Can Abraham carry Villa?
Aston Villa’s poor file at Molineux, allied to their current sharp dip in performances, has added to the jeopardy for the guests as they search a primary ever Premier League away win on a Friday night time – their file to this point is 2 attracts and 4 defeats.
Ending that barren streak would give Unai Emery a a centesimal Villa victory in 179 video games, the quickest of any supervisor to succeed in that milestone with the membership. More importantly, it might guarantee Villa keep forward of the groups chasing them down. After Friday, they’ve successive league matches towards two of these sides: Chelsea and Manchester United.
While Villa are holding up defensively, conceding simply 4 targets throughout their present run of two wins in seven top-flight fixtures, they’ve solely scored 5 occasions throughout that interval. Three of these have come after the eighty fifth minute, most lately from Tammy Abraham to earn some extent at dwelling to Leeds final Saturday.
The £18.25m January signing has scored in successive video games along with his solely two pictures on course however awaits a primary league begin since dealing with Brentford at the start of the month, when his would-be equaliser was controversially ruled out by VAR.
With Villa struggling in entrance of aim, Emery might do worse than pay heed to Abraham’s file versus Wolves – he has scored six occasions in his three begins towards them, latterly a Premier League hat-trick for Chelsea in September 2019.
