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Where December saw two in-form teams go head to head in a promotion battle, our visit to the Seal Sanctuary this Saturday could be rather more of a desperate affair, as two teams suffering the wobbles try and hold on to their playoff hopes. I think it's fair to say that the honeymoon has now ended for Dean Smith in Witton, as his period of success (which pretty much culminated with their performance at the Hawthorns) has given way to a string of iffy performances. However, since the departure of Harvey Barnes, Albion have been little better. The increasingly impressive performances of Rekeem Harper are a small ray of hope, but don't paper over the cracks of how the goals have dried up. As the Forest match showed, at one end we continue to gift-wrap goals to the opposition on the plate, but scoring them has become a mammoth task.

This could really go any way, and Villa's ability to turn in a performance against us even at their most abject can't be discounted. But if we can replicate what we did at Stoke last week, that would be enough for me.