Two of the teams who have taken this Premier League season by surprise will go head to head tomorrow afternoon in the Midlands. Aston Villa will take on Bournemouth at Villa park where they will be hoping to widen the points gap between them and fifth place Tottenham. Both the teams have won three, drawn one and lost one in their last five Premier League games with both of the teams having possible golden boot contenders Ollie Watkins and Dominic Solanke. With both teams having strong recent forms a good battle is anticipated between the two sides.
Andoni Iraola says: “Their season has been amazing” ahead of the clash with Aston Villa.
When speaking on team news Iraola has said: “Antoine Semenyo. I think he will be part of the squad, if everything goes well in tomorrow's training and that's it, we are losing Luis Sinisterra from the other day, and I do not expect any other changes.”
Talking more on Luis Sinisterra returning this season he said “it is going to be difficult at the end it is going to be really tight, I do not know whether he will be recovered to play the last game… I'm sure he will try… If they see it is bad it's gonna be difficult for him to play again this season.”
“Some are getting closer but I do not expect them for the Villa game.”
Speaking on Marcus Tavernier “I am more optimistic on Marcus because the injury was before, he is definitely not going to be involved this week and we will try to play him, but it will be in the last games of the season.”
When speaking on last week's fixture against Manchester United the Cherries manager said: “I think we played really well the other day, we have to find ways to win these kinds of games when we are better, because it's not easy in the Premier League.”
He said: “Their season for me has been amazing, they have a very good team and a manager that I rate very highly and it's going to be a very difficult game for us.” when speaking on tomorrow's opponents.
Talking on when the Cherries last faced Villa he said “It was painful because it was kind of similar to United the other day, I think we played really well that game.”
Unai Emery admits “It is going to be very difficult” about tomorrow's fixture.
Emery has given the details on tomorrow's team:“It's difficult to know today who won't be available for sunday. But who won't be available are Alex Moreno, Tyrone Mings, Emi Buendia, Jacob Ramsey and Boubacar Kamara.”
“We will have to wait for the last training tomorrow and I will decide.”
Looking forward to tomorrow's match Emery said : “Bournemouth lately they are playing very well and they are very very competitive, they are demanding a lot for the opponent team. We will need to try to recover with the players from yesterday because the match on Sunday is going to be very difficult.”
When speaking on Emi Martinez, Emery said: “When he is being successful individually and collectively within his club… Ofcourse he is one of the best goalkeepers in the world, for me the best.”
When asked about the injuries the team has suffered this year and looking ahead to next year he said: “Now we are focussing on each match we are focussing on our moment… I am very happy with the players that we have and I want to give them chances to play.”
