This one going City's way would crown a fantastic weekend for us. But things are not going as well at Citeh as they were earlier in the season, and with only eleven games left to close the gap on a rampant ManU, is there a danger that they have already given up the hunt? That result at Southampton (City's, not ours!) makes me feel a little unsure about tonight's game. A Villa victory would be a complete disaster for us, and would empower them in their remaining games. Do City still have the hunger?
I can't see anything other than a City, but hope that's not the kiss of death! I'm praying the likes of Barry and Milner will want to stick one over their former club, plus Mancini could well be out of a job - in fact, he could well be anyway at the end of the season.
I think City will be looking over their shoulder at Spurs and Chelsea more than forward at Man U. Second place to a rampaging United is just about acceptable. To fall behind Spurs and/or Chelsea would be a disaster for them.
This result would be great for us If City win however if you study the flow of fixtures it won't be a massive disaster if Villa get something from the game. Hard to predict but we have a great chance to do things ourselves regardless of all the results. I think City will not give this up and I still have City to win the title. They will get it back to 12 tonight for sure ... they have to as I still think that City, Chelsea, Arsenal and Swansea will take points back from United. City if they want this have to step up tonight and demolish Villa
Villa's performances this season have been unpredictable to say the least. They put 4 past ManC in the Capital one cup, then lose 5-0 to them a few weeks later, they beat Liverpool 3-1 at Anfield and then lose three games in a row at they end of December, shipping 15 goals. They can certainly score when given the chance, and therein lies the danger.
The four critical games for us to win are Sunderland, (momentum, our morale), Wigan, Villa and Reading. If we do that we only need to win one more game than the last three manage to stay up. In fact, 4 more wins might be enough, as long as we beat those around us.
Don't want to count my cluckers but this looks like a Citeh win for me. The table is unreal with anyone from Fulham downwards in danger of having a bad run and slipping into the drop zone. Saying that I reckon West Ham have enough about them to stay up, one or two wins for Norwich will leave them safe too. From Sunderland down to us will be squeaky ring time from now until May. Still think we've left it late and it will be a shuffle of final finishing spot but us Wigan and Reading look most in danger. I've a feeling Villa will be able to scrape enough points to be safe. Sunderland are going to be very hard to get a result against, let alone 3 points and I'm not as confident as some here that this is by any means a guaranteed win.
Jesus..... Who's confident of us beating Sunderland? Not me that's for sure. I think we could play ourselves and still lose at the moment!
Villa beat the Mancs 4-2 at the Etihad so they will feel they've got a chance, let's hope the real City turn up tonight and give them a good thrashing...
Villa tend to shoot their load early, if City can weather this storm or better still hit them with a quick goal, second half should be plain sailing
25 min in, still 0-0 I see - I'm heading home to watch the 2nd half - come on City, get the job done and also put a dent in Villa's GD.
