[Albion] Aston Villa vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

Uh_huh_him

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The difficult thing to understand is the length of injuries.
Milner, Webster, Hinsh, Ferdi all disappearing for months, with seemingly minor injuries.

 

Insel affe

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This could go one of two ways…

Shite.
or
Embarrassingly shite.



i think I need a big drink of positive juice….
(a flagon of whisky)

 

DarrenFreemansPerm

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Initial concern is that the midfield will be completely overrun and Villa’s midfielders will have the pick of the passes between the wing backs and centre backs.

 

zefarelly

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Nobby Cybergoat said:

Agree with those saying this formation and or personnel changes have been forced on the manager.

If it is 3 at the back here's the trick to making it work. The wing backs need to make sure our centre backs are never exposed out wide to pacey wingers. Primarily they are there to defend. Especially away.

Let the center mid and the forward line go get the goals

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That doesn't sound very high risk . . .it'll never happen.

 

RandyWanger

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Fab has totally lost the plot

 

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HellBilly

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RandyWanger said:

Fab has totally lost the plot

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To be fair, i think I have as well.

 

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ElectricNaz

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They play the wolves song before a game? Weird

 

Paulie Gualtieri

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Two light shows in 4 days, Blimey

 

Mellotron

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Now is a time for calm heads.

(But no, I don’t see us getting anything today).

 

zefarelly

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A1X said:

Not me, pleased he has been. Deserved to be.

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I agree . . . Adingra is a left winger and as effective on his day . . . Hopefully he'll have a good game and make MItoma play up. None of the players should be automatic/guaranteed starters.

 

Mellotron

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Once again, any watery things gratefully received.

 

RandyWanger

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Only won 2 in 18, lost the last 5? Doesn't sound right, but the stream has a brummie commentator on

 

TugWilson

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Vin said:

And we brought in an injury specialist

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Whatever he`s doing is working

 

Uh_huh_him

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zefarelly said:

I agree . . . Adingra is a left winger and as effective on his day . . . Hopefully he'll have a good game and make MItoma play up. None of the players should be automatic/guaranteed starters.

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Hopefully yes.

However he was absolute pony when he replaced Mitoma agai st Brentford.

 

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The Optimist

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What was the game years ago (probably under Potter, but could have been RDZ) where the team selection was widely considered to be crazy and we won comfortably? A repeat of that would be nice.

 

BadFish

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Every which way but win.

Let's hope for a good game and try not to melt down on here after.

 

Paulie Gualtieri

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Excellent, the impartial Lee Hendrie on my Peacock commentary tonight

 

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singing4seagulls

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This stadium light show - strobing lights on and off in the build up is horrendous.

Giving me an epileptic fit on this TV stream.

Nice to hear the Albion fans above the music being blasted mind you.

 

brighton_tom

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The Optimist said:

What was the game years ago (probably under Potter, but could have been RDZ) where the team selection was widely considered to be crazy and we won comfortably? A repeat of that would be nice.

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Think there was actually a few of those..

 

US Seagull

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Not feeling terrible optimistic at the moment