Villa on Wednesday

watched them rip apart blackburn on MOTD and it was basically an assault on both flanks from ashley young and Stewart Downing which got me a bit concerned for the cup game as surely houllier will know our weakness is the fullback areas.Villa have definitely improved since we hammered them a few weeks ago and if we start as slowly as we did against notts county,I'll be very worried

What iv'e seen of Villa is if you give them room to feed the wingers we could be in trouble, but if we play as we have for the last 2 games and go out with Dzeko, Balotelli and Tevez with Silva all over the place it puts the opposition on the back foot pushing their wingers back! Not sure if we can attack so much every game but would like to give it a shot on wednesday...

Richards and Zab at FB with Barry and Yaya playing deeper like they did against Aris should do the trick. It would be a real bonus if NDJ was back as well.

Difficult to say until after today's game
Some of the lads will be pretty fucked as it will be 3 games in a week !

We could do with sweep playing,if only for tracking back to blunt youngs pace
Downing isn't as quick as nani so Zab may cope with him

Icing on the cake if NDJ is back, then we can really attack....who would of thought we would be on about attacking a few months ago! Got to get past Fulham today then take every game as it comes, like to see Vinny back too. Going the match today but if your not get on the chatterbox live thing...had a go on thurs as i couldn't make the game, really is the next best thing with real City fans!!

I'm going and getting my now usual pre-match nerves. Wouldn't have had them 2 years ago for a game against Fulham but the expectation levels are now are so high.