Newcastle United vs Aston Villa pre-match thread

[PaulWinch again]

A view from the Tyne:

They’re a better footballing side than us but the overall level of quality of the players is very close. Reckon Eddie will have the team snarling and ready to kick them all over, force fuck ups and nick some goals.

They remind me a bit of De Zerbi’s Brighton/Marseille.

Set traps to commit two players towards the ball and aim to use spare man to advance. That and Watkins long out ball which he likes to pin the defender wide and draw players in before finding the spare man.

Don’t really see the De Zerbi analogy. He’d far more dogmatic than Unai, and tactics are different.

[BoVillan esq]

Thing is their are some teams that just seem to go up a level when they play Villa, that could be just me focusing on Villa and a particular game but it does seem that way, the Newcastle games do seem like that, Newcastle form is not good at the moment, yet tomorrow  whole new story.