Match Preview and Update – Bolton Vs Aston Villa

By: Ryan | April 25th, 2009

It’s been a while since my last update, and for that I apologise, moving house and working away a lot has taken it’s toll, a bit like Villa’s season to be honest.

It seems fourth place is a bit like winning the lottery now, you know it’s possible, but you also know it probably wont happen. But lets not dwell on the bad form we’ve been in, this has still been a tremendous season, and the thing we NEED to do is finish strong. Finishing the league badly is not good for anything, it sets us in a bad light for the whole of the summer, we are dangerously close to losing fifth place to Everton which would leave us at the same place we were last season. The last games coming up are vital, they are winnable, and we need to try to win them all, we have the attacking force to score goals, but after watching our defence against West Ham, we could also easily lose quite a few.

Which brings us to this afternoons game, away to Bolton, typically this season we’ve been tremendous away, and with the likes of Abonglahor possibly coming back, we could do some real damage at the Reebok Stadium. But with the killer blow news that Laursen may be forced into retirement, and Bouma needing more surgery, I’m afraid our defence’s moral will be dented. I really hope to god the defence can hold it together today, every time the ball was in our half against West Ham, my heart was in my mouth, we were really shaky at the back, and that’s not good for my nerves.

It will be interesting to see who MON plays today, with talk of playing Abonglahor, Carew, and Heskey up front at the same time, personally I don’t see that being beneficial at all, but I’m also not a huge fan of lazy Heskey, so that might have something to do with it.

My prediction? 3-2 to the Villa.

R x