The end of another disappointing season is on the horizon. One more win for Aston Villa will most likely mean another season in the Premier League. Aston Villa improved with a 0-0 draw last weekend against Southampton, previously Aston Villa lost 4 on the trot.
Swansea also improved last weekend by beating Newcastle 2-1 at St James’s Park. That win also brings Swansea nearer to survival. Swansea have failed to achieve the success of last season with both Michael Laudrop and Gary Monk struggling to bring the best out of their Swansea side.
In the previous fixture Swansea managed to grab a 1-1 draw at Villa Park. Agbonlahor and Lamah both scoring on that day. Wayne Routledge may face his former side. Routledge joined Aston Villa 2008 from Tottenham for a fee of £1.5 million. He was sold to QPR in 2009 for a fee of £600,000. Overall Routledge made 2 appearances for Aston Villa.
Team News:
Michu will yet again miss out with an ankle injury, this ankle injury has been ongoing throughout the season for Michu. While Chico Flores is still suspended following his red card against Chelsea.
Aston Villa will be without Joe Bennett who picked up an ankle problem during training. Nicklas Helenius has recovered from a thigh injury and it’s unknown whether or not he will be in the match day squad.
Match Facts:
Wilfried Bony has now netted 13 Barclays Premier League goals this season, eight more than any other Swansea player.
Grant Holt has scored three goals in four Barclays Premier League games against Swansea; against no side has he scored more in the competition.
Aston Villa have conceded only 21 goals away from home this season, eight fewer than league leaders Liverpool (29) have.
Villa have gone three hours and 20 minutes without scoring a Premier League goal.
Aston Villa have won just one of the eight Premier League games that Christian Benteke has missed this season, netting only six goals in the process.
All three Villa trips to Wales in the Premier League have ended as draws; with two of those finishing 0-0.
Predicted Lineups:
Vorm
Rangel-Amat-Williams-Davies
Shelvey-Britton
de Guzman-Hernandez-Routledge
Bony
Agbonlahor-Holt-Albrighton
Delph-Westwood-El Ahmadi
Bertrand-Baker-Vlaar-Bacuna
Guzan
Match Prediction:
Swansea 0-0 Aston Villa
I just don’t know where the goals are going to come from for Aston Villa. Albrighton and Bertrand proved last weekend that we have two players that are capable of producing fantastic crosses. But we had no one at the end of them. Obviously Holt would be favourite to win a few but I think if Lambert wanted a mixture of pace and strength clearly Helenius is your guy. He scored both pre-season goals with headers and I reckon he’d do a good job, especially with both Weimann and Agbonlahor on poor form. Swansea will play well, but I don’t think they are nearly as good as a side as they were last season, but if one team had to win, it will be Swansea because they have a goal scorer in Bony.
Comments
132 responses to “Swansea Vs Aston Villa – Preview”
Hell of a strike from Shelvey. What Guzan was doing though, I’ll never know!
you can imagine lamberk it was a wordly goal which beat us but we pick ourselves up and go again yawn!!
Problem is, there aren’t that many opportunities left to “go again”!
true but we can go again in the championshi!!
tactics explain for individual errors TALK bollox
good first half for villa, if only holt or benteke was playing up-top cause albrighton is whipping some delightful balls in. com’ on villa probably best they played for a long while
Fucking relying on other results again as it stands.I’m fucking sick of it 🙁
chin up 45mins left
You’ll be happy to hear Fulham just went 1-0 up then Giddy mate ffs
Norwich’ll go and something later as well you just know it
Sorry mate, my bad I meant 2-0
what are wieman westwood delph doing
Wouldn’t it be great if Nolan bagged to second half goals to sink the baggies and help my fantasy football chances
Wouldn’t it be great if teams below us stopped winning all the time
Wouldn’t it also be great if Aston Villa won a game of football one time again this season
Fulham 1-0 up, championship here we come
Reality started to kick in now, we will be a championship team next year.
looking like it. blues now in bottom 3 so not even a derby to look forward to.
It would be an absolutely devestating outcome if we’re relegated
im afraid its what we deserve. we all knew this has been coming for awhile. fortunately for us norwich will save us
I think we will go down with Norwich, Fulham and Sunderland will stay up.
good news hull pulled 1 bk
Weizmann has done 1 good thing in 36 games and that was a fluke. How is he still getting regular games?
Don’t get that either, lamberks faith is blind and pig headed, he has done such a shit job, turned us into such a weak team
And our tactics are to get it wide and whip in crosses, desperate for Holt type……So we bring on Robinson. Wtf. Delphs season is over, has looked exhausted from the first minute.
Fucking embarrassment
We are down I am convinced of it now. No chance in the final 3 games and it will hurt more for the fans to be proven to be right. Shocking!
disagree, spurs and city have fuck all to play for so have hull. though bruce would love to do a number on us
Oohah, what are you on about, Spurs can still make CL and City can still win the title mate
but realistically city have no chance. when liverpool win tomor then thats it really. they will probably beat or draw with palace and newcastle at home is a gimmee. spurs wont finish ahead of arsenal either
As I said many a time after just a few weeks of the start of this season. We are going backwards.
Absolutely no heart on the field. A bunch of scared boys out there
3.1 swansea we are down
I think we are oohah, I really do. I think we’ll be playing chamioship football next season and it’s no more than we deserve. Everything and everyone at our club are clueless.
baggies winning, fulham winning….. get ready to go down 🙁
Going down, going down, going down!
Teams below us are going to pick up points from the remaining games we won’t a hammering at city for sure, we’re shit & were going down championship fodder Lambert Lerner villa legends.
Hull could hav ejust saved our lives!! 2-2
Fulham 2-2 we cannot keep relying on other teams to save our bacon.
Hull could of just saved our lives!!! 2-2
saved again could see that coming
Should it really be like this??? Should it FUCK
Lambert needs to go NOW! He is trying his hardest to get us relegated…..
agree. 4.1 is a disgrace
cant wait get him out no fight effort baker westwood wieman take a holiday youse 3 are a disgrace
how many points last 20 odd matches lerner deserves to get relegated see how much he gets then
Was wiemann playing today? Saying that did any of them turn up??
Shambles! Particularly in second half. The midfield players and absolute liability trying or failing to defend in their own area. Baker – disgraceful.
Shocking result. Would like to think Hull have one eye on the cup final next match, but they’re scraping for their lives (unlike us).
yes i forgot hull were in final
we shouldnt have to rely on other teams. 35 points from 35 games is embarrasing. mclown was hounded out for much less