Aston Villa Preview

Tomorrow is our fixture at home against Aston Villa, the last in the series of four straight home matches. I'm hoping we will come away tomorrow with all three points, but I'm not entirely confident. However when you look at the form of the teams, I'm predicting a win tomorrow.

We all know about our form. Last week's win over Man Utd certainly helped the confidence around the club and I have a feeling that that confidence will spill onto the field. Remember that our first team has had a week long break which included watching the reserves beat up Wigan 3-0. Surely that's a morale boost. Add that to the fact that Eduardo returned to training Wednesday and the squad's probably in excellent morale.

Then we have Aston Villa. We all remember what happened in this corresponding fixture last year where the second city club almost beat us after we scored an own goal in the first half. Only a Bentdner equaliser in the last attack of the game saved us from losing that day, and that proved, at least to me, that Aston Villa are now a force to be reckoned with.

But their form has been patchy at best lately and despite the fact that they are currently fifth in the table, their position lies entirely on early-season results. They've lost two in a row in the Premiership and don't look the strongest outfit right now, but as is so often the case, visiting the Emirates will surely revive their form (I hate how it always works that way).

But I just have this feeling heading into tomorrow's match that we will see a match similar to when we beat Bolton or Blackburn. We looked strong right from the offing in those matches and we won them both comfortably, despite the expectations that we would struggle. I should be expecting us to struggle tomorrow but for some reason I'm not. It feels like it's going to be one of those comfortable wins and we will continue to put pressure on Chelsea and Liverpool to not slip up and let us gain points on them. I'm hoping this is true.

So I can't wait for tomorrow. Finally, a 3pm kickoff again (how rare is that with Arsenal?) and a great venue for the match. Let's go out there and look for a win tomorrow afternoon,

Fab 4
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