Here we go again, it’s been only 48 hours since the last round of Premier League fixtures. Don’t you just love festive fixtures? You might if you’re not an Aston Villa fan. Villa are yet to win in four Premier League games and have since suffered defeats to Fulham, Man. Utd, Stoke and Crystal Palace. From those four fixtures Villa have only scored once.
Things aren’t to merry in Wales either, Swansea are failing to replicate their form of last season. The added pressure of Europa League has seen the Welsh team winless in their last five fixtures. Swansea are a point above Villa and both teams will be eager to get some much needed points on the table.
Team News:
Aston Villa are still without striker Christian Benteke and key defender Ron Vlaar. Ashley Westwood will be available following a suspension.
Michael Laudrup has already announced he plans on making major changes to the team that lost to Chelsea in the midweek. Striker Michu, midfielder Nathan Dyer (both ankle), Michel Vorm (knee) missed the boxing day fixture against Chelsea and will likely miss out again. Leon Britton is fit again following a broken toe and is set to feature.
Match Facts:
Swansea have lost eight of their nine previous league trips to Villa Park (W1), failing to score in all eight defeats.
Aston Villa have won only seven points in their nine Premier League home games this season (W2 D1 L6) – no side has won fewer (Fulham and Sunderland also with seven).
The Villans have not lost five successive Premier League matches since January 2001 (the only time it has happened to them in the PL previously)
Aston Villa have scored just one first half goal in their last 13 Premier League games, and have not scored a single first half goal at home this season.
Aston Villa have failed to score in five of their last six Barclays Premier League home games.
Predicted Lineups:
Guzan
Lowton-Baker-Clark-Bacuna
Westwood-Delph
Albrighton-Tonev-Agbonlahor
Kozak
Bony
Routledge-Shelvey-Hernandez
Britton-De Guzman
Taylor-Williams-Chico-Rangel
Tremmel
Match Prediction:
Aston Villa 0-2 Swansea
I’ve lost all faith in the team, I tried to be positive but it’s so difficult. I reckon both teams will change their starting 11’s by a large extent. So I’m fairly confident I predicted both sides wrong. Either way, Swansea have a great team and like all away teams will feel as though they can snatch the three points. And that’s a major problem for Villa. All away teams will be coming to Villa Park with a psychological advantage over the home side. I want Villa to win, and they could, but deep down I wouldn’t be surprised if we lost yet again.
27% possession in the first half. Disgraceful.
I hear there running a riot over us 2nd half,ain’t lambert been sent to the stands yet as he does fuck all in the dugout.shite
I hear villa chasing shadows my moneys on the shadows.
We’re trying hard but it seems we can’t take throw ins anymore
I hear Jack Shit is going on and Jack’s just left the building. ..
Oddly enough Barry Bannan is running the show at the Etihad.
…and then Citeh score.
Abonglahor and Lowton are playing right back, that’s better
Both of them?
Clarke booked will not be at Sunderland game, Swansea still on top.
3 mins left + extra time might get a point
Looks like a draw will keep that twat lamberk in a job for another year ffs
Armardi yellow card
Dying seconds, its a draw. Lambert’s comment thought we played well and will have to pick our selves up again. 🙂
And we go again at Sunderland. Lamberk out now. Still no win and a lucky draw ffs
Does anyone have any idea what formation we were playing for the second half, or any idea what our tactics were.
We weren’t able to string more than 3 passes together from what I saw. I saw 94 minutes.
Lambert out!
Yes Mark it was defensive, that’s pretty much how we play now.
Fucking pt & jacksy to get that,pub crawl home yipee lost 6-0 fuck it get pissed.
Another rubbish performance, this hoof ball is embarrassing!! Sitting to far back and lack any quality. Worst villa team in my lifetime!
our possession at home against a poor Swansea side lacking confidence…….26%
cant really blame the defence for conceding when they are defending for 3/4 of every game they play.
Our home form is third from bottom now it’s a joke
you’re right it is embarrassing.
Another poor performance. But at least 1 point – the first we clinched at festive periode for 2 years!! Yeah! As a team, we were second best to an average Swansea team. They played us off the park. The only positive thing was our defence with exception of Luna. Look at the marking – better non marking – at the goal we conceded. Swansea had 4 or 5 Spaniards who played wonderful football and we have one who can´t pass and defend. Sums it up.
Lambert has to go totally clueless lose to Sunderland next week and we are right in the relegation battle again. Though we may already fighting to stay in prem. just because we got a lucky point at home to a depleted swans side that we beat last year shouldn’t allow lamberk to keep his job he has to go now
its incredible, we were playing the long hoof ball even before kozac came on, who exactly do we think is going to win those air balls ahead of swanseas CB’s gabby? wiemann? it makes no sense and the fact we’ve been doing it with 99% of our possession this season(which probably amounts to about 9 mins)and its more than obvious it doesn’t work we are still doing it, over and over and over and over.
Ok here are the stats from bbc website. They had 17 shots to our 7 and 8 corners to our 2. Possession as always we got slaughtered. We were at home ffs to a depleted swans side and they still passed us of the park. Lamberk fuck off now
Possession
Aston Villa 27%
Swansea 73%
Shots
Aston Villa 7
Swansea 17
Shots on target
Aston Villa 3
Swansea 3
Corners
Aston Villa 2
Swansea 8
Fouls
Aston Villa 13
Swansea 9
Aston Villa Swansea
We are playing the long ball because we miss the class and confidence on the ball. And our movement is not good enough. We don´t possess the quality to keep the ball on the ground and play fluent football. Don´t think that PL likes the hoof ball, I am sure he wants to play a different style but the players don´t have the quality. But it´s his team. He brought the players in. On the other hand, with a small transfer budget who can´t get better players.
Bottom line is he sends our top striker out on loan has spent 3 times more than Everton and flucked just one point from the last 15 against top quality sides like palace, stoke etc. He has to go and Lerner and faulkner with him. The club is a joke. I suppose people will go and say we didn’t lose instead of what a shit performance we gave. Effectively we did lose as teams below us are making up the ground.
‘flucked’? That’s an excellent new word to describe Villa results.
Ooha, in principle you are right. But even if we change Managers we have the same team and the lack of quality in it. I really don´t know how to change it. And what makes me angry most is the fact our youth team won the Champ league last year but nobody of them is obviously ready to get into this dull first team.
My apologies Joty.
The youth thing at villa is a myth. Ok we win a trophy but honestly the difference between youth and prem is huge. Wev got quantity but no quality. Where’s our Rooney or Rodwell or Walcott. Why did we sell a 15 yr old new Wiltshire to arsenal last season. Why couldn’t we hold on to him Ffs. Lambert has still spent 3 times the amount of Everton. His players cheap or not are total and utter shite. It is his choice not to have a few experienced heads in there not Lerners. Lamberk has to go now
What it boils down to for me is would you expect tens of thousands of people to pay to watch that and take hours out of their day for what we’re getting these days? Is there no responsibility now to give us supporters something to support? If you went into a restaurant and paid that for a meal and had a bad time is that ok? Where’s the fun in that?
I’m amazed 37,000 bothered to watch that shite. No wonder Lerner gets away with murder
Get 1 point from a possible 12 and you you and your likes come out of the woodwork and start spouting piss and making excuses for the useless twat of a manager, crawl back under that stone you’ve been hiding under for the past 3 weeks,
to Joty
BWS, may statement was a sarcastic one. I am depressed and angry like you.
Jut back and we were just as bad as against palace, when i think about the teams we have supported in the past i truely beleave this is the worst squad of players we have had in living memory and that includes the side billy mcneil had. What a disgrace our clubs owners are all that matters is a low wage bill and cheap signings we are going down and this side could get relegated from the championship
A stat from sky. 3 swansea players touched the ball more than a hundred times. Villa’s player that had most touches was guzan 55 times that tells u everything u need to no about villa
We were just unbeliveably poor in every single department of our game. There wasn’t one moment I thought “wow, good play” “nice ball” or that we might score.
We played long ball with Kozac on the bench, we don’t win corners anymore because we don’t have possesion of any sorts in teh opposition half.
We can’t pass the ball along the ground just three times without losing it.
We still have no left side, Hutton needs to come back in, really it’s embarassing. I feel for Delph because he’s not a great player and the amount of time he has to cover for Gabby and Luna is an absolute joke.
We have no goal threat whatsoever, it’s infuiating that at home we had a full ten less attemps on goal than our opposition.
We are probably going to get relegated unless drastic changes are made to our staff/squad in January
Lambert Out!!