Aston Villa will play host to the North Londoners Arsenal at Villa Park in Saturday’s late kick off on September 2oth. Head to head there’s not a massive gap between these two teams, they have played 167 matches in total, with Arsenal winning 69 of them and Aston Villa winning 60 of them. There has been plenty of goals in them matches, 507 in total between them and that works out as an average of 3 goals per game, so from past records, there promises to be plenty of goals. In term of last season, again the spoils were shared as Villa took 3 points at The Emirates and Arsenal was victorious at Villa Park. For Aston Villa, this will be another test of their ability as it rounds of a tough 3 week period where they have faced Manchester United, Manchester City and now Arsenal.
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from £Villa also continues to flirt with the relegation zone and any points they can pick up with be crucial. At the other end of the table, Arsenal just beat Tottenham with 5:2, but still needs to gain points in order to keep up the chase on the front runners. although their trip to Villa Park comes on the back of another busy week after facing Montpellier in the Champions League midweek.
Aston Villa have a very young side and just 2 weeks ago, seven of their starting 11 were 23 years of age or younger. They were able to welcome back defenders Eric Lichaj and Nathan Baker for their fixture against Manchester City and both will be available again after being out due to suspension and injury. On the sidelines still remain Darren Bent, Chris Herd, Charles N’Zogbia and Joe Bennett who Paul Lambert would love to have the option to select right now.
Positive news for Arsenal comes in the form of being able to recall goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny after two months out with an ankle injury. After facing his suspension, Jack Wilshire is available once again buy Bacary Sagna, Olivier Giroud, Theo Walcott and Mikel Arteta are all concerns for manager Arsene Wenger.
