{"id":650401,"date":"2025-01-10T04:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=650401"},"modified":"2025-01-09T17:50:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T22:50:20","slug":"aston-villa-predicted-lineup-vs-west-ham-united-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/01\/10\/aston-villa-predicted-lineup-vs-west-ham-united-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa Predicted Lineup Vs West Ham United for January 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Word on Football provides our Aston Villa predicted lineup for their FA Cup Third Round tie against West Ham United on January 10 at Villa Park.<\/p>\n<h2>Aston Villa Predicted Lineup vs West Ham United in FA Cup Third Round Clash<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AVLWHU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AVLWHU<\/a> \ud83d\udd1c <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VMPE5YPMyw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/VMPE5YPMyw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AVFCOfficial\/status\/1877394419927691677?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>How Aston Villa Have Lined-up Recently<\/h3>\n<p>For their most recent match against Leicester City on January 4, Unai Emery made three changes to the side that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cq8qg5ql1y2t\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drew<\/a> 2-2 with Brighton on December 30, as Tyrone Mings, Matty Cash and Ross Barkley came in for Diego Carlos, Pau Torres and Morgan Rogers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/01\/09\/manchester-united-scout-mads-hermansen\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United Scout Highly-Rated Premier League Keeper With \u2018Potential Availability\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They lined up in their regular 4-2-3-1 with Emi Martinez in goal, Cash at right-back, Ezri Konsa and Mings at centre-back and Lucas Digne on the left. Boubacar Kamara and Barkley held the fort in defensive midfield, while Leon Bailey, Youri Tielemans and John McGinn supported Ollie Watkins up top.<\/p>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bd4c413 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent e-lazyloaded\" data-id=\"bd4c413\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-52e6ebe6 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"52e6ebe6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-312d2c08 elementor-align-left elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info is-mac\" data-id=\"312d2c08\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"post-info.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<h3>Aston Villa Recent Form and Tactics<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>After their 2-2 draw with Brighton, Villa got back to winning ways against Leicester, winning 2-1 with all three goals coming in the space of 18 second-half minutes. Barkley gave Villa the lead on 58 minutes, but Stephy Mavididi equalised five minutes later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/01\/09\/everton-predicted-lineup-vs-peterborough\/\" target=\"_self\">Everton Predicted Lineup vs Peterborough In FA Cup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Villa huffed and puffed in search of another goal and got their reward fourteen minutes from time when Bailey converted from close range following Ian Maatsen&#8217;s cutback, the victory taking Villa up to 8th in the table and putting them in good stead for the start of their FA Cup journey.<\/p>\n<h3>Aston Villa Injuries to Consider<\/h3>\n<p>Going into the West Ham game, Emery has got a lot on his plate injury-wise. McGinn exited the Leicester game early with what is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/unai-emery-answers-john-mcginn-30743920\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">perceived<\/a> to be a long-term hamstring problem, while starting centre-backs Torres and Carlos look to be ruled out with respective foot injuries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/01\/08\/manchester-united-amad-diallo-contract-extension\/\" target=\"_self\">\u2018Unstoppable\u2019 Manchester United Sensation to Sign New Contract Despite \u2018Top Clubs\u2019 Interested<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the FA Cup brings plenty of opportunities for rotation, with three of Villa&#8217;s more important players now out through injury it will be interesting to see how Emery deals with the hand he has been dealt.<\/p>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bd4c413 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent e-lazyloaded\" data-id=\"bd4c413\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-52e6ebe6 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"52e6ebe6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-312d2c08 elementor-align-left elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info is-mac\" data-id=\"312d2c08\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"post-info.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<h3>Aston Villa Predicted Lineup<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>GK<\/strong> &#8211; Robin Olsen<\/p>\n<p><strong>RB<\/strong> &#8211; Kosta Nedeljkovic<\/p>\n<p><strong>CB<\/strong> &#8211; Ezri Konsa<\/p>\n<p><strong>CB<\/strong> &#8211; Tyrone Mings<\/p>\n<p><strong>LB<\/strong> &#8211; Ian Maatsen<\/p>\n<p><strong>CDM<\/strong> &#8211; Boubacar Kamara<\/p>\n<p><strong>CDM<\/strong> &#8211; Youri Tielemans<\/p>\n<p><strong>RM<\/strong> &#8211; Jacob Ramsey<\/p>\n<p><strong>CAM<\/strong> &#8211; Emi Buendia<\/p>\n<p><strong>LM<\/strong> &#8211; Morgan Rogers<\/p>\n<p><strong>ST<\/strong> &#8211; Ollie Watkins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Word on Football provides our Aston Villa predicted lineup for their FA Cup Third Round tie against West Ham United on January 10 at Villa Park. Aston Villa Predicted Lineup vs West Ham United in FA Cup Third Round Clash #AVLWHU \ud83d\udd1c pic.twitter.com\/VMPE5YPMyw &mdash; Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) January 9, 2025 How Aston Villa Have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5190,"featured_media":650421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8432,3838],"tags":[177],"class_list":["post-650401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fa-cup","category-aston-villa","tag-aston-villa"],"modified_by":"Henry Chung, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650420,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650401\/revisions\/650420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}