Aston Villa v Crystal Palace - Pre Match Thread

[Risso]

Remember we are still only 1 point off the Champions League spots. Other teams around us have been erratic too. And our last two league outings have been defeats away to Spurs and Liverpool which, whilst not welcome, are hardly shocks either.

2-1

But we also failed to beat Ipswich and Bournemouth. Mostly because our defence is terrible, and can't keep a clean sheet for love nor money.

[cdbearsfan]

We failed to beat Ipswich because the referee was a cheating bastard.

[LeeB]

Remember we are still only 1 point off the Champions League spots. Other teams around us have been erratic too. And our last two league outings have been defeats away to Spurs and Liverpool which, whilst not welcome, are hardly shocks either.

2-1

But we also failed to beat Ipswich and Bournemouth. Mostly because our defence is terrible, and can't keep a clean sheet for love nor money.

Made heavy weather of beating Everton and Wulvz too.

[Demitri_C]

This really is must win if we have aspirations of top 6 . It really has been an erratic season so far

It's not, though, is it? It's early in the season still, lots of teams are bunched around where we are in the league.

I get your point, it'd be great for morale, but it's not the end of the world if we don't win.

Im not sure i agree entirely. I mean we do need to win this when you consider uts chelsea away next and we have juventus midweek too while chelsea will rest most of their team midweek.

If we have aspirations of challenging for top 5 we do need to win this one.  Playing catchup on top of a busy CL schedule not ideal at all.

Its not end of world as you say but its not very good either if we fail to win another game

So you agree with him then? Do you ever read what you've typed before pressing 'post'?

Do you ?

If you did i said i dont agree with his post "entirely"

Then i disagreed with certain elements of the post. So not quite sure what you are on about.

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[LeeB]

This really is must win if we have aspirations of top 6 . It really has been an erratic season so far

It's not, though, is it? It's early in the season still, lots of teams are bunched around where we are in the league.

I get your point, it'd be great for morale, but it's not the end of the world if we don't win.

Im not sure i agree entirely. I mean we do need to win this when you consider uts chelsea away next and we have juventus midweek too while chelsea will rest most of their team midweek.

If we have aspirations of challenging for top 5 we do need to win this one.  Playing catchup on top of a busy CL schedule not ideal at all.

Its not end of world as you say but its not very good either if we fail to win another game

So you agree with him then? Do you ever read what you've typed before pressing 'post'?

Do you ?

If you did i said i dont agree with his post "entirely"

Then i disagreed with certain elements of the post. So not quite sure what you are on about.

The first post says it's must win and the second replies that it is not. You conclude your post agreeing with the second poster, who it's fair to assume would also prefer to see us win, given he's been posting for decaeds in a forum dedicated entirely to us.

[Demitri_C]

This really is must win if we have aspirations of top 6 . It really has been an erratic season so far

It's not, though, is it? It's early in the season still, lots of teams are bunched around where we are in the league.

I get your point, it'd be great for morale, but it's not the end of the world if we don't win.

Im not sure i agree entirely. I mean we do need to win this when you consider uts chelsea away next and we have juventus midweek too while chelsea will rest most of their team midweek.

If we have aspirations of challenging for top 5 we do need to win this one.  Playing catchup on top of a busy CL schedule not ideal at all.

Its not end of world as you say but its not very good either if we fail to win another game

So you agree with him then? Do you ever read what you've typed before pressing 'post'?

Do you ?

If you did i said i dont agree with his post "entirely"

Then i disagreed with certain elements of the post. So not quite sure what you are on about.

The first post says it's must win and the second replies that it is not. You conclude your post agreeing with the second poster, who it's fair to assume would also prefer to see us win, given he's been posting for decaeds in a forum dedicated entirely to us.

I was merely saying that for the reasons explained in the post we do need to win this  and i dont agree with elements of the post hence the world entirely being used

Not sure what the relevance of the last sentence is 🙂 we are all are villa fans here. We might not always agree on everything but all our end goal is to see villa do well.

[Flamingo Lane]

We failed to beat Ipswich because the referee was a cheating bastard.

And Manchester United.

[cdbearsfan]

Yep. Don't know for certain we would have gone on to win that, but 2-1 up against ten men at shitey Ipswich? That's two points stolen.

[VillaTim]

Yep. Don't know for certain we would have gone on to win that, but 2-1 up against ten men at shitey Ipswich? That's two points stolen.

Not sure we can blame the ref , we were very average all game didn't get to grips with the centre of the park then Konsa had a brain fart moment and we got caught.
As Risso has said above our defence is a real problem , has been for a while now and if anything it's getting worse not better .
For me this is a must win game , we are at home against average opposition and it's time to get the season motoring .

[cdbearsfan]

We can blame the referee because we'd have won if he hasn't cheated.

[Hillbilly]

I wonder if we're planning to do the reverse of last season - start poorly and storm the second half. None of this 'top at christmas' nonsense.

[PaulWinch again]

I wonder if we're planning to do the reverse of last season - start poorly and storm the second half. None of this 'top at christmas' nonsense.

Let’s bloody hope they are.

[Demitri_C]

I wonder if we're planning to do the reverse of last season - start poorly and storm the second half. None of this 'top at christmas' nonsense.

.hopefully mate  otherwise it will be midtable