Is he the one on the far left or far right? He looks a little bit like both of them.
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Is he the one on the far left or far right? He looks a little bit like both of them.
I think Fellaini will be a big loss. His defensive steel and work rate will be sorely missed against a tough away opponent. I guess tomorrow will give a clearer picture of whether Fellaini or Herrera should play with Carrick in central mid
Yep. He's finally admitted that his hair is gay.
We have won many a game at villa Park without fellaini, and without needing a "thug type" player in the middle. I suspect we will be fine to be honest.
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He's the one on the left.
Hope he gets a start tomorrow. The only 3 reasons I can assume he's not been getting much game time are:
1. His injury and fitness took longer to recover than expected.
2. He's not favoured in games needing physicality.
3. Fellaini's been playing well.
None of these are issues tomorrow so I expect him to start. Hope he does well.
1. His injury and fitness took longer to recover than expected.
2. He's not favoured in games needing physicality.
3. Fellaini's been playing well.
None of these are issues tomorrow so I expect him to start. Hope he does well.
I am sure he will play tomorrow, I also hope and there's not a small chance that we will see Pereira on the bench as Fellaini's out, Valencia/Young playing wingbacks/fullbacks, Blind out, Fletcher ill, Carrick may also play center back for another time. DiMaría is not nailed to necessarily make the bench he can be saved completely but he will not start anyway. Am I missing someone? Rooney dropping deep would mean start for Wilson so I am already happy for the young lads and for Ander as well.. Also we could see some odd appearance for Januzaj
Why do junior football teams always kit out their kids in shirts 10 sizes too big?A tough away opponent? Villa are the yoyo team of the PL. Their home form is not impressive at all they are one of the teams we regularly beat, even at our worst under Moyes last season. Im glad Herrera is starting. Maybe finally he'll make that place his own once again. I hate us playing to Fellaini's limited attributes.
Because kids grow fast so it's on the safe side to just kit them up a few sizes bigger?
I thought that was just mums and school uniforms. So it's a man thing as well.
Why are people constantly refering to Villa like they are West Ham in terms of physicality? Am I missing something?
Just Benteke. If on song, he'l be a handful in the air specially on set pieces. We're missing both our best defensive headers.
Assuming he starts, I would be expecting a strong performance today from Herrera (and Mata, for that matter).
Villa have 8 players out and are generally rubbish. Its the sort of game where we should be putting 4 or 5 goals past them I would say.
Villa have 8 players out and are generally rubbish. Its the sort of game where we should be putting 4 or 5 goals past them I would say.
I know there is Benteke, but there is really no one else apart from him that make them physical side, their midfielders are pretty much softer than ours.
Baffling if its true fletcher starting in front of him.
If Fletcher starts, then maybe people here will now understand that it wasn't Fellaini keeping him out. It's Mata/Rooney.
I guess he doesn't want to change the system, and doesn't think Herrera is suited to that anchor role. But still.
Well if that's true then at least there's an explanation for Fletcher being picked ahead of him.
That makes more sense. Appears Blind has had food poisoning at his parents house in Amsterdam. You couldn't make it up.
The curse is real.
Grow a pair Ander. Was a big chance for him today and he should've gone out there even if he was shitting his keks. Wuss.
Pfff, I was looking forward seeing him play today. It would have been a good chance for him to get ahead of Fellaini. 
Haven't been keeping up with it properly, but anyone think him being 'unwell' has anything to do with those match-fixing allegations being thrown at him?
He'd have been unwell before now if that was the case. He has probably got whatever Fellaini has got. There might be others before we know where we are.
Just him, in set pieces specially.
Then we will have to make sure they don't get too many set pieces.
Cue brainless fouls when the opposition have nowhere to go
I feel unwell looking at our midfield as well.
I thought we couldn't get away with losing just one player to illness. Once a bug hits a squad it tends to get around fast, mad that it's hit another midfielder first. Hopefully they'll all be through it by the time we get to Boxing Day.
It's typical of the luck we have been having. If it is just a bug, a few days and they should be better. You worry more about the flu.
When Jones isn't around tackling defenders he is poisoning our midfielders. I wonder what's he got for forwards.
What shit luck to be ill when you finally get the chance to start.
Typical that he should be ill when we need him the most.
Whats wrong with our luck this year?
We really need to get rid of whoever is in charge of fitness.
Whats wrong with our luck this year?
We really need to get rid of whoever is in charge of fitness.
Herrera might be the only midfielder in the squad that knows what a through ball is. We need more guys like this.
If there was one player we missed today it was him. Some people on here can criticize him for whatever reason, but nobody can deny he adds a lot more creativity and increases our whole passing speed and we just look a lot more fluid and better going forward with him on the pitch. Van Gaal said he was injured so hopefully it's only a little knock.
What gets me is that LvG will say these players are soft for picking up injuries, well funnily enough Chelsea players don't get them and their training isn't as intense. Maybe it is about time we looked not so much at what training they do, but how much training they do.
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