Villa have some good players with real pace and quite how they've ended up in the state they're perceived to be in is a mystery to me. We've thrashed the mighty Stoke and now this'll be a stroll?
They've lost two players from last season, when they were very tricky opponents and we expect to hammer them?
Can somebody explain why so many think we should overwhelm them?
This looks like a potential banana skin and a scrappy 3 pts would be just fine.
More's the point, I think we'll be able to see just what sort of shape we're in at the end of this game and it'll give a much clearer guide to our destiny. If we don't win it we'll already have lost too much ground and momentum to make a serious challenge feasible. It will also bolster, rather unhelpfully, the confidence of all visiting teams. Unhelpfully, at least, unless you want to be playing counter attacking football at Anfield.
I'm bracing myself for 0 - 1 and a blame blood bath to follow. Still, on a positive, it'll give me my life back for the rest of the season, if we lose, because I won't have to live with the hope that, against all logic, we can compete for the title.
I just hope I'm wrong.
but 3 points will do!
