It’s just under five months since Wigan were last at Villa Park and they’ve proven to be something of a bogey team for us in our limited history of playing them. This will only be the 7th time this league fixture has been played, but we’re yet to win one. The pattern so far is LDLDLD; clearly we need to break that pattern one way or another today.

Here’s how Alex McLeish intends to grab the vital win:

Aston Villa Wigan
1 Shay Given 26 Ali Al-Habsi
2 Alan Hutton 23 Ronnie Stam
6 James Collins 5 Gary Caldwell
5 Richard Dunne 31 Maynor Figueroa
3 Stephen Warnock 22 Patrick van Aanholt
25 Barry Bannan 8 Ben Watson
19 Stiliyan Petrov 4 James McCarthy
16 Fabian Delph 17 Emmerson Boyce
7 Stephen Ireland 21 Mohamed Diame
11 Gabriel Agbonlahor 11 Victor Moses
9 Darren Bent 9 Franco Di Santo
Subs Subs
22 Brad Guzan 1 Chris Kirkland
21 Ciaran Clark 24 Adrian Lopez
31 Chris Herd 19 David Jones
10 Charles N’Zogbia 16 James McArthur
12 Marc Albrighton 14 Jordi Gomez
26 Andreas Weimann 10 Shaun Maloney
18 Emile Heskey 18 Conor Sammon

Probable Formation

Castrol Football Prediction

Last six results for this fixture:

22/10/05 Wigan 2-0 Aston Villa
09/04/07 Wigan 1-1 Aston Villa
03/05/08 Wigan 2-0 Aston Villa
31/01/09 Wigan 0-0 Aston Villa
15/08/09 Wigan 2-0 Aston Villa
07/05/11 Wigan 1-1 Aston Villa

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2 Comments to “Teamsheets: Aston Villa vs Wigan”

  1. Badger 1 October 2011 at 2:31 pm #

    Wigan using the same subs as us eh Dan? ;-)

    Hoping for a win, but going for a draw.

    Reply
    • Dan 1 October 2011 at 2:49 pm #

      heh. not sure how i managed that, did it last week too but caught it in time. cheers, badger, fixed now.

      pretty big call benching zog i think. a good one too. would be a great game for ireland to justify his inclusion.

      Reply

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