Aston Villa v Wolves Pre Match Thread

[mallo]

Traore to rip us a new one - defeat - just need to keep the goal difference down.

[Drummond]

I wish my new bike had come. Instead, I've picked up BT Sport for a month and will watch it.

We'll be pretty shit but take the lead..... then, well it's all too predictable.

[Gareth]

I’d say there is zero chance of starting 2 up top having listened to Deans press call - it’s a finishing option with Jack behind front two but not to start.

Hopefully neither winger starts

                  Nyland
Guilbert Mings Hause Targett
   Luiz Nakamba Hourihane
         Grealish McGinn
                   Davis

Reina
Taylor
Elmo
Konsa
Lansbury/Ramsey (is Lansbury fit or Ramsey eligible?)
Drinkwater
El Ghazi/Jota (not Trezeguet!)
Samatta
Vasillev/Barry (would like to have both ideally)

We need Jack / McGinn to be ratting around Moutinho so he doesn’t have complete run of the game & we cannot play that negative garbage that we did vs Chelsea - if Doherty / Jonny spend all game bombing forward they will hurt us.

[tony scott]

1.0 to us when I look at the coming fixtures re Liverpool Arsenal and Manchester United and Wolves.  If you had to put your life savings on one to beat it would be Wolves for me.

[Sexual Ealing]

1.0 to us when I look at the coming fixtures re Liverpool Arsenal and Manchester United and Wolves.  If you had to put your life savings on one to beat it would be Wolves for me.

I'm glad I haven't got any life savings in that case!

[Gareth]

1.0 to us when I look at the coming fixtures re Liverpool Arsenal and Manchester United and Wolves.  If you had to put your life savings on one to beat it would be Wolves for me.

I would have thought Arsenal was the most winnable of those & hopefully Liverpool party hard.  Wolves could be a good game but fancy in Jimenez they have a striker who will be difference

[CT]

I actually think this will be the hardest of the next three.

Nuno has turned them into something of a machine. No whining about extra games, they just get on with it and keep producing results.

If we set up with extra full backs, we’ll be done for. We may as well give it go.

[Lastfootstamper]

Depends what you mean by 'give it a go', CT. Given the state of the table, a narrow defeat wouldn't be the end of our season. On the other hand, a comprehensive shoeing could well prove terminal.

We'll win, anyway, so I wouldn't worry about it. 2-1, Hourihane free kick for the winner with a harrowing amount of time left on the clock.

[DB]

Just can't see us winning this. 0-3

[themossman]

Yeah I share the pessimism. They have all the ingredients required to rip us a new one including traore bang in form, with pace and an axe to grind.

[chrisw1]

Traore running at Targett all night with Jiminez in the middle?  It's going to be horrible.

[CT]

Depends what you mean by 'give it a go', CT. Given the state of the table, a narrow defeat wouldn't be the end of our season. On the other hand, a comprehensive shoeing could well prove terminal.

We'll win, anyway, so I wouldn't worry about it. 2-1, Hourihane free kick for the winner with a harrowing amount of time left on the clock.

I just think if we’re going down the route of playing Jack and whoever is on the other side as additional full backs, we’ll get a shoeing anyway.

Anyway, how long is “harrowing”. Are you saying we'll go 2-1 up with 25 minutes left? My ticker might be in a bit of bother if that’s the case!

[LeeB]

Depends what you mean by 'give it a go', CT. Given the state of the table, a narrow defeat wouldn't be the end of our season. On the other hand, a comprehensive shoeing could well prove terminal.

We'll win, anyway, so I wouldn't worry about it. 2-1, Hourihane free kick for the winner with a harrowing amount of time left on the clock.

I just think if we’re going down the route of playing Jack and whoever is on the other side as additional full backs, we’ll get a shoeing anyway.

Anyway, how long is “harrowing”. Are you saying we'll go 2-1 up with 25 minutes left? My ticker might be in a bit of bother if that’s the case!

I agree with you mate, we've got to take it to them.

We don't disrupt teams high enough up the pitch.

[themossman]

Yes mate agreed it’s our biggest failure. Jack was having to cover so much pitch to get into attacking positions. When he’s up there around the box he causes havoc, drawing defenders, turning teams inside out. I’d love to see us push higher and make teams play on the back foot but we never do.

[Deano's Mullet]

3-2 with Angel getting a brace. Gareth Barry will get the other. Saddam Hussein will be captured in Iraq while the match is under way.

Or 1-0 Villa, Super Tommy Johnson will knock one in off the diving goal keeper on a pitch that’s nearly devoid of grass.

Either score would do but I think we’ll be the usual passive side letting Wolves play and roll us over.