I really don’t know what to think about this one.
If you’d have asked me before the Palace game, I’d have immediately said we don’t have a hope in hell of getting anything today.
But it’s amazing how even a solitary win can change your thinking isn’t it?
Not that I’m suggesting we’ll get the win against Leicester, but Bournemouth managed to hold them to a goalless draw at the King Power last week, so that sort of result is certainly not impossible, which is more my point.
Certainly I got the Palace prediction completely wrong, but even then I added the caveat, where it’s a funny old game, where anything can happen.
Onto squad news then and we have Grealish, Sanchez and Gabby all available.
I can’t see Gabby getting in the side unless he’s wound his neck in and something’s changed, although you never know. Garde might well give a shot at putting himself in the window, perhaps.
More realistic is one or possibly both of the other two coming in, just to give other players a rest.
Hutton’s still out with a hamstring problem.
As for Leicester, Jeff Schlupp is definitely out and Matty James is close, but it’s too soon.
I thought Vardy was injured, but it seems he’s ok and that has to be a concern for us.
I suppose the talking point is probably the link with Marc Albrighton, who came out yesterday saying how bad it was watching our demise (good lad).
It’s probably a bit much to hope he has a shocker today, with the aim of doing us a favour, but it would be nice wouldn’t it?
Ex players playing against us always worries me, as they often do well, but I’m happier that we have Cissokho to counter him, as I think Albrighton would run rings around Richardson, for example.
So while I think an actual win is doubtful, a draw definitely isn’t in the realms of dreamland.
Which would be a pretty decent result, in my opinion and one I’d take.
Of course, a win would probably have us dreaming of Europe again.
Or maybe just survival would be more realistic.
More important is that I want to see the fight and desire we demonstrated midweek, continue.
I’ll go for a 1-1 draw, which is maybe ambitious these days.
I’m looking forward to this one, to see if we might haved turned the corner, at least in effort.
Win and our the great escape is very much on. We MUST show the same passion and drive we showed against Palace. Hopefully it’ll be the same starting 11.
3-1 Villa.
I’m going for a win, only because I don’t like losing, 1-0 Villa. I must be bonkers.
The most I dare to look forward to is a draw…0-0 maybe, since Leicester have found it difficult to score in their last three or four games.
And then I read that, and think I’m being massively over-optimistic even to go for 0-0.
Whatever the result, I just hope the players show the fight that they found against Palace.
A draw us best we can hope for I think they will win 2.1 it will be close but they’ve got s bit too much quality for us plus they can defend
I see Austin’s gone to Southampton for £4 mill.
We need the same preformance as last week , fight for every ball and we might come away with something.. Win this and other results go our way . I will be thinking is this the start of the great escape . Come on the Villa
Its amazing what a difference one win can make. None of us are fools, we know where we are and what is required to stay up. But the tone and guarded embarrassing shoots of optimism almost accidentally spilling out into posts is exactly where I am at too.
I can only hope Leicester have an off day and we show we are up for it and don’t drop the heads if we concede
Agree 100% , but of course if anyone dares to write about any kind of positive result and we end up with nothing from the game, then we’ll just hear that we’re all blind optimists fooled by a fluke result during the week!!
They would have to have a massive off day to lose today I’m afraid
A win would be a big ask but to me the performance we put in is also important,I think there’ll be goals 2-1VILLA.here’s hoping COYL
I still don’t know how we managed to go 2-0 up against them earlier in the season [although their reply was more predicatable]?
1-0 Sunderland, oh shite!!!
Beat me to it Dave. Tottenham all over them and they score , in a minute it’s level.
1-1 oh yes!!!
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Just hope fans don’t think this is a must win game and if we don’t win, we’re screwed. Have to remember this is the team sitting 2nd, on points with 1st.
We’re still screwed even if we win.
Well done to Garde for sticking with a winning formula. Let’s hope the formula works again today! We should have beaten them away.
Bencey83 Sherwood being diplomatic Would you say, over Fox and the team.
What exactly did Sherwood say Bill?
Can’t listen to those commentators on Talk Sport any more. Saying that Clark should be playing as he’s better than anything else we’ve got out there – give me a break!
Our players have got no fight in them. They still get to cash their paychecks, win or lose.
Defenders ball watching
Game over Okore dropped a bollock there.
well done lescott stand watch keeper making save , why can t we stop making errors,plus kozak shot if v guzan would been goal
Bunn saves Pen…….
When Leicester get possession their mentality is to play forward, ours is side to side, back, side to side, crap cross. When we do pump it forward Kozak’s on his own. Shameful
Helenius, that’s our problems, side to side cannot cross a ball into box ,
We just look completely flat.
Would like to see Gil playing more central, as he just isnt in the game at the moment.
Though no other Villa player is in the game either!
If lescott put more energy into playing and not running after ref shocking goal leics player made up 10 yards
Lescott okore very poor Westwood vertout very poor gil looking good so remi you knob take gil off we need a goal