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Heskey deserves to start the next match.

Cuellar set up our goal as well with his header that seemed to be cleared off the line by a hand ball. He should be going to South Africa for Spain!

King Carlos for president. He was huge! He made that amazing play moving across to stop Lennon. He was world class today for me

What is it with the Villa and a lack of news? Can't someone ask what's going on? Why do newspapers have journalists if we still can't get any answers about L. Young.

IMO Luke Young is starting to take the piss. Is he injured? OK his half brother died. But in what job do they give you 6 weeks paid leave when your half brother dies. He's gotta get back

Luke Young come back! 2 weeks is enough! We need you badly tonight!

What's going on with Luke Young? Apparently he's healthy now, but because his half brother died he's been granted time off. It's been 2 weeks now right? maybe more? IMO it's time for him to get back and start playing....it may sound harsh, but come on...we need him. Is there more to his story?

Shorey looks like Evra out there!!! Ok not quite, but what a turnaround from Saturday. I'd take of Gardner and bring on Delph. Heskey is playing well. FFS "IF" MON signs a new CB he better send Mr. Bambi on Ice Davies to the bench and keep Cuellar on. I'd be happy with 1-1.

Shorey looks very good. 100000x better than against wigan. What a great run forward 10 mins ago! utv!

Sidwell needs to get a bit more involved. The goal was well taken...but it fell to him and was a gift. I want to see more of him on the ball. He can't go missing....

I've gotta agree. These announcers tonight are morons. The one guy is just trying way too hard to be funny. I'm ashamed of them. The play by play guy from the last match was pretty good though. Him and the English guy are a great team. Ill probably watch the Madrid match on the stream instead of Spanish TV. Does anyone think MON might prefer Guzan if he keeps this up?? UTV

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Davies right now is our 2nd choice CB, because we only have 2. Cuellar looks to be playing very well. Davies always makes those 1 or 2 moronic bad passes or loses the ball in a bad spot. He really needs to get his sh*t together. No more excuses. I'm not even talking about the own goal...just in general he seems very shaky. I hope MON realizes that Cuellar is a quality CB and should start. Carew looks slightly more bothered this match than the last, so that's good. Petrov looked off the pace before he was hurt...what's the injury report? Albrighton looks like he will be good cover at RW and can maybe get some minutes. ReoCoker looks better this match as well. It aint over yet!!

ahh you're right, thanks

I'd assume after points and goal diff that head to head matchups would count right? So if we beat them tomorrow and our goal differences are the same, we should get through

Same here...maybe on the peace cup site there's an explanation

Maybe if Carew is bothered we can do it

So Malaga would have 3 points and a -1 goal difference (im assuming that's first tiebreaker). Atlante if we beat them 2-0 would be even on goal difference and we'd be plus 1. I'm a little confused...do we need to beat Atlante 3-0 now?

Wow, great goal 1-3

1-2 goal Atlante!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We still have a shot. Atlante look dodgy at the back but they move the ball well and their players have lots of class. How much would we need to win by to advance if Atlante win??

1-1 at the half. Malaga looks much better than the other night. Come on Atlante!!!! Keep an eye on Jesus Gamez Malaga's right back. Hes very good in defence and great going forward. I doubt they'd sell him ..............

Atlante winning 0-1 17th minute first half. Come on Atlante!!!!!!!!!!

Just got back from La Rosaleda...very tired but here is my quick 2 cents before I forget/fall asleep. Malaga wasn't playing their best 11. The Villa weren't either, but to some things up I'd say that some players weren`t bothered (Carew, Young, Sidwel, Petrov) some were young and played very hard but made some expected mistakes (Lichaj...at fault for the goal) Friedel: 5 Made 2 good saves...the goal was a bit "meh" he spilled a rebound a bit, but then again he shouldn't have been put in that situation Shorey: 4 Effort was there, but he seems to get a bit scared under pressure and his passing today was pretty sad. He's a veteran player he shouldn´t be making many of the mistakes you´d expect from a youth player. Backup LB at most. If he has to play an extended amount we're screwed. Davies: 5.5 He heads everything away, but has one or two ridiculously bad mistakes that nearly cost the team goals. In the first half he gifted a pass to Malaga that shouldve resulted in a goal. He looked shaky at times..... Cuellar: 6.5 Solid no nonsense match. No mistakes really. Came over to save Lichaj's ass once or twice. Hope he can build on it. Possibly my MOM for the villa. Lichaj: 5.5 Played a very solid match except for two key mistakes. Big, tough..gets forward well. Made two mistakes and inexperienced player will make....and on one Cuellar bailed him out...the 2nd 1-0. I see a lot of potential there though. Sidwell: 4 Was he playing? WTF! Seriously...he's invisible for huge parts of the match. He's gotta be more consistent and get stuck in. Big disappointment. Petrov: 4.5 First match back...but seriously if I saw another backwards or sideways past for him I was gonna throw up. Why the hell was he sitting in front of the defence and NRC was almost as a false left winger. WHY???? He looked like he lacked fitness and was slow. NRC: 4.5 Good effort and motor as always...blah blah blah. But you either play him or petrov...not both. Doesnt work at all. To be honest Osbourne showed me a lot more. A.Young: 4 Off the pace, out of position, floating around. No help from Carew who wasn't bothered. He needs to be consistent and stop diving/arguing with ref like he's Guti from Madrid or C.Ronaldo...I hate it. Albrighton: 5.5 Lots of potential there. 100% effort like all the youngsters. Good dribbling...maybe he needs to cross more instead of trying to beat his man every time. He'll come good. Heskey. - ouch. Hope he´s ok. It looked like he was out cold for a minute there. JCarew 4 Put more effort into applauding the fans when we sang his song than in the match. Wasnt bothered.....I hope its just cause its his first match back. But we could all see hes not a striker that can take over and dominate a match. He needs help, and today was alone. subs: Osbourne 6.5: Has some class and made some good touches which surprised me cause he always gets dissed on here. Had a scoring chance but put it 15 yards over. Has to work on that. I can see him developing into a solid defensive mid if we hold onto him and are patient. Bannan: 6 oozes class. Looked good on the ball. The hare: - didnt get many touches If I missed any subs sorry, it's late and im gonna get to bed. MON has gotta sort this out. Hopefully this shows him we really need to get some quality in. I HATE to say it, but we needed a barry type player tonight to make those passes etc. It was all pass to CB to LB to DM to RB back to the keeper etc. Not too entertaining, 0 chances. Stadium less than a third full. 6 or 7k fans max. Lots of villa fans singing but we were at both ends and not all in the same spot. gnight, want to wake up seeing weve brought in some quality

hey thanks...ill give your friend a call in a bit. anyone else in Malaga?

We just got here a couple of hours ago. Where is everyone gonna meet up before the match? We thought somewhere in the centre around 8ish. Let me know ASAP!!!