Damian
Clearly all Aston Villa followers are thinking about what is occurring for us for the time being and the journey to Manchester United on Sunday is an thrilling one. However there’s a little a part of me that can also be thinking about what is occurring on the backside.
It is also a approach to distract me from fascinated with Sunday, so I am simply going to dive in. Three sides are happening and for me, it is three of Southampton, Everton, Leicester, Forest and Leeds. I do not assume it is protected to say any aspect is down, however should you have been a Southampton fan it should be onerous to see the rest.
I ran into an Everton fan in my native store yesterday and he thinks it comes right down to Monday. Lose at Leicester on Monday and it is over. I believe there may be an opportunity for them nonetheless, however I do assume a kind of two will go down. I believe I would like Leicester to remain up due to Dean Smith but it surely’s additionally fascinating to see a aspect that received the Premier League so lately, preventing for survival. Soccer is a fickle recreation.
However that is an Aston Villa weblog and we ought to be specializing in Sunday and our match. It may be robust, but when we have now seen something this season, we have now cause to be optimistic. If we get to implement our recreation plan in a greater manner than Manchester United get to implement, then we have now each probability of successful, however it is going to be robust, as a result of it is Manchester United.
And it is going to be one step nearer to Europe subsequent season and I nonetheless cannot consider I am writing that. Anyway, right here is your match put up. I will go for a stroll. Sure, a stroll, my new factor.
Match information from the BBC
Head-to-head
- Manchester United have gone three league video games with out a win towards Villa, shedding twice. United had solely misplaced two of the earlier 51 league conferences (W37, D12).
- Villa received this season’s reverse fixture 3-1 in Unai Emery’s first recreation in cost and wish to full their first league double over United since 1954-55.
- The Purple Devils are vulnerable to struggling consecutive residence league defeats towards Villa for the primary time since 1930.
- Manchester United beat Villa 4-2 at Outdated Trafford within the EFL Cup in November, 4 days after shedding their league encounter.
Manchester United
- Manchester United are unbeaten in 14 Premier League residence video games, the longest present ongoing run within the division (W11, D3). Their final defeat at Outdated Trafford was towards Brighton on the opening weekend of the season.
- Defeat on Sunday could be the membership’s two hundredth within the Premier League.
- Marcus Rashford has scored 19 residence objectives in all competitions for United this season – the final participant to web extra at Outdated Trafford in a single marketing campaign was Wayne Rooney, with 20 in 2009-10.
- Rashford has been immediately concerned in 21 Premier League objectives this season, scoring 16 and offering 5 assists. He has solely registered extra in 2019-20, with 24 objective involvements.
Aston Villa
- Aston Villa have gone 10 Premier League video games with out defeat, successful eight, for the primary time since October 2011.
- They’ve stored seven clear sheets and solely conceded three objectives throughout that unbeaten run.
- It is six wins and only one defeat in 9 away league fixtures for Villa underneath Unai Emery, as many victories as in all 19 makes an attempt when Steven Gerrard was head coach.
- Villa have scored in all 20 Premier League matches since Emery took cost, the longest streak from the beginning of a supervisor’s tenure within the competitors’s historical past.
- Ollie Watkins has scored 11 instances in 14 league appearances. He wants yet another objective to change into the primary Villa participant to achieve 15 in a top-flight season since Christian Benteke a decade in the past.
