The Villa Park groundstaff impressed us all once again as the Villans ran out on the hallowed turf for the first time this season.
Dean Smith’s men started brightly, especially down the right hand-side with new signing Matty Cash swinging in some enticing crosses on his competitive debut.
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Aston Villa kick off their 2020/21 campaign with a short trip over to Burton Albion, where the two Midlands sides will face each other in the Carabao Cup. With Villa overwhelming favourites to win the game, we spoke to BrewersTV to get their expert opinion on how the Brewers will approach the match.
With the expiration of Axel Tuanzebe, Kortney Hause and Tyrone Mings’ loan spells following Aston Villa’s play-off promotion in 2018/19, the club only had James Chester and Tommy Elphick as recognised centre-halves on the books going into their first season back in the top flight since the ill-fated 2015/16 relegation season.
As the sun set on that glorious day at Wembley and the weeks passed by, I admit that like many fellow Villa fans I allowed myself to dream of what we might be able to achieve as signing after signing was coming through the front door at Bodymoor Heath, and the optimism swirled around Villa Park.
Renouned journalist Henry Winter certainly seemed to agree.
Although we achieved our end goal of survival, there were a lot of flaws within our season that must be rectified for next year.
This is it! After 36 games played in the Premier League Aston Villa host Arsenal for their final home game of the season; a fixture which holds paramount importance in deciding which league Villa will be competing in next season.
