Carabao Cup betting tip: Burton Albion- Aston Villa............starring Oliver George Arthur Watkins !
Sep 15, 2020
Carabao Cup: Burton Albion- Aston Villa
Unlike many teams I expect Villa to take this competition seriously, they have yet to play a league game so this will be an opportunity to build some momentum ahead of their Premier League opener with Sheffield United, which is not being played until next Monday in any case. They might only be friendly games, but Villa have got a little run going and took great heart from a 1-0 defeat of Manchester United last time out, when new record signing Ollie Watkins scored his first goal in claret and blue and he might have had a second. He will want one in a competitive fixture now and will be facing a team with major issues on and off the pitch and one that Watkins and many of the Villa squad know quite well from their time in the Championship. So no step into the unknown for anyone and the tiny Pirelli stadium will offer familiar surroundings. The visitors also like this competition and made the final last season and have further motivation by the game being televised, no one wants to lose to lower league opposition, especially when the cameras are filming every move.
Albion have suffered badly financially with the Covid-19 pandemic, which was the catalyst for cost cutting measures which saw favourite son and long serving head coach, Nigel Clough, leave in the summer. They have spoken openly about their money struggles and were already operating on a shoestring budget and finished their 19-20 domestic campaign way back on March 10th . They have played three fixtures in the new season (two cup), but have continued their poor run of form which has seen them win just one of their last 13 starts and keep just a single clean sheet conceding at the rate of 2.0 goals per game. The sole win in that sequence was a 3-2 win over Southend United who were relegated on just 19 points, conceding 28 goals more than any team who survived.
Villa spent £28m (rising to £33m) on Watkins, who is a fine young man with an incredible work ethic and he will want to start repaying the fee and earning his big salary ASAP. I touched upon that hard work last month .................
I spoke in detail prior to the restart about the Brentford recruitment policy, forget about what that brings you on the pitch, this is the true value......... Ollie Watkins is a young man, still only 24 yo and he is getting a lot of attention, his ceaseless running, hold up play, aerial ability and predators instinct have all been much admired in recent months and he has scored 26 goals this season playing in the main striker role for the first time ever. He has missed just 8 minutes of 48 league and playoff games. What is not so well known is that after every training session, he does extra work one on one, or on his own, following which, if the B team are still at work at the training centre, he will often then go and join in with them, he has an incredible work ethic and desire to improve. When Brentford "blew" their regular season promotion chance , he telephoned every squad member and invited them to lunch at his house on their rest day to discuss what had gone wrong and what they could do about it, there was 100% attendance.
Visiting head coach Dean Smith said: “Aston Villa have got a great tradition in this competition and we’ll be going all-out to continue that.”I assume it will be a strong line up and that Villa supporters will be given the opportunity to see their new signing and I expect Ollie to score a goal or two.
2 units Aston Villa -1.5 goals 2.22 asian line/ Sportmarket .
Good luck !
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