Rogers?

May as well have not played the first 3 games. He's been awful.

He has, but he played better for England, and ge must be showing something?

He'll always play. Because he's excellent. Lets hope the performances were because of the uncertainty.

Needs to improve massively and get his head up, in a Villa shirt at least.

Agree, but he has been unplayable previously, so I'm always hopeful that ge will get back to that.

I can spell he, I clearly can't type it. Sigh.

I dunno. His form dipped massively just after he was shunted to the right to accommodate Asensio imo, even though he still got the odd assist. Hasn’t yet recovered it as far as I can see. Hopefully today is the day

Played well for England in the last game, hopefully he brings that back to us

Well this strategy has worked for the first 3 games so why change it eh?

Absolutely. Looking forward to both McGinn and Cash going up the right-hand side and then passing backwards to Konsa/Martinez lol

I think its working today, its pointless to play Mcginn that role games like Brentford, but he is good to help Cash against Grealish. I also think lots of our problems also players confidence way too low and now those players get good confidence for international break and game changers on the bench

Lets hope so👍

I hope you’re right. There’s zero pace in that team tho, if we concede the first goal I dread to think what’ll happen

Concede 1st and we lose, i just zero confidence right now our mentality to come back losing position, its get better later this season, but so poor start of the season and zero goal so far, so just need to do anything to not concede 1st, id take boring draw this game.

Weve set up to not concede in every game so far.

Does have that feel again somewhat🤷

Don’t mind that away from home. Home games bother me if we’re not set up to win.

Yup, had the same thought, it’s always been the way to go away and contain for a bit, question is , when do we see PlanB in action

It’s difficult because we’ve been shite at home too but I’m all for keeping it tight away and pinching it in the last 20. Decent options on bench. Needs cool heads under pressure atm

The voices of reason, thanks for helping me retain my mind.

I thought it looked quite attacking when I saw the line up against Palace, but it wasn't and it made no difference. 😔

Yeh, I agree. Has been overly concerned about stopping the opposition rather than how to attack them since that Old Trafford game. It’s what fans of his previous clubs complained about.