Aston Villa vs Nottingham Forest - Matt Maher preview - video Dailymotion

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.