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Aston Villa v Derby County


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They're desperate - seriously desperate - for a win. We've been playing really badly and are under a lot of pressure if we want any hope of salvaging our season. This is going to be very tough and right now a Villa win would be no surprise. But I hope my pessimism is unfounded and we put on a show that turns the season round and begins another epic winning run to catapault us back towards the playoff places. COYR!

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11 minutes ago, kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong said:

Beginning to wonder if there is a bigger issue going on with vydra if he's not on the bench again...Not aware of any injury to him

If we're playing some variant of 1 up front, there's literally no point in having 2 out-and-out strikers on the bench.  So its Nugent or Vydra, and Nugent has certainly shown more in the last few games than Vydra has all season.  If we want a change up front, Nugent can come on for Bent, if we want 2 up front Nugent can come on alongside Bent, or we can use one of the more versatile players up there (Russell, Ince, Bennett etc).  There are very few situations where a second striker on the bench is going to be useful (at least compared to having a second winger, or a second midfielder, or a spare fullback) - hence why he didn't come on against Burton.

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