Aston Villa Blog

Advanced Look Ahead to Reebok Road Trip

Villa face a Bolton side this weekend who have the worst home record in the Premier League having won just 1 and lost 6 of their opening 7 games at the Reebok. Despite this, Bolton’s home advantage makes them slight favourites according to Betfair football, with a draw unsurprisingly the longest odds with Owen Coyle’s [...]

Villa Preview vs Tottenham: Van der Vaart Fitness the Key

Villa face Tottenham having not beaten Spurs in their previous 5 encounters, with Redknapp’s side doing the double last season in strangely similar fashion. Both games ended 2-1 and while Marc Albrighton scored in each game for Villa, Rafael van der Vaart netted all four of Tottenham’s goals past Brad Friedel, now a teammate of [...]

McLeish’s Villans ready for Spurs, Swansea and Man United

Aston Villa will be primed to re-launch their flailing Premier League campaign this season after the international break starting with Tottenham Hotspur, then facing Swansea City and finally coming up against Manchester United in a busy few weeks for the midlands club. With just two wins in their last 10 games (wins against Wigan and [...]

Could Jermaine Signing be a Stroke of Jenas?

Aston Villa have 12 points after 10 games, the exact same tally as last season, and despite sitting 9th, could be in a dangerous position were they to lose, or even perhaps draw with Norwich. With United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Tottenham and Arsenal all to come in the next two months, Alex McLeish will no doubt [...]

Villa Preview vs Sunderland: Goals at a Premium

It is fair to say that Villa have not exactly set the world alight under Alex McLeish so far and they will be aiming to prevent a third successive defeat in Darren Bent’s first return to Sunderland. Aston Villa After a 7-game unbeaten run at the start of the season, albeit with 5 draws thrown [...]

Villa Preview vs WBA: All Indications Point to Narrow Home Win

Villa host West Brom this Sunday in their second Midlands derby of the season and will be hoping for a significantly better performance and result than in the last one with Wolves. West Brom are playing their own second derby of the season, also having faced Wolves but with a much improved display earning them [...]

Villa Player Ratings / Stats vs Man City

Here is a breakdown of the Villa’s best and worst performers in terms of ratings and statistics vs Man City with no real stand-out performers! Player Ratings Shay Given – 6.5 – could do very little with 4 well taken goals and made a couple of decent, if not comfortable stops Alan Hutton – 6.5 [...]

Villa Match Preview vs City: Heskey to Offer Midfield Muscle in Manchester?

Aston Villa travel to Eastlands hoping to right a couple of wrongs from last season that were undeniably two of the lowest points of the Gerard Houllier regime. A 4-0 defeat in the league hurt Villa’s fans before we got our own back a month later at Villa Park, with Darren Bent scoring the match-winner [...]

October Preview: Beating Manchester City, West Brom and Sunderland

You can buy your Aston Villa tickets online from TicketBis, a reliable tickets exchange where purchases are 100% guaranteed. After a summer of cutting costs and cutting corners, Aston Villa are unexpectedly in a position to do well this season. Currently in 7th place in the league, They have every reason to contemplate a top-six [...]

Stephen Warnock: The Premier League’s Most Aerially Dominant Left-Back!

If there has been one vast improvement in the team this season it has undoubtedly been in a defensive sense, despite fantastic performances from Gabby Agbonlahor. Also undoubtedly in my opinion the most improved player in the back four has been Stephen Warnock, who was rightly dropped after a string of bad displays last season [...]