Aston Villa League Cup 3rd Round

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Tuesday 24th September 2013.
Kick-Off @ 19:45hrs BST.

 

 

 



 

 

 

The hip injury suffered by Christian Benteke against Norwich is being assessed but the Villa forward will not feature against Tottenham.

Libor Kozak is likely to make his first start but Gabby Agbonlahor, Fabian Delph, Ashley Westwood, Antonio Luna and Ciaran Clark are all injury doubts.

Spurs head coach Andre Villas-Boas will rotate his squad, with defender Vlad Chiriches in line for his debut.

However, striker Jermain Defoe is a doubt because of a groin strain.

MATCH PREVIEW
Tottenham head coach Andre Villas-Boas argued last week that the scheduling of this match - his team's third in six days - was "putting the players' careers at risk".

It is likely the Portuguese will rest many of the side that won at Cardiff on Sunday, but the quality of his squad runs deep - a fact illustrated by the option to bring in club record signing Erik Lamela at Villa Park.

Villa have no such luxury. Paul Lambert could be missing up to 10 players, with Saturday's league win at Norwich coming at the cost of injuries to key men Christian Benteke and Gabby Agbonlahor.

Libor Kozak proved an able deputy for Benteke with the winner at Carrow Road and he seems to have a liking for cup competition, having finished as the Europa League top scorer last season with 10 goals in 11 games for Lazio. Villa will need him to continue in that vein if they are to earn an all-too rare home win against top-flight opposition.
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head

   The two clubs have met four times in the League Cup, with Aston Villa winning on the last two occasions in 1987 and 1994.
   Spurs are unbeaten in their last five trips to Villa - all in the Premier League (W3, D2). They won 4-0 on their last visit on Boxing Day.

Aston Villa

   Villa have scored an unsurpassed 17 goals in the League Cup since the start of last season. Christian Benteke and Andreas Weimann have each scored five of those goals.
   They have won eight of their last nine League Cup matches at Villa Park, but lost three of their last five home matches at this stage of the competition.
   The Villans have won this competition five times, latterly in 1996.

Tottenham

   Tottenham have won seven of their eight league and cup ties this season.
   They have only conceded one goal to date - Olivier Giroud's winner for Arsenal.
   Spurs have won seven of their last nine third-round ties.
   The Lilywhites have won five of their last six third-round away fixtures in the League Cup, drawing the other and scoring 19 goals in the process.

http://www.wiziwig.tv/broadcast.php?matchid=221525&part=sports

looks like we might be lucky tonight
loads of links on there.

Our team tonight vs villa:
Friedel
Walker Chiriches Jan Fryers
Lamela Sandro Paulinho Holtby
Defoe Kane

yep
looking forward to the game.

surprised paullino playing but spose hes a fit lad lol

http://www.nutjob.eu/njtvx3.html

link in english

what a pass from lamella

ffs defoe always offside or shoots at the keeper

him and kane just greedy

lamela looks for the pass all the time

holtby and lamela playing well. good header from defoe who you can see wants a goal

kane is getting on my nerves. tryin to hard to shoot.

yep but its a shame because when he came on as a sub he was doing well passing to team mates and linked up well.

Jermain Defoe scored twice as Tottenham powered past Aston Villa and into the fourth round of the Capital One Cup.

The England striker set Spurs on their way by glancing home Lewis Holtby's clever pass, before completing the victory with a late finish.

Paulinho and Nacer Chadli were also on the scoresheet as Tottenham dominated.

However, Villa should have been awarded a penalty early in the second half when Nicklas Helenius was impeded by Jan Vertonghen.

More to follow.

great display.

paullnino man of the match for me.
defoe worked hard aswell
sandro chriches fryers all stand outs

lamela had good first half but faded but still worked hard

oh i get ye now lol vis

http://tottenhamlive.com/video/322-tottenham-highlights.html