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  1. RichW

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    RichW replied to useless's topic in Villa Talk

    Intrigued to see if he starts this weekend especially with Luiz out and Emery might feel the need to rotate after last night If he doesn’t start this weekend then I’m not sure when his next start is going to be. Won’t be surprised if his sold in the summer.
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    Likely going to have to absorb pressure like the Arsenal game for the first 20-30 mins. If Lille score early then I can see them doing what Dortmund did and scoring a second fairly quickly and being an uncomfortable night. If we can get to HT at least level then I think we will be fine. I am bracing myself for a penalty shoot-out tonight though. The performance at Arsenal has given me a bit more confidence but AZ Alkmaar aside, I don't think we have played that well in any of our European away games and Lille are more experienced with this occasion then us. Not confident! I do think the winner of this tie goes onto win the tournament.
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    Top 5 being enough for Villa to be in the Champions League ahead of two winnable home games to pretty much seal top 5 would have been too easy. Villa never do it the easy way. Promotion, staying up on the last day when we looked dead and buried, Europe last season. This will go down to the last day where a win against Palace will mean we finish top four. Spurs will be 3-0 up after 30 minutes against Sheff Utd and we will anxiously be waiting for Villa to take the lead. Already mentally preparing myself for a penalty shoot out tonight!
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    Even if we make Champions League it could turn out we need to sell Douglas Luiz anyway if the club want to spend money in the summer. Was gutted when we sold Grealish but looking at the bigger picture that fee has played a part in bringing some of the players that we love watching right now. If we do have to sell - Villa won't be doing it cheap so I'm not really worried about that.
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    How many one on ones do Atletico want to miss! Much better second half from them.
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    This game just shows how frustrating that late Lille goal was. Dortmund scored late in the first leg and they’ve managed to turn this around quite quickly.
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    3 of those sides are in the bottom three so that unbeaten run doesn't really impress me that much. Could have easily lost to Burnley aswell. Emery will have learnt from the FA Cup game. He won't make the same mistake twice.
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    Both Bournemouth and Chelsea are tough games. We have a good chance to win but there's also a good chance we don't win either. Chelsea beat a poor Everton last night, have to remember they are 9th for a reason - they lack consistency. Hopefully we can back up the Arsenal result with a win against Bournemouth. When we beat Arsenal and Man City we backed it up beating Brentford. Sometimes teams get a big result and then lose the weekend after. Fingers crossed we can get through against Lille, English teams have a good week in Europe and we can have a comfortable home game this weekend!
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    Before games people sometimes debate trying to say x team has an advantage over y team because they had a game mid- week/extra days rest etc but I don't usually buy it much. Seen plenty of times where Villa have played against a team who had Europe mid-week yet when the game comes the other team looks fresh and we looked knackered. Arsenal had 2 days extra rest last week yet second half they looked tired and we played like we had a full weeks rest. Not convinced this 2 week break is good for Spurs tbh.
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    That week is going to be critical for top four. We play Chelsea and Brighton. Spurs play Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool. We will probably have a better idea of what's going to be enough for top four after that tbh. In an ideal world, English teams will have a good week in Europe in this week and we can head into Bournemouth game Sunday knowing a win would pretty much seal Top 5 and a very likely Champions League place.
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    Personally think for top four we will need 72 points - 3 more wins. 70 points I think will come down to goal difference. Chelsea game for Spurs is important for me, excluding that game I see them finishing on 69 but that's the one game I struggle to predict.
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    Meant to play Man City but they have a FA Cup game.
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    Not expecting anything today. The positive is Spurs lost and Man Utd drew so we are not really any worse off apart unless we get an absolute hammering which I don’t think will happen and it will be another game chalked off! Would love us to finally win at one of these tough away games but with Arsenal challenging for the title I think they see us off comfortably unfortunately. 3-0 Arsenal
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    Funny you mention about it being the other way round. I remember people on here on the equivalent thread last year being adamant Villa could still finish top 4 after we beat Newcastle.
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    I know. That’s the point I was trying to make, 6 points from Burnley/Sheff Utd and I can see them winning one of them 3 fixtures (losing the other 2 probably). It’s the Newcastle/Chelsea games that are a bit harder to predict. Ideally need them to drop points in both
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