Aston Villa Blog

Despite a goalscoring weekend for Liverpool, it appears that Peter Crouch’s future lies away from Merseyside. Benitez has used him on an all to infrequent basis this season, preferring to partner Dirt Kuyt with Fernando Torres. Crouch himself seems frustrated by a lack of first team opportunities and was quoted after the draw at Arsenal [...]

 
Contrary to reports in this morning’s media, Nigel Reo-Coker is not facing a two game suspension. Reports circulated that the midfielders booking in Saturday’s victory over Bolton Wanderer’s was his 10th of the season. Aston Villa have confirmed he only has 9 bookings.
Should he be booked in Saturday’s game with Derby County he will face [...]

Antonio Valencia completed his transfer to Wigan Athletic in January of this year. The fee was undisclosed and was a three and a half year deal making him a Wigan man until the summer of 2011.
Valencia had been on loan at the JJB from Villarreal since the previous year.
The Ecuadorian winger has a fine right [...]

 
Winning ways returned to Villa Park yesterday in spectacular style. It was the perfect result after last weeks reverse at Old Trafford by the same scoreline.
Bolton threatened early on with Helguson failing to capitalise on a Mellberg error.
Villa took the lead inside 10 minutes. Ashley Young beat Davies on the Villa left and neatly crossed [...]

Villa take on Bolton Wanderers tomorrow in a vital clash for both sides.
Bolton are rooted in the bottom three but Villa are coming into the game on the back of three straight defeats and will be looking to show the home support some of their early season form which had supporters dreaming of a European place. That [...]

Villa were again unable to break their hoodoo against the Old Trafford side.
They never really came close. Some early chances were squandered and then United began to turn the screw. A Bouma mistake allowed Christiano Ronaldo to cheekily flick the ball with the outside of his boot past the despairing Carson. Soon after it was [...]

Villa go into this evening’s fixture on the back of two straight league losses, whilst the home side will be riding high after last weeks stroll against Liverpool.
Villa are without the injured Craig Gardner, so Juventus bound Olof Mellberg will deputise at right back.
United’s only fresh injury is Darren Fletcher who is out for the [...]

Aston Villa were dealt a blow ahead of the weekend’s visit to Old Trafford with the news that Craig Gardner had picked up a thigh strain whilst on international duty.
Gardner picked up the injury during the first half of England’s U21 fixture with Poland at Molineux on Tuesday night.
He is a out of the Manchester [...]

Gabriel Agbonlahor, Ashley Young and goalkeeper Scott Carson have been left out of Fabio Capello’s reduced 23 man England squad for Wednesdays friendly against the French in Paris.
All three had been picked in a preliminary 30 man squad along with Villa captain Gareth Barry.
It is believed Carson picked up an injury in the defeat to [...]

Aston Villa’s disappointing form was to continue today as visitors Sunderland bagged their first away win of the season.
Without main striker Kenwyne Jones, it was hard to see where the Sunderland goals would come from.
But with just seven minutes remaining, former Cardiff City striker Michael Chopra clinched a vital three points for the Black Cats [...]