Sheaf Saint

If Leicester lose to Leeds and Spurs beat Everton by 2 or more goals then we'll move up two places on GD today. I feel a bit dirty wanting Leeds and Spurs to win though.

Could have done without Palace winning, but Wolves losing keeps things tight above us. Only 3 points separating us from 5th now.

0-2 now. Let them have their bit of hope today, cos they're extremely unlikely to win 2 in a row. Keeps Brentford below us.

City are just toying with them. It's like a keep-ball training exercise.

Would be perfect if they could do that today as it would stop Brentford from going back above us.

That dive from El Ghazi - I wonder if Dean Smith challenged him at the start of the season to step up and fill Grealish's boots, but he took it a bit too literally 😂

Norwich have to go for it. Draws are no good to them right now, they need wins and they will be targeting home games against teams in the bottom half to get them. That should play right into our hands.

Shame Villa have such a top class keeper, otherwise he would have got a goal of the season contender last night.

Only need to draw with Norwich now to stay on par with this. But given how things have gone for both teams since I started this thread, a draw would be disappointing.

Wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong so far 😉

We're currently 3 points behind Man Utd in 5th. And as they're playing City at lunchtime, we'll probably still be 3 points behind them at the end of the day.

It'll be even sweeter if Everton and Leicester both lose tomorrow, as we could end up climbing into the top half on GD. Too much to ask for though?

Villa were always going to improve. Deano isn't an awful manager and he identified what was wrong, and made a change to address that at HT. Credit to Ralph because he recognised the effect this had and made a tactical change to adapt to it. Meant we lost a bit of control and didn't have as much of the ball in the attacking third, but McCarthy was never troubled and the best chance of the half was Ché's header.

That highlights Moi's biggest weakness - a total lack of pace.

Should be. Ref has bottled it.

We're really missing Redmond's corner delivery tonight.

Nearly.

That's 2 fouls from Cash in quick succession but no thing given.

Oh Stu!

Need to wake up to that danger. Got overloaded then.

Flood gates opened. Hattrick for Arma incoming.

He's been fairly quiet but he works really hard and he's played an essential role in the press. I get the sense he's going to surprise us with a quality goal out of nowhere sometime soon.

Smallbone played for the B team earlier today.

Revenge for that absolute travesty at the hands of Lee Mason and Mike Dean last season, perhaps? Or to show Danny that he made a bad choice to leave us for them in the summer?

I wonder if Che could play that role? We know his finishing isn't great, but I've always been impressed with his ability to bring others into play in attack. He's got a good eye and a decent weight of pass on him. Not saying he would ever be as good as Tadic, but he has more strength to win and hold the ball up top than Tadic ever did.