‘Interesting’ N’Zogbia can have Villa future – Garde

N’Zogbia was thrown a lifeline by new manager Rémi Garde on Sunday, making his first appearance since last season’s FA Cup final after coming on as a substitute in the 0-0 draw with Manchester City. “In a fortnight it can be a different team”, said Garde, referring to Villa’s next fixture.

The Citizens registered their second draw of the season as they failed to break the Aston Villa defence at Villa Park.

Aguero has been out for seven games with a hamstring injury but Pellegrini confirmed he is close to a comeback. I think we did enough to win the game. “We defended well but lost lots of easy balls for the level of our team”.

Delph has only just returned from a hamstring injury and admitted his comeback at Villa was an eye-opener.

But, despite the stalemate, Pellegrini refused to blame his wasteful side, including De Bruyne after his flicked backheel was scuffed wide from just four yards. It is hard to tell him he has to do it another way.

‘I don’t think booing Fabian will affect him and stop him playing.

City have shown their incredible squad depth in this recent run, as they have been without a few key players. Nobody expected we were going to score two or three goals.

“Maybe (Gael) Clichy and Delph are not ready to start but they are to be on the bench and that’s important”, Pellegrini said. He is City’s second highest scorer in the Premier League and is sixth in chances created in the team.

Aston Villa’s new manager Remi Garde has vowed to save the Premier League’s bottom club from relegation as he prepares for his first match in charge this weekend.

Villa will need to do a better job however creating chances in the future, as they only had 41% of the possession and they didn’t have a shot reach Joe Hart in the City goal.

“Yes, but they are not back because they are French or I knew them”, said the former France worldwide.

“Today was a good occasion to do it. City were full of confidence after a brilliant, brilliant game in Sevilla (Pellegrini’s men won 3-1 in the Champions League in Spain in midweek) which is quite a good team as well”.