Manchester United v Aston Villa Preview

This week Aston Villa travel to Old Trafford looking to take points of the Champions. United will be wanting all three points to stay five points ahead of Chelsea and six points ahead of Arsenal.


Manchester United
Squad: Van der Sar, Brown, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, 0'Shea, Ronaldo, Scholes, Nani, Anderson, Hargreaves, Carrick, Giggs, Park, Rooney, Tevez, Kuszczak, Foster.
Injuries: Saha is out for about three weeks and Fletcher is out for six weeks.
Form: WWWLW
Manchester United 3-0 Liverpool
Manchester United 2-0 Bolton
Derby 0-1 Manchester United
Manchester United 0-1 Portsmouth
Manchester United 1-0 Lyon
Manager's View: "I need to have one eye on Roma when it comes to team selection tomorrow because it is such an important fixture.
"But that must not lessen our thoughts about the match against Villa.
"The most consistent team will win the league and we have to prove that consistency in the coming weeks."

Aston Villa
Squad: Carson, Taylor, Mellberg, Gardner, Laursen, Knight, Bouma, Agbonlahor, Osbourne, Petrov, Reo-Coker, Barry, Berger, Maloney, Young, Carew, Harewood, Salifou.
Injuries: Craig Gardner is out
Form: LLDDW
Aston Villa 0-1 Sunderland
Portsmouth 2-0 Aston Villa
Aston Villa 1-1 Middlesbrough
Arsenal 1-1 Aston Villa
Reading 1-2 Aston Villa
Manager's View: "The long and the short of it is we have got ourselves in this predicament and we have to do something about it.
"To me, there is no sense of the season fizzling out. We've got to get back to winning.
"We've got seven games left, we're on 49 points, which means we're not a phenomenal distance away from the other teams and it's still worth chasing."

Predictions:
My Prediction: Manchester United 2-0 Aston Villa
Mark Lawrenson's Prediction: Manchester United 2-0 Aston Villa
Skysportsnews Prediction: Manchester United 2-0 Aston Villa

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