Aston Villa vs Nottingham Forest - Matt Maher preview
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00:00Good afternoon from Body Moor Heath where Unai Emery has held his press
00:04conference ahead of Aston Villa's game with Nottingham Forest on Saturday. It's
00:08another huge game for Villa, they keep coming thick and fast.
00:11Wednesday's 3-0 win at Brighton put them firmly back in the race for a
00:16Champions League football through the Premier League and another big game now
00:19against Forest. Obviously Forest having a superb season, sitting third in the
00:24league, they look pretty much odds-on to get one of the Champions League places
00:27and Villa fighting to get into those spots between now and the
00:31end of the season. Unai Emery asked about Marcus Rashford who's due to play his
00:36500th career game for club and country which is quite a
00:41phenomenal figure really when you think for a 27 year old. Rashford obviously
00:44has scored three goals in the last two games to really spark his kind of
00:50revival at Villa and he's obviously kept Olly Watkins out of the team for
00:55those games. Now Watkins has been dealing or was dealing with a knee
00:59injury, obviously sustained against club bruise just before the international
01:02break, didn't go away with England. Unai Emery says he's back now to full
01:06fitness but that Villa won't take any undue risks with him and I suppose
01:11that's one of the decisions Emery has to make ahead of tomorrow's game is
01:14whether to keep playing Rashford as a striker or obviously he's got a
01:19very good goal return from the last two games or whether to bring Watkins back
01:23into the line-up. Could also be a change in defence, obviously Tyrone Mings didn't
01:27play on Wednesday night, Pau Torres came back into the team but Villa kept
01:34another clean sheet but there's a sense that Mings might be better suited to the
01:37physical style of Forrest. Villa targeting a seventh win in a row in all
01:42competitions, really feels like they've got momentum at the moment and
01:46obviously Forrest are having a fantastic season, you probably may feel a
01:50slight favour it's heading into this game because it really just feels that
01:54things are just coming together for them at the right moment.