Aston Villa (A) 16/10/2021 3.00pm Build Up & Match Thread

[redvictor]

Not surprised Jimenez is on the bench. He played Thursday morning then had to fly back from Mexico! I'm happy with that line up to start. At least we won't get run over in midfield.

 

[northfield wolf]

A bizzare line up, now its wait and hope, and shit ya pants for 90 minutes. I guess ive picked the wrong day to give up smoking.

 

[Derby Wolf]

Far too narrow with Marcal.

If you're going to 532 you need that width in attacking transitions and Marcal will throttle that with him not being a wingback.

Donk playing should allow Neves to get a little further forward hopefully we can see a couple of balls like Leicester and Spurs early on.

Trying to be optimistic but my head is telling me this line up is playing for a draw and we're going to have two low lines who are fucking miles from Traore and Hwang. We'll get a standard Traore up front performance (like Marcal he just isnt capable no hate) and Hwang will be reduced to Andy Keogh lite pressing lost causes.

 

[Throbber3]

Can't say I'm optimistic given that lineup, with Boly, Jimenez and RAN all on the bench plus all our midfielders out there at the same time.

I'm willing to keep an open mind though. I just hope we don't just sit deep and wait for Traore to do something.

It may be exactly what we do. We don’t do well when teams change to mirror us so perhaps us doing that today will have a positive affect

 

[Throbber3]

Or it’s hang on to nil nil for 70 mins then throw on the cavalry?

 

[northfield wolf]

Im meeting up with a few mates tonight in a works re-union, most of them are Villa fans, hence im on edge now. IF we win im going to have a great night, if not i may be leaving early, so COME ON YOU WOLVES.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

I expect it to be dull.

There are only two attackers.

 

[malta mick]

Surprised the 2 Villa players from Argentina are playing and Jimenez not !

 

[Freddeno]

not another injury please

 

[The Bear]

Looked like a heavy landing but I'd expect him to be ok.

 

[Jinky]

Looked to me like Neves landed on his head/face.

 

[WsWolf]

Think it's his neck. The whiplash effect when he landed

 

[Jinky]

Fairly predictable stuff so far. We don’t seem interested in having the ball at all, and instead, are hoping for Adama/Hwang to do something special for us.

I guess we’re just going to try and get through an hour and then throw on Raul/Podence.

 

[northfield wolf]

Have we got out of our own half yet ? Come on this is Villa, not Man City.

 

[Freddeno]

which channel is this on in the UK, here it has the sound from the norwich - brighton game..annyoing

 

[NicholasG1973]

I would love to see us actually go out and take the game to our opponents.

It feels like we never do it.

 

[Freddeno]

nevermind, now they fixed it

 

[Alan]

I don’t think we’ve been especially poor.

 

[Freddeno]

this is bad, we cant even keep the ball..whether its down to a small squad or not, i dont know..or they just have better players

 

[Throbber3]

It’s ok. Unthreatening but ok. A few too many misplaced passes. Marcel needs to pick it up a bit.