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Wow - totally unexpected. How will he use Duran?

If Watkins is for enough for the bench I’m sure he will start

1 minute ago, bobzy said:

The squad depletion point is fair… but is it really such a difficult place to go? Arsenal did them 6-0. Burnley turned up and got a result. Aside from hammering Freiburg, have they even won at home this year?

Good point. Think it’s just our record there to be honest!

2 minutes ago, AshVilla said:

If we can somehow win today without McGinn and possibly Watkins Unai is a god.

It’s such a difficult place to go. If we did it as depleted as we are then it would arguably be the result of the season. 

Seen a few Villa shirts on my morning run down here in Devon. Taking that as a positive sign. 

We have reacted well this season to set backs. If we win tomorrow with the players missing that would be huge going into the international break. 

Brilliant Fulham!! This is brilliant for us

2 minutes ago, Lerner's Driver said:

You can just see Fulham all over Spurs and Spurs winning. Be just our luck ffs!

Spurs are such jammy words removed this season 

8 minutes ago, DakotaVilla said:

It’s why the McGinn suspension was so utterly idiotic. 

I still can’t believe he lost his head like that. Hope we don’t look at that moment at the end of the season. With all of the injuries we need him every game. 

Just now, Wezbid said:

Big Trouble in Lille France

Crowd trouble?

Big draw that. Shame we have many got the second leg at VP for either the quarters or potentially the semis. Feels like a tough route to the final this. 

6 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said:

Even if they don't, all it takes is for Liverpool to keep going for 5th to be nailed on tbh

Even if they win one of the legs then we will pick up points. 

2 minutes ago, duke313 said:

He can't play in the pivot in our system, he doesn't have the athleticism, our midfield will get overrun.  Tim might be inexperienced, but he has the physicality to play against Soucek, Paqueta and Alvarez.

My fear too. Tough one this - shift Tielemans to the left and play Tim in the middle or start Diaby. Pretty sure he will go Cash in midfield. 

A win here would go a long way to helping us secure top 5. We are down to the bare bones here. 
 

Emi

Konsa Lenglet Pau Digne

Cash Luiz Tielemans Diaby

Bailey Watkins 

Think both Bailey and Diaby need to play. Without McGinn I think Tielemans has to go into the middle. There’s a case for Tim starting this on, Tielemans left and Diaby coming on in the second half. 

19 minutes ago, nick76 said:

Emery mentioned hamstring for him

Are we rushing players back?

Made of glass isn’t he?!

Love the guy. Fantastic again tonight. 

Crowd seem very quiet. 

Our luck with injuries has been diabolical this season. To be where we are is amazing really. 

That had better be a knock and he will be ready for Sunday. A Watkins injury would be disastrous. 

**** me when Villa implode we do it all guns blazing don’t we. 

Absolutely going for it with that line up

Can’t understand how anybody can say it wasn’t a red. Pure stupidity. Really puts us in the shit for three very difficult fixtures. Today feels defining. 

We’ve totally **** it. Top 4 gone. 

I said pre game we would find the pressure too much. We always do in big games.