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Liverpool look good… I wouldn’t want to be their next victim

Och aue the noo… neaps and tatties…deep fried pizza
 

Need Liverpool to score more while they’re on the ascendency 

I’m guessing that Flange wasn’t a defender as a player?

2 minutes ago, AshVilla said:

Brighton could have won 3 or 4 nil today we were that bad.

We were lucky to get 0

6 minutes ago, grobs said:

Barring a massive goal difference swing they are down 

Burnley beat Spurs and Chelsea beat Forest then Burnley play Forest last game of the season.. they win that and stay up by 1 point.

Will Yuri or Martinez be fit for this?

Just now, Indigo said:

At least Spurs are stuttering as badly as we are right now. You'd think that of their remaining 3 games, the likelihood is that they come away with 6 points, so if Liverpool can see this out it's huge for Villa.

Also they play 3 games in a week

Burnley could get something at Spurs too.. they need to to stay in the league…

Liverpool 1-0, hopefully they get a few more to raise our top 4 chances.

9 minutes ago, Jareth said:

United will catch us. 75%

United might get no European football.. I for one would be sad… no, not sad… the other one… happy 

6 minutes ago, Brumstopdogs said:

I think if we get to 70 points it should be done.

Really hoping we can get 3 points at Brighton tomorrow and then the pressure will all be on Spurs!

100%. Win the Brighton game and it's all over rover.... Spurs would need 4 points from Liverpool and City to even draw level (assuming the beat the other two). Spurs are doing a Spurs again...

23 minutes ago, Brumstopdogs said:

A lot will depend who is in goal for us. 

Really hoping it is Martinez as I think that will give everyone a boost.

100% agree... has to be Martinez.

Villa beat Brighton, Liverpool beat Spurs  - 100% Champions League

Villa beat Brighton, Liverpool Spurs draw - Spurs would have to beat Man City (assuming they are going to beat Burnley and Shef) 

Villa beat Brighton, Spurs beat Livepool  - Spurs would have to beat Man City (assuming they are going to beat Burnley and Shef)

                                                                          Spurs Draw v Man City and hope that a GD of 8 swings in their favour..

Basically it's down to us beating Brighton tomorrow... pretty much seals it regardless of the Liverpool v Spurs result

It's been asked before, but if we end up qualified in 4th by Monday Morning will Emery go all out or bust with our best side against the greeks

3 minutes ago, Stephen_Evans said:

I still can’t believe we have (probably) stuffed this up.  It showed me how much I actually wanted to win it.

I believe that we can turn it around

Liverpool have lost once at home in the League all season...

48 minutes ago, VillaChris said:

Pascal Gross can play anywhere but their midfield is a real downgrade on what they had 12 months ago. Guessing it will be Gilmour, Baleba and Gross so pretty lightweight.

Then I saw her face.... now I'm a 

I think we’ll either win, lose or draw this… you heard it here first…

19 minutes ago, TomC said:

We've proven that we can handle Europe. Whether we win, lose the final, or lose in the semis, we've made it most of the season and finished 4th in the PL. We're not West Ham (though we could use some more depth).

 

West Ham’s success came at a cost of league position.. ours hasn’t…

Anyone on here have any confidence that we can turn this tie around?

The Liverpool game is the one that Spurs might get something from (other than the bottom two).

1 minute ago, romavillan said:

Maybe at home we might have, but the atmosphere over there will be madness, be a much more hostile environment than the Lille game. I agree if we really do manage to put 90 minutes together on song we've got enough to score 3 or 4 against them, but I'm not sure how well the players will deal with the atmosphere. Obvs Emi will **** love it, but he's not human.

A number of our players will have played for national sides in hostile environments.

1 minute ago, The Fun Factory said:

How in any way is a two goal deficit better than any sort of lead? Dougie's pen was our get of jail card and we blew it.

I am see us scoring and possibly even winning the away leg but at the moment I just can't see us keeping a clean sheet.

I didn’t that it was better.. I would’ve rather us won 9-0 and put the tie to bed.. but if we had a 1 or even two goal lead, there would’ve been the temptation to defend what we had… IF in this case, they scored first, then the crowd get behind them and they go on to win the tie… 

We have to go to win the tie now.. I’d have preferred the 1 goal deficit but I don’t see why we can’t put two past them… it was a perfect storm for them… a bit like when we beat Liverpool 7-2… I doubt that perfect storm will happen again.

I’m strangely more confident having to go there and win, as opposed to going there to defend a 1 goal lead…

in the latter scenario, they get a goal back then they’re on the ascendancy.

in the first scenario we have to be in the ascendancy from the first minute… of course the penalty miss makes this harder but I think that we can beat them by 2….
that’ll at least tie the tie…