Stratvillan Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Drop adomah, pack the midfield with energy, and get in amongst them. Nyland RDL. AXEL. CHESTER. HUTTON THOR Hourihane Green GREALISH. MCGINN KODJIA 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilko154 Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 I'm all for dropping the wingers out until we can get some loans in who provide us something different out wide. We also need to look at resting some players midweek. Nyland De Laet Tuanzebe Chester Hutton Whelan Hourihane McGinn Grealish Kodjia Green For me Jedinak needs both a rest and dropping out of a position he cannot play. Tuanzebe can then play his natural position. Rest Elmo and give De Laet a go in his natural position. Rest Bjarnasson and bring Whelan in to do all of the dirty work and let Hourihan, McGinn and Grealish off the leash. Green to come back in and play alongside or just behind Kodjia, he will provide some legs chasing down balls and let Kodjia do his thing on the ball. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pimlico_Villa Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Absolutely has to play Axel at CB. I know he has looked a tad suspect, but their MF is definitely creative enough to feed their Strikers in behind our centre halves so having pace to recover is essential. If Jedinak plays, he will be forced to sit extremely deep so as to not get caught for pace, which in turns makes our MF sit deep, which in turn fuels the hoof ball tactic as the gap between MF and CF is too large. I'm actually dreading this game and can see us getting battered 4 nil. Thought Brentford looked sublime watching them on Sunday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnyp Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Looking forward to our annual 20% possession against Brentford game. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSV Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 5 hours ago, wilko154 said: I'm all for dropping the wingers out until we can get some loans in who provide us something different out wide. We also need to look at resting some players midweek. Nyland De Laet Tuanzebe Chester Hutton Whelan Hourihane McGinn Grealish Kodjia Green For me Jedinak needs both a rest and dropping out of a position he cannot play. Tuanzebe can then play his natural position. Rest Elmo and give De Laet a go in his natural position. Rest Bjarnasson and bring Whelan in to do all of the dirty work and let Hourihan, McGinn and Grealish off the leash. Green to come back in and play alongside or just behind Kodjia, he will provide some legs chasing down balls and let Kodjia do his thing on the ball. Spot on. If RHM is fit.. wouldnt mind him starting ahead of Green. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Stevo985 Posted August 20, 2018 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2018 I'd like to see --------------------Nyland Elmo, Tuanzebe, Chester, Hutton -------------------Jedinak -------------McGinn Grealish Adomah ----------------------------Green --------------------Kodjia But that's a big risk with Axel at CB, depending on whether he's any good or not. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted August 20, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted August 20, 2018 7 hours ago, wilko154 said: I'm all for dropping the wingers out until we can get some loans in who provide us something different out wide. We also need to look at resting some players midweek. Nyland De Laet Tuanzebe Chester Hutton Whelan Hourihane McGinn Grealish Kodjia Green For me Jedinak needs both a rest and dropping out of a position he cannot play. Tuanzebe can then play his natural position. Rest Elmo and give De Laet a go in his natural position. Rest Bjarnasson and bring Whelan in to do all of the dirty work and let Hourihan, McGinn and Grealish off the leash. Green to come back in and play alongside or just behind Kodjia, he will provide some legs chasing down balls and let Kodjia do his thing on the ball. I'd really like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 14 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: I'd like to see --------------------Nyland Elmo, Tuanzebe, Chester, Hutton -------------------Jedinak -------------McGinn Grealish Adomah ----------------------------Green --------------------Kodjia But that's a big risk with Axel at CB, depending on whether he's any good or not. This is what I want to see too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LancsVillan Posted August 20, 2018 Moderator Share Posted August 20, 2018 1 hour ago, Stevo985 said: I'd like to see --------------------Nyland Elmo, Tuanzebe, Chester, Hutton -------------------Jedinak -------------McGinn Grealish Adomah ----------------------------Green --------------------Kodjia But that's a big risk with Axel at CB, depending on whether he's any good or not. Tell you what, with those four supplying balls into box I would like to see Hogan as opposed to Mr Greedy. They all like a runner in front of them and Hogan does make good runs, like he did for Brentford. Coming down for this one, don't let me down Villa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 If there is one game other than blose that I would like us to show up for at least once this season its this one. In all games against them we have been pathetic. Esp the away games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted August 20, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted August 20, 2018 1 hour ago, LancsVillan said: Tell you what, with those four supplying balls into box I would like to see Hogan as opposed to Mr Greedy. They all like a runner in front of them and Hogan does make good runs, like he did for Brentford. Coming down for this one, don't let me down Villa Hogan is dreadful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Condimentalist Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 10 hours ago, wilko154 said: I'm all for dropping the wingers out until we can get some loans in who provide us something different out wide. We also need to look at resting some players midweek. Nyland De Laet Tuanzebe Chester Hutton Whelan Hourihane McGinn Grealish Kodjia Green For me Jedinak needs both a rest and dropping out of a position he cannot play. Tuanzebe can then play his natural position. Rest Elmo and give De Laet a go in his natural position. Rest Bjarnasson and bring Whelan in to do all of the dirty work and let Hourihan, McGinn and Grealish off the leash. Green to come back in and play alongside or just behind Kodjia, he will provide some legs chasing down balls and let Kodjia do his thing on the ball. In principle I like this (but I'd swap Grealish and Hourihane). In reality though we only ever score from crosses and set pieces so I fear for how turgid we would be without any wingers at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 (edited) 3 hours ago, Stevo985 said: I'd like to see --------------------Nyland Elmo, Tuanzebe, Chester, Hutton -------------------Jedinak -------------McGinn Grealish Adomah ----------------------------Green --------------------Kodjia But that's a big risk with Axel at CB, depending on whether he's any good or not. Id hazard a guess thats the team Bruce would like to field but doesn’t currently have faith in RDL or Adomah on the right so goes for Axel and Elmo out of position. I reckon by the end of the window our team could be something like the one you suggests do but with Adomah and Axel both replaced by new signings. Potentially Hutton too. Edited August 20, 2018 by Vive_La_Villa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilko154 Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 2 hours ago, LancsVillan said: Tell you what, with those four supplying balls into box I would like to see Hogan as opposed to Mr Greedy. They all like a runner in front of them and Hogan does make good runs, like he did for Brentford. Coming down for this one, don't let me down Villa Think you may be disappointed as Hogan is out injured for the foreseeable future Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted August 20, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted August 20, 2018 50 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said: Id hazard a guess thats the team Bruce would like to field but doesn’t currently have faith in RDL or Adomah on the right so goes for Axel and Elmo out of position. I reckon by the end of the window our team could be something like the one you suggests do but with Adomah and Axel both replaced by new signings. Potentially Hutton too. I'm not Hutton's biggest fan, but he's perfectly good enough to carry on at left back. People like to slate Bruce for playing him "out of position", but he showed last season that he's arguably better at LB than he is at RB. I think Hutton at LB with Taylor as back up, plus the ability of others such as RDL and Elmo to play there out of position in emergencies is fine for the LB position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 11 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: I'm not Hutton's biggest fan, but he's perfectly good enough to carry on at left back. People like to slate Bruce for playing him "out of position", but he showed last season that he's arguably better at LB than he is at RB. I think Hutton at LB with Taylor as back up, plus the ability of others such as RDL and Elmo to play there out of position in emergencies is fine for the LB position. I’ve got no problem with Hutton playing there but it would be good to have a natural left back. We haven’t had a proper decent left back since Bouma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted August 20, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted August 20, 2018 Just now, Vive_La_Villa said: I’ve got no problem with Hutton playing there but it would be good to have a natural left back. We haven’t had a proper decent left back since Bouma. I think Bryan was obviously the main target for LB so I doubt we'll see anyone else come in. But yeah I agree, seems like forever since we had a decent LB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 5th play 4th. We haven't beaten Brentford since season 1946/47 when we did so at home and away. We have admittedly only played them six times since then but four of those games were in the last two seasons and it's high time we beat them again. On the positive side they have never won at Villa Park (we have won 2 and drawn the other 4). Three points are needed after dropping 2 points at Ipswich last time out so let's do it! The two home games that we did win were 5-2 & 5-0 victories. Would another five-for be asking too much? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 Guys guys relax. This is my first attendance in about 4 years and I’m obviously some kind of luck talisman. England won the penalties because I sat in the garden and not watched them. Villa have obviously been crap as I haven’t been as regularly in recent years. 8-0 Villa coming up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fowlersrs Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 We will get caught out again if he bumbles with Jed at CB, Brentford have sharp young hungry players. Need to stand up and be counted for this, que everyone calling for Dean Smith to be villa manager... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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