Teamsheets: Aston Villa vs Wigan
Written by Dan on October 1, 2011
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 |