Will we win the Premier League

[PeterWithesShin]

Villa have been here before - but are they really in title race?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c33mg5l7g8xo

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Title odds are now 18/1.

[Smithy]

There comes a time in the evolution of really great teams, where they build a bit of an aura around themselves - and I'm not suggesting for one moment that we are actually there yet - but we are definitely building in that direction.  "Fergie time" became a thing because his teams regularly pulled out results when it looked beyond them, time and time again.  We are starting to do the same thing.

Being ahead against this Aston Villa side means nothing. They will change things and hunt you down. This Aston Villa team has started badly against you? Well, don't get comfortable, because they'll change things up and leave you in their wake.

That's a really powerful thing to carry into each game, and long may it continue.

Last game of the season title decider at the Etihad anyone?

[Somniloquism]

Last game of the season title decider at the Etihad anyone?

Be hard to be that when they have just given us an honour guard before kick-off.

[SaddVillan]

If you take the games we've played so far this season and compare the results to those for the same fixtures last season (swapping the relegated and promoted clubs), we're 6 points better off on a like for like basis.

[Dave]

There comes a time in the evolution of really great teams, where they build a bit of an aura around themselves - and I'm not suggesting for one moment that we are actually there yet - but we are definitely building in that direction.  "Fergie time" became a thing because his teams regularly pulled out results when it looked beyond them, time and time again.  We are starting to do the same thing.

We're doing the short-term, Tik Tok attention-span version very nicely though.

A month ago it was "Villa are great at free-kicks" because we scored two similar ones in a couple of weeks.

The new one is going to be "don't go ahead against Villa because that's just what they want you to do".

[eye digress]

Maybe Garcia plays a half, then we see where we're at?

Who else can play in the pivot? We've had Yuri rotating in there for 45 mins at a time. Onana and Kamara for a game and a half a piece. You could play SJM there, I guess - but that just leaves us short elsewhere.

Thinking that the elegantly named George Hemmings will see some action from the bench.