Aston Villa vs Nottingham Forest pre-match thread

[Steve67]

I think they will park the bus and try to do us on the break.  Forest will sit as deep as possible.  I'd possibly consider giving Sancho another go so we have a bit of pace down one side.

               Martinez
Cash. Konsa  Lindelof.  Maatsen
          Kamara  Tielemans
Sancho.     Rogers.    SJM
                Watkins

Bench of Bizot, Garcia, Digne, Bogarde, Buendia, Malan, Hemmings, and 2 others.

[Hillbilly]

Elanga's Swedish.

[brontebilly]

I think they will park the bus and try to do us on the break.  Forest will sit as deep as possible.  I'd possibly consider giving Sancho another go so we have a bit of pace down one side.

               Martinez
Cash. Konsa  Lindelof.  Maatsen
          Kamara  Tielemans
Sancho.     Rogers.    SJM
                Watkins

Bench of Bizot, Garcia, Digne, Bogarde, Buendia, Malan, Hemmings, and 2 others.

Does Sancho have pace? Not much sign of it so far.

[eye digress]

Haven’t you seen him get out of the way of those 50-50s? Fast as a badger.

[aldridgeboy]

Hoping it’s not snowed off !

[Nunkin1965]

I'm breaking my record for clothes layers at today's game if it goes ahead.

[Olneythelonely]

Why wouldn’t it go ahead?

[aldridgeboy]

Just got to VP. Paths and roads all fine , no snow

[RamboandBruno]

Yeah, it's a bit unreasonable to ask Kamara to up his performances from his current "one of the best midfielders in the league" level.

Recent performances havent been great hence the need to up it a bit.

Everyone was outplayed in the first half at Chelsea. Along with Onana and Watkins he was pretty instrumental in our dominant last 30 minutes.

[PaulWinch again]

Got to be right at it today. They’re fragile, but they have a lot of good players. We can’t give them a sniff.

[RamboandBruno]

Just watching BBC news this morning and in the sports section, they reported that Arsenal will go 7 points clear in the title race if they beat Bournemouth today…..hmmm, think they may have forgotten an early k/o

[Baldy]

Just got to VP. Paths and roads all fine , no snow

Thanks Aldridgeboy. Good to know.

Are you avoiding the traffic?

[ADVILLAFAN]

I feel worryingly confident for this one.

[PaulWinch again]

We will need to be better at defending corners. They have some big old units and we don’t have Onana.

[Flamingo Lane]

It would be nice to bounce back from the other night with a handsome victory, but this looks to have 'conserving energy' written all over it. 1-0, I reckon.