seeing something in training that we have yet to witness. Tough game tonight ......these are the type of fixtures where we are crying out for a physical presence in the middle of the park ...Nzonzi (sp?) For example

[hilts_coolerking]

Evening all.  Nervy 2-1 win for us.  Jack and AEG for us, some scrote for them.  Lots of yellows. 

[john e]

I’m not keen on having 3 central defenders but if your going to play it at least we have Guilbert and Target who do get forward rather than Taylor and Elmo which just gives you a back defensive 5

Drinkwater and Marvo  in the middle and Grealish  playing up top is not filling me with confidence either so swings and roundabouts for me

[garyshawsknee]

Worried about our 2 in the middle being over run and Jack not seeing much of the ball. I hope Drinkwaters powers of recovery are good enough.