Another day, another visit to Villa Park
Yes it is a Wednesday so must mean for the 4th time in 11 days a trip down Villa Park for a game.
This time it is the Premier League and a really tough game for us against Championship chasing Arsenal who after the game in December will be confident of a win. At Villa Park our record against Arsenal is very poor with no win in the last 10 home games. The cup games have disrupted the season a lot and it has to be remembered we have only took one point in the last three league games with no goals scored.
That is simply not good enough at this stage of the season and for tomorrow we simply have to put all thoughts aside of the the cups and concentrate fully on the league. Unfortunately we have quite a few small niggling injures with Carew, NRC, Warnock, Albrighton all missing and Petrov is having a scan on a possible achilles injury. So there may be some interesting choices tomorrow and especially if Petrov is ruled out though after Saturday maybe playing Delph against Arsenal is not the worst possible outcome.
After tonight’s results with Liverpool drawing and Spurs winning, then simply we have to go for it, not give Arsenal any respect and get into them, stand back as we found out at the Emirates and their world class player can tear you apart.
We need goals, we need to win, sitting back against Arsenal is not the way to do it.
with both Petrov and NRC out it might’ve been the kinda opportunity for Gardner, ironically.
Can Delph manage the holding Midfield role, perhaps. He reminds me of Ian Taylor a bit, but with more skill, Tayls could always put in a good defensive midfield shift, hopefully Delph can too.
Should be a good match, if it’s anything like last seaons fixture it will be great.
MON will more likely opt for Sidwell in the middle with Milner, which is largely untried. We may play one up top again, which woks with Sidwell in the side.
Whatever, its good to have options.
January 26, 2010 at 22:16
Sidwell makes more sense if Petrov is out but Delph and Milner is the future …
very interesting choice
January 26, 2010 at 22:28