Dean Smith tasted his second defeat as Aston Villa manager on Friday evening as his side were beaten 1-0 by Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road. Villa could have gotten something out of the game with the chances that they had, but yet another defensive error cost them dearly. This time, it was James Chester […]
Dean Smith tasted his first defeat as Villa manager on Tuesday evening as his side fell to a 2-1 defeat to Norwich at Carrow Road. Villa were slightly the better team in the first-half and deserved their 1-0 lead courtesy of a James Chester header, but Norwich, to their credit, stepped it up a notch […]
Villa got off to winning ways under Dean Smith thanks to a 1-0 win over Swansea at the weekend. The Villa faithful were hoping that they’d see some attacking football under Smith and the 42,000 who crammed themselves into Villa Park were not to be disappointed. In the 90 minutes against Swansea, Villa created more […]
Dean Smith’s Aston Villa career got off to a perfect start thanks to a 1-0 win over Swansea at a sold-out Villa Park. Due to the international break, Smith has only had a couple of training sessions with the whole squad, but the difference in style of play was there for all to see. In […]
International break came at the right time for Aston Villa’s owners as it gave them plenty of time to find a suitable replacement for Steve Bruce. To the delight of the majority of Villa fans, they settled on Dean Smith, a boyhood Villa fan who, in three years, turned Brentford into one of the most […]
Aston Villa have confirmed that they have appointed Dean Smith as the man to replace Steve Bruce The 47-year-old, who just so happens to be a boyhood Aston Villa fan, has been in charge at Brentford for the last three years and during his tenure there he turned them into an attack-minded team that are […]
Villa let a two goal lead slip against lowly Preston North End on Tuesday evening and this was the coup de grace for Steve Bruce. It had been reported that Bruce had two games to save his job, but when the pressure is mounting, there’s no coming back from letting such a commanding lead slip […]
James Chester will miss Saturday’s match against Millwall as he decided against appealing the red card that he picked up in Tuesday’s 3-3 draw with Preston. According to the Birmingham Mail, Kevin MacDonald, who will take over as coach until the owners have decided on a permanent replacement for Steve Bruce, said that Chester refused […]
Aston Villa sacked Steve Bruce today after an extremely poor run of results has seen him lose the fans. Therefore, there is now a lot of speculation regarding who will replace him, but we were wondering whether you could name all the managers that came before him, all the way back to 1982. This is […]
Aston Villa, in a way that only Aston Villa could, threw away a two goal advantage against lowly Preston North End on Tuesday night. Villa were much better than Preston in the first-half and thanks to goals from Tammy Abraham and Jonathan Kodjia, they went in at the break with a deserved 2-0 lead. However, […]
Rumour has it that Steve Bruce has been given just two games to save his job, and the first of those is a home game against Preston North End on Tuesday evening. If Bruce had the option of picking the two teams that Villa will play against to save his career, you could probably bet […]
Aston Villa picked up another point thanks to a 1-1 draw with Bristol City at Ashton Gate on Friday, but it was a game that will not live long in the memory of anyone who was unfortunate enough to watch it. The game was lacking in any real quality, ideas, flow, and entertainment. You would […]