
Aston Villa host Manchester City this weekend at Villa Park, a stadium where Aston Villa have struggled to get results. Manchester City are high on confidence after a 4-1 victory over arch rivals Man. United. Aston Villa on the other hand, beat Norwich 1-0. Villa will hope to avoid a defeat because it may be the first time since 1943, which Villa lost their first three home games. They will have to try that without top scorer Christian Benteke who injured his hip last weekend. Man. City boss Pelligrini is keeping Champions League in mind and may rotate his squad a little, City will be playing against Bayern Munich on Wednesday.
To give some optimism to Villa fans, the last time City played a Premier League game before a Champions League game, they struggled to beat Stoke City and in fact almost lost the game. But you can’t take away the depth and quality of the Man. City side.
Team News:
Aston Villa will be without Benteke and Westwood who have struggled with injuries since last week. However, Luna, Clark, Delph and Agbonlahor (who missed Villa’s League Cup game) are set to return to the starting 11. Jores Okore, N’Zogbia and Gardner are still out with long-term injuries.
Manchester City will be without key striker Aguero, he obtained an injury against United late into the game. David Silva will not be risked however maybe fit for Bayern Munich on Wednesday.
Match Facts:
Manchester City have won six of their last seven Barclays Premier League encounters with Aston Villa.
Brad Guzan has had the most touches of any Villa player in two games this season (Arsenal & Norwich), something no other goalkeeper has done for a side even once in 2013-14.
Aston Villa have conceded nine goals from penalties since the start of last season; a joint-PL-high with Arsenal.
Along with bottom club Sunderland, Aston Villa are the only team yet to win a single point at home this season.
Man City have kept three clean sheets in their last four Premier League away games.
Predicted Lineups:
Guzan
Bacuna-Vlaar-Clark-Luna
El Ahmadi-Delph
Weimann-Helenius-Agbonlahor
Kozak
Negredo
Nasri-Jovetic-Navas
Fernandinho-Toure
Kolarov-Natasic-Kompany-Richards
Hart
Aston Villa 0-2 Man. City
Realistically, I don’t think we can beat City today. They won last weekend and that carry them on today. I’m not convinced by Kozak and I think we will struggle to score today. Obviously I hope I’m wrong, but Navas will destroy Luna today and Negredo will be difficult to keep quiet.
Struggling to find some motivation to go down today , we all know what’s coming , very little possession and maybe 1 or 2 shots on target in the full 90’mins , I will go for 2-0 city a stroll in the park ….. Really hope I’m wrong though .
One last thing doesn’t the side look weak as piss without benteke
This will be the first hammering of the season, I think the score line will be a ridicules amount of goals.
This game will be the fans turning point, especially if he only plays those 2 midfielders.
Today is the day we need to keep the ball, and that is going to be tough and difficult against such strong opposition.
0-6 Citech
Disagree I think we will scrape a draw today. No pressure on us to win at home today and city will not come to defend so we will be able to play like the away team on the counter which suits us. I’m going for 1.1.
You do realise, your comment is a positive one…….
Fecking hell oohahh.. am i reading that write.. you predict a draw.. you must’ve scooped the euros last night to have such positivity.. 🙂
Oohah going mellow in your old age, a draw? or are you saying Vlaar will play a blinder, for a start Navas will run rings round Luna , you will get on on his back saying his fault, sorry 4-0 or 4-1 to M City. I’ve lost hope in we are making progress.
I think helenius deserves a start, he was starting to look quite lively on Tuesday
It’ll be typical of Villa fans to start showing there discontent against a team that are favourites to win the premiership, such is our mentality. I’m sure oohah and Terry are rubbing there hands this morning at the thought of another home defeat. I’m not expecting anything from the game points wise, I just hope we show some passion and “give it a right good go”.
Villa 0 Man City 3
Like I said earlier I think it will be 1.1 draw today and if city win it will be 1.0.
Villa fans have been behind lambert all year just because we lose another game at home 3-4.0 then why would that bother us. It’s what we are used to now and Lerner’s and lamberts apologist will say well we lost 4.0 first half but drew 0.0 in the second so we must be good!!
It’s tough to consider anything but a Citeh win today, but! But if we play like our lives depended on it and play like we did against Malaga, Arsenal and Pool (2nd half) you never know. Whatever, me and the grandson are gonna sing our hearts out and have a bloody good time. Better if we win though.
You know there was a time when other teams would write is of if they were playing us. Now how the times have changed. Our huge and proud team are no real concern to anyone in this league. Could you imagine if we went 3 games unbeaten. We would be so thrilled and that is sad!
my major concern for today is we play so narrow and city play wide using navas(agreed will run luna ragged, if he thought Snodgrass was a handful he aint seen nothing yet)and using the likes of kolorov on the overlap on the right the crosses will be flying in all day.
im usually quite positive but im expecting a possible drubbing today, sorry guys.
but its football so you never know eh?
UTV
and yeah, hellanius should get a start, we gotta change it up a bit ffs, and I hope baccuna plays instead of lowton, he was woeful again against spurs, dunno what the hell is wrong with him this season 🙁
IF we go with a middle two of K EA and Delph we will get destroyed!!
B6.. it is not about discontent it is more about people having excuses lined up alerady saying oh it is Man City so what if they beat us.. that is disgraceful..
Man City have won only 3 out of 10 of there last away Prem games.. Cardfiff beat them and Stoke got a 0-0 this season..
Are we saying them two teams are better then us and we need to write this game off?
3-0 man c, they lost to cardiff because they underestimated them and were bedding in new players, nothing to do with cardiff being better than us! That’s like sayin if we only lose 1-0 we’re better than man u, stupid comments! Btw for all the negs sayin 6 points from our games is a bad start, man u hav 7 and most people (except me) expect them to get top 4. We will lose today but i won’t panic not like the fickle fans on here who the more they talk the more you know they have shit all football knowledge. UTV
Man utd always start if poorly then they put a run of 10 wins together. Comparing us with utd us like comparing vlaar with beckenbaur!!
Exactly my point! You can’t compare teams based on results against other teams! And don’t think we will see utd make those 10 games in a row this year, they will not fin top 4 said it as soon as they appointed moyes, they don’t hav a top 4 team and they just don’t hav what was prob the best manager in the world!
Only a little while left until we get a right hiding from Citeh, brace yourselves
Villa 1-5 Citeh
UTV
I’m convinced we will get a draw 1.1 today. Wev picked a very defensive team so can’t see us getting a hammering tbf. Will be the usual though they will have 99% possesion and we will try and get a corner and good we score. So predictable
Aston Villa
Guzan, Bacuna, Vlaar, Baker, Clark, El Ahmadi, Weimann, Luna, Delph, Sylla, Kozak
Subs: Steer, Bennett, Helenius, Albrighton, Bowery, Tonev, Lowton.
Man City
Hart, Zabaleta, Kompany, Nastasic, Kolarov, Nasri, Fernandinho, Toure, Milner, Negredo, Dzeko
Subs: Pantilimon, Richards, Lescott, Clichy, Garcia, Navas, Jovetic
Villa are a league one team who think they are a premier league team just the way lambert made us our team would struggle in league one man city will get a new record today also we will lose 3 home games on the trot not done that since 1943 under Lerner we have broke all our shit records and fans like nm keep saying how great his running of the club is
Never new that’s not happen red since 1943. Crickey so under lamberk and Lerner we will have our worst home record ever, worst gd last yr biggest hammering last season and longest ever without a clean sheet. At least we are consistent ie consistently shit!!
Badger , Adam, Oohah not very well today, he’s saying silly things like we will get a draw, Terry’s gone into rehabilitation not believing Oohah post. Sort it out lads.
villa1996 ‘villa are a league one team’
don’t talk shite that comment is laughable, you’re putting us on a par with port vale, Colchester, wolves?
“We don’t set up to defend, we are taking the City game more serious than the Spurs game”… Ohhhhh, yeah.
No marking for their goal he had 5 villa defenders in front of him that just left him space to score awful. I can see us losing this 1.0 and lambert and Lerner apologists like u coming in after and saying how well wid did losing 1,0. Absolutely toothless up front.
Lol Lerner and Lambert apologist? I don’t like Lambert and don’t want him here, made that quite clear over the last year or so and was against him signing period so claiming I’m a Lambert apologist is a joke. I’m still a fan of Lerner though, will continue to back him.
Well I was half right then lol
Come on… We have the great Bowery, Tonev and Helenius, I mean they’re not Navas or Jovetic… We can still draw!
well thar was always going to happen wasn’t it? 9 corners!! ffs!
good plan to go 5 at the back to cope with citys width but the defence cant defend against a team like city for 90 mins solid without conceding. harsh to go in 1 down though so close to the break.
lambert will either go for it now and change it up and we’ll end up being hit on the break or stay as we are and probably concede at least one more.
just don’t see how we are gonna score 🙁
Are only hope now is to keep it to 1,0 and go for it in last 15. We might score from set piece bit biggest 1.0 hammering ever
God whats the point? How much was a ticket today? £40 to see us do nothing what a waste of money why do villa bother turning up, city should be 8 0 up by know £40 to see that lerner what a ripoff
Agreed lambert happy to lose one nil and champion it as a great result. So fat it’s the biggest one nil hammering ever
Get in there 1.1 my prediction before the game lol
are you at the game then villa1996?
yeah ooah, the only way I can see us score is from a corner or something.
The problem is that our corners and freekicks are terrible. The only reason we ever score from them is because Benteke win everything in the air, even balls just hung into the box.
True but I think El Ahmadi or Bacuna can put in some good free kicks/corners if given the chance instead of someone like Weimann.
We are just set up not to get hammered typical lamberk
El Ahmadi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8 fucking players on the line and toure still scores what does lambert do on the training ground hit and hope lads lets hope we get lucky today what kind of management is that totally clueless
He was offside… We’re somehow getting away with fouls around our box and that. I guess City aren’t that big yet?