Spurs v Aston Villa Pre-Match Thread

[Sexual Ealing]

False Dawn FC 3
Aston Villa Irregulars 1

[Brazilian Villain]

I’d be inclined to leave Konsa on the bench. He needs a rest. Pau and Lindelöf would be okay. Bogarde in for SJM as he needs a rest too.

Agreed, I'd like Rogers get a rest as well

[cdbearsfan]

They've a manager under pressure, we have other priorities. I'd imagine they'll pick a fairly strong team while we will go with a League Cup type mixture of first teamers and back-ups. Given that, and the extra disadvantage of always losing penalty shoot-outs to London teams, I expect us to be knocked out.

[cdbearsfan]

Has anyone got their tickets yet?

[andyh]

Is this our 3rd priority competition?

[andyh]

False Dawn FC 3
Aston Villa Irregulars 1

I thought we were the Aston Villa Invisibles now ?

[Dave]

Is this our 3rd priority competition?

Obviously so.

[Chip Butty 111]

Can we not give the lad Jimoh-Aloba a start on the right? He's looked bloody handy the few times I've seen him.

Yeah i see no harm in starting him for this either tbh

Yes, really like the look of this lad. Think Unai can work his magic on him, doesn't seem phased at all on the occasions he's got minutes.

[Sexual Ealing]

False Dawn FC 3
Aston Villa Irregulars 1

I thought we were the Aston Villa Invisibles now ?

Only if you're the kind of adult whose bottom lip wobbles when the nasty people on the TV forget to say the words 'Aston Villa lost/won/drew, they are on X points'!

[Nunkin1965]

Spurs are starting to implode even further with seriously negative vibes around the manager & players.
Villa to win 3-1 in front of thousands of very happy Villa supporters.

[garyellis]

I know this won’t be popular but this game is far more important to them than us.

[Bully2345]

We went stronger in this competition last year than I expected us to given that we were in the more prestigious European competition so I'd expect us to go strong again for this one. There may be a little bit of workload management with something like Boubacar/Tielemans splittling minutes or Pau/Konsa having 45 mins each to ease Pau back in but not rotating to Carabao levels. Hopefully will be enough to progress.

[Rigadon]

As discussed on the Emery thread, I think Unai is (actually) trying to win the PL.  I hate spurs so would love to smash them, but we will rest players do this I’m sure, and I’m just about ok with that. 

[paul_e]

Can we not give the lad Jimoh-Aloba a start on the right? He's looked bloody handy the few times I've seen him.

Agree, i'd like to see at least half an hour for Hemmings as well, and ideally I'd love to see Wilson involved.

[Nev]

The pain from Wembley raised itself again last night, there have disappointments over my time watching the Villa but this still feels like the worst.

So......I still covert the FA Cup but the prospect of us getting knocked out leaves me strangely ambivalent. Perhaps it's the fact that we are going so well in the League with our European campaign well set, coupled with the knowledge that we're well aware of Emery's priorities.

Anyway, a win against Spurs is always welcome, a rollocking good day out for everyone and keep the momentum going as well as giving us something to do at 7pm on Monday (or whenever the draw is).

1-2