Aston Villa take on the visitors West Ham in the round 1/32-finals of English FA Cup. The match will be played on Friday, January 10th at Villa Park (Birmingham).
Aston Villa had never known such workloads before. Last season, Villan played two games a week. And then they managed to hold out from the summer qualification to the spring playoffs. But that was in the Conference League, with its frankly not the highest level. And in the autumn, the Englishmen actually debuted in the Champions League format. They started off well, with three wins, including a 1-0 win over Bayern. But then there were problems there too. If Emery improved the situation in the European Cup, then the domestic arena was in turmoil for a long time. Here we have the elimination from the League Cup, and failures in the Premier League, where after a successful start, since the end of September, they only managed to win twice in a row once, and there were simply not many victories. But at least they dealt with Leicester, winning 2-1.
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West Ham were finally able to somehow significantly confirm their ambitions when they won a full trophy, and an international one at that, the Conference League, in 2023. But a year later they parted ways with Moyes, although that temporada certainly cannot be called a failure: they finished in the top half of the Premier League table and played in the Europa League playoffs. Apparently, the management wanted much more, and, having bought new players for tens of millions, called another Spaniard, Lopetegui, to the coaching post. But he gave extremely unclear results in the first months, and after the defeat, Leicester did not have enough votes to remove the manager. But it was after that, already in a row, failure that the long-awaited rise began: victories over Wolverhampton and Southampton, draws with Bournemouth and Brighton... But 2024 ended with a crushing 0-5 from Liverpool. Then there was a rout from Manchester City, and the coach was finally shown the door. And tomorrow Potter will make his debut here.
The last four matches alternated draws and victories for the Villans, including an away 2-1 in August. Graham returned to London too recently. For now, we believe that Unai Emery and his team will be able to win.
Prediction for the match: Aston Villa to win.
