Villa need a win to boost confidence, says Sherwood

I’d think that he’s had great input into that process; otherwise Villa would just be giving him excuses for failure. He wanted to become a manager and you could tell he had the credentials for it.

“It’s a very good feeling [to score]”.

Both are in need of the three points this weekend.

Garry Monk’s Premier League Sack odds have been slashed from 50/1 down to just 9/4, meaning the Swansea boss has soared into second spot behind hot favourite Tim Sherwood. There are a lot of people behind watching us.

‘These stories come out from time to time, trying to unsettle us but we do not listen to things like that.

Vardy has had a hand in 18 goals in his last 19 Premier League appearances (13 goals, five assists). We’re quite happy and the game is coming on pretty soon so we’re proud to be in the best league and have the opportunity to play against each other. The game kicks off at 2:00pm local time.

“I’ve not had any update from the chairman – I’ve not spoken to him about that situation”, said Monk. Monk’s players managed to find the net from the open play only once since beating Red Devils – Andre Ayew’s header against Spurs – remaining unable to score in two out of three home matches.

West Brom, meanwhile, grabbed a vital victory over Sunderland last time out, but Tony Pulis will know three points against the struggling Black Cats should not mask a few unimpressive performances to date. The clubs will be getting biggest prize money in the history of football starting next season and Aston Villa has a real urge to remain in the top-flight. Not only that, up until recently, not many players have deserved to be dropped, but following the club’s first home defeat of the season against Stoke on Monday night, a number of player’s positions have come into question.

Monk added: “I’ve watched the Stoke game back”. The hope will be that they get to Christmas without being adrift at the bottom.

Losing to Villa is unlikely to result in the immediate removal of Monk, who has a good rapport with the supporters and can be credited with the progression of the team over the past 12 months. They will be in for another tough afternoon in east London. Even though it’s in the family, as soon as we get to the pitch it’s business time.

After a late-August victory over Manchester United, Swansea found themselves at fourth place and dreaming about, at the least, Europa League qualification.

Chelsea have conceded a league-high five headed goals in the Premier League in 2015-16. This horrendous statistics show Villa’s inability to get into a chance and incapacity in keeping their net intact, with only a single clean sheet this season at Bournemouth. I see it every day on the training field.

Petr Cech has the best saves to shots ratio of any goalkeeper in the Premier League so far in 2015-16 (82.1%).

However, the Toffees have lost only one of their last six PL games versus Arsenal with four of these games ending in a draw (W1 L1).