Aston Villa Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2025/26

Yeah Cash on the bench hopefully means he will be playing against West Ham.

Pau, Maatsen, Luiz all playing so hopefully that improves our attacking threat, a decent performance from Sancho and it might make some room for Rogers .

Onana needs to take control in the middle to make the game easier. Happy to see Lindelof get a start.

It’s not been bad, but it’s not been good either

Unbelievable ball from Emi changing everything after what had been a really poor start to the half

Emi Martinez enjoyed that too

Should have had a goal there too Sancho - he's linking up amazingly with Martinez's lomg balls.

But walking off pouting, after hitting the post, while ball is still live and Rogers is moving forward with it, is not quite as good a look

Even Bailey scoring - although a few unneccesarily close offside checks

Who'd we prefer - we beat Bologna earlier in competition, but Roma seem to be reliant on Malen's goal and don't think he could play against us

I think he could have. Dont think that rule applies in europe. Asensio played against PSG last season.

Think it was one of Sancho’s better games but he’s not a 350k a week player.

Overall a typical Emery European game ultimately as long as we didn’t concede we were through. Lille had a good ten minutes at the start of the 2nd half but that goal after their pressure knocked the stuffing out of them. Unusual to see Martinez release the ball so quickly he usually hangs on to it.

At least Malen won’t be coming back to haunt us.

Need to maximise today’s results tomorrow. West Ham playing relatively well at the moment, it won’t be easy

Hammers are top four in form table, Villa are lowest scorers in the leauge in 2026. This is going to be an very tough game and even getting a point will be a big effort. Team selection will tell alot. If a team is named with the likes of Mings, Digne Bundeia starting I fear defeat will be the outcome. I wouldnt mind seeing the same team that started against Lille, maybe Barkley for Luiz and if Youri is on the bench even better. Lindelof has been excellent everytime he has started and no.harm to give Konsa a kick in the ass and maybe he will buck up his ideas.