Aston Villa face a difficult trip to Molineux to face Wolves on Sunday, and Unai Emery has named his starting line-up for the encounter.
Villa will be looking for a fourth consecutive Premier League win this weekend after seeing off Crystal Palace, Chelsea and Brighton previously, while we secured a dramatic late win over Zrinjski in the Europa Conference League in midweek too.
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In turn, confidence and belief should be high as we look to end on a positive note ahead of the international break, but our form against Wolves, and particularly at Molineux, hasn’t been good in recent times.
Having failed to win any of our last five meetings, and having lost the last two on the road, Villa will hope for a more positive trip this time round to keep our good form going.
Emery confirmed in his pre-match press conference that both Alex Moreno and Jacob Ramsey were unavailable due to injury, while there was an anxious wait to determine if Boubacar Kamara and Moussa Diaby would pass late fitness tests to feature.
There was good news though as seen in the club’s tweet below, with both Diaby and Kamara making the starting XI, while Emery has opted to make just one change with Diego Carlos coming in for Nicolo Zaniolo.
That in turn will see John McGinn shift across to the left with Matty Cash deployed in a more advanced role, and it’s hoped that we’ve got the right balance to dominate the game and get control to pick up a big win.
It will be interesting to see just how well both Kamara and Diaby have recovered though in terms of whether or not they’re at their best in this one, but there’s plenty of physicality and technical quality in this Villa side to hopefully get the desired result and end on a positive not ahead of the break.
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— Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) October 8, 2023
