Aston Villa v Chelsea Pre-Match Thread

[Martyn Smith]

At The Centre of the Universe, Sat 22 February 2025, 17:30

[sotto voce: also on Sky]

In order to keep in sight of the Champions League places we etc etc...

[Martyn Smith]

2-1

[Martyn Smith]

Sticky please, boss

[VillaTim]

Can see another draw here . I can see fatigue catching up on the players .

[Demitri_C]

Dont have a good feeling in this i am afraid.  Wednesday  night would have taken a lot out of us and chelsea have had week off.

[Smirker]

Fatigue won't be an issue. We've got plenty to choose from in the squad and there's been no traveling.

3-0 Villa FTF.

[JUAN PABLO]

malen and JJ and Konsa and cash to start

he wont rest Rogers so Marco and MArcos to come on 63th minute

2  1  Villa

[Louzie0]

Dont have a good feeling in this i am afraid.  Wednesday  night would have taken a lot out of us and chelsea have had week off.

But they don’t have fireworks 👍

[Demitri_C]

Hahaha. That was so lame by slot. You just have to laugh 😂

[Louzie0]

He was a bit graceless under fire, given his public comments up until Wednesday night.
Clearly 2 points he’d assumed were won before the result.
Hope the fireworks do their thing for us again!( Whatever it is)

[LeeB]

I appreciate him both looking and talking like an absolute bellend, it fits far more comfortably with my loathing of his club.

[Pete3206]

Villa 2 Chelsea 0

[paul_e]

3-1 win, we look good going forward with the new additions and Chelsea look like they're missing Madueke and Jackson. We just need to not give Palmer a chance to find his form again.

[Brend'Watkins]

Slot is right on one thing, fireworks are really small time.

[eamonn]

I still can't believe he said that and the line about our injured players being fit cos it's Liverpool. We all slag off opposing players and managers, sometimes in a tribal one-eyed way but that's just bitchy bullshit.