Aston Villa vs Lille - Conf League QF 1st leg - Thursday 8pm - pre match

[PaulWinch again]

It’d be really nice to play well and win well.

[sid1964]

Hoping we win - this will be a tough game for us

[algy]

Hope we properly go for it tonight.  We're the strongest team in the competition, we ought to be at least in the final.   I'd rather rest players in the league than rest them in this

[pauliewalnuts]

I have a bad feeling.

We rarely seem to convince for extended periods these days

[Lastfootstamper]

There's no resting players now. We're a month and a bit from the end of the season. Drive every single one of them into the ground. Push, push, push. Get their jobs done, and then we'll talk about having a day off.

[olaftab]

Totally agree Lastfootstamper. This is the Last leg of the season so we must put our Foot on it and Stamper on both fronts. There is no point in saving effort for another day.

[algy]

Totally agree Lastfootstamper. This is the Last leg of the season so we must put our Foot on it and Stamper on both fronts. There is no point in saving effort for another day.

We mustn't put our foot in it, that's for sure.

[eamonn]

Why drop Pau? Why drop Bailey?

TBF forgot that Pau plays for us.

You did what?! There's no "to be fair" about it. You're a sub-standard Villan and you've been demoted to TBAR.

[Ads]

Hoping we win - this will be a tough game for us

Even harder for them.

[Ads]

These are bringing 1300 apparently, so one to factor in for guess the crowd.

[Villa Lew]

Big blow losing Doug, but still confident we'll take a 2 goal lead to the 2nd leg. This'll be Unai's 1,000th match as a manager, let's hope he'll still be with us, when he clocks up his 2000th match!

[Drummond]

Big blow losing Doug, but still confident we'll take a 2 goal lead to the 2nd leg. This'll be Unai's 1,000th match as a manager, let's hope he'll still be with us, when he clocks up his 2000th match!

Why would we be losing him?

[Ads]

Dougie will play both legs injury and no red card tonight permitting.

[Risso]

Big blow losing Doug, but still confident we'll take a 2 goal lead to the 2nd leg. This'll be Unai's 1,000th match as a manager, let's hope he'll still be with us, when he clocks up his 2000th match!

Luiz is only suspended in the league mate.

[Villa Lew]

Big blow losing Doug, but still confident we'll take a 2 goal lead to the 2nd leg. This'll be Unai's 1,000th match as a manager, let's hope he'll still be with us, when he clocks up his 2000th match!

Luiz is only suspended in the league mate.

Of course he is, so in that case I'm going for a 3 goal lead.