SUNDERLAND V ASTON VILLA Saturday, October 29 15:00 Stadium of Light Sunderland (Probable, 4-4-2): Mignolet; OâShea, Turner, Brown, Richardson; Larsson, Colback, Vaughan, Sessegnon; Wickham, Bendtner. Out: Angeleri, Campbell, Gordon (all knee). Suspended: Bramble (club ban). Villa (Probable, 4-4-2): Given, Hutton, Collins, Dunne, Warnock; NâZogbia, Jenas, Petrov, Delph; Bent, Agbonlahor. Out: Delfouneso (hamstring), Lichaj (hip).. Suspended: Bannan (club ban). Referee: Chris Foy (Matches 3, R2 Y13).
Come on Brucie boy, don't you dare hold back today and put a team out there that will attack 4-4-2. Also £££Bent£££ to have a stinker and get jeered when he's subbed.
The ref is a worry especially with our fairly decent disciplinary so far and, he has had some howlers of games. Is that the teams syd or just a guess?
I'm worried about todays game. The pace of Villas front two are going to cause our slow defenders problems and with Chris Foy in charge it will only take one mistake from the likes of Turner or Brown for the red card to come out. It's crutial that Colback and Vaughan cut out the through balls to Bent who will be hanging on the shoulder of Turner, knowing that he can skin him for pace. O'Shea is also in for a tough afternoon against Agbonlahor who likes to make runs down the left channel. If we can keep 11 men on the pitch we have a chance, but I'll bet my house on it that Bent will be involved in some sort of incident during the match and will be eager to try and silence our fans. Heart says a win for us, but head is saying something totally different
Teams Sunderland v Aston Villa line-ups Sunderland: Mignolet, O'Shea, Brown, Turner, Richardson, Larsson, Colback, Vaughan, Sessegnon, Bendtner, Wickham. Subs: Westwood, Bardsley, Cattermole, Gardner, Ji, Meyler, Elmohamady. Aston Villa: Given, Hutton, Dunne, Collins, Warnock, N'Zogbia, Herd, Petrov, Agbonlahor, Heskey, Bent. Subs: Guzan, Ireland, Albrighton, Delfouneso, Delph, Clark, Cuellar.
Less Sunderland fans in other countries so they'll be at the game probably. Whereas our board has more people who can't make it.
Many of ours are at the match too during home games, but the thread still gets massive. I wouldn't expect it to get huge, but I'd expect to at least have more than, well, no one commenting on it.
