Aston Villa travel to Craven Cottage after a trip to Saint Mary’s where Aston Villa took all 3 points in an unlikely fashion. Villa scored three goals from three shots on target and won the game despite only having 27% of ball possession. Will it be a similar story against Fulham? That might be unlikely, with two key defenders suffering injuries, Vlaar and Luna. Lambert will likely revert back to a back 4. What will likely stay the same is the forward partnership of Agbonlahor and Kozak, both strikers scored against Southampton and that will leave out-of-form forward Benteke on the bench.
Fulham suffered another defeat on Wednesday but new manager Rene Meulensteen will be encouraged by Fulham’s performance against Tottenham in their 2-1 defeat. Melensteen will be searching for his first victory as Fulham boss against Aston Villa.
Team News:
Fulham are hoping that centre-back Brede Hangeland will be fit enough to return to the first team. The defender has missed the last seven fixtures with a sciatic nerve problem. Darren Bent can not face his parent club, Aston Villa.
Paul Lambert may be without key defender Ron Vlaar and Antonio Luna. Both defenders suffered injuries during the Wednesday game against Southampton.
Match Facts:
Fulham have won just one of the last eight Barclays Premier League games against Aston Villa (W1 D4 L)
Villa are unbeaten in their last five Barclays Premier League games; only Everton (7) are currently on a longer run.
There have been just four goals scored in the last four Premier League meetings between Fulham and Aston Villa.
Fulham have trailed in 11 games this season, more than any other side. They have lost 10 of these matches (W1).
In midweek Dimitar Berbatov assisted a Premier League goal for the first time in over a year (since November 10th 2012)
American ‘keeper Brad Guzan has made 45 catches, 18 more than any other goalkeeper in the Premier League this season
Predicted Lineups:
Stekelenburg
Reither-Senderos-Hughes-Risse
Dejagah-Sidwell-Parker-Kacaniklic
Kasami
Berbatov
Agbonlahor-Kozak
Tonev
Delph-Westw00d-El Ahmadi
Luna-Baker-Clark-Bacuna
Guzan
Match Prediction:
Fulham 1-1 Aston Villa
I reckon it’ll be a draw this week, Aston Villa pulled off a fantastic win against Southampton but can Lambert do it again? I don’t think we can play the same tactics against Fulham simply because their aren’t as strong as Southampton. Villa will go for it this weekend but I reckon Fulham will get something from this game, simply because theres a new manager in charge.
well done sian massey 4 flagging correctly against van’s pussy offside goal lol we beat Fulham and we are level with utd who says we aren’t making progress
uptheVILLA
That’s because utd are under achieving and we are overachieving. They will still beat us at vp in a couple of weeks.
Maybe so ooha but utd aren’t the same team under moyes,so you carn’t rule out picking up points mate.
True but their away form is still decent and ours is crap. There is also the fear factor when we play them we bottle it. Even at 2.0 up we blow it. If carrick Rooney and Rvp play I really can’t see us getting anything.
Didn’t they play cardiff away mate,there shite.fergie was manager last season.or is it just a villa thing when they play well?
It’s a mental thing with us at home to utd which is why wev not beaten en at vp since 1995. Awful not to beat a team at home for that long even if it is utd. Steve Ireland scored and assisted winner for stoke v Chelsea ffs.
You can never say never mate,to me the results are going pearshaped atm as proven today.
Ps are you missing your side kick mate,i know im not.lol
just watch Southampton totally dominate man city ~ they pressed um in2 mistakes and man city looked as bad as we did in possession.
seems like the ppl slating us 4 winning don’t know much about footy lol
We’ll it goes to show, its not over till the fat lady sings. Chelsea, Man utd, Man city, all dropping points, the right result tomorrow we might take 9th place, I’m beginning to think there is a football god after all. Now for tonights game.
I don’t think any team stands out this season except maybe arsenal. I think a lot of smaller teams no longer fear the sky 4 teams as much.
Well Man Utd are paying for what they did , not only did the change manager but the backroom staff as well, the only game I’m disappointed with was with Newcastle ,apart from that fear no one now.
United also shows why you can’t rely on 1 striker for 2 seasons straight.
But it’s true, no one fears the “big” clubs anymore. Maybe bar Arsenal but then when they have Ozil, Ramsey and Giroud on form, they’re going to score a couple.
3 points tomorrow would be lovely. I will hold my hands up and admit that I can see progress being made, even at the cost of having to watch some of the worst football I’ve seen us play in recent times. As bad as the man I won’t mention? Probably.
Guts, fight and a bit of lady luck are seeing us push on at the moment and points are what matter the most.
4-0 tomorrow? Above Manure? Surely not!! COYL
I think whoever scores first (excluding an own goal) stands a great chance if taking a 1 goal lead.
And to quote a certain Bluenose comedian, if the ball goes in the net, it’d be a goal.
So I put a post up asking a serious question about the state of the game and no-one gives a toss? 🙂
Fair enough, I suppose; it is a Villa site after all.
But I was at least expecting a bit of debate and slating, tbh, seeing as it’s a Saturday evening.
Roll on the game, I’m bored shitless and only have walking the dog to look forward too.
Badger iv tried posting on the new post no luck mate,fucking phone again?
Nah, more like just a glitch mate.
Sorry 🙁
Giddy still think Berbatov’s a waste of space?
Caught him on a good day didn’t see or hear the game so can’t comment.
Do I detect an air of positivity floating amongst the news & views Villa Family.Its nice to see.Im hoping to see us win tomorrow and if we do we will be really making ground.I will be at the Swansea game on the 28 the well looking forward to another trip to the holy land.UTV
If Villa went in for Hughes from Derby and Ince from Blackpool (both YOUTH players) our midfield would be in a far better place.
Well, Villa are back…..Lambert playing Herd is a shocking tactic, never ever will he be a Prem player, mind you, we have half a quad of them
He haas no choice with vlaar injured. Not heards fault were losing bacuna should never had made a challange for pen no need to. They are letting us have it at the back so effectively it’s a home game for us which is why we are struggling good tactic from Fulham. Utd at home next with no delph or maybe vlaar.
Well benteke can kiss the world cup goodbye he wont get in doing fuck all same to weinman
Westwood is absolutely shite at set pieces can’t even clear first man from corner and free kick he hits out. Absolute shite
What’s the matter with our players win lose or draw there the same there’s no confidence building we beaten arsenal man city Southampton you wouldn’t think it looking at them they look like they don’t what to be there what’s lambert saying to them we have a team full of robots
FFS….Westwood is so shit…cant take a simple corner or even a basic free kick. How the fuck is he playing in the PL. Just an indication of how crap the PL is….fucking pathetic!
Lowton should be behind Bacuna who is also having a weston!
Agreed. Oh for a Scott Parker or garage Barry in the team. Lamberk out
Just texted that to my mate, he’s never a premiership player
The ref has been shocking today that and we still have no creativity.
Even on bbc sport there questioning lerner ambition what is our goal to be out played by every team in the league we should be bottom we got lucky changes needed at villa this is embarrassing
I keep posting this and i truly believe it Lerner’s attempting to do a money ball at VP. Looking at the stats of player and buying them on the back of that, if only it was that easy.
Absolute rubbish, seen better football on a Sunday morning.
Only Delph deserves any credit from that shambles IMO. And the fans were amazing again. They deserved so much better. I cant blieve that an ageing team like Fulham won virtually every second ball. Berbatov run us ragged without even breaking into a sweat!
totally agreed the away fans again were magnificent ~didn’t deserve that from the team, money is tight, that was a poor poor team display ~ I think some of them players need 2 dig deep deep in2 their pockets.refund those top fans they stayed with the players rite 2 the end
We just happened to play against berbatov who wanted to know today. Typical. Even though they are aging they still have class and quality which we don’t. Wev been riding our luck for ages this season and were found out good and proper today. Thought gabby did ok fwiw
Thought he was a bag of shit yesterday?
What do they say about form being temporary and class permanent??
True he usually is shite but no doubting his class just that he dosnt show it much
Shite Class? Isn’t that an oxymoron?
the worst performance by far by villa and the ref
can’t believe we never used the wingers until 80 mins, predictable PUNT up field 2 strikers no width. Fulham were just Fulham nothing special bacuna I must say again should not be playin fullback, weimannn is not the floating forward behind 2 strikers hes not clever enough and westwood is not a dead ball player
grrrrrrrrr iam so anger cos we never played we lost cos bad ref decisions and bad tactics
Fulhams penalty not a penalty but I think ours was a better shout but not given.Back four pretty poor today Bacuna the main culprit.Westwoods dead ball deliveries been poor.We looked a muddle and couldn’t really string anything together.Hard for me to say but today boring and limbless but that doesn’t mean it will last forever.Bad day at the races UTV
Get some experience in January or fuck off Lerner.
Fuck off Lerner, the Villa is OURS!
I don’t even know what to say about that performance.. it was nothing short of disgracefull..
The team picked was totally wrong.. the defnence i can forgive because Vlaar Okore Luna are all out BUT the midfield is a complete and utter joke.. even a blind man can see we need a new midfield.. delph plus three others as a min..
Westwood is tripe. K EA too.. Weimann has done nothing all season..
We can not even complete two passes together.. we are not playing the Stoke way.. this is a way lot worse… we can’t construct a move FFS… our game plan is too hoof it to Gabby and Benteke route one trying to create something..
Subs weren’t made..
After last jans diabolic we won’t be getting nothing in Jan..
Benteke is a shadow of his former self..
Depressing…