Just found this piece from the Birmingham mail.
Aston Villa: Christian Benteke set to start?
CHRISTIAN Benteke has barged his way into Paul Lambert’s thinking for a start at Southampton with the Villa boss now blessed with options in most positions.
Benteke is breathing down Andi Weimann’s neck for a starting role up front alongside Darren Bent as the claret and blues head for Southampton.
The beast of Belgium’s goal and encouraging 19-minute substitute appearance highlighted the forward options Lambert now has. Indeed, the boss must decide whether to again name a bench packed with attackers. Benteke, Gabby Agbonlahor, Jordan Bowery and Charles N’Zogbia were all among the substitutes for last weekend’s win over Swansea.
The other outfield subs at Villa Park six days ago were Ashley Westwood and Joe Bennett. Westwood came on as a 71st-minute replacement for Stephen Ireland and the former Crewe captain’s calm and composed cameo will be fresh in Lambert’s mind as he contemplates the make-up of his midfield at St Mary’s.
Bennett is pushing for his debut but Eric Lichaj has performed well at left-back during Villa’s recent turnaround.
Lambert must also decide if there are squad places for fit-again midfielders Chris Herd and Fabian Delph, who missed out last weekend. Marc Albrighton has resumed training after a broken foot but is not expected to be involved.
I hope he will start and I hope he plays as well as he did against Swansea, many people will still criticise that he only scored one goal and that he missed a sitter, and that Messi is better........YAAWWN just take into account that this lad has just signed for us, it's his first club in the premier league so he is still getting used to the way we play and train. This lad came on as a substitute with 20mins to go and created absolute havoc for a team that has a reputation for keeping possession and fluid attractive football. I wont give him all the credit as the whole team worked together for the cause, but in that last 20 mins Swansea could have easily just pushed it up a gear and gone for the equaliser, but no they were to busy having to concentrate where Benteke was so they could stop him before he did anything dangerous.
Im sure you have all seen this but it just shows what he is capable of.
Aston Villa: Christian Benteke set to start?
CHRISTIAN Benteke has barged his way into Paul Lambert’s thinking for a start at Southampton with the Villa boss now blessed with options in most positions.
Benteke is breathing down Andi Weimann’s neck for a starting role up front alongside Darren Bent as the claret and blues head for Southampton.
The beast of Belgium’s goal and encouraging 19-minute substitute appearance highlighted the forward options Lambert now has. Indeed, the boss must decide whether to again name a bench packed with attackers. Benteke, Gabby Agbonlahor, Jordan Bowery and Charles N’Zogbia were all among the substitutes for last weekend’s win over Swansea.
The other outfield subs at Villa Park six days ago were Ashley Westwood and Joe Bennett. Westwood came on as a 71st-minute replacement for Stephen Ireland and the former Crewe captain’s calm and composed cameo will be fresh in Lambert’s mind as he contemplates the make-up of his midfield at St Mary’s.
Bennett is pushing for his debut but Eric Lichaj has performed well at left-back during Villa’s recent turnaround.
Lambert must also decide if there are squad places for fit-again midfielders Chris Herd and Fabian Delph, who missed out last weekend. Marc Albrighton has resumed training after a broken foot but is not expected to be involved.
I hope he will start and I hope he plays as well as he did against Swansea, many people will still criticise that he only scored one goal and that he missed a sitter, and that Messi is better........YAAWWN just take into account that this lad has just signed for us, it's his first club in the premier league so he is still getting used to the way we play and train. This lad came on as a substitute with 20mins to go and created absolute havoc for a team that has a reputation for keeping possession and fluid attractive football. I wont give him all the credit as the whole team worked together for the cause, but in that last 20 mins Swansea could have easily just pushed it up a gear and gone for the equaliser, but no they were to busy having to concentrate where Benteke was so they could stop him before he did anything dangerous.
Im sure you have all seen this but it just shows what he is capable of.
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