5 at the back, 5 in midfield - 0-0 draw or a lucky one nil to them. None of our players deserve to be classed as strikers. I'd have thought you have to be able to make runs and shoot to be called that.

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Loads of Villans could be out injured, let's hope clickbait is true for once!

Villa fan here.

Really difficult to know how to call this as we're currently a team that performs better away than at home. that said, we do score goals and usually score very early on in games but its seeing out games that's an issue. Although much was made of the 11 goals in 3 games 7 of those were against man C and Arsenal - Arsenal's third was offside and the 4th was just chasing a goal. It was only Leicester where were horrible to watch defensively.

Hard to predict what will happen and I think a lot will rest on whether zaha is fit. He seems to always have some sort of influence on this fixture and he always seems to manage riling up Mings. I know you have potential threats elsewhere but I do think the only way for you to win if we're 'on it' is through Zaha.

saying that we aren't 'on it' nearly enough. Our position in the table reflects just where were are at the moment. Capable of beating teams and going on a run, and then capable of losing and similarly turning that into a bad run of defeats.

Its a shame for us that Coutinho got injured because he started to show that he had remembered he was once a great player. Bailey and Buendia will either be brilliant or anonymous and Watkins will cause problems. Not sure how you line up but our narrow 4 in midfield will look to stifle any opposition creativity and then counter. harder to do at home when you're expected to be on the front foot, and because of law of averages means that Watkins will stop scoring soon - 0-0 (Emery's first in the PL!)

Villa fan here.

Really difficult to know how to call this as we're currently a team that performs better away than at home. that said, we do score goals and usually score very early on in games but its seeing out games that's an issue. Although much was made of the 11 goals in 3 games 7 of those were against man C and Arsenal - Arsenal's third was offside and the 4th was just chasing a goal. It was only Leicester where were horrible to watch defensively.

Hard to predict what will happen and I think a lot will rest on whether zaha is fit. He seems to always have some sort of influence on this fixture and he always seems to manage riling up Mings. I know you have potential threats elsewhere but I do think the only way for you to win if we're 'on it' is through Zaha.

saying that we aren't 'on it' nearly enough. Our position in the table reflects just where were are at the moment. Capable of beating teams and going on a run, and then capable of losing and similarly turning that into a bad run of defeats.

Its a shame for us that Coutinho got injured because he started to show that he had remembered he was once a great player. Bailey and Buendia will either be brilliant or anonymous and Watkins will cause problems. Not sure how you line up but our narrow 4 in midfield will look to stifle any opposition creativity and then counter. harder to do at home when you're expected to be on the front foot, and because of law of averages means that Watkins will stop scoring soon - 0-0 (Emery's first in the PL!)