MON tonight sent out a young reserve side to Walsall as Villa came away with a 2-1 victory at the Bescott cheered on by 3000 Villans in a crowd of 5,700, way above Walsall’s league average.
Andreas Weimann who is very highly rated by a lot of Villa reserve watchers and said by a coach to be the Austrian Alan Shrearer. He cam up with two typical peices of goal poaching to seal the friendly win. The first goal was set up by a storming run by Carew and the second from a parried cross by Albrighton. In truth Weimann should have had a hat trick but hit the post from a yard.
All three of the exciting youth prospects were heavily involved all game and Albrighton is now making a very strong claim to start against West Ham with Weimann and Bannan on the bench with of course the Fonz to come back in. MON has to be brave and buy no player who would block these exciting and very talented youngsters.
A word for Carew in these pre season games, he has started well and lasted well, his back injury appears not to be troubling him and I hope he can just keep it up, time will tell.
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Man, Weihmann, Carew, Bannan and Albrighton seemed to have great games today (from what I’ve read).
“MON has to be brave and buy no player who would block these exciting and very talented youngsters.”
Agreed on that, which is why I think Bellamy would be the perfect player. We need the EPL poacher, and Bellamy is that. He also said his legs won’t hold up much longer (probably another 2-3 seasons) which then he’ll go back to Cardiff. Which won’t be in the way of Weihmann or the Fonz as they’ll both be in their early 20′s.
yep had texts from a mate there, confirming what I was typing from the Villa text service
Let’s see how the kids get on in portugal before we all start getting carried away. Not being negative, just a realist. Premier league football is light years ahead of Walsall who used 8 subs. Spend big and if they are good enough, they’ll shine through. That said….Cahill was a kid who I rated and now he’s worth £15m apparently, so what do I know!!!