This Weekend's Fixtures & Chelsea v Wolves (18/19/20 Jan)

[Mac76]

Didn't see that coming, wow

[Mac76]

If Bournemouth can get this result surely we can in the second leg?

If we buy Kluivert

[Letters]

If Bournemouth can get this result surely we can in the second leg?

If we can take our chances

[21_GOONER_SALUTE]

So according to you guys above me , we definitely won't be getting a result

[Letters]

So according to you guys above me , we definitely won't be getting a result

Never say never but I wouldn’t say I’m confident

[Niall_Quinn]

I think people don't realise just how poor PL teams are, from top to bottom, and just how ordinary PL players are despite their ludicrous salaries. Any team from the 80s or 90s would annihilate this league. So it all becomes quite random, increasingly so as the quality of the lazy, overpaid, eternally injured players increases. Toss a coin, go look at the Asian gambling markets, figure out who is reffing and who is rigging VAR, there probably still is a way to predict a result.

All I know is Villa are abject shite and this should be an easy win for any team that gets the elementary tactics right and has 11 players on the pitch that give a damn about the shirt. Is that us? Well you never know, there have been times when we approximated that in the past.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Spuds in 15th.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

All the 3pm games in the Premier League 0-0 at HT.

[HCZ_Reborn]

If Bournemouth can get this result surely we can in the second leg?

Bournemouth have a team full of young(ish) and quick attacking players, they were able to press Newcastle off the ball when they tried to play out. They a) wouldn’t try to play out against us b) would only need one long ball to get a runner to dissect our midfield and then they are straight at our back four.

In some ways you can see why we try to benefit from set pieces, we simply don’t have the players for aggressive quick football

[Mac76]

Any team from the 80s or 90s would annihilate this league..

Most players from that era would be able to make League 1 at best, admittedly partly on fitness levels alone but also tactical awareness and for the most part skill too

Villa are not 'abject shite' either, we'd take Watkins, Rogers and Duran any day of the week