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Offline Smirker

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Man Utd vs Aston Villa pre match thread
« on: April 26, 2023, 04:28:56 PM »
Sunday, kick off 2pm.

Nothing to fear. They're not in great form and we are.

FTF

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Re: Man Utd vs Aston Villa pre match thread
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2023, 05:14:18 PM »
Still no one can answer when we last doubled them.

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Re: Man Utd vs Aston Villa pre match thread
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2023, 05:15:33 PM »
Still no one can answer when we last doubled them.

Someone did the other day. Cant remember the answer mind.

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Re: Man Utd vs Aston Villa pre match thread
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2023, 05:18:24 PM »
Still no one can answer when we last doubled them.

Ask me at 4pm on Sunday.

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Re: Man Utd vs Aston Villa pre match thread
« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2023, 05:20:03 PM »
1954/5. 2-1 at home, 1-0 away.

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Re: Man Utd vs Aston Villa pre match thread
« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2023, 05:20:45 PM »
1954/5. 2-1 at home, 1-0 away.

That is really disappointing especially when you think of how many times they've doubled us.

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Re: Man Utd vs Aston Villa pre match thread
« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2023, 05:21:52 PM »
Still no one can answer when we last doubled them.

Someone did the other day. Cant remember the answer mind.

Dec. 1954, we beat them twice in two days.

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Re: Man Utd vs Aston Villa pre match thread
« Reply #7 on: April 26, 2023, 05:24:23 PM »
Think this is a good time to play them so I've gone for a win, and another hoodoo vanished.

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Re: Man Utd vs Aston Villa pre match thread
« Reply #8 on: April 26, 2023, 05:31:17 PM »
Still no one can answer when we last doubled them.

Someone did the other day. Cant remember the answer mind.

Dec. 1954, we beat them twice in two days.

Wow, those players must have thought it was a piece of piss. Are any of them still alive waiting to witness the next time?!

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Re: Man Utd vs Aston Villa pre match thread
« Reply #9 on: April 26, 2023, 05:37:28 PM »
Still no one can answer when we last doubled them.

Someone did the other day. Cant remember the answer mind.

Dec. 1954, we beat them twice in two days.

Wow, those players must have thought it was a piece of piss. Are any of them still alive waiting to witness the next time?!

Peter McParland, but not sure if he played in those games. I'm sure there's a bigger Villa hoodoo at the forefront of his mind.

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Re: Man Utd vs Aston Villa pre match thread
« Reply #10 on: April 26, 2023, 05:41:55 PM »
Still no one can answer when we last doubled them.

Someone did the other day. Cant remember the answer mind.

Dec. 1954, we beat them twice in two days.

Wow, those players must have thought it was a piece of piss. Are any of them still alive waiting to witness the next time?!

The great Johnny Dixon, sadly no longer with us, scored in both the matches, the only Villa captain to lift the FA Cup at Wembley.

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Re: Man Utd vs Aston Villa pre match thread
« Reply #11 on: April 26, 2023, 05:57:10 PM »
Good time to be playing these I think. We obviously go in full confidence and they have had a lot of games recently too. What will suit us is that these wont sit in, they will give us time to play out from the back and into midfield, especially if it's the Burnley flop leading the line.

One change I would definitely make is to give Young a breather. Thankfully Fulham didnt start Daniel James on the left wing as Young couldnt cope when he was switched over there in the second half. If Cash is back he is hardly ready to be starting so would give Chambers a go there up against Rashford. Whether any of Coutinho, Bailey, Cash or Kamara are near a return even to the bench seems debatable. Would take a point and we are capable of getting it, 1-1.

--------Martinez
Chambers, Konsa, Mings, Moreno
------Luiz, Donk
McGinn, Buendia, Ramsey
-------Watkins

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Re: Man Utd vs Aston Villa pre match thread
« Reply #12 on: April 26, 2023, 05:58:22 PM »
Hopefully Man United will have a lovely time tomorrow, leading to a complacent, beach-like attitude on Sunday.

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Re: Man Utd vs Aston Villa pre match thread
« Reply #13 on: April 26, 2023, 06:34:09 PM »
Hopefully they're leggy when they play us and missing key players too.

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Re: Man Utd vs Aston Villa pre match thread
« Reply #14 on: April 26, 2023, 06:36:12 PM »
I'm going to this, so i'm hoping for a win of course, but a draw would be a decent result.

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