Aston Villa v Ipswich Town, Sat 25th November @ 3pm

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Onwards and upwards.

A chance to cement our place among the play-off contenders, and hopefully gain ground on Sheffield United, Cardiff and Wolves.

Ipswich a bit 'Jekyll & Hyde' but I fancy us to take them. At home, we shouldn't have too much to get stressed about. We're finding ways to win and that is all that really matters at this stage.

2-1 Villa (it seems to be our scoreline of choice these days) with Davis to score both at the Holte End.

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Hopefully the players will be well rested and will have that spring in their step back on Saturday.
 
Well, Ipswich will have 24 hours less time than us to recover as they are playing tonight, so we shouldn't use that as a possible excuse.

I expect another nail biter. Fingers crossed we call get another 3 points.

 
Yeah we have an extra days rest, plus the travel from Suffolk to the Midlands is a bit of a pain.

We are also better than them, and at home, and in great form.

No excuses.

2-0

 
Well since we got our bang average performance out of the system last night, then I expect a good performance and a win.

3-0

Davis, Snodgrass, Hourihane
 
It could be another tight game with them doing the usual Ipswich tactic of parking a couple of Massy Ferguson's in front of the goal.

Aston Villa 1 The Tractor Boys 0.
 
Thomas Holte - 22/11/2017 21:00

It could be another tight game with them doing the usual Ipswich tactic of parking a couple of Massy Ferguson's in front of the goal.

Aston Villa 1 The Tractor Boys 0.
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I'm really not sure you can level that at them this season.

Drew 2-2 last night in another entertaining game.

This season they have scored 30 and conceeded 26. Only Hull and Sunderland have been involved in more goals this season.

Should hopefully prove an entertaining match and not the bore fest you'd usually expect from an Ipswich team.
 
Do we change it on Saturday ? A couple of players looked jaded on Tuesday, Davis and Whelan in particular. The alternative to Davis is limited I believe and without him the ball up front needs to be played on the ground, so a change in style is required. For Whelan we have Mile to come in which is a lot similar fit. I know some people want Jedinak in for Samba but for all his faults Samba if in doubt clears it, not always pretty but effective, whereas Jedinak now and again has ideas of his ability to play tip tap around our box and with his "touch of an Elephant" feet that is not always a good idea. Does anyone else think Jack is sometimes wasted out on the wing? I also think O'Hare deserves a chance of some playing time but not even on the bench the other night, not sure if an injury caused this, but Thor was.....strange!
 
DeanoVilla - 23/11/2017 08:34

Thomas Holte - 22/11/2017 21:00

It could be another tight game with them doing the usual Ipswich tactic of parking a couple of Massy Ferguson's in front of the goal.

Aston Villa 1 The Tractor Boys 0.
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I'm really not sure you can level that at them this season.

Drew 2-2 last night in another entertaining game.

This season they have scored 30 and conceeded 26. Only Hull and Sunderland have been involved in more goals this season.

Should hopefully prove an entertaining match and not the bore fest you'd usually expect from an Ipswich team.
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I hope you are right Deano as I'm in Brum for a busy, long-weekend and taking in the game as one of the many things I have to cram in

I'd be happy with a 2-1 win or a 3-2 even a 4-3 just as long as we win!

Up The Villa :94:
 
Aston Villa are at Villa Park with Ipswich the visitors today, this will be a 3pm kick-off.


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The Football League have now announced the Match Day officials that will take charge of the game between Aston Villa and Ipswich Town this Saturday.


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The goodnews is I have a bad feeling about this one - as I did v QPR, but I had a good feeling v Sunderland.

The worry is they are just gonna park the bus,which is our achilles heal (bar wolves who just decided to whop us) and its which Villa turn up.

In general I am all for keeping a winning side but I think it is clear it needs a few fresh legs.

Jedinak for Whelan (although i think whelan has been under rated recently)

Either Grealish or Lansbury for Hourihane.

I think its too risky resting Adomah or Onomah. I would start them and see how they are first.

Davis - who else is there ?. He has to play really unless you put Adomah in the middle and Grealish Lansbury off him.

I wouldnt change defence - it looks solid apart from the odd mistake.

I am going for a boring 0 0 draw, sitting there freezing my balls off and wishing i was in front of the fire watching Soccer Saturday.

But, if I am singing DLBIA at 5pm - I will be over the moon Brian
 
Tired players is a concern, HolteLower. I'd start with the same players but have replacements on the bench in case they aren't up to it. Jedi, Grealish and O'Hare should all be chomping at the bit to show what they can do.
 
Manager Steve Bruce has been giving his thoughts ahead of the clash this weekend with Ipswich Town.


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Mighty Mick will make it scrappy and we need to be careful cause I believe they've a half decent kid from City who is like lightning who will be on for the final 10/15 to catch us on the counter.

I sort of agree with Holtelower I'd drop Whelan because we shouldnt really need him and you could probably get away with dropping Hourihane but it would have to be for Grealish. Ipswich will sit and let us have the ball so we don't really need to play Davis unless we want to give Ipswich heading practice for the day.

If we want to be going up automatically this is a game we should be winning.
 
I definitely think we'll need Jedinak in for Whelan in this despite Whelan playing well recently. Ipswich will be punting long balls up and Jedinak has a tendency to win every ball in the air before the centre halves have to deal with it.

I'd be tempted to bring Jack in as well. They won't be doing anything adventurous so we might need a bit more creativity in the side. I'd drop Hourihane to the bench and move Onomha back.

Defence should be the same. Samba can barely move but he knows how to defend and keeps thing's simple. Davies was dreadful on Tuesday but he's normally fairly solid to be fair.

Only other change I'd make is binning Thor off the bench for O'Hare. This will probably be a terrible game but I think we'll win 2-0 and charge/plod on to those automatic places.
 
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