Manchester City vs Aston Villa Match Thread

[ez]

20 minutes in and we haven't conceded. Satisfactory so far.

[Bad English]

Come on you Villa convalescents!

[eamonn]

Cancellao just doing what he wants down our right. Elmo and Gilbert double swap for Cash and Traore ?!

[Exeter 77]

I'm thinking we may see Elmo for Traore at some point.

[Risso]

Kyle Walker going off.

Or not.

[ktvillan]

We're getting murdered down our right.  Traore doesn't offer any support to Cash at all.

Yep - teams used to target our left seeing Targett a a weak link, now they seem to go down the right knowing they can get 2 or 3 on 1 against Cash.

[PaulWinch again]

Let’s face it this is about as tough a game as you could face right now. They’re the form team in the league, they’re packed with brilliant players and we’re coming off the back of a COVID outbreak. We’re doing alright so far.

[richtheholtender]

Our right hand side always gets targetted

[jwarry]

Let’s face it this is about as tough a game as you could face right now. They’re the form team in the league, they’re packed with brilliant players and we’re coming off the back of a COVID outbreak. We’re doing alright so far.

The voice of reason, and so far we are doing ok

[Risso]

I can't believe the improvement in Targett, he's a different player to a year ago.

[paul_e]

Let’s face it this is about as tough a game as you could face right now. They’re the form team in the league, they’re packed with brilliant players and we’re coming off the back of a COVID outbreak. We’re doing alright so far.

The voice of reason, and so far we are doing ok

and we've had a couple of decent chances of our own.

[kippaxvilla2]

I thought DeBruyne was a doubt.  Obviously he plays then.

[The Edge]

Cancelo giving us big problems. Matty Cash getting his toughest test tonight

[Toronto Villa]

We may well lose in the end but this is a really gutsy effort so far for our first game back.

[Chris_Jephcott]

We’re growing into it now.