Aston Villa Vs Everton Preview
This weekends clash is between Aston Villa and Everton at Villa Park. The preview between these two teams this Sunday.
West Ham at home first up for Villa.
The Premier League fixtures have been released this morning and first up for Villa will be West Ham United at Villa Park on August 14th.
Our first away trip will be to newly promoted Newcastle United on the 21st of that month.
Our first derby match of the season will be at Wolves on the 25th September and we will host Birmingham City at Villa Park on October 30th.
The last game of the season will be Liverpool at home while we travel to the Emirates for the final away of the season.
Other big fixtures worth knowing are:
November 13: Man Utd (H)
November 27: Arsenal (H)
December 4: Liverpool (A)
December 11: WBA (H)
January 1: Chelsea (A)
January 15: Birmingham (A)
February 1: Man Utd (A)
March 19: Wolves (H)
April 30: WBA (A)
Season of heartbreak, let us finish on a high!
This season has been a season of ups and downs for Aston Villa but all the ups have ended up in heartbreak for the fans.
We only just miss out on Champions League, and success in both domestic cup competitons but if we all stand back and think about it, we all know we would take it again next season.
Martin O’Neill has today stated in the papers that he will be ready and raring to go next season as long as Randy Lerner backs him.
Anyway onto tomorrows final game of the Premier League season, we entertain Blackburn as they look to get revenge from losing to us in the League Cup Semi Final.
A win for Villa tomorrow and a defeat for Manchester City could see Villa take 5th place from under City’s nose.
However, Blackburn still have something to play for as they would love to finish the season in the top half.
Villa have no fresh injury worries, while Blackburn could give a debut to Algerian Amine Linganzi.
Wilfred Bouma was told his contract wont be renewed when it runs out next month so the Dutch man could make a appearance of some sort tomorrow.
It will be a difficult game as all games against Sam Alladyce teams are but the Villa fans will demand a result and I think they will get one.
Avillafan.com Prediction: Home win
Moneybags City to strong for fighting Villa!
Manchester City eventually won 3-1 witch probably flattered them a little against a fighting Aston Villa.
The result no signals the end for Villa Champions League hope’s and means Manchester City go into the game against Spurs in mid-week slight favourites to take the 4th spot.
Villa took the lead against the run of play after 16 minutes. Stewart Downing probably made one of the best run’s forward he’s made since signing for Villa, before playing in John Carew who then turns Kolo Toure and slips the ball underneath Marton Fullop.
Villa looked almost certain to go into the half time break with a deserved lead until Steven Warnock brought down Adam Johnson in the area. Carlos Tevez stepped up and scored the resulting penalty kick.
Carew nearly scored his second of the game to give Villa back the lead after again turning Toure but was this time denied by the cross bar.
Manchester City however did take their chance when they broke free and Johnson picks out Emmanuel Adebayor who scores from six yards out.
In the second half Villa went for it, as City sat back and Martin O’Neill introduced both Emile Heskey and Nathan Delfouneso.
However, City caught Villa on the counter attack very late in the game when Shaun Wright Phillips fed Craig Bellamy a ball into the area and he smashed the ball home.
I can’t really be disappointed in today’s result, the players and the manager both went for the win but in the end we just wasn’t good enough. Let’s just hope Chelsea can now beat Liverpool so we stay in the top 6 and not drop to 7th.
