Well, this is all we needed isn’t it?
I’ve just heard the news that Christian Benteke suffered a torn Achilles heel in training, which could leave him out of the game for up to six months.
Obviously that means he won’t play again this season and probably worse from a personal point of view for him, means he won’t make the World Cup either.
The selfish part of me thinks that it will probably mean any move in the summer will also be off, meaning we get to keep him for another season.
Mind you, we bought Downing with a major injury, so you never know.
No doubt some of you will probably thinking it’s not that much of a loss as he hasn’t exactly been on fire recently, but he’d always be the first name on my teamsheet, as he’s by far our highest threat.
Hence I think he’s a major loss.
It’ll be interesting to see how Lambert attempts to get round this.
Could he actually put Gabby in the middle again, so we use him in his best position?
I’ll leave that part down to the tacticians to possibly answer.
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70 responses to “Benteke out for up to six months – torn Achilles”
This doesn’t matter one iota for Villa. Because of the rare decent performance and fluke win means we’re safe. Lerner is happy raking in the TV money. Shame for Christian, was looking forward to watching him in the World Cup. If he’d have performed well we’d have got a fortune for him!!!
Giddy, we don’t know if there’s going to be a preview or not.
We thought Adam moving to Oz might prove to be a problem, but bearing in mind the time difference, there’s still plenty of time for him to write one.
If not, I’d be expecting Oohah to step up to the plate (hint, hint).
I’m working again, just for a change and will be planning some way of streaming the game on the sly 😉
Those hoping for kids, no chance whatsoever, imo.
Lambert doesn’t have the balls.
Holt the hod will definitely play a part as much as is possible.
Which means we’ll probably sit back and try and counter the mighty Fulham at home, with the excuse that we were attacking really.
God, I hope I’m wrong on that, but if it happens, that’d probably be reason itself to call for Lambert’s head.
Yeah, nothing’s changing. No Gabby, No Benteke turns to Albrighton and Holt. Despite Albrighton not being a LW’er, he could be played there, or Weimann simply moves over. Tonev could also play as a LW’er. I mean, forgetting the fact we still have a 22 year old reserve player named Stieber who is a left sided midfielder/winger that should be played… But no point trying him despite Lambert claiming we’re pretty much safe, don’t need 40 points, etc etc.
I think we are all but safe now Andrew would have to be a very unlikely combination of results to send us down. Dosnt really matter about any game from now on so we may as well try a few new combinations try a few youngsters basically it’s our preseason come early.
Will you give over, ffs, Oohah?
While we’re 12th in the league, we still only have a poxy 34 points.
And while I tend to agree with what you’re saying, this is the Villa, where nothing can be taken for granted.
You’re right, I also agree we’re basically safe, but we’re not going to try and change it up. That would take some kind of intelligence for that too happen.
Lol so true. Honestly can’t see us losing though at worst it will be a draw
Probably not, sad thing is if Holt starts missing as incredibly easy chances as Benteke was constantly missing, fans will want his head.
But I can’t see Villa losing either. Of course out played, out shot, but a counter attacking winner is what I expect from someone. Or a free kick.