Well our first choice players have had a rest after not playing on Wednesday. God only knows how this one will go. I will be eating out in Oxford so will miss the game. If we win maybe I am the jinx that has caused the recent losses ?
Villa last 10 results. Villa v City 1-0 h Go ahead eagles v villa 2-1 A Spurs v villa 1- 2 a Villa v burnely 2-1 h Feynoord v villa 0-2 a Villa v Fulham 3-1 h Villa v bologna 1-0 h Sunderland v Villa 1-1 a Brentford v Villa 1-1 a (lc) Everton v Villa 0-0 They've come out of the really bad form and have been playing their 2 a week and prospering. Martinez Cash konsa torres digne Kamara onana Mcginn Rogers buendia Watkins No shocks in the selection. Rogers is absolutely key there. Our line up Marmdashvilli Bradley konate vvd ???? Gravenberch szoboszlai Salah wirtz gakpo Ekitike Just pick which lb you like I guess based on that ****show on Wednesday. We wont have any shocks but we will see.
Something needs to change because the way we are playing we are too easy to score against and we're finding it difficult to score goals.
Personally I think there's a large element of passivity and players minding themselves rather than being brave. The likes of gakpo and Salah's pressing is absolutely unacceptable. I want to see change as they are phoning it in imo. Start there and then talk cbs as well, they are dropping off buying space as they dont think marmadashvilli will come.out and they are worried about long ball over them. Stay up, close the gaps. Then the midfield..stop jogging off ahead of the ball expecting cbs to make play. Stay in place. Fight for second able if you must. Make play. Pass forward. Full backs. Absolute ban on back passing if you are not completly closed down this turning around and knocking it into the middle or to the cb rather than passing forward has to also stop. They seem utterly disinterested in going forward mostly and certainly wont work a channel ball. So afraid they lose it and midfielder wont cover.
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Is Gravenberch back in contention? If so, and we play him at DM, we'll be much better in midfield and that, in turn, will strengthen the defence too. Trouble is, Slot has given him more of a B2B rule this season
Under the lights at Anfield. This is where the team bring their A game. Can see us winning this and Madrid mid week no problem.
So Klopp complains about the Saturday 12.30 kick offs. They change they games to Saturday 20.00 kicks offs and Liverpool get them 2 weeks running.
it's because TNT love us as we clearly bring in their biggest viewing figures and their designated slot is 12:30 on sat however PL brought in rules that if a team played away in europe on the wed the game would have to be moved to 8pm and hence why we are playing then
Its odd that tnt are going there after so long having the 12:30 asia slot. I wonder if its for the USA market in anticipation of anticipation of world cup? Tnt is some form of usa company yeah? It does seem kind of odd.
ffs it was never the Asia spot as the rights are for UK only . Basically it was the package Virgin now TNT could afford to get . the switch to 8 pm is due to UEFA regs as i've pointed out in this thread
