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Offline Steve67

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Re: Aston Villa vs Nottingham Forest pre-match thread
« Reply #60 on: January 02, 2026, 10:10:37 PM »
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.

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Re: Aston Villa vs Nottingham Forest pre-match thread
« Reply #61 on: January 02, 2026, 10:14:29 PM »
Elanga's Swedish.

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Re: Aston Villa vs Nottingham Forest pre-match thread
« Reply #62 on: January 02, 2026, 10:21:39 PM »
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.

Offline eye digress

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Re: Aston Villa vs Nottingham Forest pre-match thread
« Reply #63 on: January 02, 2026, 10:25:24 PM »
Haven’t you seen him get out of the way of those 50-50s? Fast as a badger.

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Re: Aston Villa vs Nottingham Forest pre-match thread
« Reply #64 on: January 03, 2026, 02:15:03 AM »
Hoping it’s not snowed off !

Offline Nunkin1965

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Re: Aston Villa vs Nottingham Forest pre-match thread
« Reply #65 on: January 03, 2026, 07:58:05 AM »
I'm breaking my record for clothes layers at today's game if it goes ahead.

Offline Olneythelonely

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Re: Aston Villa vs Nottingham Forest pre-match thread
« Reply #66 on: January 03, 2026, 09:10:26 AM »
Why wouldn’t it go ahead?

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Re: Aston Villa vs Nottingham Forest pre-match thread
« Reply #67 on: January 03, 2026, 09:10:40 AM »
Just got to VP. Paths and roads all fine , no snow

Offline RamboandBruno

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Re: Aston Villa vs Nottingham Forest pre-match thread
« Reply #68 on: January 03, 2026, 09:11:56 AM »
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.

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Re: Aston Villa vs Nottingham Forest pre-match thread
« Reply #69 on: January 03, 2026, 09:37:41 AM »
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.

Offline RamboandBruno

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Re: Aston Villa vs Nottingham Forest pre-match thread
« Reply #70 on: January 03, 2026, 09:40:24 AM »
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

Offline Baldy

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Re: Aston Villa vs Nottingham Forest pre-match thread
« Reply #71 on: January 03, 2026, 09:45:15 AM »
Just got to VP. Paths and roads all fine , no snow

Thanks Aldridgeboy. Good to know.

Are you avoiding the traffic?

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Re: Aston Villa vs Nottingham Forest pre-match thread
« Reply #72 on: January 03, 2026, 09:49:00 AM »
I feel worryingly confident for this one.

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Re: Aston Villa vs Nottingham Forest pre-match thread
« Reply #73 on: January 03, 2026, 09:54:47 AM »
We will need to be better at defending corners. They have some big old units and we don’t have Onana.

Offline Flamingo Lane

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Re: Aston Villa vs Nottingham Forest pre-match thread
« Reply #74 on: January 03, 2026, 09:58:58 AM »
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.

 


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