Well - at 19, Jake seems to have mastered ‘reflex-passing’ or first-touch football. David Meyler also got on the scoresheet tonight, as he secured a draw for Hull against championship runaway leaders Wolves – finishing off from the spot with a calm penalty to score his first goal since September – capping off a bright night for the Irish internationals. Luckily for them, they didn’t give him a single minute in his first season and released him in the summer… only to bring him back and not bother playing him again – for a further three years. No? "If I can add goals then all well and good. The Irish defender would be a natural fit in Bielsa’s preferred three at the back formation and while he may have to wait for a chance to return to full match fitness, after only recently rejoining in with first team training, given the opportunity Shaughnessy could cement his place in the Leeds team. "From set-plays, you see top defenders in the world like Sergio Ramos get 10 goals a season, so it always helps no matter where the goals come from. Signing Djemba-Djemba after that Manchester United spell seems a bit odd, until you realise he was brought in to get the best out of Mathieu Berson. When Everton gave him even fewer on loan the following season, you gave them the benefit of the doubt. HOLTECAST #252 | Leicester City 0-1 Aston Villa - Ross Is Boss! If you would like to join the team, drop us an email at write@punditarena.com. Like the rest of his Aston Villa team-mates, Conor Hourihane would have been hoping to be plying his trade in the Premier League this season, but a 1-0 promotion play-off final defeat to Fulham put paid to those efforts. Yes, yes we can. “Tayls is a problem, so is Alan Hutton and Axel Tuanzebe,” he said. It’s very difficult this league.”. explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. Villa have 27 points to play for but are currently seven points second-placed Cardiff, who they face at Villa Park next month. A prominent member in a number of U23 campaigns at the club, it seems that within the next two season that he’ll step up to the plate for Aston Villa’s first-team. As well as beating Blues goalkeeper David Stockdale with the strike, Hourihane also beat some wonder goals from his Championship peers. Date from Position Nationality Name From Fee Ref. Selfish, really. "There's a stupid international break after Saturday and then a load of games are crammed together in April. Villa loaned him out for his second season and didn’t even have the good grace to bring him back for another run of games, denying us the headline “This time it’s Bersonal”. There are times at which it would have made some sense to sign Philippe Senderos, and others when he might have been worth a punt. The boss said at the start of the season that automatic promotion was the aim, and with nine games to go he’s still sticking to his word. Signed from Arsenal as a 25-year-old, Taylor made 17 appearances in four years with the club, which sounds low until you realise he made just 18 in nine years after leaving. Doyle-Hayes is a veteran at Aston Villa by this point. Clyne returns to Palace on short-term deal External Link. The recruitment of McClean by Stoke City is part of a wider policy aimed at getting The Potters back into the Premier League at the first try. Not always, but also yes. Hourihane put Aston Villa 2-0 ahead with a headed goal from a Robert Snodgrass‘ cross. "It's the accumulation of points like I've always said and what the targets are. He’s a true central-midfielder with attacking instincts and defensive discipline. "Usually there's a set amount of points that you need, I'm not going to reveal exactly what that is but the accumulation of points and how many you take is ultimately where you end up.". And now Conor Hourihane has a lasting souvenir to remember his cracking goal against Birmingham City by. Aston Villa’s young Irish pass-master has destiny before him Our second goal of the night. In fairness, he did about as well as anyone could have done after making his first two appearances from the bench with Villa 5-0 and 6-0 down, but the only goal he scored in a Villa shirt came against the club – far from ideal. Can you name the last all-English Premier League starting XI from 1999? What can he offer that others can’t? The 24-year-old central defender was an integral part of Blackburn’s promotion push last season and was rewarded with a new four-year contract at Ewood Park after he turned down interest from Sheffield United and Derby County to stick with Tony Mowbray’s side. A conveyor-belt of talent? Aston Villa have kept alive their hopes of … It’s his 10th of the campaign! After a nightmare six months in which he was sidelined with an ankle injury picked up in January, Conor Shaughnessy is ready for a new start with Leeds United and he’ll hope to pick up where he left off for the Yorkshire club. Boulding was quite good for a second-tier Grimsby Town when he signed on a free in 2002 at the age of 26, and made the sort of impact you’d expect. A “stairway to Claret and Blue heaven”, apparently, in a headline that almost certainly wasn’t devised in 30 seconds after the fact. Egan links up with fellow Ireland internationals Enda Stevens and David McGoldrick and he brings the kind of stability and dominance in the air that Sheffield United were lacking last season. "We need to regroup and start showing we can win games," he said. News Clyne rejoins Palace and is reunited with Hodgson. “I like to practice my shooting every day on the training ground and I’m a big believer that hard work pays off and you’ll get a bit of luck on the pitch. Aston Villa signed Moustapha Salifou. Is that a word? That was Villa's second league defeat in 2018. It’s been a year to remember already for Darragh Lenihan, who helped Blackburn Rovers to promotion from League One and earned his first international cap for the Republic of Ireland within the space of a few weeks this summer. Who knows, but if you’re going to lay low without fear of detection then a Premier League team’s reserves is as good a place as any. Where Jack Grealish departed to link up with England, it seems that Jake Doyle-Hayes, born of Balleyjamesduff, a town in County Cavan with a population of just over 2,000 people, is ready to continue upon his initial path that will inevitably lead to call-up from the senior Ireland national team. “It’s not new to me. When Fulham signed the Swiss international permanently, you could write it off with the explanation that it was Fulham doing Fulham things. There is a sense that until Villa are back in the big time there will be no feeling of closure on the demotion that rocked the club. “Hourihane has made a real habit of scoring great goals from midfield throughout his career and the anticipation he showed to know where the ball was going to drop, the confidence with which he took this touch and the fierce dipping strike was no surprise to those of us who have seen some of his strikes in the past.”. “We’ve seen many teams struggle, you just have to look at the table now. A total of 1,126 games have been played for the club by players who hail from Ireland. Cynics might say a 25-year-old who had yet to make his Premier League debut despite being on Spurs’ books for several years might not ever be ready, but Paul Lambert liked to try proving people wrong. The only question is why. "In my experience there will be plenty of twists and turns leading up to the last week, I wouldn't be surprised," said Bruce in the Facebook Live section of his press conference ahead of Villa's trip to Bolton Wanderers on Saturday. The Derry midfielder is often as infuriating as he is inspiring, but he’s consistently entertaining and never gives less than 100%. Steve Bruce admits Aston Villa are still haunted by their relegation from the Premier League almost two years on. Andre Green is still missing as he works his way back to full fitness and Jonathan Kodjia is also a long way off. “It’s a huge game when we play Birmingham so winning was the most important thing, but to get a special goal at the same time was fantastic. How far can Villa go this season? Villa grew their fanbase in Ireland around the time of the 1994 World Cup with several Irish players in the claret and blue first team. But it’s not a given. But technically, on the ball, making runs and being a threat, he definitely has the quality.". Most notably for Irish footballing fans were the second-half goals scored by international players Scott Hogan and Conor Hourihane. The news that Sean Maguire will be out of action for the first two months of the new season with a hamstring injury comes as a major blow to the player, Preston North End and the Republic of Ireland. Or with him at Villa. © RTÉ 2020. McClean’s combativeness and all-action style seem to be perfectly suited to the demands of the Championship and former Ireland international Liam Lawrence, who was part of the Stoke team to win promotion from the Championship in 2008, believes that the Derryman can follow in his footsteps. Is it weird to sign someone just because his surname rhymes with the name of the club? In fairness to the former Feyenoord man, he absolutely nailed the Sydney_Man_In_Sports_Gear.jpg stock photo aesthetic. ?#PartOfThePride #AVFC pic.twitter.com/3yIGzIpSuy, — Aston Villa FC (@AVFCOfficial) April 3, 2018. Aston Villa is one of the most successful clubs in English football history, having won 25 … Oh, you thought we were done with the non-playing goalkeepers, did you? 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