BSC Young Boys vs Aston Villa CL Pre-Match

[Brazilian Villain]

Might have been mentioned already but this game is live on Virgin Media 2 in Ireland .

With Brian Kerr and Dicky Dunne critiquing the Villa, heaven save us...

Kerr's normally pretty complimentary about us (plus he's not Stephen Kenny).

[Demitri_C]

Young boys havent had  a great start to season.  We really cannot afford to start with a loss with munich next.

[TelfordVilla]

Why the hell would we start with  loss. I don't understand this pessimism. If man City, arsenal or 'The Mighty Reds YNWA' were going to young boys would you anticipate any of them losing? We are a top 4 Premier club and it's about time supporters started to think of us as a top 4 Premier club that the rest of Europe will be terrified of playing against. FFS

[Smirker]

We'll FTF.

4-0 Villa.

[Steve67]

Which telly channel will be covering this please? Is it on Amazon or just TNT?

[Small Rodent]

Which telly channel will be covering this please? Is it on Amazon or just TNT?

TNT

[TonyD]

How many fans will be making the trip?

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

If we win by a bigger margin than any victory in the PSV v Juventus game, or if both games end in a draw we will be top of the league for a couple of hours.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

8-9 Villa.
Our defence needs sorting out.

[AV82EC]

How many fans will be making the trip?

Abt 1600

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Ian Taylor at Manchester airport this morning.

[Demitri_C]

Im aure we all thought we would beat legia too and look how that turned out..

Dont think will be a walk in the park at all. We certainly have to be better defensively than we have been

[JJ-AV]

Does Emery make changes? Hard one, But the supporting cast are ready and feels like a game a few could play in (Carlos/Maatsen/Barkley/Duran) but would be harsh on Digne/Watkins to not let them play the first CL game.

I think a couple of changes.

Martinez
Konsa Carlos Pau Maatsen
Onana Tielemans
McGinn Rogers Ramsey
Watkins

And then maybe bring in Duran and Barkley for Wolves (as well as Digne)

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We have 7 games in 3 weeks, we have a strong squad, he has to make changes. Eitherway we should have too much for them.

[Demitri_C]

We have 7 games in 3 weeks, we have a strong squad, he has to make changes. Eitherway we should have too much for them.

Yeah i think you are right.  A perfect opportunity to maybe have konsa and digne on bench  for carlos and maatsen. Maybe kosta over bogarde but might be a risk having too many changes in defence.

Ollie has to start for me 2 goals we want him to keep up that form but duran should get a significant amount of minutes as a sub i think