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Re: Aston Villa vs Manchester City pre-match thread
« Reply #15 on: December 15, 2024, 07:31:01 PM »
They’ll win.

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Re: Aston Villa vs Manchester City pre-match thread
« Reply #16 on: December 15, 2024, 07:31:57 PM »
You just know we are go to go and hope these fucks next week

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Re: Aston Villa vs Manchester City pre-match thread
« Reply #17 on: December 15, 2024, 07:33:06 PM »
You just know we are go to go and hope these fucks next week
Say again?

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Re: Aston Villa vs Manchester City pre-match thread
« Reply #18 on: December 15, 2024, 07:40:14 PM »
You just know we are go to go and hope these fucks next week
Say again?
Wake me up before we go to go go….

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Re: Aston Villa vs Manchester City pre-match thread
« Reply #19 on: December 15, 2024, 07:40:55 PM »
Players to be dropped - Carlos Torres Watkins
Watkins hasn't started the last two league games to be dropped.
Ok Watkins to be further rested . Duran deserves to start again , he did his job well yesterday .

Offline Demitri_C

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Re: Aston Villa vs Manchester City pre-match thread
« Reply #20 on: December 15, 2024, 07:41:21 PM »
You just know we are go to go and hope these fucks next week
Say again?

I was just running it for you alexalex 🤪

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Re: Aston Villa vs Manchester City pre-match thread
« Reply #21 on: December 15, 2024, 08:52:05 PM »
If you'd said at the start of the season that if we beat Man City in December we go above them then I'd have been happy with that.

And we could do this.

But we wont




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Re: Aston Villa vs Manchester City pre-match thread
« Reply #22 on: December 15, 2024, 08:53:34 PM »
Citeh losing from 1 nil up to Manure with a couple of mins to go is obviously going to be the bottom of the barrel. We’ll get done next weekend.

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Re: Aston Villa vs Manchester City pre-match thread
« Reply #23 on: December 15, 2024, 08:55:56 PM »
If you'd said at the start of the season that if we beat Man City in December we go above them then I'd have been happy with that.

And we could do this.

But we wont
They've been shite for months though , it's not like beating them nowadays is anything special anymore

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Re: Aston Villa vs Manchester City pre-match thread
« Reply #24 on: December 15, 2024, 09:00:15 PM »
Players to be dropped - Carlos Torres Watkins

------- Martinez --------
Cash Konsa Mings Digne
-- Kamara - Tielemans --
McGinn --------- Buendia
--- Rogers --------------
-------- Duran-----------

Rogers off the left, Tielemans further forward with Onana next to Kamara I hope. No chance of Buendia starting.

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Re: Aston Villa vs Manchester City pre-match thread
« Reply #25 on: December 15, 2024, 09:08:07 PM »
Man City haven't won for weeks.  They must be rock bottom after today.  We all know what happens here don't we? Prove me wrong Unai. 

Go back to a flat back four despite the fact that Cash is crap.  Mings and Konsa in the middle, Maatsen left back.

Offline LukeJames

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Re: Aston Villa vs Manchester City pre-match thread
« Reply #26 on: December 15, 2024, 09:20:11 PM »
It'll probably come down to who can out bore the other.

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Re: Aston Villa vs Manchester City pre-match thread
« Reply #27 on: December 15, 2024, 09:36:28 PM »
We’re going to have to have to attack much better to stand a chance.

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Re: Aston Villa vs Manchester City pre-match thread
« Reply #28 on: December 15, 2024, 09:48:50 PM »
We’re going to have to have to attack much better to stand a chance.
Conceding our usual 2 goals wont help either.

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Re: Aston Villa vs Manchester City pre-match thread
« Reply #29 on: December 15, 2024, 09:49:37 PM »
This lot are as bad as they've been since they binned Alan Ball. If we don't beat them, we need shooting.

Mings on Gvardiol at set-pieces please as that's their best hope of pwning us.

 


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