Aston Villa v Crystal Palace Pre Match

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They've a pretty dire record here. I can only ever recall the Pulis win in the league.

Looking it up and we lost in 2013, 1991 and 1967. Think some of you have lost the plot bricking it against this lot at home. Not due another defeat until 2033.

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Palace only took the lower tier of the away allocation so anyone wanting tickets together may have more joy in the upper as it can be a struggle elsewhere.

Yeah my brother in law who's a Palace fan tells me they've returned 1500 tickets.

Who'd have thought, for a Sunday night 7:00pm kick-off and then having to get back to their neck of the woods?

But the mid-week sell out for us down there was somehow more convenient? Their away support is shite, drum wankers.

[KevinGage]

3-1 to the Villa.

We owe this mob.

[RamboandBruno]

3-1 to the Villa.

We owe this mob.

And Emery owes Glasner. i doubt there are many times in his career he”s had a draw and three defeats in a row to the same team and coach.

[eamonn]

Sans Eze and Guehi, we'll tear the bastards a new one. 4-1

[JUAN PABLO]

freak result 5 0 Villa.

[tomd2103]

Can't see Guessand being deemed ready to start and Malen clearly isn't trusted, so it leaves us with a few holes in the attacking side to be honest. 

When Wales played Belgium in a qualifier earlier in the year,  Onana and Tielemans played together in central midfield so could see that happening.  If Rogers plays as a number 10. that leaves a hole on the left side with McGinn currently the only option to fill it.  That would mean McGinn moving from the right, which leaves a hole there which really we would need Guessand or Malen to fill.  If one of them does start there, then we've only really got one sub to cover both the striker and right hand side roles.

Not trying to be too negative, but it's looking a bit stretched already really and we're only a couple of games in.

[PaulTheVillan]

Ready for Sarr to turn into prime Messi again?

[LeeS]

I’ve just taken advantage of the Palace returns and bagged a pair of tickets in the Doug. We always draw on my rare visits to VP. So it will be 1-1

[Dave]

I’ve just taken advantage of the Palace returns and bagged a pair of tickets in the Doug. We always draw on my rare visits to VP. So it will be 1-1

My lad's done seven games now and has a record of one draw and six wins. So if that run continues on Sunday we can start talking about a crowd-funder for his season ticket.

[Mister E]

Martinez
Cash, Konsa, Mings, Maatsen
Tielemans, McGinn
Malen, Rogers, Guessand
Watkins

That's the Badger.

[Monty]

I do sometimes wonder what Cash could do to warrant dropping in the minds of some. Like, I agree Torres is badly out of form, but had he committed half the errors that Cash has - not to mention generally looking as comfortable on the ball as a giraffe coming off a particularly bad night's sleep - there'd be calls for him to be put in the dock at The Hague.

[Dave]

I do sometimes wonder what Cash could do to warrant dropping in the minds of some. Like, I agree Torres is badly out of form, but had he committed half the errors that Cash has - not to mention generally looking as comfortable on the ball as a giraffe coming off a particularly bad night's sleep - there'd be calls for him to be put in the dock at The Hague.

Presumably in the absence of Garcia or a right-sided CB to play where Konsa does it's more a case of there not being an obvious alternative?

[Monty]

I do sometimes wonder what Cash could do to warrant dropping in the minds of some. Like, I agree Torres is badly out of form, but had he committed half the errors that Cash has - not to mention generally looking as comfortable on the ball as a giraffe coming off a particularly bad night's sleep - there'd be calls for him to be put in the dock at The Hague.

Presumably in the absence of Garcia or a right-sided CB to play where Konsa does it's more a case of there not being an obvious alternative?

It's interesting to me that it's not even discussed that perhaps we should try Konsa out there with Mings and Torres, who can shuffle over to make a much more natural three like in fact Cash was asked to do against Brentford (and didn't do particularly well). Like, one thing is considered beyond question (two left-sided centrebacks failed once so it's OVER), and another thing not even worthy of mentioning (Cash at rightback shuffling across has been a weak link dozens of times).

[PeterWithesShin]

Five at the back is the answer.