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Interesting this because both The Albion and Villa have a single game before we meet on the Tuesday afterwards.  I think that it will be more telling what Villa get away to Toon when we are at the same time hosting Soton.  The most likely scenario, in my humble opinion, is that we do very well at home because of our resurgent home mentality and Soton’s relatively poor away record coupled with Soton’s realization that their season is effectively over; they won’t be top four and they don’t want the poison chalice that is fifth place so may already be happy to let things slide a bit.  Meanwhile the Geordies have that huge, hyper-critical home fan-base to satisfy having dished up some pretty ropey stuff to them recently.  I think they will emasculate Villa in a display without pity to satisfy their fans lust for a win.  The danger for us is that if Soton are relaxed about the result then they could find a mental zone where they start to enjoy the game and if that happens before we have put at least one goal past them we could struggle.  We need to go flat out to obtain a leading edge early in the game and then try and protect that lead, hopefully a two goal margin.  The game the following Tuesday should see us administer a coup-de-grace to a shell-shocked Villa to then be repeated at a later date.