alreadyexists Posted January 26 VT Supporter Share Posted January 26 10 hours ago, Django_Zooms said: Unai's press conference comments made it clear that he is willing to sacrifice the FA Cup. 67 years of hurt and counting. I didn’t get that vibe at all: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 I had a nightmare we were losing 4-1. Can’t remember who it was against though. We had a red card and then 2 keepers got injured one after the other. Then my wife came in the room and said what’s happened to Villa? Really wound me up and I was about to flip out at her but I woke up. 1-1 tonight. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted January 26 VT Supporter Share Posted January 26 29 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said: I had a nightmare we were losing 4-1. Can’t remember who it was against though. We had a red card and then 2 keepers got injured one after the other. Then my wife came in the room and said what’s happened to Villa? Really wound me up and I was about to flip out at her but I woke up. 1-1 tonight. ha ha, the “1-1 tonight” really made me laugh there after such a build up 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeroy Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Our results have been poor without Pau Torres and we need to start showing we can win without him. Tonight will be tough but we have enough attacking quality to win if we can defend well. The most important games are Newcastle and Sheffield United, we really have to win both games IMO regardless of what happens against Chelsea. Team for tonight: .......................Martinez...................... Cash.....Konsa.....Lenglet.....Moreno .......................Kamara....................... .................McGinn......Luiz................ ....................Tielemans.................... ................Diaby......Wakins.............. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeroy Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 16 hours ago, MWARLEY2 said: Its scary how short we are tomorrow evening. Going to be hard to put 17 out yet alone 20. I think this is what we have currently Watkins Diaby Zaniolo McGinn Tielemans Luiz Big Tim Kamara Chambers Bailey Moreno Lenglet Konsa Carlos Cash Martinez Olsen We will need some more youth on the bench. Wonder who they will take to Chelsea. . I think this is why people like myself are so p*ssed off by this January window. We’ve already got several players out including Pau Torres who was only supposed to miss 1 or 2 games but as ever we get misled he’s missed nearly 5 games and counting. But we’re also now letting players go like Donk who wasn’t great that is true but he gave us an option off the bench. Now our bench will include 2 bloody goalkeepers again + 2/3 unproven youngsters I’m guessing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVTuco Posted January 26 VT Supporter Share Posted January 26 Best team we can field obviously. Hopefully we can get a result, but Chelsea is improving. Going to be tough. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferguson1 Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Our first eleven, whoever Emery goes with, will be strong and will give Chelsea a good game. I even think we’ll win tonight. However, our bench is going to be woefully short in some areas, so main thing is to gain a positive result but no further injuries please Martinez Konsa Carlos Lenglet Moreno Kamara Luiz McGinn Tielemans Bailey Watkins Subs: Olsen, Proctor, Cash, Chambers, Iroegbunum, Zaniolo, Diaby, ??, ?? Couple of U21’s to fill the bench I guess - Rowe, Borland, Rory Wilson perhaps? Just throwing some names out there really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted January 26 VT Supporter Share Posted January 26 Looks like Chelsea won't be playing the low block against us , what a welcome relief it will be. Toe to toe, who scores the most it is then, 4-2 to villa, could go either way though tbh, defo both teams to score and a high score line is my guess. UTV. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom13 Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Game day! It's been a while. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom13 Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 13 hours ago, Django_Zooms said: Unai's press conference comments made it clear that he is willing to sacrifice the FA Cup. 67 years of hurt and counting. Did they? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 (edited) 49 minutes ago, Leeroy said: I think this is why people like myself are so p*ssed off by this January window. We’ve already got several players out including Pau Torres who was only supposed to miss 1 or 2 games but as ever we get misled he’s missed nearly 5 games and counting. But we’re also now letting players go like Donk who wasn’t great that is true but he gave us an option off the bench. Now our bench will include 2 bloody goalkeepers again + 2/3 unproven youngsters I’m guessing. You can be pissed off if you want, but it's pretty clear that we are nearing our PSR limits so there's not much to be done. I'd rather we stayed on the right side of the line than received a 10-point penalty, personally. EDIT: Maybe look on the bright side, one of those 'unproven youngsters' could come on, play well, and be the next Ramsey or Grealish. Everyone has to start somewhere after all. Edited January 26 by HanoiVillan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted January 26 Moderator Share Posted January 26 It's interesting in a way that it's actually quite difficult for us to field a significantly weakened team - beyond the first team group that regularly play, we don't actually have very many players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 35 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: It's interesting in a way that it's actually quite difficult for us to field a significantly weakened team - beyond the first team group that regularly play, we don't actually have very many players. Well last season we actually put on Chambers at half time when leading Chelsea and he played o.k. However he was so bad in Warsaw I think Emery just wrote him off from any serious minutes from that point so see if we get an offer for him on deadline day. I wouldn't be against giving Tim some minutes but our midfield unit is all available again so makes sense to start them all and get into the collective rhythm ahead of the must win prem games next week. Could also play Zaniolo off Ollie and save Bailey and Diaby for Newcastle. Our bench will probably still be as good as what Chelsea will have on their one. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marka Ragnos Posted January 26 VT Supporter Share Posted January 26 5 hours ago, Vive_La_Villa said: I had a nightmare we were losing 4-1. Can’t remember who it was against though. We had a red card and then 2 keepers got injured one after the other. Then my wife came in the room and said what’s happened to Villa? Really wound me up and I was about to flip out at her but I woke up. 1-1 tonight. I feel like anyone who has nightmares about AVFC should be given special lifetime season tickets. You're true Villa. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
striker Posted January 26 Visiting Supporter Share Posted January 26 Is this on TV? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 2 hours ago, OutByEaster? said: It's interesting in a way that it's actually quite difficult for us to field a significantly weakened team - beyond the first team group that regularly play, we don't actually have very many players. The subs rule skews ideas of squad strength a bit though. When it was 5 subs for ages and even 7 subs, we'd never have had any of this discussions, or ot wouldn't have come up so often. We have a core squad and first team with some alternatives. A few injuries hurts most teams really. I guess there are fewer young players at the stage of being trusted with the bench they're either in the side or out on loan so it's the rawer Younger kids but imagine the squad with 16 or 18 instead of 20 and it looks more normal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul33 Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 (edited) 8 minutes ago, striker said: Is this on TV? No but it is being streamed outside of UK so normal streaming channels will have coverage. Edited January 26 by Paul33 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craigy1874 Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Think Chelsea are due a result v us at Stamford Bridge unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJBOB Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 With VAR in place and the league best at catching offside vs 2nd in the league at being caught offside - it's going to be a pretty long evening for VAR and the linesmen. In September, there 11(!) offside called with 10 being on Chelsea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imavillan Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 6 hours ago, alreadyexists said: I didn’t get that vibe at all: Same here. What i got from it was that Tom Ross is a bell end. I mean, i already new that but his questions here just reaffirmed it. How on earth this bloke has made a career in the media is beyond me. Clown. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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