***Official Villa v City Match Thread***

[Beefymcfc]

Is he trying to counter the speed of Agbonlahor?

[s1ty m]

Stupid full backs selection. Just fucking stupid.

[Blue Since 76]

Hart
Zabba-Kompany-Lescott-Kolarov
----Barry - de Jong
Johnson - Silva - Milner
----Aguero

Hello, Jose, you got any plans after May?

Kolarov must have compromising pictures of Bobby.

[Douglas Higginbottom]

Plenty good enough that team. Nigel to score the only goal with a header.

[Sideshow Bob]

Is he trying to counter the speed of Agbonlahor?

by picking our slowest team? i think he may be confused.

[Burt]

Is he trying to counter the speed of Agbonlahor?

Thought Agbon was crocked mate?

[Dameerto]

I'm surprised Cliche misses out again - has he been carrying a knock or something recently?

[Blue Since 76]

Plenty good enough that team. Nigel to score the only goal with a header.

Bit early to have started on the hard stuff, Doug.

[blues2win]

I don't mind De Jong playing; he's still very good at what he does and away from home there's a clear case for him. He isn't playing three sitting midfielders because Milner will be playing further up. I just hope Barry can perform at Villa. I'm surprised about Micah being left out; maybe he has a slight injury?

[Tokyo Blue]

How about we see what happens instead of crying before we are hurt?

[Blue Since 76]

How about we see what happens instead of crying before we are hurt?

How about he plays the best team available since we haven't got another league game for two weeks?

[Beefymcfc]

How about we see what happens instead of crying before we are hurt?

Correctomundo, but I've revised my prediction. 3-0 now instead of 4.

[Ted Hughes]

Kolarov ?

In theory it's a strong enough team to beat Villa but it's certainly not our strongest team by a long way. I can understand the midfield formation; try to get a pass & move thing going then bring on Dzeko later when Villa get tired, but if I'm Alex McCleish, I see a great opportunity to stick Albrighton up against Kolarov & the headless chicken on Zabba. Mind you, if I'm Alex McCleish, I probably completely fail to see that & put their slowest, shittyest player there, thus handing the game to City.

Wel good luck Bob. If this works, he's proven very very clever & if it fucks up, the knives will be out all over the country & he will 100% deserve it.

[blues2win]

Looks like he's playing a sort of four four three with Kolarov almost a left winger and Barry/Lescott doing the defending behind him. I still don't understand Richards being left out; we lose his physical presence at set pieces at both ends of the pitch and he's much more effective going forward than Zaba. Maybe he feels Zaba's a bit better defensively. Leaving out Dzeko makes sense. Dunny won't relish Aguero, Johnson and Silva making darting runs at him.

[Blue Since 76]

Kolarov ?

In theory it's a strong enough team to beat Villa but it's certainly not our strongest team by a long way. I can understand the midfield formation; try to get a pass & move thing going then bring on Dzeko later when Villa get tired, but if I'm Alex McCleish, I see a great opportunity to stick Albrighton up against Kolarov & the headless chicken on Zabba. Mind you, if I'm Alex McCleish, I probably completely fail to see that & put their slowest, shittyest player there, thus handing the game to City.

Wel good luck Bob. If this works, he's proven very very clever & if it fucks up, the knives will be out all over the country & he will 100% deserve it.

Agree with the last part, but what's he proven if it does work? We haven't got another league game for two weeks, so what are we saving our best players for? Play Richards and Clichy in a must win game today and then again on Thursday, if they're fit. If they're not, play Zab then. And Kolarov if we must start with 11. If he wins the Europa League and finishes second in the premier league, no City fan is going to thank him.

His Ranieri/Benitez style tinkering is going to cost us the title.

[Dubciteh]

Kolarov ?

In theory it's a strong enough team to beat Villa but it's certainly not our strongest team by a long way. I can understand the midfield formation; try to get a pass & move thing going then bring on Dzeko later when Villa get tired, but if I'm Alex McCleish, I see a great opportunity to stick Albrighton up against Kolarov & the headless chicken on Zabba. Mind you, if I'm Alex McCleish, I probably completely fail to see that & put their slowest, shittyest player there, thus handing the game to City.

Wel good luck Bob. If this works, he's proven very very clever & if it fucks up, the knives will be out all over the country & he will 100% deserve it.

Luckily villas team is all over the place aswell. No left back no left wingr, heskey, we may just get away with this!

[The Original Special One]

Why are we still getting this arsehole, Coleman, commenting on our games?
Surely he's not taking 'our' side?
(with Villa having Yorke, to take their side)

[Ted Hughes]

Kolarov ?

In theory it's a strong enough team to beat Villa but it's certainly not our strongest team by a long way. I can understand the midfield formation; try to get a pass & move thing going then bring on Dzeko later when Villa get tired, but if I'm Alex McCleish, I see a great opportunity to stick Albrighton up against Kolarov & the headless chicken on Zabba. Mind you, if I'm Alex McCleish, I probably completely fail to see that & put their slowest, shittyest player there, thus handing the game to City.

Wel good luck Bob. If this works, he's proven very very clever & if it fucks up, the knives will be out all over the country & he will 100% deserve it.

Luckily villas team is all over the place aswell. No left back no left wingr, heskey, we may just get away with this!

Haha. Really ? I haven't seen it yet. No surprise though. Probably hoping for a set piece goal.

[PeterParker]

I don't like when he does this changes away from home. If we would have played on our ground, i would understand, but this looks very odd.
Hope we will get the 3 points.

[Mase]

If players like Johnson and de Jong don't give it their all today and perform well then they can't moan when we fuck them off in the summer!