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3 minutes ago, TRO said:

sorry to hear of your loss too...mark is right, he'll be with you.

hope you enjoy your day.

ps I use to go with my Dad too.....I sense how you're feeling.

UTV

Thank you mate. 

It wont be long before I'm taking my young boy (he's only 20 months), so I'm already VERY excited about that, and he has no choice in the matter  

10 minutes ago, markavfc40 said:

Sorry for your loss mate. He is going to the game with though as you are taking him with you by thinking about him now and you'll carry those thoughts and him with you throughout today. Enjoy the day mate. 

Thank you pal, appreciated. 

Hope we can all enjoy it with 3 wonderful points

Tough, tough game, made tougher by tonight's exertions.

Wonder if there's a case for starting Duran, thought he did ok tonight and might give us a but more energy, physicality and aerial presence in both boxes? 

I doubt we will, not sure he is the type to play off Watkins. We're just so short on numbers to mix things up which is such a shame.

Hopefully we can sneak it, I don't care about the performances now, it's all about results! 

All my footballing mates hate him.

All my Villa supporting family love him.

I'm so glad he's ours

Let's be honest if we did take it to extra time from here it would be totally undeserved. Just not at the races tonight, a bridge too far, it would seem  

Two!!

1-0 toon!!!

4 hours ago, WallisFrizz said:

This is what I’ve been thinking too. My only concern is if we actually do ok for 75 mins (so don’t make early subs), run our strongest line up into the ground and then concede late goal(s) anyway we’ll have knackered our best team ahead of the Lille game for nothing. 
 

Reality though, I can’t see anything but a comfortable win for Arsenal. They were very good against us at VP but we held on for the win, now we’re much weaker and they’re stronger. Hopefully they rotate a bit.

I know what you mean, it's a difficult one knowing which way to approach it, such a shame we've had all these injuries and the suspensions haven't helped either. 

If we really wanted to "throw it" and rest players..  

                       Olsen

KKH  Chambers  Lenglet   Moreno

Zaniolo  Tim   Tielemans     Rogers 

             Diaby        Duran 

Emi, Cash, Konsa, Carlos, Torres, Digne, Bailey, Luiz, McGinn all rested!

But that side would probably lose by 5! 

I think we will require another Emi masterclass to get anything from this tbh, even if they rest a few they will still field a really strong side and our defence a lot of problems.

I wonder if we will go stronger than we might have now, due do the disappointing coefficient results last night?! Issue is we are so stretched with the squad that we can't make wholesale changes even if we wanted to. Probably just about managing players best we can.

Depending on fitness levels, I'd go;

                    Martinez 

Cash       Konsa      Lenglet     Moreno 

McGinn     Tim      Tielemans    Rogers 

              Diaby         Watkins 

Start strong and see how it's going first 45, if we're getting blown away, start replacing a few with Lille on the horizon.

Will need a really strong away performance to get through this one, but I'm backing us to complete the job.

Martinez MOTM.

We need a third, probably a 4th...

Phew!

That's two great chances to make it two, greedy by Bailey, then Watkins.

I really like Rogers 

6 minutes ago, CVByrne said:

United 5 points behind us now as their game in hand is Sheffield United at OT. They've the easier run in after this weekend. You'd say 6th place finish is definitely likely for us now.

Massive for United this win and a killer for us

With our superior goal difference it's effectively 6 points. 

How you get that we are destined to finish 6th from that I really don't know.

But if they do win tonight, it makes things less comfortable and to be honest I've seen a few people on here write them off too early! 

2 minutes ago, wilko154 said:

Half arsed selection, there was no lack of effort.

I doubt that too. We have a serial winner managing us whose trying to manage the players best he can competing on two fronts, with numerous injuries and a suspension to boot. I bet he's done nothing half arsed in his life!

Back on topic, I think we need 71 points. Or 70 and a better GD than Spurs. But 5th will be enough!

4-1 probably a fair reflection on how the game went, but doesn't tell the whole story, for periods in the first half we looked pretty dangerous on the break, Zaniolo, Rogers, Diaby and Duran and the goal was really well executed. 

Unfortunately, they are relentless and we were wilting a little just before HT, Luiz needs to keep a calm head and Zaniolo doesn't cover himself in glory in the wall and such a poor goal to concede right on HT. 

Second half (despite what McCoist said) we were right in the game. Luiz and Lenglet? Take their chances and it was game on. 

Eventually, they wore us down and the third killed us, which was a shame has the subs may have given us a bit extra.

I don't think we should be too disheartened with the result. We just need to get behind the lads on Saturday, it won't be easy, but I think the team selection tonight has given us a better chance ! 

All ifs and buts, but if Luiz strikes that low into bottom corner, which he's more than capable of,  we were right in this.

Please keep it to 4, I think we deserve that for how we've played overall. 

I hope this is the last time we see Chambers in a Villa shirt