Villa v Fulham - Pre-match thread

[Rigadon]

2pm Sunday 12th, Villa Park

We need to get back on it in the league before yet another infuriating international break.  Apparently if we win it breaks a home wining streak record that's 4 decades old?!  The 3 points are more important though. 

[darren woolley]

I can see us winning this 3-0

[PaulTheVillan]

I thought we had to beat Man City after Fulham for the record? I could be wrong.

We'll win.

[john e]

Our home form is a bit wobbly with that Everton defeat we need to get back on it 😃

[Bobby Boy]

Fulham? About as grey a team as it's possible to imagine. Fairly solid generally, find it hard to score regularly, difficult to get excited about playing them.

A game to go to, not enjoy that much, but feel better for having ground out a narrow win.

1-0 to us.

[Dave P]

2-0 win. Last on MOTD2. Routine.

[Pete3206]

We'll win

[eamonn]

Have a bad feeling about this. We toiled against them last time they came here in April, Ty's header from a corner was as good as it got which thankfully was enough but I can just see Silva setting-up to frustrate again.
1-1 and the home league record left with a dented fender.

[Londonfranky]

After losing to probably the worst Man united team in premier league history, next game a visit to fortress Villa Park deep joy, it’s been a funny season so far, losing Mitrovic to the sand pit league nearly losing Palhinha to Bayern Munich, haven’t played particularly well in the games I’ve watched, but were only a couple of points worse off where we were last season and in the first quarter final of the league cup for 20 years, we have 3 forwards who would struggle to score regularly in the championship, hoping Vinicius becomes Vinicius junior mark two but I doubt it, the only plus for me is that the 3 promoted sides look poor, infact they remind me of the Fulham teams of 2018 and 2020, as to the game I’m hoping your a bit tired after Thursday’s game, we’ll be quite solid without any goal threat, hope you continue have a good season after Sunday of course

[LeeB]

Nice one mate but are you in a hurry? I'm out of breath reading that.

[algy]

Lovely to see you about, Londonfranky. Hope all's well mate

[Nev]

We're now into the thick part of the season with games coming thick, fast and pathetically often given the way the PL have organised the calendar in December. Coping with Thursday/Sunday is a job in itself but we seem to be ok, the front end of the season was loaded with injuries so we were due a bit of breathing space in that respect.

A home game against Fulham is straightforward on paper but as each game passes, particularly at home, the pressure increases. Expectation from us and the media, the 1983 record being mentioned along with talk of CL qualification and our record under Emery constantly being compared to the very best teams in this league.

But I really believe the Manager and the players are thriving on this and the odd aberration of the like we saw last week will be just that, odd.

3-1

[Toronto Villa]

Crikey Franky. Is there a shortage of full stops in London?

[Axl Rose]

1-0

Konsa

[Risso]

Crikey Franky. Is there a shortage of full stops in London?

No but there's only one effin' Fulham.