Aston Villa v Chelsea Match Thread

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

Like Ings and Watkins ever works.
Besides who is going to supply them? It won't be the midfield 3 he's chosen.
Anyway come on the Villa boys!

[pauliewalnuts]

Ings and Watkins. Fucking hell.

Reckon he’s decided to go for the pay off.

[Risso]

Gotta love a bench with 0 attackers.

Well if Archer isn’t fit enough then we don’t have any other out-and-out strikers. Coutinho and Buendia are front three forward players though.

[Ian.]

Gotta love a bench with 0 attackers.

Well if Archer isn’t fit enough then we don’t have any other out-and-out strikers. Coutinho and Buendia are front three forward players though.

Which makes little sense starting with Ings who can’t last longer than 50 minutes

[dorsetvillian]

He really wants the sack. Why buy Dendonka and not play him in a game like this. He had the players but just no fucking idea of a decent formation.

[eamonn]

Glad I’m missing this one. Good luck everyone, I’m having a long boozy lunch in Lisbon.

I think I'll have a whole bottle of warm sake.

While muttering "For fcuk sake" every 5 minutes watching the game?

[Matt C]

Ings and Watkins, why? Surely the game for Dendonker to come in and push Ramsey forward.

[eamonn]

I was hoping we'd play a 4-6-0. Today was the day for a double midfield-triplet with Morgan, Marvelous and Dendonx providing more protection.

[Toronto Villa]

Gotta love a bench with 0 attackers.

Well if Archer isn’t fit enough then we don’t have any other out-and-out strikers. Coutinho and Buendia are front three forward players though.

Which makes little sense starting with Ings who can’t last longer than 15 minutes

FIXED

[kippaxvilla2]

I bet Bednarek is glad he came to start games to get into the Poland squad.

[baddowvillans]

Loving tuning in to the Villa v Chelsea game and listening Virgil Van Dyke - was a late signing in the last window?

[aj2k77]

What I like is that he uses the week to ponder on what has gone wrong previously and needs improving currently and makes adjustments and little tactical decisions that make you realise they are working on different things during the week rather than keeping spewing out the same things bi-weekly. This Ings and Watkins partnership could just work and the McGinn as part of a 3 could be a masterstroke.

I think we'll get something from the game today.

A corner.

[PeterWithesShin]

Gotta love a bench with 0 attackers.

Well if Archer isn’t fit enough then we don’t have any other out-and-out strikers. Coutinho and Buendia are front three forward players though.

I class them as creative midfielders more than attackers. This is why i'd have kept one of Trez or AEG, far from perfect but you at least felt when they came on there was a goal in them.

[Delboy Villan]

When will Gerrard learn that with McGinn in midfield we will never improve? This blindness to the weak links in our team are going to keep costing us. This is a free hit for Gerrard and he will waste it. Bottom 3 here we come!

[Steve67]

Ings and Watkins. Fucking hell.

Reckon he’s decided to go for the pay off.

At least I went for it, he will say!  Strange side he's picked.  Lazy Bailey is like playing with one less unless we get the ball to him all the time, can't see that with this midfield either.