Aston Villa vs Manchester United

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Sunday 15th December 2013​
Barclays Premier League​
Villa Park​
Kick Off 13:30​
Live on Sky Sports 1​
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You can all blame me if it goes tits up :nervous:
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This will be a reasonably good weekend for us.....

We will win
City will beat Arsenal
Spurs to draw with Liverpool
Chelsea and Everton will win
Newcastle to draw with Saints

the comeback is on!!!!
 
De Gea​
Rafael - Smalling* - Evans - Evra​
Jones - Cleverley​
Nani - Rooney - Januzaj​
RvP​

3-1. We simply need to win our next four games to be in the running for top 4, and I think we will if Moyes drops Rio (and Vidic) to allow us play a higher line. I'd be inclined to drop Evra as well as he has become a liability in defence (since 2010, but it's getting more obvious as his career is coming to an end), but we only have Buttner as back-up, and he isn't good enough. No Rio, Vidic, Giggs, Evra = pressing game possible.

* if fit.
 
DDG
Raf Vid Evans Evra
Jones Clev
Nani Roon Janu
RVP

Possibly Smalling for Vidic, and Kagawa could be preferred to Adnan or Nani. Let's smash their back doors in.
 
We need this, Villa won't be easy at all. I like the team Anduin put out but I think we all now Valencia will start.
 
A win would be a huge boost, and with west ham to follow at home l reckon we can chill out a bit come Christmas!! There's just no guessing the outcome of United games right now and this is a tough call.I think 2-1 United, but if they score first we'll do well to get a point. If we score first, the stats show that we're likely to go and win.something that proves that our current predicament is largely based on low confidence!
 
Whither Carrick? He's kinda looking like the most important player at the club. Again.
 
Highly doubt Januzaj will start 3 games in the space of a week, so I expect him to be on the bench here. He played the full 90 even in our last two.

Hard to predict our line-up with so many injuries too, but I just hope we have sufficient cover to be able to not pay Ferdinand. Villa's attack will destroy him.
 
De gea
Rafael Evans Vidic evra
Cleverley jones
Valencia Rooney kagawa
Van Persie

Januzaj won't start after playing 90 minutes both yesterday and on the weekend, probably only a sub. Nani or Valencia for right wing, rest of the team picks itself really (if evra and Vidic are fit)
 
De Gea
Rafael--Evans--Vidic--Evra
Jones--Cleverley
Valencia--Rooney--Januzaj/Kagawa
van Persie
 
Oh man, the first game I'm gonna miss... The only thing that matters is the win, no matter what.. Hopefully RVP-Rooney can spark each other to make it a clear win..
 
Villa's away record is the one that makes people sit up and notice, conversely i think Moyes and the team will benefit from a game away from OT.

That being said i fully expect the Stoke and Norwich fixtures to be tough [more so than Villa], they posed enough of a problem when United was in a better shape than present after all.
 
If SAF were still in charge, I think he would force Rooney into the midfield to add some invention there.

We have plenty of strikers.
 
I'd like to see us try a side without wingers starting, but it'll probably never happen:

de Gea​
Rafael Vidic Evans Evra​
Jones Fellaini Cleverley​
Kagawa Rooney​
van Persie​

We'll see de Gea, Evans, Jones, Rooney, and van Persie for sure, but the team will be closer to this on Sunday I imagine:

de Gea
Rafael Vidic Evans Evra
Jones Cleverley
Valencia Rooney Januzaj
van Persie​

Moyes has liked fiddling with Right Back so may try to add Smalling to the back four in whatever way he can and it may be possible that Evra isn't fit as well (in which case it would be Buttner). It's probably going to be one of Cleverley/Fellaini and not both, Giggs probably won't start again and Anderson won't get a look in. I'd expect Valencia to take up the right wing again with Januzaj left, though either could be replace by Nani, possibly even Kagawa but I expect him on the bench. I'm sure he'll go Rooney and van Persie back together now.

I've been thinking a lot about the rest of the season and we need to win our four remaining games in December to give ourselves a sniff of absolutely anything. I think Arsenal will finish on about 80 Points, with City on more like 85. If we won our next four, we'd need to go on a good run in the second half of the season. We're talking probably winning at least 15/19 games to finish in the Top 3 - which will probably mean beating all of the teams around us too. Hard to see it happening but we can only hope, and obviously we really need to give ourselves that chance and glimmer of hope by winning this one. Big game.

I think we'll do it as well, we've been short of goals lately but I expect a strong performance and at least two goals which should be enough to win. We've been OK at the back as of late, so if we score two I wouldn't be able to see us losing.
 
Sadly, just can't see us winning. We have the players to win easily, just I can see the headlines after the match already.
 
It will be very bad if we don't win, so hopefully we'll manage to get three points there. There is no reason to not win this game, and there shouldn't be any justification if things don't go right. While I hope for a good performance, at this point getting the win is the most important part. 2-1 for us with Chicha getting the winner.
 
Havak said:
I'd like to see us try a side without wingers starting, but it'll probably never happen:

de Gea​
Rafael Vidic Evans Evra​
Jones Fellaini Cleverley​
Kagawa Rooney​
van Persie​

We'll see de Gea, Evans, Jones, Rooney, and van Persie for sure, but the team will be closer to this on Sunday I imagine:

de Gea
Rafael Vidic Evans Evra
Jones Cleverley
Valencia Rooney Januzaj
van Persie​

Moyes has liked fiddling with Right Back so may try to add Smalling to the back four in whatever way he can and it may be possible that Evra isn't fit as well (in which case it would be Buttner). It's probably going to be one of Cleverley/Fellaini and not both, Giggs probably won't start again and Anderson won't get a look in. I'd expect Valencia to take up the right wing again with Januzaj left, though either could be replace by Nani, possibly even Kagawa but I expect him on the bench. I'm sure he'll go Rooney and van Persie back together now.

I've been thinking a lot about the rest of the season and we need to win our four remaining games in December to give ourselves a sniff of absolutely anything. I think Arsenal will finish on about 80 Points, with City on more like 85. If we won our next four, we'd need to go on a good run in the second half of the season. We're talking probably winning at least 15/19 games to finish in the Top 3 - which will probably mean beating all of the teams around us too. Hard to see it happening but we can only hope, and obviously we really need to give ourselves that chance and glimmer of hope by winning this one. Big game.

I think we'll do it as well, we've been short of goals lately but I expect a strong performance and at least two goals which should be enough to win. We've been OK at the back as of late, so if we score two I wouldn't be able to see us losing.
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Put Kagawa in for Januzaj and I'm 99% sure that will be the team. Possibly Fellaini in for Jones though as he worked his ass off on Tuesday.
 
---------De Gea-----------
-----------Vidic------------
Rafael --------------- Fabio
------Jones - Fellaini-------
Januzaj - Rooney - Kagawa
------RVP - Hernandez-----

Let the front 5 switch. Win 34-33. Simples. If Moyes doesn't go with this lineup he should simple be axed because he is too cautious.
 
With Van Persie now out I would go with

De Gea

Rafael-- Vidic -- Evans -- Evra

--------Jones--One of Clev, Fellaini, Anderson

Valencia/Adnan------Kagawa---------Nani/Adnan

-----------Rooney----------------

Team picks itself for me apart from that 2nd midfield spot and the wings
 
Kagawa needs to step up now. He won't get a better chance than the next 4 games.
 
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