Unai Emery left the Premier League almost three years ago and although he may have harboured ambitions of a return he probably wouldn't have predicted Villa Park would've been his new home.
But the highly-rated Spaniard made an immediate impact on Sunday with an impressive 3-1 win over Manchester United and he has them in his sights again tonight.
At stake at Old Trafford is a place in the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup. Villa last won the competition in 1996 and their two most recent final appearances has seen them denied silverware buy either half of Manchester.
Emery could be considered a bit of a cup specialist with four Europa League titles to his name as well as two Coupe de France medals with PSG so he knows what it takes to go deep in to competitions.
United had been grinding out results until that defeat on Sunday, so perhaps it wasn't too much of a surprise, but two successive defeats to Villa won't go down well with the Old Trafford faithful.
Bet365 make the Red Devils 8/13 to win inside the 90 while the visitors are 9/2. You couldn't rule out a win for a re-energised Villa side and you can get 5/4 on them avoiding defeat (double chance).
Either way it's a tough one to call so let's look to Europe for a Super Single tonight.
Our destination is Rotterdam where 3rd in the table Feyenoord host 17th place Cambuur.
The visitors have scored just eight goals this season and failed to score in nine of their twelve matches so far, while Feyenoord have kept four clean sheets in five at De Kuip, conceding just once.
Arne Slot's men, who have an impeccable record in this fixture recently (P10 W10) are just 1/5 to win against the side who are second bottom of the table. However they're a very promising 11/10 to win to nil and that's something the stats more than support.
Super Single
- Feyenoord to win to nil 11/10 Bet365
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🇪🇸 RAYO VALLECANO v CELTA VIGO
Rayo Vallecano to Win
(5/4, bet365)
▪️NAP
Rayo Vallecano to Win and BTTS
(9/2, 10bet)
Celta Vigo sit in 18th in La Liga and have lost 5/6 of their away games so far, the last five in a row infact.
Rayo Vallecano sit in 9th but are only three points off 4th place, they are also coming off the back of a stunning 3-2 home win over Real Madrid on Monday, Real’s first league defeat this season.
Vallecano have won 4/6 of their home games this season, minus their opening home tie this reads as 4/5.
Interestingly also all of Vallecano’s wins at home have seem BTTS, Celta Vigo’s last five league games have also seen BTTS.
Was looking at this earlier Jamesy,also fancy Vallecano most corners. Vallecano top of the hom corner count and averaging 7.50 corners per home match.Betis only averaging 3.33 corners in away days. Vallecano are 7/10 top have most match corners
Late one! :
Yes
Both Teams to Score
Independiente Santa Fe v Deportes Pereira
20/23
Both Teams to Score
Brasiliense DF v Vila Nova Futebol Clube
1/1
Both Teams to Score
Fortaleza v Bragantino
4/5
Treble pays 58/10👍
No joy with my pen longhshots LOSERS
Some great winners last night especially macca. Well done to all of them .
Tonight ,
United win
United o1.5 team goals
Villa o1.5 cards
Pays just over 11/5 hills ,
Don’t usually touch United but they’ll be out for revenge tonight after what happened in the league last time out , hopefully ten haag puts a strong team out and we start off strong ,
Goodluck all 👍
With Chelsea, Spurs ans Arsenal exiting last night EtH will see it as a better chance of silverware now.. I’ll wait for team news, if CR7 starts I’ll back corners, if he doesn’t I’ll back goals
Yer fitzy it’s a great chance to win a trophy like you say Chelsea , arsenal and spurs going out we shouldn’t fear this Liverpool side it’s obviously city that’s the big danger.
You should beat City of you meet them Deano,if Liverpool can beat them then it should be very easy for your lot to beat them,after all Liverpool are in decline.
City are the best team in the league by a country mile (possibly the world) all the rest are beatable , that’s not to say villa won’t beat us again tonight just merely saying if we beat them tonight it’s into the quarter finals and anything can happen from there , the way we’ve been last few years I’d take an epl………..p.s no one say anything about Liverpool unless your saying their guna win the prem champions league and Cup double then maybe macca will agree with ya 😉
Hard to agree with you when you keep popping up with stupid comments.For a team that sits 5th and on a -1 goal difference you hardly have anything to gloat about,you also haven’t won anything for years and spent more than Man City.In real football terms for those that understand the game i’m pretty sure Man Utd wouldn’t want to meet Liverpool in any cup competition,pretty sure they would rather avoid us.This is like the comment i had against me the other day when he stated my comment was utter nonsense.,and what happens they set up defensively and got beat.If you can’t make a valid comment then why comment at all.
Who’s gloating ?? Who stated I’d want to meet Liverpool ?? What stupid comment did i make ?? Problem with you macca is whoever has got a different opinion to you shouldn’t comment , all i said was it’s a good chance to win a trophy with 3 top teams going out and that we shouldn’t fear Liverpool which we shouldn’t your beatable and not the Liverpool of a couple of seasons or even last season (fact) you can’t take any criticism of your team , not that i even gave any!!
You said we shouldn’t fear this Liverpool side but Obviously City are a danger lol.Liverpool are in decline that sort of speak is utter nonsense.
Yer Fitzy it’s a great chance to win a trophy like you say,Chelsea arsenal spurs going out we shouldn’t fear this Liverpool side,obviously City that’s the big danger.
This is playground talk.They haven’t even got past Villa yet.get my drift Deano lol
Calm your self down mate you take things too personal i literally said we shouldn’t fear Liverpool in the efl Cup if we come up against them , if you can’t take an opinion scroll straight past
Never seen a guy hurt so much with his team in decline. Every comment taking personal now. Dry your eyes Macca, gonna be a long hard slog of you taking it tight nowadays. 😆
Man Utd v Aston Villa
Over 2.5 goals at 3/4 (NAP)
Over 3.5 goals at 7/4
Martial will start tonight and on his day he has a goal in him,Aston Villa mauled Man Utd last week but when two teams meet in quick succession you very rarely get the same result.Goals should be the best way to go.
best of luck
No often id tip a red card but serial offenders Cadiz are away in the Capital to champions Real and theyll be chasing most of the game and reverting to the dark arts of football.
Cadiz have played 6 away days and collected 4 red cards while the opposition have collected 3 so thats a total of 7 reds in 6 games. In cadiz last 2 away days theres been 3 red cards in each. Tonights ref is Cesar Soto Grado and hes flashed 47 yellow & 3 red in his 7 league matches including a red in 3 of his last 4.
Cadiz red card 11/2
HI,
Cricket World Cup
India vs England
IN PLAY
bet to consider – India to WIN
My first bet here again for a couple of months now!
Euro Treble just over EVENS odd.
Juventus~win
Real Madrid~win
Feyenoord~win
GL ALL MATES.
17.00 Volos v PAS Giannina
BTTS @1.95
19.30 Ionikos v PAOK
Ionikos double chance @2.10
Both with Bet365 – good luck.
Belgium cup
Lierse
Molenbeek
Btts double 7/5
Good luck
Juventus over 1.5tgs
Varbergs over 0.5tgs
Double 19/10
Good luck
Verona v Juventus 17:30 ko
Btts 8/11 NAP
Btts 1st half 7/2 Nb
Btts both halves 12/1 Longshot
Gl with all bets
Yourodds effort tonight
Vallecano v Celta Vigo
Vallecano 2+ goals & most corners 3/1
Real Madrid v Cadiz
Madrid 3+ goals & -1 corner handicap
Cadiz 3+ cards 27/10
Verona v Juventus
Juventus 2+ goals,3+ corners & 1+ card
Verona 3+ corners & 2+ cards 9/4
Man Utd v Aston Villa
BTTS & O2,5gls,3+ corners each & 1+ card each 16/5
Any 3 & all 4(5 bets)
2nd line is a wild yankee at mad odds
Vallecano v Vigo
Vallecano win & BTTS,Vallecano most corners & Vigo most cards 18/1
Valencia v Betis
BTTS & O2.5gls,red card for either side 8/1
Madgeburg v Darmstadt
Darmstadt win & BTTS,Madgeburg most corners & most cards 20/1
Madrid v Cadiz
Madrid too win by a 2-4 goal margin & Cadiz red card 9/1
6x dbls
4x trbls
acca
11 bets
And my main singleis
Vallecano to score 2+ and get most corners at 3/1
🇪🇸 Rayo Vallecano v Celta Vigo 🇪🇸
18:00
Spanish La Liga
BTTS 11-10 🇪🇸 NB 🇪🇸.
side bets
Over 2.5 goals 13-8
BTTS and over 2.5 goals 2-1
All at bet365.
Vallecano mid table, they beat real Madrid last time out at home and have won their last 3 games, but can they keep those levels up against 3rd bottom celta ??.
Complacency maybe 🤔🤔
They concede enough to give celta a chance of scoring for sure but they should beat a celta team who struggle away.
Celta not won in their last 6 games but seen BTTS in their last 5.
** Vallecano conceded in 13 of their last 14 home league games **
Prediction 2-1
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Juventus over 1.5tgs
Varbergs over 0.5tgs
Double 19/10**LOST** no juventus 2nd
Verona v Juventus 17:30 ko
Btts 8/11 NAP❌
Btts 1st half 7/2 Nb❌
Btts both halves 12/1 Longshot❌
Gl with all bets
Veronas last three games have seen a red card.
Maybe an angle to get on next time they play
Man Unt v Aston Villa
1 + corner each team in each half & 10 + booking points each team 11/8 Skybet
Each team over 1 card 13/5 Hills
Manchester Utd v Aston Villa – Kick Off: – 8:00PM – (Carabao Cup (EFL Cup) – LIVE ON Sky Sports Main Event
Tip: – MATCH TO END AS A DRAW
Points: – 2 Points ⭐️⭐️
No joy tonight, ends 0-0 in 🇪🇸
Good luck all with a bet on.
Got the Nap last night but o joy on the Nb/longshot with Fluminense only lacing up their boots in the last 10 minutes!
FLUMINENSE VS. GOIAS (10.00pm)
FLUMINENSE OVER 2.5 TEAM GOALS
(5/4, bet365) NAP ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ✅️
FLUMINENSE OVER 3.5 TEAM GOALS
(7/2, bet365) NB ⭐️ 👎
FLUMINENSE GOAL BEFORE 10:00
(9/2, bet365) LONGSHOT ⭐️ 👎
Well done all winners!
Belgium cup
Lierse
Molenbeek
Btts double 7/5**WON**
Well done all winners
Nicely done DC…
Well in dc
🇪🇸 Rayo Vallecano v Celta Vigo 🇪🇸
18:00
Spanish La Liga
BTTS 11-10 🇪🇸 NB 🇪🇸.
side bets
Over 2.5 goals 13-8
BTTS and over 2.5 goals 2-1
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Action all the way
Finished 0-0
NB lost spectacularly 😆
17.00 Volos v PAS Giannina
BTTS @1.95 ✅
19.30 Ionikos v PAOK
Ionikos double chance @2.10 ❌
Well done all winners.
Man Utd v Aston Villa
Over 2.5 goals at 3/4 ✅
Over 3.5 goals at 7/4 ✅
Also did Martial to score and Maguire to be carded which came in at 11/1
Well done all winners
Great stuff Macca…
Tonight ,
United win ✅️
United o1.5 team goals ✅️
Villa o1.5 cards ✅️
Pays just over 11/5 hills ,
Don’t usually touch United but they’ll be out for revenge tonight after what happened in the league last time out , hopefully ten haag puts a strong team out and we start off strong ,
Goodluck all 👍
Well done all winners tonight…………
Arras Deano…
Manchester Utd v Aston Villa – Kick Off: – 8:00PM – (Carabao Cup (EFL Cup) – LIVE ON Sky Sports Main Event
Tip: – MATCH TO END AS A DRAW
Points: – 2 Points ⭐️⭐️
LOST ❌
🇵🇾 Paraguayan Cup 3rd place play off 🇵🇾
23:00
Guarani (Par)
V
Club Atletico Tembetary.
Both teams to score 4-5 🇵🇾 NAP 🇵🇾
Side bets (bet builder)
BTTS and over 2.5 goals 11-10
BTTS and over 3.5 goals 9-4
All at BETFAIR SPORTSBOOK.
1st div against 2nd div.
Guarani short price as they should be but conceded in their last 15 home games.
Tembetary beat 1st division Resistencia and 12 octobre away in this season’s cup run.
They lost to ameliano in the semi final with a 1st half red card having a large bearing in that loss.
ameliano went on and won the final beating powerhouse team nacional.
Prediction 2-1 or 3-1
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Well done Deano. Read previous chat you had. What I think that on this great forum we have, is that all opinions are equal but some consider theirs is more equal. You sometimes wonder what was the last thing they learned before they knew everything. Anyway well done all winners.