Aston Villa v Ipswich Town 15.02.25 - Pre Match Thread

[Dave P]

We go again.  Trying to win our first league match in 4.

Assuming Konsa is out and none of the injured players are back, I'd expect to see

                 Martinez

Garcia   Disasi    Kamara   Digne

          Tielemans  McGinn

Bailey      Rogers       Ramsey

               Malen

This could be a decent result if we get at them early.  No clean sheet though.  4-1 (Malen 2,Bailey, Rashford)

[Richard]

Win 3 1 and I'd expect the injured players may be held back for the more difficult following 2 fixtures.

[olaftab]

So far this season we have mostly fluffed our lines after a great performance. We must not continue with that trait.  Players need to forget Sunday and be up for this one. Ipswich will fight and we have to match them. If we do work hard it should be a straight forward win.

[cdbearsfan]

Would like to put ten past these dirty twats. Hopefully the referee isn't a gutless coward this time.

[LeeS]

I’m so excited about this game. I’m taking my 7 year old to his first match. We live in SE London and it is hard to keep kids on the straight and narrow. He’s flirted with the idea of supporting Arsenal (2 of his best friends do) and my wife thinks I should bring him up Palace (so we can actually attend games). She has no interest in sport at all and just doesn’t understand how impossible that would be for me.

I still remember my first visit. August 86, lost 0-3 to Spurs on the opening day. I’m hoping we do slightly better than that.

[Tony Daleys Shorts]

Any word if Ollie is likely to be back for this one?

[eamonn]

Cue Jaden Philogene's best performance of the season at Villa Park.

[Martyn Smith]

I’m so excited about this game. I’m taking my 7 year old to his first match. We live in SE London and it is hard to keep kids on the straight and narrow. He’s flirted with the idea of supporting Arsenal (2 of his best friends do) and my wife thinks I should bring him up Palace (so we can actually attend games). She has no interest in sport at all and just doesn’t understand how impossible that would be for me.

I still remember my first visit. August 86, lost 0-3 to Spurs on the opening day. I’m hoping we do slightly better than that.

I remember that game distinctly. Chiefly because there was serious talk in the lead up of Villa challenging towards the top of the table before the beginning of the season. No, believe me, there was. Really. How hollow that talk seemed 90 mins later, even if 0-3 makes it look more one-sided than it actually was

[Martyn Smith]

Any word if Ollie is likely to be back for this one?

Sub at most I'm guessing

[Deano's Mullet]

2-0 Yorke header and Deano from 45 yards

In all seriousness 3-1 Villa and Rashford will score at least one of them.

[Louzie0]

Cue Jaden Philogene's best performance of the season at Villa Park.

I think that’s a PFA directive, isn’t it; to turn into Messi on the first visit to your ex-club with the new one.
Along the lines of, ‘Look what a diamond you could have kept’, to adapt a Brucie catchphrase.

[Demitri_C]

Cue Jaden Philogene's best performance of the season at Villa Park.

He will have a point to prove- but unfortunately  for jaden so do we are as a team

[Mortimer's Bear]

2-0 Yorke header and Deano from 45 yards

In all seriousness 3-1 Villa and Rashford will score at least one of them.

Yorke's goal was the better of the two, what a move that was

4-0 with Rashford bagging his first goal for Villa

[LeeB]

Yorke's goal may have been technically better, but Dean's was a proper 'what the fuck?!' goal, I used to sit behind the doguts then and we were right behind it.

[Dave]

Any word if Ollie is likely to be back for this one?

Sub at most I'm guessing

Think that's for the best even if he is fit. Malen's done enough to keep his place. Give Ollie 20 minutes and keep him fresh for later in the month.