romavillan Posted September 8, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted September 8, 2019 12 hours ago, Five Ken McNaughts said: Is that you, David Cameron? Cameron can't lose this one can he! Looks like the bookies aren't entirely sure about this one same(ish) odds for a home or away win, just over evens. Draw 2s, under 1.5 goals is long so looks like the consensus is for a few goals and coudl go either way. Probs a fair assessment I say. Would be massive to win this, go back to back wins at home, give us some faith as to being able to get most of the points we need in the home games etc. Still though, look at the table and look who we've played so far, West Ham are another team round the top 6 and won 3 on the bounce. Tough ask. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Five Ken McNaughts Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 Not surprised the bookies are finding this one hard to call. I can see a narrow Villa win. One-goal margin. With a deafening Villa Park dragging the lads over the line again. Would also love to have a totally anonymous ref, who saw his role as merely facilitating a fair sporting contest between two sides (pure crazy talk, I know). 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gurru991 Posted September 8, 2019 Visiting Supporter Share Posted September 8, 2019 On 06/09/2019 at 15:55, Villan_of_oz said: If we lose this, we may as well book our Championship tickets for next season.... Its a bit early for that I think. Its more than possible to lose 20 and still stay up. Not saying thats what will happen but its early days yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post John Posted September 9, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted September 9, 2019 Monday night football will bring the Hammers to Villa Park next week. We last beat them at Villa Park in 2015, having lost to them the previous season and drawn our last home league game with them on Boxing Day 2016. Overall we have won 34 and have drawn 31, of the 100 league games that there have been between the two clubs. A victory for us would even up the win records nicely. A win would also take us within a point of our visitors and up above the uncomfortable place, that we currently occupy in the early league table thanks in no small part to Kevin Friend. West Ham are a decent team and they will arrive with three points as their target, as did Everton. This will not be easy, they don't have the trio of players that won the 66 World Cup anymore, but they do have Robert Snodgrass, who will get a well deserved, warm welcome back to Villa Park. A point would be acceptable, but a win would be so much better. Just win it for us Villa! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted September 9, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted September 9, 2019 3-0 loss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farlz Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 (edited) Mike Dean is the ref. Give us a break please. Edited September 9, 2019 by Farlz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 (edited) 19 minutes ago, Farlz said: Mike Dean is the ref. Give us a break please. I'm more concerned about the VAR official nowadays Edited September 9, 2019 by Kingman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 1 hour ago, Kingman said: I'm more concerned about the VAR official nowadays Oh FFS, The assistant VAR is the same as at Palace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 14 minutes ago, Kingman said: Oh FFS, The assistant VAR is the same as at Palace They couldn't have done anything in that game, Friend took them completely out of the equation. If it was the same one as the one in the Bournemouth game then I'd be worried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gurru991 Posted September 9, 2019 Visiting Supporter Share Posted September 9, 2019 2 hours ago, Farlz said: Mike Dean is the ref. Give us a break please. Mike Dean is a way better referee than Friend in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chappy Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 2 hours ago, Farlz said: Mike Dean is the ref. Give us a break please. Dean reffed us away at Forest last season in the game after Grealish got punched at the sty. I thought at the time we had a lot of decisions go in our favour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BleedClaretAndBlue Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 1 hour ago, Keyblade said: They couldn't have done anything in that game, Friend took them completely out of the equation. If it was the same one as the one in the Bournemouth game then I'd be worried. Well, they could have. They could have awarded us the penalty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 9 minutes ago, BleedClaretAndBlue said: Well, they could have. They could have awarded us the penalty That's true. Have we seen VAR overrule a ref decision yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BleedClaretAndBlue Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 5 minutes ago, Keyblade said: That's true. Have we seen VAR overrule a ref decision yet? Honestly dont think they have. At least 10 blatant errors not overturned which begs the question, what is the point in even having it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gurru991 Posted September 9, 2019 Visiting Supporter Share Posted September 9, 2019 26 minutes ago, BleedClaretAndBlue said: Honestly dont think they have. At least 10 blatant errors not overturned which begs the question, what is the point in even having it ? I can see a knee jerk reaction coming in the VAR shite show. They will over turn everything this weekend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 16 hours ago, gurru991 said: Mike Dean is a way better referee than Friend in my opinion. I'm a better referee than Friend, who isn't? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omariqy Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 **** Friend. My first game this season after having to miss the first two. Excited for it. Reckon we can give anyone a match if the fans are behind the team. Especially on a monday night under the lights. West Ham are a very good team but can be gotten at. We need to be on our game against Haller and Grealish needs to get the better of Rice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaFaninLondon Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 The Spammers def have a few dangerous players but are weak at the back and we need to play with the same intensity going forward against them as we did against Everton. We could do with a win as we go to Arsenal on the Sunday and even if we were to draw we'd have picked up only 4 points from 5 games and defeat at Arsenal could leave us in a bit of bother. I don't think West Ham are as good as Everton so we are capable of winning, I'm fairly confident with the defence but going forward we are just not scoring enough. I think it's 4 goals scored from 4, and all of them have been different goalscorers. For them Haller looks a real handful and they have a number of good attacking midfielders like Lanzini, Yarmolenko and Anderson plus some options off the bench. So not an easy task for our defence so our attackers need to be on their game because West Ham's defence (especially their full backs) is not top drawer and they leak a lot of goals. Interestingly, according to the Fifa 20 ratings, this is our strongest team (player rating in brackets): .........................................Heaton (80)............................................... Guilbert (76)..........Engels (76)..........Mings (74)..........Targett (72) ....................................Marvelous (76).............................................. .......................McGinn (75).................Grealish (77)......................... El Ghazi (74)..............................................................Trezeguet (77) ............................................Wesley (79)............................................ Wonder how long it will be before we see Nakamba and Targett in the team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 2 hours ago, VillaFaninLondon said: The Spammers def have a few dangerous players but are weak at the back and we need to play with the same intensity going forward against them as we did against Everton. We could do with a win as we go to Arsenal on the Sunday and even if we were to draw we'd have picked up only 4 points from 5 games and defeat at Arsenal could leave us in a bit of bother. I don't think West Ham are as good as Everton so we are capable of winning, I'm fairly confident with the defence but going forward we are just not scoring enough. I think it's 4 goals scored from 4, and all of them have been different goalscorers. For them Haller looks a real handful and they have a number of good attacking midfielders like Lanzini, Yarmolenko and Anderson plus some options off the bench. So not an easy task for our defence so our attackers need to be on their game because West Ham's defence (especially their full backs) is not top drawer and they leak a lot of goals. Interestingly, according to the Fifa 20 ratings, this is our strongest team (player rating in brackets): .........................................Heaton (80)............................................... Guilbert (76)..........Engels (76)..........Mings (74)..........Targett (72) ....................................Marvelous (76).............................................. .......................McGinn (75).................Grealish (77)......................... El Ghazi (74)..............................................................Trezeguet (77) ............................................Wesley (79)............................................ Wonder how long it will be before we see Nakamba and Targett in the team. Smith says Nakamba is close to being ready on the OS, he’s in his thoughts for the West Ham match. Matt Targett won’t be ready for the West Ham match, it’s on the OS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenjiOgiwara Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 This is at Villa Park right? I'd keep Luiz in. Nakamba on as a sub, then probably start Nakamba away. Any news on Target? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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