would love to see bentaleb involved. i know hes with the squad
Soldado and Defoe arent line leaders either but AVB has faith in them
What about Villa, any mention if they have any injuries, putting out best side etc?
Villa have no such luxury. Paul Lambert could be missing up to 10 players, with Saturday's league win at Norwich coming at the cost of injuries to key men Christian Benteke and Gabby Agbonlahor.
Libor Kozak proved an able deputy for Benteke with the winner at Carrow Road and he seems to have a liking for cup competition, having finished as the Europa League top scorer last season with 10 goals in 11 games for Lazio. Villa will need him to continue in that vein if they are to earn an all-too rare home win against top-flight opposition.
So nobody who played in Cardiff will be involved? Struggling to think of what our team could be then? I am assuming those that started won't play
-----------------Friedel-------------------
Fredericks-----Kaboul----Chiriches----Fryers
-----------Sandro-----------------------
Lamela----------Holtby------------McEvoy
------------Kane-------Defoe/Ade/Lancaster---
Good news is we won't see Benteke or Agbonlahor. Delph and Weimann really the only threats I can think of
So nobody who played in Cardiff will be involved? Struggling to think of what our team could be then? I am assuming those that started won't play
Kozak or Helenius (or both) to start? The first rather bizarrely was the EL top scorer last season for Lazio without scoring a single Serie A goal for them. Helenius is a young, reportedly highly rated, Danish striker.
has anybody actually said that?
Straight quotes from AVB
"It (the Capital One Cup) is not our absolute number-one priority but I don't think we have been given a fair chance to play in this competition this year.
"It could be possible for the players who played against Cardiff to play this game, but I am not sure I want to risk the players who played getting a hamstring injury which could take them six weeks to recover from when the Premier League is more important.
"This team has not experienced having to play again after just two days and we have not been given the same chance as the other teams. So we will have to rotate our squad as the players who played in Cardiff will not be involved.