Goals: Rapid Vienna 1 Aston Villa 1

Ardhe Nuhiu 32′ | Barry Bannan 11′

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Aston Villa Will Waste Newcastle

So says Andy Brown, back with a long overdue smacktalk. I’ve only had Newcy Brown once myself and my assessment was very similar to Andy’s.

Andy’s the resident Villa fan among my friends at Yanks Call It Soccer (the website previously known as Among The Thugs), which is a great blog featuring a bunch of [...]

Tale of the Tape: James Milner vs Stephen Ireland Part II – The Bigger Picture

In Part I I used a little slight of hand when comparing detailed playing stats for Milner and Ireland by putting two different seasons against each other. I was open about that and it was done with the expressed purpose of illustrating that at their best, they are extremely comparable players. But will [...]

USA vs Brazil Highlights – Featuring Brad Guzan

As we don’t get too many opportunities to see Brad Guzan play, I thought it worth dropping in the highlights from the USA vs Brazil friendly from last Tuesday. Guzan played the second half – which starts around the 3:30 mark if you’re not particularly interested in seeing Brazil’s goals – and he made [...]

Highlights: Aston Villa 3 West Ham 0

While it’s up, here’s the goals and some highlights from today’s fantastic game.
Goals from Downing (15′), Petrov (40′) and Milner (66′).

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Goals: Benfica 4 Aston Villa 1

Video of each of the goals in last night’s 4-1 loss to Benfica in the Guadiana Cup. (One video for each goal)
10′ David Luiz’s pile driver takes a wicked deflection to beat Brad Friedel.

Goals: Aston Villa 3 Feyenoord 1 + Penalty Shoot Out

All the goals from last night’s Guadiana Cup match between Aston Villa and Feyenoord in the Algarve, plus the tie-breaking penalty shoot out which finished 4-4.

I’ll be back tonight with another live blog for the Benfica game, hopefully a little better prepared than last night when I missed Marc Albrighton’s screamer because I was under [...]

Goals: Bohemians vs Aston Villa

The goals and post match interviews from 2-1 loss against Bohemians in Dublin on Saturday.

Once again, kudos to my new friends at extratime.ie who put this video together in good time.