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Match Day Thread Aston Villa v PNE Villa Park 2/10/2018

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  1. themaclad

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    Club in crisis, manager under pressure, restlessness starting to grow with support, fans calling for manager's head, could be describing both us and Villa

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    So Tuesday's nights game is off major importance to both sides, probably slightly more to Villa than us, Villa with only one win in eight sit just below mid table, having survive a summer of major upheaval being financially strappe before being bought by new owners. Results wise not hitting the heights possibly missing the steadying influence of John Terry at the back. They have a decent squad of players with Grealish having been not been sold and now signing a five year contract is a bonus, Can choose from Kodjia. Abraham and Bolasie the latter two on loan, the more than useful Hourahaine and Adomah. Should really be higher up than were they are at the moment but as it is only Septmber/October there is plenty of time to turn things around just like there is for us.

    Following yesterday doubts about Robinson and especially Harrop who was struggling to walk as he left the field, both sides need a result personal view we may get a positive one.

    Further to come.
     
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    How's Maguire coming on?
     
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    Training
     
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    Team News: Aston Villa

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    Manager Alex Neil will be without Josh Harrop after the announcement he is ruled out for the season after the injury he picked up against West Bromwich Albion at the weekend.

    The North End No.10 ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament as he played the through ball that led to the Lilywhites’ second goal against the Baggies.

    A scan on Sunday revealed the extent of the injury, after the midfielder had been helped from the field, and he will now undergo an operation to repair the knee before he starts the seven months or so rehabilitation programme.
    Billy Bodin, who suffered the exact same injury in pre-season is ten weeks into his work after the operation and will also miss the majority, if not all, of the season.

    Paul Gallagher missed the weekend with a back injury and will be assessed before the final squad is picked, whilst Lukas Nmecha should be fine to return after a slight niggle, whilst Sean Maguire is back in training, but will not be risked until he is fully ready for a return.

    Villa boss Steve Bruce, who was at Deepdale to watch the Lilywhites on Saturday, after his side drew with Bristol City on Friday night, had to withdraw striker Tammy Abraham late in the game with a calf injury.

    The England front man will need to be assessed before the experienced manager decides whether to risk him again against Alex Neil’s side under the lights on Tuesday night.



    Ref Watch: Aston Villa





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    This Tuesday night’s match official, for the trip to face Steve Bruce’s Aston Villa at Villa Park, is taking charge of his first PNE game of the season.

    The referee is Peter Bankes, who whilst he hasn’t done a North End or Villa game so far in 2018/19, took charge of the Lilywhites four times during the last campaign.

    His last game was March’s Gentry Day win over Bolton Wanderers at the then Macron Stadium. He also took charge both of the last two seasons’ clashes with Villa at Deepdale, our FA Cup third round victory over Gareth Ainsworth’s Wycombe Wanderers at Adams Park back in January and the 1-1 draw with Barnsley in September.

    The first of the aforementioned games against Villa, were his first of two North End games in 2016/17, also officiating the game against Leeds United at Elland Road in April 2017.
    The 2016/17 clash with the Villans was his third visit to Deepdale as a referee. His first was the 2014/15 season’s 3-2 home win over Port Vale in the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy and then in 2015/16 season he was here for the last game of 2015, when we defeated Hull City 1-0 just after Christmas.

    This is his fifth year on the EFL referee’s list and his second year in the Select Group Two, and he also took charge of our win at Chesterfield in February 2015, when Joe Garner scored twice on his return from a period out injured.

    This will be his first visit to Villa Park this year and so far in the new season he has taken charge of ten games, where he has issued 46 cautions and one red card. His last game was last Tuesday’s victory for Crystal Palace at West Brom in the Carabao Cup.

    The assistants on Tuesday night will be Mark Pottage and Daniel Leach, with Tom Nield acting as fourth official.
     
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    Darren England now ref
     
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    Aston Villa 3 Kodija, Abraham, Bolasie Preston North End 3 Johnson pen, Gallagher, Moult

    Aston Villa line-up: Bunn, Tuanzebe, Chester (c), McGinn, Grealish, Hourihane (Whelan, 83), Abraham (Bree, 56), Bjarnason, Hutton, Kodjia (Bolasie, 74), Elmohamady. Subs not used: Nyland, Whelan, Hogan, El Ghazi, Adomah.

    PNE line-up: Maxwell, Fisher (Moult, 83), Hughes, Pearson, Huntington (c), Davies, Barkhuizen (Gallagher, 77), Ledson (Johnson, 46), Nmecha, Browne, Robinson. Subs not used: Rudd, Earl, Clarke, Burke.

    Attendance: 27,331 (397 PNE fans)

    Well that was one crazy game, still not quite sure what went on but in the end our first point away from home thgis season is something I would have take before the game the fact we went from having three to nearly getting none in 10 minutes summed up the match. A very low key atmosphere when the game kicked off saw Villa dominate the early stages and they were nearly gifted a lead when Kodija got in towards the North End goal his shot was mistimmed but Maxwell made a total mess of the save, went through his legs and dribbled past the far post for a corner.
    Villa took the lead which they deserved although there did look to be a foul on Nmecha but down the right they went cross to back post Kodija easily got above Fisher to head home.
    Villa were in cruise control and we were falling apart, no surprise they went two up Huntington's attempt to dribble away from the touchline was always destined to fail, robbed by Abraham who advanced towards goal and scored.
    This could have been a hammering but we got to half time 2 down.

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    Johnson for Ledson at half time he made an immediate impact always seemed to be on the ball, we reduced the arrears Robinson through ball to Nmecha, he should have actually scored but did the next best thing got brought down by the last man, penalty, Chester red card, having seen it again this morning may have been a bit lucky. Johnson slotted home the penalty.



    Nothing to lose piled forward had countless chances all missed, and whenNmecha hit the post thought we were not going to do it.
    But a free kick on the edge of the box Gallagher took it have to say do not think the keeper was actually aware it was being taken and made a complete horlicks of it, now level. More North End pressure Moult header three minutes to go and now leading, just needed to old on and as usual couldn;t. Chaos from a corner and Bolasie fired home 3-3 similar chaos from the next corner Johnson gives away a penalty but Maxwell saves Whelan's penalty, it was literay the last kick of the game.
    Utter madness then it was the A roads home got home at 3 still cannot believe what I saw last night.
    Yep there was a fat bloke trying to streak and someone apparently threw a cabbage at Steve Bruce, who in my view got stick from the Villa fans but what an you do when you are down to 10 and a penalty miss away from winning.
    Providing we can sort the defence out it may be able to get something from this crap start we have had.

    Manager Alex Neil believes his side can take more than the point that they earned at Villa Park tonight with North End coming from 2-0 down to claw their way back into the game.

    Goals from Daniel Johnson and Paul Gallagher levelled matters for North End after Jonathan Kodjia and Tammy Abraham gave the hosts a 2-0 lead, and when Louis Moult made it 3-2, North End were well on their way to victory.

    However, Yannick Bolasie equalised in added time to send the game at 3-3 before Chris Maxwell saved a penalty in the dying seconds of the match.

    Speaking after the game, the manager was given the strenuous task of trying to summarise the events of the last 90 minutes.

    “We didn’t play well first half,”
    “Our passing was poor. We made a change at half-time and I thought DJ was fantastic second half and he did really well for us.

    “The second half, it was one way traffic and at 2-1, we continue to dominate the game, then Gally gets the equaliser and then we make another change and bring on Louis Moult. It’s a great delivery and Louis makes it 3-2 with 86 minutes on the clock.
    “We’re playing against ten men so we expect to see the game out but we then start to panic and that’s the best way to describe it. We’ve got some very inexperienced players and I think that showed but at 2-0 had you have offered me a draw then I would have certainly had taken it.

    “There was a whole range of emotions in that second half and too be honest, I’m drained at the moment. One minute you think you’ve won it and the next you think it’s a draw, and in the last minute you think you’ve lost it.

    “It was an incredible match, in particular the second half and there were some unbelievable performances from us in the second half but I think these are the basics of the game that you need to get right.”

    Despite the mixed emotions, Alex refused to criticise any of his players on the basis of their second half performance, and felt that the character in the dressing room shone tonight having been able to put themselves back in contention from two goals down.

    He added: “All credit to the lads, they’ve done the hard work to get themselves back in the game. We’ll take the point and move on to a really important game against Wigan on Saturday and hopefully tonight will set us up to try and get the three points going into the break.

    “It’s difficult to critiicse any of my lads in the second half. There’s a lot to build on but we need to keep calm heads. We’ll take huge heart that we’ve came here 2-0 down and turned it into 3-2 which I’m not sure many teams in this league are capable of doing.
    “Recent performances have been good, but sometimes you just need to tough it out and do the scrappy jobs. The lads are disappointed but equally they’re really pleased with how they performed second half.

    "It’s a point on the board and we’d had taken that before we came here given recent form. We’’re disappointed we didn’t go on and win the game with the position we found ourselves in but we took a lot of heart from that performance and we’ll go again and work our socks off to replicate that second half again. It took character tonight because when you’re 2-0 down it’s easy to give up, and we never done that."
     
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    At last, a bit of luck.
     
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    Spot on with that Barnet
     
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