I’ve only got 30 minutes of airport internet so let’s make this preview fast! Aston Villa host West Ham this weekend and we can only hope it will be a lot more entertaining than the previous fixture earlier in the season. Aston Villa managed a 0-0 draw against the Hammers and Upton Park. Andy Carroll has been in the centre of the media this week, following his red card against Swansea city and the FA’s decision against overturning the red card. West Ham believe strongly that Carroll did nothing and it was Chico’s acting that convinced Howard of the red card decision. Unbelievable there is still a chance that the FA might re-consider the decision.
West Ham are a completely different team with Andy Carroll and if he plays, out defence will have a tough time dealing with the former Liverpool player. It might make it even harder with captain Ron Vlaar ruled out. Agbonlahor is back and Aston Villa will hope to get back-to-back home victories.
Team News:
Ron Vlaar is ruled out with a hamstring injury, Agbonlahor is fit and raring to go. Chris Herd and Joe Bennett are too available.
Andy Carroll will miss this game with a suspension, may still be overturned today.
Match Facts:
Villa have won three and lost just one of their last six Barclays Premier League games against the Hammers.
Benteke has scored in three of his last four Premier League appearances for Villa.
Aston Villa have kept just one clean sheet in their last 11 Premier League games, conceding at least two goals in eight games during this run.
West Ham have kept the joint-most clean sheets in the Premier League along with Arsenal (11).
Nolan has also picked up two red cards and one yellow in his last three Premier League appearances away from home.
Predicted Lineups:
Guzan
Bacuna-Clark-Baker-Bertrand
El Ahmadi-Westwood-Delph
Weimann
Agbonlahor-Benteke
Borriello
Downing-Nolan-Jarvis
Nocerino-Noble
Armero-Tomkins-Collins-Demel
Adrian
Match Prediction:
Aston Villa 2-1 West Ham
It’s simply really, if Andy Carroll plays, West Ham can get a point from this fixture. If he doesn’t, Villa should be strong enough to win this game. Vlaar is a huge, huge miss however it will be welcoming to see Agbonlahor back in the side, last time he played (against Liverpool) he provided both assists.
I fucking hope the boo boys are out in force come final whistle.
Probably applaud lambert as we had a good go and mid table football is like winning the league for those lemmings
Relegation battles are less boring than a comfy mid table finish. Come on you Villa..!!! Taken our chances it have been 6-2
Hahaha we’re going down well done lerner lambert and the fans ruined a great club you must be proud
What a fucking load of shite,our home form is relegation material.what do they do discuss a new contract with a manager that more than likely will drag us down.what a fucking joke.
Could be worse, we could be where Fulham are
Give it another three or four weeks and we will be!
Why do we insist on passing straight through the middle until we go two nil down? Width causes all kinds of problems and we play with none, nobody doubles up to help when the ball goes wide so it just ends up going sideways or backwards then hoofed up. As soon as albrighton comes on and we finally start going wide and getting crosses in we look half decent. Baffles me this team, sometimes I just think they must all be thick as fuck.
I do get the impression that Lambert is thick as shit.
The reason why we look strong after conceding is that we play with only 3 in defence. We risk more and at the same time our counterpart are much more defensive minded. Maybe we should risk more from the start cause it can´t get any worse with our home record.
Lerner you have destroyed this club. The Villa PR machine and local Press have contributed to our demise. Lies lies and more lies. Fed up with continued biais reporting of Lerners spending BUT no mention the money is a loan which he gets interst from no mention of player sales no mention of TV money no mention of the fact we can’t compete with the likes of a Palace Hull etc. fed up with niave so called fans who year on year believe the spin especially this time of year when Lerners focus is on season ticket renewals. I don’t blame Lambert, yes he should go he is not good enough. But I do blame two things for our clubs demise 1, Lerner 2, Lerner supporters. Anyone supporting Lerner hold your head in shame you have allowed this to happen. I said earlier in the week that I hoped for relegation the reason this is necessary is to ensure no more excuses. The real state of the club will then be obvious. Lerner out. Lerner fans leave our club.
Um…yes, maybe!
Useless, just fucking useless. Feel sorry for the fans who pay hard earned money to get down to vp to watch that shite. Hats off to you.
Markdn8 at the last minute I changed my mind and said sod it its to windy and cold not going, best decision I’ve made for a long time and watched the game on stream. What a load of shite at times it looked like Benteke was playing for them, 5 open chances, and hit the crossbar, Albrighton hit the upright and the rebound hit the goalkeeper foot and shave the goal. I given in now , till he’s gone.
Typically we didn’t start playing until we were two down. Every fucking game it’s a joke