Popular Post romavillan Posted March 6, 2023 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted March 6, 2023 11 hours ago, fightoffyour said: These are crap, 3 points minimum. If Emery manages to get more than 3 points away at West Ham then he's a better manager than I thought. 1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Zhan_Zhuang Posted March 6, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted March 6, 2023 1 hour ago, romavillan said: If Emery manages to get more than 3 points away at West Ham then he's a better manager than I thought. We should get four at least after they stole our kit. F****** kit stealers. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roonst83 Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 (edited) On 05/03/2023 at 20:40, Kingman said: They have a nice trip to Cyprus on Thursday evening beforehand Historically, this has no positive effect for us. We can never seem to take advantage against teams that have played midweek/in Europe. That may be due to those teams usually being better than us (hence playing in Europe) but it's frustrating. I worry about our midfield here. Kamara keeps the momentum and fluidity on the ball so well, and Dougie is much better freed up further ahead. I don't trust Chambers as he's not mobile enough. SJM is probably the most suited and perhaps he drops Dougie back into Boo Boo's position. But then we lose having McGann further up field where he's been shining. Tough call. I expect Unai to play Chambers there but as someone pointed out it's a mismatch against Rice and Soucek. Chambers can't carry the ball anywhere near as well as Kamara can, and that is integral to our build up play. Edited March 7, 2023 by roonst83 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 With their current form and our away form,I predict a fairly easy win for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicRic Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 Based on the history between us not really confident in us winning this one especially as they just got slapped 4-0 , they seem to come alive against us always 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amed Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 Danny Ings always scores against former teams - we will need to score a couple of goals to win this one… 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romavillan Posted March 6, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted March 6, 2023 Yeah I'm not sure why some people think we can just turn up at their place and the three points are ours. We're going there without Kamara, who has been key. There's the Ings factor too. I really don't think this will be a walk int he park at all. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 On 05/03/2023 at 10:58, Leeroy said: We're well overdue a win against these tw@ts. Such a nothing, throwaway line, but made me laugh. And I 100% agree! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubberman Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 1-3 Ings to get one of course. Ollie to get back to form after his barren patch (game) with a couple + one from little Emi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottaloo Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 21 hours ago, fightoffyour said: These are crap, 3 points minimum. Do we get bonus points for impressive wins 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robby b Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 On 05/03/2023 at 11:02, BleedClaretAndBlue said: Difficult one given we’ve 5 straight defeats against them No Kamara is going to hurt too; we could probably get Moyes sacked with a win though. Hopefully Ings doesnt score. Probably be a draw. 5 (five) straight defeats?! Good grief. I remember going to a pub in Croydon with a colleague to watch us v West Ham on TV in the PL between 2003 and 2005. They thrashed us 4-0 and I'm still waiting for us to beat them 4-0 to 'settle the scores'. Any win against them would be welcome though!!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BleedClaretAndBlue Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 2 hours ago, robby b said: 5 (five) straight defeats?! Good grief. I remember going to a pub in Croydon with a colleague to watch us v West Ham on TV in the PL between 2003 and 2005. They thrashed us 4-0 and I'm still waiting for us to beat them 4-0 to 'settle the scores'. Any win against them would be welcome though!!! I remember that one. The Harewood hat-trick game? ffs, we played in yellow think it was Freddie Bouma’s debut. Where does the time go 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robby b Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 1 hour ago, BleedClaretAndBlue said: I remember that one. The Harewood hat-trick game? ffs, we played in yellow think it was Freddie Bouma’s debut. Where does the time go Yes, that was it, the Harewood hat-trick game, I just looked it up, it was in September 2005. Somehow I think I stayed in the pub watching until full-time. : < Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 Going to be very difficult without Kamara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Vancvillan Posted March 7, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted March 7, 2023 8 hours ago, robby b said: 5 (five) straight defeats?! Good grief. I remember going to a pub in Croydon with a colleague to watch us v West Ham on TV in the PL between 2003 and 2005. They thrashed us 4-0 and I'm still waiting for us to beat them 4-0 to 'settle the scores'. Any win against them would be welcome though!!! Imagine reading this as the person who went to the pub with Robby B in 2004 and seeing yourself described as a "colleague". What a gut punch. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villa87 Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 Think Kamara will be a huge miss against these. Not sure Luiz and Donk will have the better of Rice and Soucek. We don’t seem to match up well against these and our form against them has been very poor. Having said that, Emery will have a clear plan for this. Emi Cash Konsa Mings Moreno McGinn Dendonker Luiz Ramsey Buendia Watkins Looking light on the bench - Duran and Bailey the only real options going forward. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romavillan Posted March 7, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted March 7, 2023 8 minutes ago, Villa87 said: Think Kamara will be a huge miss against these. Not sure Luiz and Donk will have the better of Rice and Soucek. We don’t seem to match up well against these and our form against them has been very poor. Having said that, Emery will have a clear plan for this. Emi Cash Konsa Mings Moreno McGinn Dendonker Luiz Ramsey Buendia Watkins Looking light on the bench - Duran and Bailey the only real options going forward. We might go 4-3-3, donk, Luiz and mcginn in front of the defense and Ramsey, buendia and bailey in a 3 behind Watkins. I think we might need an extra body in the middle now Kamara is out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCDAN Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 Could be anything this one, form says Villa, head says Villa, I'm sure their fans are saying home win. 2-1 to us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepyvillian Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 On 06/03/2023 at 12:13, roonst83 said: Historically, this has no positive effect for us. We can never seem to take advantage against teams that have played midweek/in Europe. That may be due to those teams usually being better than us (hence playing in Europe) but it's frustrating. I worry about our midfield here. Kamara keeps the momentum and fluidity on the ball so well, and Dougie is much better freed up further ahead. I don't trust Chambers as he's not mobile enough. SJM is probably the most suited and perhaps he drops Dougie back into Boo Boo's position. But then we lose having McGann further up field where he's been shining. Tough call. I expect Unai to play Chambers there but as someone pointed out it's a mismatch against Rice and Soucek. Chambers can't carry the ball anywhere near as well as Kamara can, and that is integral to our build up play. Hopefully, Dendoncker is back. He is the obvious choice to replace the irreplaceable Kamara . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villatillidie95 Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 I think Emery might play this fixture similar to the palace game, he might be a bit more conservative and focused on us trying to control the game rather than us going all out to try and score as many as we possibly can. They always manage to exploit our high line when they play with Bowen, so i reckon this game probably won't be a thriller but ultimately if we play more conservative and get the 3 points then i dont care. Most games we want to be more entertaining than we were at the weekend, but this is a great opportunity for us to reach 37 points and get a 3rd victory and hopefully clean sheet in a row. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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