Premier League football 2012/13: Team guide – Aston Villa
Your complete guide to The Villains' players, formation and chances in the new season
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HOME GROUND: Villa Park
MANAGER: Paul Lambert
LAST SEASON STATS
PREMIER LEAGUE: 16th
FA CUP: 4th round
LEAGUE CUP: 4th Round
EUROPE: Did not qualify
TOP SCORER (ALL COMPS): Darren Bent, 10
SQUAD
| KEEPERS
1 Shay Given 22 Bradley Guzan 33 Andy Marshall DEFENDERS 2 Alan Hutton 3 Stephen Warnock 4 Ron Vlaar 5 Richard Dunne 21 Ciaran Clark 29 Enda Stevens 30 Eric Lichaj 32 Nathan Baker 34 Matthew Lowton 37 Derrick Williams |
MIDFIELDERS
7 Stephen Ireland 8 Karim El Ahmadi 10 Charles N’Zogbia 12 Marc Albrighton 16 Fabian Delph 19 Stiliyan Petrov 25 Barry Bannan 31 Chris Herd 35 Daniel Johnson 38 Gary Gardner 40 Samir Carruthers 17 Jean Makoun |
FORWARDS
9 Darren Bent 11 Gabriel Agbonlahor 14 Brett Holman 23 Nathan Delfouneso 26 Andreas Weimann 36 Graham Burke |
STAR MAN: DARREN BENT
The Villains missed him big time when he got injured last season – but Dazza’s spent the summer getting back to his razor-sharp best
SUPER SIGNING: BRETT HOLMAN
Villa will carry more threat this season with the rapid Aussie on board. He’s already been in the goals in pre-season
SUMMER TRANSFERS
IN: Ron Vlaar (Feyenoord, £3m), Matthew Lowton (Sheffield United, £3m), Karim El Ahmadi (Feyenoord, £2.5m) Brett Holman (AZ Alkmaar, free)
OUT: Carlos Cuellar (Sunderland, free), Emile Heskey (released), James Collins (West Ham, £2.5m)
STRONGEST LINE-UP
[GK] GIVEN
[RB] HUTTON
[CB] VLAAR
[CB] DUNNE
[LB] WARNOCK
[DMF] EL AHMADI
[RW] HOLMAN
[CMF] IRELAND
[CMF] ALBRIGHTON
[LW] N’ZOGBIA
[CF] BENT
4-1-4-1
Style: Direct
TOP THREE TWITTER STARS
1 DARREN BENT – 464,067 followers
2 SHAY GIVEN – 192,770 followers
3 MARC ALBRIGHTON – 75,174 followers
RATINGS
DEFENCE: 6
MIDFIELD: 6
ATTACK: 6
OVERALL: 6
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