Aston Villa’s biggest and most important game all season. A win will guarantee Premier League football for another season, this statement applies for both Aston Villa and Hull City. Aston Villa have really struggled as of late, only picking up one point from a possible 18. Scoring goals has also been a serious problem for Aston Villa, scoring only 2 goals from the last 4 games. Paul Lambert must’ve been using this week to focus his squad of players for this ‘Cup Final’ game. It truly is a final, a lose will bring Aston Villa dangerously close to the relegation zone. If Villa fail to beat Hull they must find at least another 3 points against either Man. City or Tottenham.
Hull City have had a decent season, they’re sitting safely in 13th position with 37 points. Hull City also have a FA Cup final to look forward too. Perhaps the distraction of the FA Cup will give Aston Villa the slight advantage in this fixture. Earlier in the season Aston Villa managed to snatch a 0-0 draw against Hull at the KC Stadium.
Curtis Davies may face against his former side. Davies first moved to Aston Villa on loan from West Brom in the 2007-2008 season, the following year he transferred permanently for £8-11 million. He made 66 appearances over the course of 4 years at Aston Villa scoring 3 goals. Davies moved to Birmingham in 2011. Brad Guzan may also face his former team. Guzan was loaned out to Hull City during the 2010-2011 season, he made 16 appearances for the Tigers.
Team News:
Joe Bennett is still struggling with an ankle injury and will most likely miss another game.
Both Allan McGregor and Paul McShane have both started light training but this fixture will be to early for the pair. Hull City have no fresh injury concerns.
Match Facts:
Aston Villa have won four and lost none of five previous Barclays Premier League meetings with the Tigers, keeping a clean sheet in all five games.
Long needs one more goal this season to record eight goals in three successive Premier League campaigns.
Villa have scored more than once in only one of their last 12 Premier League games.
Villa have 35 points from 35 games; last season they had 37 from 35 and 36 from 35 the season before.
Predicted Lineups:
Guzan
Lowton-Vlaar-Baker-Bertrand
Albrighton-Westwood-Delph-Tonev
Holt-Agbonlahor
Long-Jelavic
Rosenior-Boyd-Huddlestone-Livermore-Elmohady
Davies-Bruce-Chester
Harper
Match Prediction:
Aston Villa 0-0 Hull City
Aston Villa really need to win this match but I just don’t know where the goals will come from this weekend. Yes Albrighton is very creative but we don’t have a player that will attack those crosses. Playing Holt may be a good move because I think he’d be more affective than Weimann. But Hull aren’t that bad of a team, especially when we compare Hull to Villa. Steve Bruce said he’d be happy with a draw, and that’s exactly what the outcome will be.
Mate I just hope the fans don’t get blinkered by this result if it stays this way, all I can say if so they have very very short memories.
3 nil Stoke…survived easily
Above the Baggies as well….just enjoy the moment…..crack open yhebeer…not a day to be negative…get this out of the way then give both barrells to Lambert andLerner until they both move on!
looks like lamberk has got away with it again. good to be safe but not good to have lerner and lamberk next season
Who says we’re having them next season? Lol…
because lamberk has achieved what lerner has asked. put it this way there is no need to keep lambert now we are safe so if we dont sack him now he is here for next season
I agree mate.
Right right. I mean Lerner is that kind of owner. He always sacks managers before the end of the season… I mean there’s… Uhm… Well… Damn it, can’t think of one.
The season is over for us we can’t godown get someone else in for next 2 games to asses squad. Imagine if pl won next 2 games no way would he be sacked
What if we want a manager that’s already at a job at the moment who won’t leave yet? What if we really want someone like Yakin, you really think he’s just gonna split on Basel right now? Unless we’re going for someone who isn’t at a job or who plans on leaving their job after the World Cup from their International job, it’s not gonna happen.
well i can breathe much easier now, i thought they played well, especially weimann and bowery ( shame gabby went off injured ) both ran and ran results also went for us but we no longer needed um 🙂
happy as larry, now we can concentrate on selling this club, to somebody who wants 2 invest in one of the best clubs in the world
I’m still convinced Lerner isnt selling club but just looking additional investment so he can give Lambert a chance with better players. Not that I agree with that though. A new owner, new manager, new players and nothing less for me please. Great result today but too little to late.
If wev got money to spend lamberk is the last person I’d give it to. If he is here next season then I certainly won’t be. If that makes me fickle I don’t give a toss
Thats my fear Oohah. Its like when McAllister won the last few games that season people were saying give him a chance but forgot the shit that came before. I don’t hate Lambert but I don’t think he can take this club forward even with funds. If only there was a good manager out there with a passion for villa like Little or Gregory. Hopefully Laurson or Mellberg makes a good manager one day. Someone we can all unite behind.
Not sure laurrsen is the and never rated him that highly when he played for us another centre half with a mistake in him we always seem to sign them. And before I get slated yes other defs make mistakes to but our make more. Anyway we digress lambert is out of his depth yes he was dealt abad hand but still a better hand than when he was at Norwich. It’s still him that signs the players picks the teams etc. So it’s his fault. Bottom line is we are no better than last yr and slightly worse than when mclown was in charge. Lamberk has lived on the anything but mcleish from fans for too long. He loses most matches and has given us most unwanted records in our history. He got lucky today that their players had an eye on cup final next week and wernt as wholehearted as normal. Bottom line is this is another win that papers over the cracks. Let’s hope the 3 wise monkeys announce their departure and soon
I am NOT saying that Lambert must stay but I do feel that he has been dealt a terrible hand in terms of available funds. As Tekkers says though, I am not sure that he could spend significant funds wisely. In simple terms, I think the job is too big for him. We must aim ‘much higher’ in terms of both managers and owners. We have to show real ambition in the summer as I dont think we could survive yet another relegation fight.
Fuck offLerner, the Villa is OURS