Aston Villa vs Man Utd – Full Teamsheets

Full starting line-ups and benches for Aston Villa vs Man Utd. Clark injured, possibly ill, Hogg starts. Stephen Ireland has flu I believe. The weakest bench we’ve ever assembled for a game like this?

Aston Villa

1
Brad Friedel

29
James Collins

5
Richard Dunne

2
Luke Young

3
Stephen Warnock

28
Jonathan Hogg

25
Barry Bannan

12
Marc Albrighton

6
Stewart Downing

7
Ashley Young

11
Gabriel Agbonlahor

Subs

22
Brad Guzan

14
Nathan Delfouneso

27
Isaiah Osbourne

30
Eric Lichaj

31
Chris Herd

35
Daniel Johnson

34
Shane Lowry

Man Utd

1
Edwin van der Sar

5
Rio Ferdinand

15
Nemanja Vidic

3
Patrice Evra

6
Wes Brown

16
Michael Carrick

24
Darren Fletcher

17
Nani

13
Park Ji-Sung

14
Javier Hernández

9
Dimitar Berbatov

Subs

40
Ben Amos

12
Chris Smalling

20
Fabio

22
John O’Shea

26
Gabriel Obertan

27
Federico Macheda

28
Darron Gibson

Aston Villa vs Manchester Utd Preview featuring the “Walking Wounded Fantasy Team”

Man Utd come to Villa Park on Saturday for the early kick off game. For all the talk of being a point off of 5th place, we’re a full eight points behind Utd and they’re a point worse off than they were after 12 games last season. At that same point, we were just four points behind with 21 to their 25 points.

The league record against Utd at Villa Park makes sobering reading, the 1-1 and 0-0 draws

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Aston Villa vs Blackpool – Full Teamsheets

Aston Villa

1
Brad Friedel

2
Luke Young

3
Stephen Warnock

29
James Collins

5
Richard Dunne (Cptn)

21
Ciaran Clark

25
Barry Bannan

6
Stewart Downing

12
Marc Albrighton

7
Ashley Young

14
Nathan Delfouneso

Subs

22
Brad Guzan

9
Stephen Ireland

11
Gabriel Agbonlahor

45
Shane Lowry

30
Eric Lichaj

35
Daniel Johnson

50
Jonathan Hogg

Blackpool

28
Richard Kingson

24
Rob Edwards

31
Dekel Keinan

29
David Carney

23
Matthew Phillips

19
Ludovic Sylvestre

4
Keith Southern

18
Jason Euell

17
Chris Basham

10
Brett Ormerod

9
Marlon Harewood

Subs

21
Matthew Gilks

5
Neil Eardley

6
Ian Evatt

14
Eliot Grandin

16
Luke Varney

26
Charlie Adam

39
DJ Campbell

10 changes in the Blackpool line up I believe. Habib Beye dropped out during the warm up and was replaced on the bench by Shane Lowry.

Aston Villa vs Blackpool – Time for another Thrilla at the Villa?

It seems a bit redundant to call this next game against Blackpool at Villa Park a ‘must win’, they’re all must wins really, aren’t they? Unfortunately, it really is; big trouble looms if we fail to get three points tonight.

I’m generally an optimist, as regular readers can attest, but I’m not naive, or least I like to think I’m not. (Who does?) I’ve seen a lot of folk taking consolation from the fact that, despite occupying 14th place

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Fulham vs Aston Villa – Teamsheets

Fulham

1
Mark Schwarzer

3
Carlos Salcido

18
Aaron Hughes

6
Chris Baird

5
Brede Hangeland

13
Danny Murphy

23
Clint Dempsey

27
Jonathan Greening

29
Simon Davies

30
Moussa Dembele

11
Zoltan Gera

Subs

12
David Stockdale

2
Stephen Kelly

4
John Pantsil

8
Andrew Johnson

16
Damien Duff

20
Dickson Etuhu

21
Eddie Johnson

Aston Villa

1
Brad Friedel

2
Luke Young

3
Stephen Warnock

29
James Collins

5
Richard Dunne

6
Stewart Downing

12
Marc Albrighton

20
Nigel Reo-Coker

25
Barry Bannan

7
Ashley Young

14
Nathan Delfouneso

Subs

22
Brad Guzan

4
Steve Sidwell

9
Stephen Ireland

21
Ciaran Clark

24
Carlos Cuellar

30
Eric Lichaj

50
Jonathan Hogg

Great to see both Nathan Delfouneso and Barry Bannan getting starts.

Aston Villa vs Birmingham City – Teamsheets

Aston Villa

1
Brad Friedel

2
Luke Young

3
Stephen Warnock

29
James Collins

5
Richard Dunne

21
Ciaran Clark

7
Ashley Young

6
Stewart Downing

20
Nigel Reo-Coker

4
Steve Sidwell

18
Emile Heskey

Subs

22
Brad Guzan

10
John Carew

14
Nathan Delfouneso

9
Stephen Ireland

24
Carlos Cuellar

25
Barry Bannan

30
Eric Lichaj

Birmingham

26
Ben Foster

2
Stephen Carr

5
Roger Johnson

6
Liam Ridgewell

15
Scott Dann

7
Sebastian Larsson

8
Craig Gardner

12
Barry Ferguson

18
Keith Fahey

22
Alexander Hleb

19
Nikola Zigic

Subs

1
Maik Taylor

4
Lee Bowyer

9
Kevin Phillips

10
Cameron Jerome

17
Michel

21
Stuart Parnaby

23
Jean Beausejour

No Preview Required – Aston Villa vs Birmingham City

Actually, I’ve already read what feels like a thousand previews, you may have read a similar number yourself, there’s little I can add. All the tactics and stratagems go out the window for these ones. All bets are off.

As it happens, I’m going to be out all day Saturday anyway, so instead I’ll leave a couple of windows to the chatter happening on Twitter right now below. You never know, there might be a nugget or two.

I’ll

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Aston Villa vs Burnley – Teamsheets

Aston Villa

1
Brad Friedel

30
Eric Lichaj

24
Carlos Cuellar

21
Ciaran Clark

23
Habib Beye

4
Steve Sidwell

20
Nigel Reo-Coker

12
Marc Albrighton

25
Barry Bannan

7
Ashley Young

9
Stephen Ireland

Subs

6
Stewart Downing

35
Daniel Johnson

14
Nathan Delfouneso

18
Emile Heskey

22
Brad Guzan

29
James Collins

50
Jonathan Hogg

Burnley

1
Lee Grant

2
Graham Alexander

3
Daniel Fox

4
Michael Duff

5
Clarke Carlisle

18
Leon Cort

8
Dean Marney

10
Martin Paterson

14
Tyrone Mears

19
Jay Rodriguez

22
Ross Wallace

Subs

9
Chris Iwelumo

11
Wade Elliott

12
Brian Jensen

15
David Edgar

21
Andre Bikey

24
Brian Easton

30
Steven Thompson

In a late change, John Carew pulled out during the warm-up, Stephen Ireland replaced him in the starting XI and Daniel Johnson (academy player) will sit on the bench.

Opportunity knocks – Aston Villa vs Burnley

Burnley came up from the Championship last season via the play-offs and rightly didn’t go crazy bringing in new players before predictably heading back down to the Championship without too many heading for the exit. They were soundly beaten 4-0 at home by Reading last weekend, two of the starting line-up – Brian Jensen and Tyrone Mears – started every Premiership game the season before and five others had at least a dozen Premiership starts under their belts.

They may

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