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6 minutes ago, Davkaus said:

Man United have *never* lost a PL game at home when they've been leading at half time? Is that true? In nearly 30 years? That's an incredible stat.

Is this well known? It’s mental! Don’t see us being the team to change it either unfortunately. 

1 minute ago, penguin said:

I think we’ll lose, our high line will play into their hands.

Ill be happy with a competitive performance, treat anything else as a bonus.

I’m really hoping Dean has a game plan around this.

I’ve been predicting Watkins to score for weeks now. I’m going to stop jinxing the lad.

This match is now being promoted as United’s inevitable return to the top of the table. I was listening to the radio earlier and heard an entire match preview in which Villa weren’t mentioned once. 
 

I would so like to cause an upset.

1 hour ago, kidlewis said:

I think it will be like that Liverpool game last year. Really deserve the 3 points and end up with 0. 
 

or that spurs game 

That Spurs game

Cavani banned for this match, definitely good news for us.

2 minutes ago, Follyfoot said:

Minimum 

Gary Neville already tweeting that they are joint top as if the game against us is already won. Our boys need to get fired up by that.

United will be totally motivated for this game as they could go joint top. They will definitely up their performance levels from Wolves. We will have to be completely on it to get anything. I think 2-2.

5 minutes ago, Kiwivillan said:

For just us or Chelsea too? I really fancy us for the win here

Chelsea can play a whole different side and still be competitive eg Giroud didn’t feature yesterday and is one of their joint top scorers. 
 

Not saying we won’t win but I’m just starting to think that the optimism levels might be going a little OTT.

We need to still back these boys even if the next 2-3 results go against us. 

6 minutes ago, cheltenham_villa said:

i wonder if our recent injuries and suspensions will be a blessing. It feels like the same team every week but in reality, Cash, Konsa, Luis, Traore, Barkley have all had breaks. Mings will now miss a game as well and I think Target and Mcginn are also close. Were not actually playing that much, second string in the cups and and no europe so actually this year i dont think we have to worry about fatugue to much.

No way will we be playing second string against a revenge seeking  Liverpool in FA Cup.

Apparently we’ve kept most clean sheets in the league. Burnley joint second. Maybe the writing was on the wall for this one.

Club has dealt with it (fine and public statement), courts have dealt with it. Media have savaged him, police have released the footage to embarrass him further. I’m not saying any of the above is undeserved but I think it’s time we move on and continue our support of him. I hope he remains as Captain and his teammates rally round him. 

He can’t complain at that, could have been worse. Needs to make sure he’s only talked about for his positive exploits on the pitch between now and the Euros. A bit of contrition wouldn’t go a miss either (I did like his distraction car stunt tho!).

Or that Fred’s getting match fit in preparation for Burnley.

I thought he had a good game. If anyone reads   The Athletic, there’s a really positive article about him today, mainly around his leadership on the pitch and how he contributes to the overall organisation of the team during matches. 

I think people forget how much we missed him when he was out injured at the end of last year.

I don’t think our defending has declined over the past few games I just think we defensively flattered to deceive in the first four games:

10 man Sheff Utd who had backs to the wall

Fulham who were dreadful.

Liverpool- we conceded 2

Leicester- without Jamie Vardy and one of the least creative sides in the prem this season.

6 hours ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

I don’t get how Whoscored works but we are the top rated team both defensive and offensive!  Although we have played 2 games less to be fair. 

The main content person for Whoscored is a massive Villa fan (Martin Laurence on Twitter). Even last season, our players were scoring far more favourably than I would have expected. 

The replies were basically saying it was the club saying f**k you to the The Sun or Grealish announcing his Tier 2 status. I think the club  may have decided better of it.

1 hour ago, BleedClaretAndBlue said:

Strange the official twitter took a tweet down of Grealish. Was just this image of him in training but its gone now

This was on the official av Twitter and Instagram accounts this morning. Only lasted an hour.

Well, silence is exactly what he is opting for right now. I think he is probably hoping that it will blow over again. He will probably now only speak up if it prevents him getting jobs and needs to win back public favour. Time will tell I guess.

10 minutes ago, samjp26 said:

For anybody who hasn't seen it, please watch the documentary on iPlayer. As somebody closely affiliated with our club, I really hope John Terry doesn't stay silent on this. Seeing the aftermath of the incident and how it affected Ferdinand at the very least deserves Terry to speak out and try to provide a valuable lesson for others. 

I watched it and found it interesting. He had every right to make it and hopefully found it healing. It has also prompted further valuable discussion.

There are many people including yourself saying Terry should got involved and discussed it. I go back to a previous point I made about how surely this would be an impossible situation for him as he gave evidence in a court of law that events had occurred as he said, he also gave that account in interview to the FA. If he suddenly publicly started saying these were lies and  tearfully apologising to AF, couldn’t it leave him open to further charges?  Or he sticks to the original story in which case what would be the point of any meeting? 
 

Genuine question, what would you expect him to say that wouldn’t open up a whole further can of worms?  Surely it would be better to strive to improve himself going forward. I’m not supporting him in this, I just think it is not so simple as having a cathartic chat about it when it has been subject to legal proceedings. 

To be fair, I hadn’t thought of it in years until it was subject of a BBC prime time documentary and loads of tv and news articles. 

7 minutes ago, The_Steve said:

To me, the silence speaks volumes. I've never been happy about Terry on the coaching staff, there's no excuse for racism, it's a stain on the club, especially with the positive work done to make it an inclusive space for all, especially around Black Lives Matter and recognising the social responsibility that comes with standing against racism.

I wouldn't lose sleep if Terry goes. I wish he wasn't so readily rehabilitated when he seems unwilling to show contrition.

Thing is, if he had met up with Ferdinand, what would he say? They would talk about the incident and Terry would likely stick to his version of events which Ferdinand would dispute and that would resolve nothing. Or Terry would tearfully repent his sins and doing so would be admitting that that he perjured himself in court. I think it’s a lose lose for him but like I said before, I don’t have a lot of sympathy for him.