sheepyvillian Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 3 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said: Frustrating not seeing Maatsen and/or Nedelkovic starting. I think Digne has been poor in pre season and Ned was our best player in pre season. Different atmosphere altogether playing in the Premier league, especially the first game of the season. It's not unusual for Emery to bed new signings in slowly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthEastVillan Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 Just hope starting Cash and Digne doesn't come back to bite us. FB the position that cost us so many goals last season. Understand why he's went with experience though. Just very nervous, but at least bench is very strong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDR V2 Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 Just now, PaulMcGrath_5 said: Haven’t had this nervous feeling for a few months—isn’t it just horrible!? It's brilliant isn't it, I've been busy all day so not really thought about it. I've only just turned the telly on to see that Wolves are losing and Hwang is still diving. Can't wait now 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepyvillian Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 Just now, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said: Kamara, Ming's and hopefully even Geertuda to come. Yeah anyone who doesn't realise this squad is much stronger today than it was last season are in denial. I actually feel for a couple of the lads who won't even make the bench at times Crazy how we live vicariously through our players. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulMcGrath_5 Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 Nothing quite gives you that nervous energy like Villa do! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarryOnVilla Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 5 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said: Frustrating not seeing Maatsen and/or Nedelkovic starting. I think Digne has been poor in pre season and Ned was our best player in pre season. Imaging them quick fresh legs coming on late in the game. Just terror for West Ham’s defence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam-AVFC Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 26 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said: God it’s such a failure that Cash is our starting RB I can get over it for this game. If it's still the case in September I'll be gutted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BleedClaretAndBlue Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 Who’s notching our first goal of the season? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvonVillain Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 Really hope to see Buendia take to field today. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 Looking forward to seeing Onana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokingzen Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 First 11 as many of us predicted, hope to see Ramsey and Buendia get some time on the pitch in the second half. Villa 3 - Wet Spam 2, Duran to get the winner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 17 VT Supporter Share Posted August 17 10 minutes ago, TDR V2 said: And we don't have to rely on Chambers, Donk or Zaniolo as back up anymore Don't worry, VT will soon find some new whipping boys. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Django_Zooms Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 West Ham starting with last season's team. Which might be good news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rightdm00 Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 20 minutes ago, AndyM3000 said: Not writing them off as players I just think it was a very bad deal and we were forced to take a couple of players we didn't need. That cash could have been used to get 1 much better player in than 2 squad fillers. They are both very young and who got the better end of that deal won't be determined for some time. The Douglas Luiz we signed from Man City would not start in this team. Probably struggle to make the bench. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 24 minutes ago, duke313 said: Starting XI is as I predicted. Better bench than end of last season. Yeah, was the starting line up I expected as well. Bench is stacked. So much stronger this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunderball Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 8 hours ago, Leeroy said: Bailey was one of our best players last season. Initially he was better off the bench but he was starting second half of the season and was fantastic. 10 goals and 9 assists in about 2000 minutes of football. If he plays 3000+ minutes this season there's every chance he could get 15 goals and 15 assists or something ridiculous. I think dropping him to try to be more defensive is not something that will work, playing Bailey will allow us to cause so many problems for West Ham in transition. I just hope Ollie starts because we need him to if we are to get a positive result today. Teams out and he’s in. But not starting is not “dropping” it’s a squad game, we will use 16 players each game. Different game phases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 1 minute ago, mjmooney said: Don't worry, VT will soon find some new whipping boys. Seems to be Cash and Carlos nowadays. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calcifer Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Xela said: Yeah, was the starting line up I expected as well. Bench is stacked. So much stronger this year. This is where I am. The issue last season was our 1st 11 pretty picked itself and once we went to the bench the quality went down dramatically. Now we have options. Edited August 17 by calcifer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srsmithusa Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 We have the stroneger roster, we have the better manager with more knowledge of his players, I should be feeling very confident. But I am already a nervous wreck. I've been here for heartache too often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthEastVillan Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 Game of 2 halves if ever I've seen one. Both have some big guns on the bench that can have an impact. Anything can happen in the last few minutes as I expect lots of changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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