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Ah, catch your drift now!

Definitely agree that Warnock needs to get subbed off before he gets sent off. No idea who we'd bring on though.

Lichaj to right back and L. Young to left back?

I beg to differ, you know exactly what needs to be done

I do? :?

Definitely agree that Warnock needs to get subbed off before he gets sent off. No idea who we'd bring on though.

Lichaj to right back and L. Young to left back?

Warnock has been garbage so far.

Edit: Stream is behind, get the **** in!

Needless that was.

Yeah. But he's got shit hair.

Anyone who has a season ticket might as well return it now, we're getting relegated. In fact, I don't think we'll score this season. Forget it!

Getting our arses handed to us here.

2-0. Not great keeping there. Those balls need to be pushed out, not back into the danger area.

Officials are being very soft with decisions.

So close from Albrighton!

1-0 Benfica.

Davies on for Cuellar too. Must have picked up a knock.

Damn, deflection.

It's a strong Benfica line up and will be agood test fro Albrighton up agaimst Contrao.

He was one of the stand out performers at the WC for me. Top player.

It's been a while since we had a pre-season brawl actually that'd be worth watching.

Didn't Heskey get sent off in the Peace Cup for fighting?

I'd put Saha down as a fail too. Great player, injured far too much though.

Anderson more recently too. No doubt he has the potential, but he's really not shown it anywhere near enough to justify spending nearly £20m on him.

O'Neill has had FOUR YEARS. Are we still going to be excusing his fuckawful football in 2015 because he inherited Liam Ridgewell a long time ago?

This 'fuckawful football' has still just taken us to sixth place and two trips to Wembley. It's effective enough to have seen us beat everyone else in the Premiership in recent years, including an extremely sweet win at Old Trafford which had previously happened once in my Villa-supporting life. Bleating about an alleged lack of entertainment is just ridiculous. Let's win something first, eh?

I can't believe what a pile of miserable, unrealistic swine some of you are. We're still on an upwards trajectory despite running into a 'big 4' entrenched by years of success and Champions League money, a Spurs squad who had a massive head-start on us (and still barely scraped into fourth ahead of us), and a Manchester City empire which is effectively unrivalled in world football.

Why do some of you believe we have any right to compete against them? We don't. We're a provincial team with a dwindling budget, a limited support and minimal global appeal.

Get real. We're doing at least as well as we could realistically hope for.

This absolutely hits the nail on the head.

Some of the unrealistic expectations and baffling opinions on here are quite frankly cringe worthy and borderline pathetic.

The fact that we went from relegation fodder to qualifying for Europe each season in such a small space of time has clearly gone to people's head, and they seem to think that the next step should be achieved in the same amount of time, if not, sooner.

As Gramme said; get real.

Was that shootout just a bit of fun then? I'm confused :?

Great save Guzan.

Liking the look of Lichaj. The boy can certainly play. Thought he'd been done for pace then but he got back and put a good tackle in and won us a throw.

PICK THAT OUT!

Good finish Emile!

Great cross from Albrighton...this kid is a star.

Downing should have done better, heavy touch.

Paul AVFC: Two games - we play Benfica tomorrow. By the way James Milner and other players not involved in tonight's game will be available for that one.

From the Villa live feed.