The pressure is off of one of these sides, and it’s Aston Villa! We will be playing in the Premier League next season so we can play this game with zero fear and I want to see our team go for it! Villa played well in last weekends 3-1 win over Hull City, Weimann and Bowery were the two stand out players. There is a bit of pressure on City to get a result, all they need is 4 points to secure the title. This should be a good game, especially with Man. City looking for revenge after Aston Villa beat City earlier in the season 3-2.
James Milner could play against his former team tonight. Milner played for Aston Villa on two occasions, he was first sent out on loan to Villa for the 2005-2006 season making 27 appearances scoring 1 goal. In 2008 he transferred permanently for a club record fee of £12 million. Milner made 73 appearances scoring 11 goals over the course of two seasons. Milner moved to Man. City in 2010 for a deal of around £28.5 million, including a player exchange Stephen Ireland whose value was £8 million.
Team News:
Sergio Aguero is out with an injury and will miss the game against Aston Villa. Jesus Navas has recovered from an ankle injury and is set to feature while Yaya Toure has recovered to full match fitness.
Gabriel Agbonlahor is a major doubt after limping off with a knee injury against Hull. Joe Bennett is still out with an ankle injury.
Match Facts:
Manchester City have won 10 of their last 11 home games against Aston Villa in the Barclays Premier League (L1).
Aston Villa have taken just two points from their last seven Barclays Premier League away games (D2 L5).
Man City need four goals to score 100 in a league season for the first time since 2001-02 (scored 108 in a 46-game second tier campaign).
Villa need three points from their last two Premier League games of 2013-14 to match the total they recorded last season (41).
Samir Nasri has scored or assisted a goal in six of his last nine PL apps for Man City.
Yaya Toure has scored or assisted 26 goals in 33 Premier League appearances this season – he had a hand in 12 goals in each of his previous three PL seasons.
Man City’s total of 57 home goals in the Premier League is 18 more than the Villans have in total (39).
Predicted Lineups:
Hart
Zabaleta-Kompany-Demichelis-Clichy
Milner-Fernandinho-Toure-Nasri
Silva
Dzeko
Weimann
Bowery-Albrighton
Westwood-Delph
Bertrand-Clark-Baker-Vlaar-Lowton
Guzan
Match Prediction:
Man. City 3-1 Aston Villa
It wouldn’t be a dumb idea to bet on a draw, Aston Villa have nothing to lose, so they could just go for it. Man City have an entire title to lose in the space of two games. Pressure will be on, but I still expect City to score a couple of goals. Dzeko has been playing really well and a fit Yaya Toure is almost impossible to stop. Aston Villa have seriously struggled to score goals, Weimann did well but I think he’ll be closely marked. Still, this is the Premier League and anything can happen.
Lol… It’s fascinating how they only care about going against Bertrand. Clark’s been a beast, but they don’t even care about Lowton.
Bloody hell, we actually have a plan that I can understand.
No way is this down to Lambert, imo.
Course it is same plan we had at vp. Looks like 0.0 can’t see city scoring in a million years. They are shite without negredo
Yeah but we’re doing it so much better than usual. It might be Lambert’s plan but Cowans and Given are giving these players some kind of motivation.
Dzeko’s been given the go ahead for a while now ahead of Negredo and taken it. They’re far from shite without him.
They 100% miss Aguero. Dzeko plays into our hands as he doesn’t have the speed nor Aguero’s technical ability to keep hold, and move with it, twist and turn the defenders.
This vendetta against Lambert is getting a bit boring now, not to mention childish. This game would have been tailor made for Gabby. Hope young Jack comes on second half!
TPTP
Not to sure if that was down to the substitute as he didn’t track back did Baccuna. Got to say good defending up till then.
This is the reason lambert should go. Losing 1 nil with noyhing to play for yet playing with a flat back 6. Its disgraceful
Stop fucking moaning and get painting the walls of Bristol 🙂
yawn yawn yawn, getting another footballing lesson yet again. We’ll probably capitulate at one point in this second half and lose 4-0, again. please go Lambert just leave
Spot on fella!!!!
That million years went quick ooah. Tired midfield not helping wings anymore…..could be 5
Ooah is never wrong mate….he is a Lerner aplogist after all 🙂
Haha. Ain’t that the truth
So…..When we beat Hull and played well it was “all down to Cowan’s”
Now we are losing to the league leaders….. “Its all Lambert and hes got to go”
You lot are seriously messed up.
Helenius…you have hit the nail on the head there mate…..everything is Lamberts fault. Kids in playgrounds springs to mind.
Are you watching a different team, lambert and his team, his signings, his tactics and his dour personality have broken no positive records since he took over. All negatives, it’s not worth watching, it’s as boring as he is. Set up to loose this game it was just when, if the shackles are off why not play Robinson from the start, he looked lively when he came on, first thing he does is bring on bacuna, what a nob jockey!
He just went for damage limitation tonight and still lost 4.0 says it all. Wot the fuck was vlaar doing for first goal djecko standing right next to him and only city player in box and still couldn’t spot him. Back to how he was last season total shite
Were you at the Hull game we did not play well we were average at best
At least put grealish on ffs what harm can it do.
Fucking clueless
Thought lambert said the shackles are of and we will try to win. At no point to night has there been a willingness to win this game and if this is a team with the shackles of were fucked next season. That even puts sunderland above us
How do u lose 4.0 with 10 men behind the ball!
Are you?…you get tablets for it these days 🙂
Amnesia springs to mine, Lambert is useless and I don’t hang about in play grounds.Langfordvilla.
As I said before we are fucking shit , this club needs massive changes or we will be relegated next season , I also predicted 4 nil city , sack the fucking lot of them .
My money is on you for the new manager/coach/owner….start off my telling us how much you’re going to invest and who your new manager is going to be!
PAUL LAMBERTS CLARET BLUE ARMY
There you go kids in play grounds.
defend all game, go a goal down and decide to throw defending out the window
Typical villa
As stated earlier a great result that it shows lambert is shit and so are the players. Good night for the future of Villa.
I thought we did well to get nil!!
Oh….I am so, so shocked to see you on here…you was making your tea on Saturday and didnt appear to Sunday morning. Why is tonight different?…..oh yeah, we lost. erm…and we won on Saturday…I think I understand the pattern thats developing again!
Yawn!
Double yawn!
Expected to lose but why now throw the kids in. Lambert you are a clown pure and simple if you want to give them a go do it against the likes of hull at home. Please hand in your beer goggles and go back to great yarmouth
Pretty poor result. Conceding 2 goals in the dying minutes again. Same old Villa. At least we managed to keep a clean sheet for an hour though today! We normally run out of steam after 15 minutes!
Yep lamberk will say we drew 0.0 with them first half!!
Roll on the Summer. Cant wait for things to change at Villa. Didn’t expect anything from tonights game but would have been nice to have had a go. They should have been sent out to go for broke. What’s the worst that could have happened other than concede 3 or 4 goals……. oh wait we did ! We go again !!!
We were lucky to go in at HT at 0-0.Totally outclassed,outplayed,out powered not a challenge at all.Our squad is a fuckin joke…….
Useless plop
Taxi for AVFC
Anyway where was Albrighton,, was he injured?
Didn’t turn up said it wasn’t worth it as Lambert and Lerner are both knobs
That was my question earlier. Must of been injured
Ya ya Toure is a good player but not Diego Maradona just shows how poor them shower of shite are god I hate Randolph Lerner fuckin Randolph
Jay Dee…not let oohah hear you slagging off Randolph mate…its all Lamberts fault!
Yaya toure is the best player in the league with Suarez we’re lucky to have that class of player in our country
Shame these types of players never play for us
Albrighton…Sold to Everton…he said there’s to much moaning on here! No idea what he means, have you?
Yeh he said not enough P&P
Jay Dee lol mate 🙂
Albrighton injured from a knock at hull according to kendrick
Thece you go…oohah thinks we played at Hull last Saturday….and he says I talk dross. Case proven me thinks 🙂
So get ready for we were fantastic and were gonna let spurs have it comments coming from the comedy channel
Niall quinn says lamberk deserves a chance to bring youngsters through and to spend money. Media havnt got a fucking clue about us and how shut wev been