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Player Focus: Ron Vlaar - Villa's Most Invaluable Player

by Martin Laurence at Tuesday, Jan 21 2014 17:30
Player Focus: Ron Vlaar - Villa's Most Invaluable Player It's fair to say that Aston Villa's first half display against Liverpool left the majority of their fans scratching their heads on Saturday evening. They'll have been used to the side performing far better on the road this season, with the eventual point they picked up at Anfield taking their tally ...
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Team Focus: Hit & Hope Aston Villa in Panic Mode

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Dec 23 2013 16:27
Team Focus: Hit & Hope Aston Villa in Panic Mode Take two teams. Put on the shirt of one of the teams, walk to the centre circle and blindfold yourself. Tell the teams to walk out onto a pitch and stand around. Take a bag of balls and start kicking them around. Half would go to your own players and half to the opposition. So long as you didn&rsquo...
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Team Focus: How Premier League Teams Perform Before and After the Break

by Alistair Tweedale at Wednesday, Dec 11 2013 15:19
Team Focus: How Premier League Teams Perform Before and After the Break From Stan Collymore's stoppage-time strike to put Liverpool 4-3 up over Newcastle towards the tail end of the 1995/96 season and Michael Owen's Manchester derby winner in 2009 to Sergio Agüero's title-winning goal against QPR in May 2012, grandstand finishes is something the Premier League has ...
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Match Report: The Failings of West Ham & Aston Villa

by Martin Laurence at Sunday, Nov 3 2013 18:30
Match Report: The Failings of West Ham & Aston Villa It's fair to say that some games have a stalemate written all over them before the first whistle is even blown. It was also conceivable that one such game would be West Ham against Aston Villa this weekend.A predictable point to either side came to pass in a game that disappointed in the most part a...
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Match Report: Sandro's Midfield Display Crucial In Win Over Aston Villa

by Ben McAleer at Monday, Oct 21 2013 11:00
Match Report: Sandro's Midfield Display Crucial In Win Over Aston Villa In a turgid opening 45 minutes at a rain drenched Villa Park, much of the focus was on the ensuing midfield battle between Fabian Delph and Sandro. The former has been impressive for Aston Villa this season and, it can be argued, is deserving of a place in the England squad, while the latter was dra...
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Player Focus: Benteke Injury Timing Could Have Been Worse for Villa

by Martin Laurence at Wednesday, Sep 25 2013 14:49
Player Focus: Benteke Injury Timing Could Have Been Worse for Villa Not many fans of domestic clubs enjoy the prospect of an international break but it's fair to say that Aston Villa's supporters will be thankful for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers. One player that will definitely not feature for his country in a fortnight is Christian Benteke, who Paul Lambert co...
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Match Report: Guzan Saves the Day as Villa Keep Rare Clean Sheet

by Martin Laurence at Saturday, Sep 21 2013 18:58
Match Report: Guzan Saves the Day as Villa Keep Rare Clean Sheet Villa picked up a crucial 3 points against Norwich in the early kick-off on Saturday, avoiding a fourth successive league defeat having not done suffered such a string since 2009 courtesy of a first Premier League clean sheet in 27 games. They had their American shot stopper to thank for that, who h...
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Player Focus: Fabian Delph Living Up To His Potential

by Ben McAleer at Monday, Sep 16 2013 17:00
Player Focus: Fabian Delph Living Up To His Potential He arrived from Leeds United in 2009 a promising youngster with the world at his feet. Sadly for Fabian Delph, his Aston Villa career started not with a bang, but a whimper. The 19-year-old struggled with injury upon his arrival, playing just 292 minutes in his debut campaign under then manager Mart...
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Team Focus: Arsenal's Transfer Failings Exposed

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Aug 19 2013 15:40
Team Focus: Arsenal's Transfer Failings Exposed Imagine you hadn’t heard the final score. You pick up the basic match facts and you see that Arsenal had 64% of possession on Saturday. You look at the pass completion rates and see that while Arsenal’s was 87%, Aston Villa’s was only 70%. At first glance it seems like a fairly sta...
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Team Focus: Premier League Preview Part 1 - Arsenal and Aston Villa

by Martin Laurence at Wednesday, Aug 7 2013 14:48
Team Focus: Premier League Preview Part 1 - Arsenal and Aston Villa Having pledged to spend big, by their standards at least, the break from football has been somewhat underwhelming for Arsenal's fans this summer. While they continue to pursue their interest in Luis Suárez, targets such as Jovetic (Man City) and Higuaín (Napoli) have moved elsewhere. Up front is cer...
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