Aston Villa v Leicester City - Pre Match Thread. Sunday 2.05pm.

[olaftab]

Leicester have moved from 5/4 to evens. Must be some team news about?

[ChicagoLion]

He is out, Fuck

[balloubaby]

Just confirmed on Sky Jack is out

[Monty]

What about 4 4 1 1 with SJM on the right,

I'm a believer in this, let him concentrate on attacking, pressing up the pitch, getting into more shooting positions than he does at the mo.

[Deano's Mullet]

That’s ok, let’s see what Sanson can do if he plays.

[kippaxvilla2]

Lose 4-1.

[Monty]

Now it might shock people, but Leicester have actually lost to teams who had nobody even half as good as Jack. Huge blow, of course, but not necessarily fatal.

[devilla]

Will be interesting to see how Smith tries to re-arrange the team with Jack out. I have a bad feeling about this one.

[manic-road]

With Jack out we lose most of our creativity but may make us more solid in midfield. This will be an interesting watch, Traore may be the man to create the chances.

[Ian.]

We really need Traore to step up like he can do and try and create some magic.

[Mister E]

With Jack out we lose most of our creativity but may make us more solid in midfield. This will be an interesting watch, Traore may be the man to create the chances.

Depends if he plays Barkley from the start: if so, I think we'll be weaker.

[aj2k77]

We'll get hammered today. We've been well off the pace since the covid break and with no Grealish we'll gift them the ball constantly.

[SoccerHQ]

Now it might shock people, but Leicester have actually lost to teams who had nobody even half as good as Jack. Huge blow, of course, but not necessarily fatal.

Their actual form hasn't been that great recently. Draws v Everton and Wolves and Leeds did a really good job on them. Think the last 15 minutes when Liverpool just imploded skewed perceptions.

Not a great match up though for us and for us to even get a draw we'll have to low block them to death as happened in the away game.

We haven't played a league game without Jack playing since 10th November 2019 so long old time and will inevitably cause some issues.

Would snap hands off for a point today, we do have 4 clean sheets from last 6 games so defensively good again.

[SoccerHQ]

DS playing all the attackers....ah well.

Barkley, AEG and Traore all starting.