Aston Villa travel to Newcastle this weekend. Both clubs have been struggling with form but it’s Newcastle who has been struggling the most. Following the sale of Cabaye, Newcastle’s midfield has been struggling to create many opportunities without Cabaye. Newcastle haven’t won since their 3-1 victory over West Ham on January 18th. Meanwhile Aston Villa won their last game against West Brom 3-2 on January 29th. The difference is, Newcastle have conceded 10 goals in their last 3 games.
Newcastle’s poor form could be accounted by recent injuries to Fabio Coloccini, Tiote and Remy who could all return this weekend. Paul Lambert took his Villa side to Portugal during the past week in an effort to build confidence in the side. Aston Villa are currently 12th in the Premier League.
In the previous fixture Aston Villa lost to Newcastle 2-1. Ben Arfa was the star of the show, by scoring one and assisting the second goal for Newcastle. Benteke scored for Villa.
Team News:
Newcastle welcome back Loic Remy to the Newcastle squad. Remy has served his three-game suspension following a red card against Norwich. Defender Coloccini and Tiote might feature in this game.
Aston Villa have no fresh injury concerns.
Match facts:
The Magpies are unbeaten in the last seven league games against Villa at St James Park (W4 D3) and in the last five home and away (W3 D2).
Benteke has scored the most headed goals (4) and has attempted the most headed shots (20) in the Premier League this season.
The last time Aston Villa won at St James Park, the Magpies had three players sent off, including Lee Bowyer and Kieron Dyer for fighting each other in April 2005.
Aston Villa have played the highest proportion of their passes long in the Premier League this season (16.7%).
Alan Pardew’s side have not scored in any of their last four Premier League games at St. James’ Park. The last time they went longer without a goal was August 2007 (six games).
The Magpies have not seen a single English player score a goal for them in any of their last 45 Premier League matches.
Paul Lambert has a lower win percentage in the Premier League at Aston Villa (26.6%) than he did at Norwich City as manager in the competition (31.6%).
Predicted Lineups:
Krul
Debuchy-Coloccini-Taylor-Santon
Tiote-Sissoko
Gouffran-de Jong-Ben Arfa
Cisse
Agbonlahor-Benteke-Albrighton
Delph-Westwood-El Ahmadi
Bertrand-Clark-Vlaar-Bacuna
Guzan
Match Prediction:
Newcastle 0-0 Aston Villa
I reckon it’ll be a boring draw. I’m not sure how many goals will be scored but I expect it’ll be very little. Both teams have struggled to score recently and I don’t see that changing this week. Aston Villa did go to Portugal so that could influence their performance this weekend, but after the last two recent games, I’m not too confident.
We’re fucking shite & we’re in for one hell of a relegation battle.we need some serious investment put into the team & im the fucking pope.fucking diplorable performance.
Did anyone expect anything else. There is no hope for this team anymore under this kind of management.
Absolute rubbish. What a waste of an afternoon. Never again watching this shite will lambert in charge. Dont blame lerner. Its all lamberts doing. Tactics tactics tactics !!!!
That goal had been coming all game never really looked like scoring.AVFC are devoid of real quality and have no real cutting edge.Lamberts tactics of parking the bus or the fact we were just over powered which one I don’t know but we looked crap.Ive now had enough of the way we set up.Boring game Ron Vlaar man of the match…….UTV ….Lambert out
We want lambert out we want lambert out we want lerner out we want lerner out fuck off lerner the villa is ours fuck off lambert the villa is ours fuck off lemmings the villa is ours
JUST PUT NEW POST UP THANKS
Relegation battle here we come look really poor don’t look like scoring terrible real boring tackles game
Been saying that all season were the chants the protest makes me think fellow fans want us to go down fight for your club
HI EVERYONE JUST PUT IN MATCH REPORT POST THANKS
There has to be a better alternative to Sylla, he is useless! 1st shocking substitution! As for the 2nd, it didn’t take Joe Bennett long to create a goal for the opposition! All down to the manager!
Same old rubbish under Lambert, should have been sacked ages ago. Nobody’s talking about us in the relegation mix but with the fixtures coming by the end of March we’ll be in the bottom 3 IMO
Remember the Ipswich Town game against man u 9 0 that be us against man City and Chelsea pray they have a off day lambert needs to be sacked we need to put pressure on lerner to sell up now not tomorrow
Must win against Norwich next week or else!
Getting ready for another survival party
We will NOT be relegated!…….thanks to Randolphs generosity. Fuck offLerner, you dumb, ignorant tightfisted arsehole…just fuck off, the Villa is OURS!
just put new post up langford
Bennett…….ahahahahaha. What a calamity. Cheers for that Mr Lambert