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

[Insel affe]

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.

hmmmmm, I get that…..

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

Oh hang on, I knew there was a punchline Somewhere.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Need to recall Barco in Jan.

Squad getting crippled by injury and need more bodies in there

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

hmmmmm, I get that…..

Oh hang on, I knew there was a punchline Somewhere.

I'll guess you'd take a nil nil as i would!

 

[Seagull58]

Feels like hands forced for this 3 at the back formation.

Pervis is obviously injured, Solly can only manage 10 mins, mitoma/veltman played a few days ago and did a lot of running so probably have niggles.

With no alternative full backs (Ferdi, Hinslewood, Milner injured) then we've been forced into a back 3 + wingbacks.

Not sure how much blame on manager we can have here, as not sure what other option he has to go.

I must admit I'm sceptical. We've never looked defensively settled with a back 3...

Hopefully Enciso is on form tonight as don't see us keeping a clean sheet, so we'll need shooting boots on.

Enciso always wears his shooting boots. Unfortunately, he doesn't possess a pair of scoring boots.

 

[raymondo]

Only starting with 10 tonight. Carrying Adingra will cost us.

It's certainly a fear, but I think Mitoma needs a break as he's looked a bit stale to me.
Adingra has something to prove IMO, start in his favoured position and see if he does anything...if not, then I'm not sure he'll be staying given we've got Gruda and Minteh.

 

[singing4seagulls]

Can't understand that team selection at all. I really hope I'm proved wrong, but can't see us getting anything with that line-up.

What would your lineup be, if as seems the case Estupinan is injured, and Veltman/Mitoma need minutes managed?

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

How are so many of our players constantly getting injured?

 

[METALMICKY]

Need to recall Barco in Jan.

Squad getting crippled by injury and need more bodies in there

One slight issue........................he's been total gash when he has got a game!

 

[Littlemo]

Centre midfield. Is that Baleba/Ayari v McGinn/Kamara/Tielemans?

I’ve picked a good day to start drinking at home

 

[Vin]

How are so many of our players constantly getting injured?

And we brought in an injury specialist

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Albion in 2 games in 4 days rotation shocker!

At least Emery can’t prepare for a back 3 or 4 either

Initial thoughts

Veltman - minutes being managed considering he’s back from injury

Pervis - Rested / Dropped, he’s not been great recently and found wanting positionally. Kick up the arse hopefully

Mitoma - Needs a rest, fair enough he takes defenders on but hasn’t added much of late, Adingra better on the left than right and hopefully his job is to tore out their right back for Mitoma on 60 mins

Gruda - keeps his place deserved

Enciso - Good he’s been given another chance, hopefully the shot stat has been fed back to him along with decision making

Expect us to play more compact and hopefully have a game plan, Veltman on later to manage the game out if needed

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

One slight issue........................he's been total gash when he has got a game!

Don't agree and he's a specialist in a position we have no cover.

There are far worse full back understudies in this league

For whatever reason all these injuries are happening we need to design a squad around 10 to 12 all being injured at any one time

 

[Weststander]

I’ve picked a good day to start drinking at home

Good point, I’ve some beers in the fridge that I forgot about .

 

[Justice]

Crazy isn’t it the bloke has lost it!!!

Hypia all over with that line up. We will get smashed in midfield.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

And we brought in an injury specialist

I think maybe he got the polar opposite impression of what we were asking him to do

 

[A1X]

How are so many of our players constantly getting injured?

Our new injury specialist seems to be a specialist in injury

 

[eastterracemike]

I was quite optimistic before I saw this line-up. No pressure from the Amex home fans etc but Igor at left whatever is a disaster and Ayari needs to do something special. The manager doesn't seem to know his best team or even his best formation. Villa and other top teams seem to be able to field a settled team and formation every time. I fear we will be all over the place.

 

[southstandandy]

Have we ever started 2 consecutive games this season with the same starting line up?

 

[raymondo]

And we brought in an injury specialist

Think how bad it would be without the specialist and his team!

 

[Weststander]

And we brought in an injury specialist

He’s certainly meeting the job description.