Aston Villa host Tottenham in this round of the League Cup. Both teams are expected to make massive changes due to fitness concerns over numerous amount’s of players. Aston Villa progressed into this round by beating Rotherham 3-0, while Tottenham automatically qualified due to their Premier League position last season.
Paul Lambert may give starts to Steer, Sylla, Bennett, Helenius and Kozak who are yet to start in the Premier League this season, Lambert has mentioned that he will prioritise the League over the League Cup. Tottenham manager Villas-boas plan’s to do the same, he was furious at the scheduling of the Tottenham game, which resulted in the team play 3 games in 6 days. He mentioned that no one from Sunday’s game will feature tonight due to fitness concerns.
Team News:
Aston Villa have several injury concerns ahead of this game. Christian Benteke will miss this game due to a hip injury suffered in last weekends Norwich game. While Agbonlahor, Delph, Luna and Clark have all picked up slight knocks and may also miss out. Westwood remains a doubt. Okore, N’Zogbia and Gardner all remain out through long-term injuries.
Tottenham will rotate the squad, but only Rose and Defoe remain serious injury doubts.
Match Facts:
The two clubs have met four times in the League Cup, with Aston Villa winning on the last two occasions in 1987 and 1994.
Aston Villa haven’t beaten Tottenham since September 2008, they have played 9 times since then.
They have only conceded one goal to date – Olivier Giroud’s winner for Arsenal.
Predicted Lineups:
Steer
Lowton-Vlaar-Baker-Bennett
Weimann-Sylla-El Ahmadi-Tonev
Helenius
Kozak
Kane
Lamela-Chadli-Lennon
Sandr0-Holby
Naughton-Kaboul-Chiriches-Walker
Friedel
Predictions:
Aston Villa 0-2 Tottenham
Tottenham are favourites for a reason, I change the entire Spur’s first team and it’s still really strong. Aston Villa might’ve had an extra day of rest but if a young, inexperienced defence has to face Lamela, Chadli and Lennon it’s never going to be easy. I hope Aston Villa can get a good result and continue their League Cup run, but it’s going to be massively difficult. Aston Villa even play worse at home!
Comments
170 responses to “Aston Villa Vs Tottenham – Preview”
I cant.believe there are still fans defending Lerner and this inept team WE ARE SHITE. Making excuses for one shocking performance after another is not going to bring change. What has Lerner done for Villa in his time here ? We are worse now than under Ellis and that takes some doing ! The only way forward is a fresh start with new owners with ambition. Lerner has wrecked the club and the fans need to stop making stupid excuses and show our hapless yank we want him out.
Agree mate to much blind loyalty and not enough questions being asked
It’s not blind loyalty, it’s pointing out the obvious. Despite you claiming Villa are shit, Villa sit 13th after again the hardest start of any club, including United who shouldn’t struggle with their team compared to Villa’s. We’re just not crying ourselves to sleep yet because Villa aren’t in danger yet. After we lose to City, if we continue to drop points against Hull, Spurs again, Cardiff, West Bromich and Sunderland. If we don’t get a single win, or even 2 wins in there, then you’ll see a lot more fans turning.
Nm this has been going on for 4 years mate its not going to change with Lerner ask the Cleveland brown fans stop defending him this is a joke
whatever guys I give up have fun slagging villa off for another night.
catch yers on a different day when I can be bothered.
head and brick wall comes to mind, no objectivity at all :/
Seriously getting fed up of this site. How many of you lot moaning actually watched the game ffs?! After hearing Lambert’s press conference and seeing both teams starting line ups the result was pretty clear. They did not play a second string, 4-0 flattered them and they were aided by the fact that there first 2 goals came at perfect times. This opinion was also backed up by a hardened spurs fan who I watched the game with. He agreed, for 45 mins there really wasn’t a lot in it.
The fact is they spent over £100 million this summer and god knows how much the year before, where as we have had to up the numbers while compromising quality in most cases. We didn’t get thrashed, our weakened team was beaten by a starting 11 that is better than at least the bottom 12 of the premiership. Wake up, smell the coffee, things are not that bad and things will get better. Lambert’s doing a reasonable job with the tools at his disposal, Lerner is not going anywhere soon, and I, as many other fans, will continue to support the club through these tough times because that’s what real fans do. UTV, Keep the faith and SOTC. Villa till I die.
You’re right, I personally didn’t expect a win. I was more interested in watching the likes of Albrighton, Helenius and Bennett given a chance. Spurs are a strong team, and they’ve spent crazy money.
Let’s focus on the League, we had a tough draw and I’d like Lambert to get Villa into the top 10 this season.
Echo your sentiment Jaymo83 but getting beat at home all the time it is getting harder to stomach
at last a couple of proper villa fans supporting there club instead of oohahhs lemmings slagging of the team
Its funny when fans say support the club stop moaning when villa park like a morgue so where are you? Villa are shit and are going down a true fan would stand up and want something done to correct it some villa fans are like drug addict don’t realise they got a problem right in front of them
It’s cute little kids come on here trying to claim how “true fans” would act.
Every single Villa fan knows it’s not all great at Villa Park, we’re just not whiny little children balling their eyes out making claims that we’re going down and we’re shit with 33 games left to go and we’re not even in the relegation zone at this very moment. And how 1 single call from the officials tonight would completely change the game.
Well said villa 1996
And some are mindless idiots like yourself who spout absolute shit.
Tell you what, why don’t you, OohAh and Terry get yourselves down to the next home game, make yourselves some little placards, remember to check your spelling, and go and protest.
Please tell me exactly, what do you expect the club to do at the minute?
And please don’t say Lerner sell up as like many other people have said, it’s simply not that easy.
Blind loyalty will not help the club it is obvious things are not right we have been shocking now for over 3 seasons and things are getting worse. Excuses are all we get from some deluded fans after yet another.heavy defeat ignoring the facts which are that the team is awful.and has little quality caused by an owner who has no ambition or will to succeed. All this crap about lotalty is laughable. Lerner is a sick joke and needs to go. We had good players but the clown sold them all and niw look at us a LAUGHING STOCK
No surprise at all. Spurs have a squad full of quality players, even their subs/ 2nd team is far better than our first team.
What Lambert has assembled is a team full of bargain buys, none of whom are good enough at the top level
For all those who claim Lambert needs time and patience, wasn’t that exactly the same thing that was said the last time Spurs beat us 4-0 at home 9 months ago. And where is the progress since then?
The only plus point is this year we weren’t humiliated by a league two club in the process of being knocked out the cup, incidentally the last time I entered VP. Won’t be returning and don’t miss it. Lerner is playing the fans as fools, those with blind loyalty remain in the hope of better days that will never come. Sad times for an ailing and ambitionless club.
Nobody tells me Billy Boots that people like myself are not true fans, you are the ones that make football teams what they become, Aston Villa are shite with no hopes of going anywhere, you stick with a team that we both love and will not get anywhere in your time and mine, just remember this the person who owns Villa is a yank out for money, he will serve you shite sport at your cost , he did it in America with their sport, a true Villa fan can see further than the end of their noses, but people like you cannot, we have more people now shocked at the end product of football dished up at Villa park now than ever. Billy boots wake up that’s my team, you and others don’t tell me to fuck off, I’m more a supporter than you will ever know. Get real.
Well said Old Bill. It’s all pointless (literally farvtoo often). Villa will be just like the Browns for as long as Lerner is here.
And Lambert’s bargain basement lower league buys will just take us down.
We were ahead of Spuds under MON. Now we’re relegation candidates for the third year running. Fucking joke club.
Absolute disgrace on the feld again last night. The most boring match I’ve seen us play in a while, completely outplayed in every department, dominated. Decided to try and play after we were 2-0 down haha and that still didn’t work.
I’ll say again, we are playing worse football than this time last year. We’re fecking going backwards.
Reading through this I can totally see both sides of the argument, and both are correct, in a way.
Its true, we aren’t very good, and it doesn’t look like we are going to be world beaters anytime soon, Lerner is in it for the money, after-all, he’s a businessman, Lambert doesn’t have a big budget, not his fault, so he tries to do the best he can with it. Imagine if he spent it all on one or two quality players, we would be picking from the youth side now with all these injuries.
Yes, we lost to a “second string” still worth over £70m (hardly a ‘B’ team then), with a near squad of benchwarmers, but we are only 5 games in, 6 points from a crazy set of starting fixtures….not bad IMO….. Therefore definitely too early to be calling for heads.
Last night was dead, I thought being in K5 at least I would be able to sing my heart out and enjoy the game a bit, but I was wrong. I think its a disgrace to not go and support (even when its looking a bit gloomy) that extra buzz around the park can really lift players, especially at 0-0 / 0/1, and at that time, we weren’t too bad.
Most people were more interested in their mobiles, taking pics and kissing their misses.
OK, so after the game, have a whinge and a moan, if deserved, but while your in that seat, play your part and support the team!!!
Well said.
The 12th man is missing.
Hi everyone tough game for Villa last night with injuries but i get the feeling that was going to be Lamberts plan for last nights game all along.I think he is going to have a go to see how high up we can finish in the league an evaluation of if you will.So we are out the cup.If we are mid table by xmas i will be happy as we will have progressed from last season.If we are bottom six at xmas then ask questions.Home form piss poor sort it out Lambert.Away slightly better.Early days yet but i fear against Man Citeh we will get spanked badly.UTV
Haven’t read the comments.. i know what side of the fence some will be sitting on..
BUT let’s be honest we have issues ESP in midfield.. it is worrying.. 4-0 at home isn’t acceptable.. three home defeats on the bounce now..
No one knows IF Bacuna is a RB RM or CM.. we need to give the lad a run in one position otherwise how will we know how good he is.. rather then keep moving him around..
Our best two players are out injured.. Tonev isn’t ready.. Helenius looks shit ( sorry but he does )
Realistically we spent 17M in the summer and brought in one first teamer in Okore..
Even thou Benteke is injured i still rather have had a play maker and Barry on loan then Kojak.. simply because Gabby and Weimann can do play up top and we need a solid midfield which we don’t have..
I am still patient and will stick with PL but that is in the hope that next summer we have 40M to spend on four players.. ST AM DM and a defender If that is not the case then i am in the Ooh aah camp lol
Completely agree Lionheart £17m on one first team player, problem is it may be too late by next season as we might be in Championship !!
Hindsight… Okore 4M.. Luna 1.5M.. the rest of the dosh on a AM and DM..
Tough couple of months ahead could be touching cloth by xmas get the Andrex at the ready try not to leave any tank tracks Lambert UTV
If Alex McLeish had had that result last night then we would want his head on stick. Lambert is getting away with it lightly. He is totally incompetant, tactically clueless and doesn’t inspire. The bloke is totally out of his depth. Trying to make a silk perse out of a sous ear. Fact, the bloke has spent nearly £40m in the last two summers with no improvement. We have a squad full of ‘tryers’ but no skill. Excluding Benteke his signings have been poor.
Lambert out!
For £20m, what players would please you???
Shawcross
Agree again but do think Okore would have been a good sigh if he wasn’t injured 🙁
Any players that can pass to another team mate and control a football. So that’s most players apart from the crap that Lambert has lumbered us with.
Why are people always sticking up for this incompetent fool? He still can’t put a team together that can at least compete in a home game. Its dire.
Which players would these be then?
Should of got Barry what a difference he would if made. And def should of kept bent. And before u slate me I was one of the few that was against bent going I was not calling for him to go
Agree with Barry, missed a trick there, the Bent situation was a little different though, he didn’t want to be a bench warmer unfortunately, i’d have kept him if he’d been happy to play second fiddle.
Me to could really use those 2 now 🙁
Agree lambert out but unfortunately lambert is here to stay for a few more months at least. Also if he went then who comes in that’s any better? I can’t think if anyone right now it’s not like we would get mourunho it would be someone like pd canio etc
I think we should have kept Bent, with Gabby and Albrighton up front, Ireland tucked in behind, Delph and someone else in midfield and Warnock and Dunne in defence, with a couple of other defenders bought in and Given in goal. The alternative I suppose was to completely rebuild the team using new and academy players and with just Gabby and to a certain extent Albrighton remaining. Delph would count had he ever played before. The idea, presumably, being to build a team into which new players could be injected where necessary (see: Okore and Luna). £40million or whatever it is has rebuilt the team and we’re in 13th.
Had we won the Chelsea match we’d have been in seventh, would it be “Lambert out” and talk of Championship or league football then? I’m the first to admit though that my crystal ball is nowhere near as good as those of many on here.
But we didn’t win it if this if that means nothing
Ireland? you are joking i assume? 🙂
What do you think? Damn, I forgot Bannan. The whole team needed rebuilding, then you need to work out who to keep and who needs replacing. While remaining in the PL. Which is where we are.
For what it’s worth, I think Vlaar is doing ok too.
Ha. was going to say, you’re one of the most rational posters on here, thought for a minute the world really had gone mad.
Oh dear, WBA & Swansea go out of the Cup too, with only Swansea a point ahead of us and WBA a point behind in the league, surely both managers are due for the chop now too???????
Personally, I’m glad we’re out of the cup.