maqroll Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 I'd like to think we'll get a little momentum going coming off a road clean sheet against an in form West Ham, but Southampton are very hard to score against, and we don't score goals at the moment. I think we'll lose this one, 0-2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 Still of the same opinion... I think they will do to us what Rocco dose to the Eastern Europeans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 draw at best but i can see southampton winning if im honest, 2.1 saints. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosofsaunders Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 2-1 villa. Purely on law of average basis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roonst83 Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 (edited) Someone pointed out that as good as Saints have looked this season - and lets face it, they have looked excellent - they have struggled to beat (an in fact lost both of their games against) teams in the top 7. This suggests they can comfortably overcome mediocre teams...of which we are one, so it doesn't bode well. Hopefully we can continue to stop the rot and avoid defeat - pains me to say it but a draw would be a great result here. We simply do not create any chances and Saints will have a field day on our large pitch playing their fluid (true) football. Merson made a decent point on Soccer Saturday yesterday by suggesting that as we're a team who create so little great opportunities then why not use our best finisher in Darren Bent? I can see the sense in it, Gabby and Weimann do not do enough - Weimann especially when he's in any position other than up top. Bent could well represent our best chance of grabbing a goal if given a chance, and as it stands i'm all up for trying something new - because its just not working right now. Further to this, I was watching our subs taking shots against Given in the warm up before the game yesterday and Bent's finishing was second to none, Bacuna too actually. If we had Delph and Tekkers id fancy us to get something here, possibly a win as Saints are due a loss. But without them I can only see us fighting for our lives to get a point. our poor home form will continue no doubt. Edited November 9, 2014 by roonst83 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 4-0 to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashingqwerty Posted November 9, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted November 9, 2014 4-0 to them. This Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 saints are miles ahead of us as a team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 4-0 to them. Prepare for the most hostile crowd in Villa Parks History!.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVTuco Posted November 9, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted November 9, 2014 Someone pointed out that as good as Saints have looked this season - and lets face it, they have looked excellent - they have struggled to beat (an in fact lost both of their games against) teams in the top 7. This suggests they can comfortably overcome mediocre teams...of which we are one, so it doesn't bode well. Hopefully we can continue to stop the rot and avoid defeat - pains me to say it but a draw would be a great result here. We simply do not create any chances and Saints will have a field day on our large pitch playing their fluid (true) football. Merson made a decent point on Soccer Saturday yesterday by suggesting that as we're a team who create so little great opportunities then why not use our best finisher in Darren Bent? I can see the sense in it, Gabby and Weimann do not do enough - Weimann especially when he's in any position other than up top. Bent could well represent our best chance of grabbing a goal if given a chance, and as it stands i'm all up for trying something new - because its just not working right now. Further to this, I was watching our subs taking shots against Given in the warm up before the game yesterday and Bent's finishing was second to none, Bacuna too actually. If we had Delph and Tekkers id fancy us to get something here, possibly a win as Saints are due a loss. But without them I can only see us fighting for our lives to get a point. our poor home form will continue no doubt. It might be time to try Bent. As you say, what we're doing isn't working up front, so something needs to change. I think Gabby is pretty much useless at the moment, so replace him with Bent and play Weimann behind him. Maybe they'll hit it off, and anyway there's no risk in trying. I'd like to try Bacuna too, but in place of whom? N'Zog? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCDAN Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 Actually fancy us to get a win here, it's purely law of averages stuff. We're at home, we are due some kind of performance and they are seriously overdue either a bad performance or bad result. Yes they are much better than us but even the best teams slip up an they are certainly not on man city or Chelsea's level. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamingsombrero Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Got a sneaky feeling they may be kicking themselves at the end. Just a feeling though got nothing to back it up, by all rights they should steamroller us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 if they play well they will win its as simple as that. draw at best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BleedClaretAndBlue Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Im going to predict 75% posession for Soton, a shot on target for us and a 0-3 away win. Lets see how accurate that is after the game. 1 goal in 8 games, 7 losses in 8. How can any manager survive that. If Benteke was available id be much more hopeful of a point or something, our side just has no goals in it. All we have is an overworked quality GK who im starting to feel sorry for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 3 points otherwise things are going to get nasty for Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Can't see anything other than an easy Saints win Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 2-1 villa. Purely on law of average basis Yes law of averages suggest Southampton have to loose one soon and we have to win one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayls Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 .........................Guzan................................. Lowton......Vlaar........Senderos.... Cissokho ........................Sanchez............................. .......N'Zogbia......................Westwood....... .......................Cleverley............................ ..............Weimann.......Bent........................ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mic09 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 remember when we were crap last year, talked about relegation and we we dreading the game against 'the best defence in the league'? Yeah, thats when we beat saints 3-2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3te Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I think we'll beat them. No reason whatsoever, I just have a feeling we'll win Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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