Aston Villa v Watford Saturday 28th November 2015 15.00 at Villa Park please log in to view this image The Opposition: Manager: Remi Garde Appointed on a 3 1/2 year deal on 2nd November. . He replaced Tim Sherwood who had been in charge since February. Garde had previously been manager of Olympique Lyon but left at the end of the 2013–14 season for personal and family reasons. Over 3 years in 167 games he had a win percentage of over 50%. Past encounters: A much more even record overall than last week's match; Villa lead 6-5 in wins with 5 draws. However at Villa Park the record is less good with Villa ahead 5-1 and 2 draws. We have not beaten Villa in the Premiership and our last victory over them was in October 1986. please log in to view this image Aston Villa have not won a league game since the opening day of the season - away to Bournemouth. However they now have a new manager and in their last home outing drew 0-0 with Manchester City. please log in to view this image The Man in the Middle Lee Mason from Lancashire, will be referee for the match at Villa Park and this will be the first time that he has refereed the Hornets this season. Mason is an experienced Premier League official, having taken charge of 188 matches since joining the select group list back in 2006. You have to look back to the 2010/11 season to view the last time that he officiated the Golden Boys. His last game involving the Hornets was the 1-1 draw away to Swansea City in March 2011. He handed out two yellow cards on that night. This season, he has officiated 12 matches in all competitions, six of which coming in the Premier League, and he has brandished 37 yellow cards and one red. Assistants: A Halliday, M Perry Betting Aston Villa are marginally the bookies favourites for this game: Aston Villa to win 13/8 Draw 5/2 Watford to win 7/4 Percentages: AV 36%; Draw 30% Watford 34% Team News To follow
My aggregate score watching league games at Villa Park is Villa 15 - 2 Watford and a 4-1 FA Cup final defeat too, so 19-3 overall. The cup semi-final aggregate is not much better, though at least we won one of those! I will be there on Saturday intent on improving my record!!
First time that Troy Deeney has played at Villa Park......as a lifelong Brum fan he will have something to prove.
Visiting jerzeypie this weekend - deliberately chosen because of this match as he's at Derby University - couldn't get tickets so we're going to watch Burton v Colchester instead.
Be great to get back to winning ways. Deeney must want to win this more than the other fixtures! I´d like to see AG in for Juardro, who really hasn´t impressed me and Ake to start for Anya, as the former looked much more solid. Otherwise the same as Utd, although, Prodl might be handy against Gestade (excuse spellings). Anyways, Flores hasn´t done too badly so far, so guess I´ll let him chose the team! Cheers for the thread Leo. 7 points from the next 3 games and it´s all looking rosy again, until we get battered over Xmas.
We really need this one. Three big results in the next three games and we are looking very comfortable. Thank you for the thread Leo.
Villa fans and bloggers seem to be declaring this match as being pivotel. If they lose they are going down. If they win they have a chance to avoid relegation. There are the usual comments about clearly not being good enough for this league if they can't beat Watford, but fewer of them compared to our previous opponents. I hope the Villa squad are feeling the pressure that their fans seem to be placing on them.
I really despair of some of these youngsters. They have the world at their feet yet are insistent on pissing their career up the wall. Madness.
Just beware that his replacement may have a point to prove and plays out of his skin! We desperately need you to thrash Aston Villa for us!
If we can pick up 5-7 points from the next 3 games than should maintain the healthy gap between us and the guys at the bottom.
Thing is Tim Sherwood let him get away with the bad behaviour off the pitch so he probably thought it was ok.
I'd be relatively happy with 4 points from these 3 games and very happy with 5. A point away is always a good point and to get to 20/21 before the tough run would be OK. I'm going for 1-1 here but obviously hoping we can nick it!
i think we could get 7 pts from the next 6 games that means we would only need approx 16 from the 2ond 1/2 of the season
Lee Mason from Lancashire, will be the man-in-the-middle for the match at Villa Park and this will be the first time that he has refereed the Hornets this season. Mason is an experienced Premier League official, having taken charge of 188 matches since joining the select group list back in 2006. You have to look back to the 2010/11 season to view the last time that he officiated the Golden Boys. His last game involving the Hornets was the 1-1 draw away to Swansea City in March 2011. He handed out two yellow cards on that night. This season, he has officiated 12 matches in all competitions, six of which coming in the Premier League, and he has brandished 37 yellow cards and one red. please log in to view this image Linesman - Andrew Halliday and Marc Perry. Fourth Official - Paul Tierney.
