🔗 Share this article Villa against Forest: Premier League Match Preview Preamble Welcome everyone to this Premier League clash between Villa and Forest. The home side are the expected winners to win in this early kick-off as they are flying this season and are currently occupying third place, while Nottingham Forest are seventeenth and just a handful of points outside of the drop zone. Each side are coming into the game on the back of a setback as Villa were beaten 4-1 by league-leading Arsenal and Forest succumbed 2-0 to Everton. It will be a tough task for Forest to come away with all three points with Villa boasting one of the best home records in Europe at the moment and they also set a club record of 36 wins across all competitions this season. But maybe it’s new year, new story? We will find out very soon. The confirmed XIs will be announced shortly before kick-off at 12.30pm GMT. Starting Elevens The lineups have been confirmed. The Villa boss has made a quartet of alterations to his starting lineup who were defeated by 4-1 to Arsenal in their previous match. Aston Villa: Martinez, Cash, Konsa, Lindelof, Maatsen, Kamara, Tielemans, McGinn, Buendia, Rogers, Watkins. Substitutes: Bizot, Digne, Sancho, Garcia, Carroll, Bogarde, Hemmings, Malen, Jimoh-Aloba. Forest have also made four adjustments to their starting squad after a 2-0 loss to Everton. Nott’m Forest: Victor, Williams, Murillo, Anderson, Gibbs-White, Dominguez, I Jesus, Hutchinson, Bakwa, Milenkovic, Aina. Bench: Sels, Morato, Awoniyi, Luiz, Kalimuendo, McAtee, Zinchenko, Savona, Abbott. Dugout Insights Forest boss Sean Dyche has remarked on his counterpart today: "He has done a great job as a manager there. Their transfer business has been good - spent a lot of money, to be fair, on some very good players and they’ve moulded it into a good unit, so certainly a challenging game. We’ve just shown lately, we’ve played against some of the top sides, or the ones that are tipped every year, and done very well against them - and a couple of teams perhaps not as highly-rated, we struggled more against them. That’s likely the challenge of the group - rising to the expectation of each game rather than just the major fixtures." Transfer Update The midfielder has no future at Aston Villa, an update that was revealed by the manager Emery in the build-up to this match. The boss stated: "We respect him all we can because he’s a top professional, very respectful. The problem we have with Harvey is this year he is a loan player and if he is featuring regularly, we must buy him. We made the decision two months ago we are not convinced to sign him, committing the money we would need to." Season Snapshot The tables have turned. This time last year Nottingham Forest were third in the table, where Villa are now. A lot of things have altered, including the manager on two occasions and Sean Dyche is charged with keeping the club in the top-flight this season. Since being named manager on 21 October, Dyche has accumulated 10 Premier League points and the side are just above the relegation zone with 19 games of the season remaining.
Preamble Welcome everyone to this Premier League clash between Villa and Forest. The home side are the expected winners to win in this early kick-off as they are flying this season and are currently occupying third place, while Nottingham Forest are seventeenth and just a handful of points outside of the drop zone. Each side are coming into the game on the back of a setback as Villa were beaten 4-1 by league-leading Arsenal and Forest succumbed 2-0 to Everton. It will be a tough task for Forest to come away with all three points with Villa boasting one of the best home records in Europe at the moment and they also set a club record of 36 wins across all competitions this season. But maybe it’s new year, new story? We will find out very soon. The confirmed XIs will be announced shortly before kick-off at 12.30pm GMT.
Starting Elevens The lineups have been confirmed. The Villa boss has made a quartet of alterations to his starting lineup who were defeated by 4-1 to Arsenal in their previous match. Aston Villa: Martinez, Cash, Konsa, Lindelof, Maatsen, Kamara, Tielemans, McGinn, Buendia, Rogers, Watkins. Substitutes: Bizot, Digne, Sancho, Garcia, Carroll, Bogarde, Hemmings, Malen, Jimoh-Aloba. Forest have also made four adjustments to their starting squad after a 2-0 loss to Everton. Nott’m Forest: Victor, Williams, Murillo, Anderson, Gibbs-White, Dominguez, I Jesus, Hutchinson, Bakwa, Milenkovic, Aina. Bench: Sels, Morato, Awoniyi, Luiz, Kalimuendo, McAtee, Zinchenko, Savona, Abbott.
Dugout Insights Forest boss Sean Dyche has remarked on his counterpart today: "He has done a great job as a manager there. Their transfer business has been good - spent a lot of money, to be fair, on some very good players and they’ve moulded it into a good unit, so certainly a challenging game. We’ve just shown lately, we’ve played against some of the top sides, or the ones that are tipped every year, and done very well against them - and a couple of teams perhaps not as highly-rated, we struggled more against them. That’s likely the challenge of the group - rising to the expectation of each game rather than just the major fixtures."
Transfer Update The midfielder has no future at Aston Villa, an update that was revealed by the manager Emery in the build-up to this match. The boss stated: "We respect him all we can because he’s a top professional, very respectful. The problem we have with Harvey is this year he is a loan player and if he is featuring regularly, we must buy him. We made the decision two months ago we are not convinced to sign him, committing the money we would need to."
Season Snapshot The tables have turned. This time last year Nottingham Forest were third in the table, where Villa are now. A lot of things have altered, including the manager on two occasions and Sean Dyche is charged with keeping the club in the top-flight this season. Since being named manager on 21 October, Dyche has accumulated 10 Premier League points and the side are just above the relegation zone with 19 games of the season remaining.