I’ve just read an interesting stat that says today’s game will be the first we’ve played against a lower half of the table team in nearly two months.
If that’s so, it just confirms my thinking that we’ve done pretty well recently.
It seems today’s game is about injuries as much as anything, with the Villa having four players, in Jack Grealish, Axel Tuanzebe, Neil Taylor and Henri Lansbury all out. Callum O’Hare is also expected to be unavailable.
That said, given that two of those were very unlikely to feature anyway, I don’t think that’s too bad.
While it shows how important Grealish and Tuanzebe are for us, I’d hardly call it a crisis, as our injury list seems to be being portrayed.
If you disagree with that, fair enough, but my point is that we’ve done ok without them.
To put things in perspective, Preston will be missing nine senior players, with Ben Davies, Callum Robinson, Brandon Barker, Sean Maguire, Josh Harrop and Billy Bodin and more, all unavailable.
That list definitely seems to have affected their form and they’ve struggled recently, with 2 wins, a draw and 3 defeats (including 2 at home) in their last six.
One of those wins was away to Forest, but it seems the Reds are on the verge of sacking Karanka, so that’s probably not saying much.
Which all in all, while I hate to count my chickens, makes this look like a definite win for us.
Of course you never know, but 3 points is the logical outcome and I just think that with our attack, we’ll just have too much for them to handle.
That’s becoming a bit of a re-curring theme lately, but I don’t care.
It makes a pleasant change to be on a roll of optimism.
Plus this is exactly the sort of game we have to win if we’re to prove our promotion credentials.
A prediction then and I think we’ll score more than 1.
2-1 to us, but I’ll take any win.
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74 responses to “Preston – Villa; Bring it on!”
Are we going to have a repeat of last season when we fluffed it against poor teams?
…and what a load of old shit……like a parks game…
Own goal?
Marvellous, own goal Elmo.
When its a bad day for teams at the top, it then becomes a bad day for us, We need this win .
Nyland’s decision making and handling is horrendous.
Kalinic must be rubbing his hands at the lack of competition.
Adomah on for Bolasie and about time, imo.
how many hoofs over the top before he scores……almost last time ….
Not watching the game but from the commentary it seems like we are hanging on.
We’re awful and seem to have completely lost it.
Only watching BBC stats but it looks to me like Preston are on top. We have a lot of possession and not doing anything with it?
Pretty much sums it up, Hitch.
Let’s face it, without Grealish we are struggling to dominate teams. At the end of the day we have replaced him with Whelan!
That’s right Hitch, they have hit the post, Bree took one off the line , we are struggling big time.
Whelan off for Bjarnason.
Another wanted change, imo.
El Ghazi off next?
It would be my move, but I don’t know who you bring on.
Get the bastard goal!
After all the last minute goals we’ve given away isn’t it about time we had one of our own?
Fingers crossed
Blatently obvious we’re going more down the middle now.
need some ball in the area then some shots….
Norwich beating Derby!. COYL just give us a goal
Whelan off and we have sprung to life judging by the commentary. Is it obvious that I think he’s s**t
Lol, yes.
Not been his sort of game today.
Spurs 1-3 Wolves.
Bjarnason misses a sitter nearly on the line.
It’s not going to be our day.
See the floodlights at Norwich have stopped working. That could be a very late result
Harrys Nan would have got that one
Whelan off…Conor sitting in front of defence and Ice man up leading midfield.
What a Plonker Villa.