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Newcastle Vs. Aston Villa: Lineups, Open Match Thread

Trident_tiny by Kirsten Schlewitz on in Football Game Threads

We don't get it either, Shay.

I've been admiring the snow and watching Mad Men all morning, so I am way too tired from all this excitement to create one of those pretty little charts that typically go at the top of our open threads. Sorry guys -- blame Aaron for his internet being out.

The Magpies are perfect in all competitions thus far in 2012 -- could it be the Villa that manage to end that streak? Or will we see the same humiliation we saw in Newcastle last season? It's been put forward that Newcastle is "almost in Scotland" and therefore we supporters should be optimistic. And no, it doesn't matter that a Scot was leading in that horrible defeat, because it wasn't snowing then. Very well. Here are your lineups:

Newcastle Starting XI: Tim Krul; Danny Simpson, Mike Williamson, Fabricio Coloccini, Davide Santon; Ryan Taylor, Danny Guthrie, James Perch, Jonas Gutierrez; Leon Best, Demba Ba

Newcastle Bench: Rob Elliot, Shane Ferguson, Dan Gosling, Hatem Ben Arfa, Gabriel Obertan, Shola Ameobi, Papiss Cisse.

Aston Villa Starting XI: Shay Given; Alan Hutton, Carlos Cuellar, Richard Dunne, Stephen Warnock; Charles N'Zogbia, Stephen Ireland, Stiliyan Petrov, Ciaran Clark; Darren Bent, Robbie Keane. (arrange these as you like)

Villa Bench: Brad Guzan, Andreas Weimann, Gary Gardner, Barry Bannan, Nathan Baker, Eric Lichaj, Emile Heskey.

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Same result not as humiliating

3-0 to the Toon is my prediction

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by George Templeton on Feb 5, 2012 1:25 PM GMT reply actions  

Warnock tackled the ball away from Ba

And did something good! He really did! Isn’t that wonderful!

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by George Templeton on Feb 5, 2012 1:35 PM GMT reply actions  

Papa Demba Cisse on

Gulp

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by George Templeton on Feb 5, 2012 1:45 PM GMT reply actions  

Thought Villa would be losing by now

Been a fairly decent first 20 minutes of the match

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by George Templeton on Feb 5, 2012 1:53 PM GMT reply actions  

Damn Krul again

Fantastic work from Richard Dunne to set up Darren Bent

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by George Templeton on Feb 5, 2012 1:59 PM GMT reply actions  

And Cuellar is one of the villains of the piece this time

:(

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by George Templeton on Feb 5, 2012 2:02 PM GMT up reply actions  

Two best chances of the match fell to Villa

then bang, Newcastle’s first real chance and they score

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by George Templeton on Feb 5, 2012 2:04 PM GMT reply actions  

Robbie Keane's positional sense is unmatched in this team

That’s just one of the reasons why I’m frightened to see how they look when he goes. He’s always in the right spot. What a player.

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by Andrew Cieslak on Feb 5, 2012 2:15 PM GMT reply actions  

Bar the goal conceded it was fantastic

If this is anything like Wednesday, then the goal right on halftime will set up a dominating second half!

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by George Templeton on Feb 5, 2012 2:23 PM GMT up reply actions  

That will be great to see.

Villa has had more chances just need to keep the momentum and take them in the second.

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by Sabrina Dessipe on Feb 5, 2012 2:25 PM GMT up reply actions  

Hope from Opta

11 – Aston Villa have claimed 11 points from losing positions this season (before today), only Wolves (13) have more.

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by Sabrina Dessipe on Feb 5, 2012 2:33 PM GMT reply actions  

Good work N'Zogbia

to get that corner

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by George Templeton on Feb 5, 2012 2:44 PM GMT reply actions  

Sheesh

Bent was nearly in there

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by George Templeton on Feb 5, 2012 2:47 PM GMT reply actions  

Fiorentina equalizes!

:) :) :)

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by George Templeton on Feb 5, 2012 2:48 PM GMT reply actions  

Heskey on

Oh Lord

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by George Templeton on Feb 5, 2012 2:59 PM GMT reply actions  

Playing the ball short to Hutton on a free kick?

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by George Templeton on Feb 5, 2012 3:02 PM GMT reply actions  

Wow what a goal!

What a hit, and what rotten luck that it fell to him

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by George Templeton on Feb 5, 2012 3:04 PM GMT reply actions  

Come on Gary Gardner

Time for his first senior Villa goal!

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by George Templeton on Feb 5, 2012 3:17 PM GMT reply actions  

And what a chance Gardner had

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by George Templeton on Feb 5, 2012 3:17 PM GMT reply actions  

I can't believe that didn't go in

Nearly a brilliant academy goal

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by George Templeton on Feb 5, 2012 3:20 PM GMT reply actions  

I thought it would be awful

Villa could’ve got a result, they did a lot better than I thought

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by George Templeton on Feb 5, 2012 3:27 PM GMT up reply actions  

Time and again

seen Villa play a good first half and then struggle coming out of the changing room in the second half (QPR Wednesday a notable exception), the same thing here and a game that Villa created enough chances to win ends up a freaking defeat!

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by George Templeton on Feb 5, 2012 3:27 PM GMT reply actions  

:c(

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by Sabrina Dessipe on Feb 5, 2012 3:27 PM GMT reply actions  

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