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.