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This. They did a great tactical job on us, so I'm happy with the point. Stephens probably hasn't looked as anonymous as that for us more than three times ever. He had no space and played far too deep. I also think Hughton should have taken off Knocky after an hour. He had a real off night...

Take that on balance. Disappointing performance but Villa are clearly in a false position.

Stephens is playing far too deep!

So he does. :-)

There's only one team looking like winning this.

Yeah it seems Hughton agrees with you.

Controversial, but I'd be tempted to take off AK, bring on Norwood and have Sidwell sit in front of the back four

I agree. But what we're not doing well is dealing with their pressing.

However I still think we will win this.

No, no we don't. VILLA need to win games like this of they want to be the top 2. We are still 2nd on Monday even if we lose.

That's true but I think you're over dramatising it a bit if you think we need to up our game to stay in contention for the top two. We need to up our game to win this match, yes. But we'd beat some teams comfortably playing at this level. To be honest I just think we need to switch tactics...

Don't be worried, even if "were loose", we are still second. Let them do the worrying. If THEY lose, they can say cheerio to going up automatically.

We are going to batter them. We will win 3-0 and wonder how it wasn't 6 or 7.