Aston Villa - Nottingham Forest

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

To be played on Saturday 3rd January 2026.

At Villa Park in Birmingham.

Kick off for this one is at 12:30.

Lets get 2026 off to a great start.

COYR!

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Elliot Anderson needs to show us he is world class again, keeping Morgan Rogers quiet would go some way to that.

[Salvatore Matrecano]

Had we got a result vs Everton I would have been in favour of resting quite a few. We cant afford to do that now although you could argue a number of them don’t deserve to keep their place.
Oh, and John Victor has done OK (thought he could have done better with first goal ) but please can we have our No1 keeper back in.

[wassy04]

Had we got a result vs Everton I would have been in favour of resting quite a few. We cant afford to do that now although you could argue a number of them don’t deserve to keep their place.
Oh, and John Victor has done OK (thought he could have done better with first goal ) but please can we have our No1 keeper back in.

100% Sels was the golden gloves winner last year, why is John still starting?! It's weird.

[Jimmygordon]

John is better at pinging the ball to Jesus. Sels was much more random. That's my theory

[Salvatore Matrecano]

With the January registration window now open, Dyche has confirmed that Aina is in contention for Saturday's trip to Villa Park.

"Ola comes back into the group now, which is good," he confirmed on Thursday.

"He's in contention, he's back in the group. He's got a lot of miles on the clock, obviously, because he couldn't come back into the squad [before January] anyway.

"His injury's fine, he feels fine, so certainly he's back into the group, anyway."

[nffc93]

With the January registration window now open, Dyche has confirmed that Aina is in contention for Saturday's trip to Villa Park.

"Ola comes back into the group now, which is good," he confirmed on Thursday.

"He's in contention, he's back in the group. He's got a lot of miles on the clock, obviously, because he couldn't come back into the squad [before January] anyway.

"His injury's fine, he feels fine, so certainly he's back into the group, anyway."

He'll probably bring him on in 88th min and play him up front instead of Awonyi

[DeesideRed]

John is better at pinging the ball to Jesus. Sels was much more random. That's my theory

His distribution is better tbf

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

Had we got a result vs Everton I would have been in favour of resting quite a few. We cant afford to do that now although you could argue a number of them don’t deserve to keep their place.
Oh, and John Victor has done OK (thought he could have done better with first goal ) but please can we have our No1 keeper back in.

100% Sels was the golden gloves winner last year, why is John still starting?! It's weird.

Probably because this season he has looked anything but a golden gloves winner.

[Salvatore Matrecano]

Well he definitely didn’t under Ange but we were starting to keep clean sheets agin when Sels got injured.

If we were winning I accept don’t change the team but thats not the case. We need the solid defence that won the golden glove last year to have a chance of staying up. Aina is available too so please can we just play last years back 5 again and stop messing about.

[wassy04]

Well he definitely didn’t under Ange but we were starting to keep clean sheets agin when Sels got injured.

If we were winning I accept don’t change the team but thats not the case. We need the solid defence that won the golden glove last year to have a chance of staying up. Aina is available too so please can we just play last years back 5 again and stop messing about.

Does sound like Aina will play against Villa, question is will they just throw him back in or ease him in and start him against West Ham (if it goes well)