useless Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 Not many youngsters been involved this season as they're either been sold with buybacks, they're out on loan, or have been injured - see Iroegbunam, Patterson, Young, and Kellyman, so other that just leaves the really young first year scholars, I have wondered if any of Triston Rowe, Jimoh, or Broggio could make the squad tomorrow, but maybe a bit soon for them. I guess Feeney is another possibility for the bench with Pau being out. I think starting eleven is going to be pretty strong, I did notice that the official sites were showing a lot of pictures of Marschall in the week, not sure if we can read too much into that though, would be a big challenge and opportunity for him if he does play, Iroegbunam the other possibility, but if he has loan lined up, not sure if we would risk him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marka Ragnos Posted January 6 VT Supporter Share Posted January 6 (edited) There is no way Unai will put out anything but absolutely the strongest squad available to him. Forget it. I can’t see him taking any unnecessary risks when the stakes are so high. Boro could easily win this if we **** around. Can’t risk getting bumped from another chance at silverware. Rotate? Rotate from what and for what? We haven't played since Dec. 30. and we're not playing again until Jan. 14. Edited January 6 by Marka Ragnos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villatillidie95 Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 If we lose today we become the first team to lose 9 successive fa cup matches let’s smash them at the riverside today!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVTuco Posted January 6 VT Supporter Share Posted January 6 10 hours ago, useless said: Not many youngsters been involved this season as they're either been sold with buybacks, they're out on loan, or have been injured - see Iroegbunam, Patterson, Young, and Kellyman, so other that just leaves the really young first year scholars, I have wondered if any of Triston Rowe, Jimoh, or Broggio could make the squad tomorrow, but maybe a bit soon for them. I guess Feeney is another possibility for the bench with Pau being out. I think starting eleven is going to be pretty strong, I did notice that the official sites were showing a lot of pictures of Marschall in the week, not sure if we can read too much into that though, would be a big challenge and opportunity for him if he does play, Iroegbunam the other possibility, but if he has loan lined up, not sure if we would risk him. Surely Martinez has to play. He's not in need of resting, and Marschall doesn't need to be given minutes. If not, we're treating FA Cup as a training session. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVTuco Posted January 6 VT Supporter Share Posted January 6 59 minutes ago, Villatillidie95 said: If we lose today we become the first team to lose 9 successive fa cup matches let’s smash them at the riverside today!! I didn't need to know this. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 6 VT Supporter Share Posted January 6 14 hours ago, TheAuthority said: Please don’t tell me when you see our European cup winning team in their white kit you think of Leeds ?! Cognitive dissonance. The white strip took the tiniest sliver of a fraction of edge off the joy - I had to suppress my distaste. We should have been in claret and blue. Even light blue shorts would have helped. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 I can’t see anything but a loss. We seem to hate the FA Cup, have half our squad out and are playing on the back of 3 poor performances against a side who will be well up for it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted January 6 VT Supporter Share Posted January 6 Live on BBC, prime time Saturday, its these type of games that drag the casual and younger fans into being fans, let's put a show on and play some of our best football. Start strong and finish with subs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpTheVilla26 Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 I was in 2 minds about this yesterday, do we need the extra cup games etc... But, we haven't played for a week, our next game is Sunday next week, so no reason not to go full strength. I'm fed up of losing to teams like this in the Cup, about time we went out and done one of them by 3 or 4. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 6 VT Supporter Share Posted January 6 Go strong or go wrong. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Ooo no VAR!!! Thank Christ. If a goal goes in we can actually celebrate and no pissing around with offsides being massively delayed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumstopdogs Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 2 minutes ago, Spoony said: Ooo no VAR!!! Thank Christ. If a goal goes in we can actually celebrate and no pissing around with offsides being massively delayed. Yeah definitely some positives but given the offside trap we play have to hope the assistant refs get the decisions right! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honest bunch of lads Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 However much rotation I just want Villa to carry on with this attacking football even if they end up losing 3-2 or 4-3. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picicata Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 All of McGinn, Konsa, Luiz and Ollie could do with a rest so I would leave them all out 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKP90 Posted January 6 VT Supporter Share Posted January 6 Unai has to get them fired up for this one. We are not at home to Colin Complacency. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 50 minutes ago, Brumstopdogs said: Yeah definitely some positives but given the offside trap we play have to hope the assistant refs get the decisions right! They usually do tbf. Not many goals against us have gone to VAR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romavillan Posted January 6 VT Supporter Share Posted January 6 We've had a dip in form in the league after the exertions of the city and arsenal games. We've not looked fresh since and struggled without Kamara and Torres at times. We should be resting our key players here, I love the cup but if we want to maintain 2ppg and we aren't about to sign 2/3 reinforcements we need to manage the squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-Reacho Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 1 hour ago, Spoony said: Ooo no VAR!!! Thank Christ. If a goal goes in we can actually celebrate and no pissing around with offsides being massively delayed. This is quite interesting actually. I think VAR is the reason inventive coaches such as Emery and Postecoglu are now playing insanely high defensive lines as they know they'll not get punished by a bad linesman's call and can take much bigger risks pushing forward. It'll be interesting to see if he changes things today now that there's no VAR. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roonst83 Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 1 hour ago, Spoony said: Ooo no VAR!!! Thank Christ. If a goal goes in we can actually celebrate and no pissing around with offsides being massively delayed. No VAR is bad for us. Our whole defensive set up through the high line requires VAR to confirm the offside traps we play for. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepyvillian Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 2 hours ago, Spoony said: Ooo no VAR!!! Thank Christ. If a goal goes in we can actually celebrate and no pissing around with offsides being massively delayed. Wait till we don't get a stonewall penalty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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