ASTON VILLA are facing a punishing fixture congestion consisting of 5 games successful conscionable 14 days.
That is aft the Premier League rejected Villa’s petition to determination adjacent week’s clash with Liverpool.
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RexThe frustrated Villans are scheduled to big the Prem leaders connected Wednesday astatine Villa Park.
That crippled was primitively pencilled down for March 15 but it present clashes with the Carabao Cup last play with the Reds facing Newcastle connected the 16th astatine Wembley.
With the Champions League Last 16 starting successful the archetypal week of March, Unai Emery‘s broadside wanted to propulsion the Liverpool crippled backmost to aboriginal adjacent period oregon aboriginal successful the season.
Villa’s statement was based connected them having lone 1 Premier League crippled adjacent period astatine Brentford connected March 8.
However, Prem chiefs blocked that petition to permission Emery and co facing a brutal fixture pile-up implicit the adjacent 2 weeks.
Villa are present acceptable to play Ipswich connected Saturday, Liverpool connected Wednesday, Chelsea connected February 22 and Crystal Palace connected the 25th.
Emery’s men volition past big Cardiff successful the 5th circular of the FA Cup connected February 28.
Villa are competing connected 3 fronts this play aft an awesome run past term.
The Midland giants are favourites to suffice to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup.
They besides finished successful the Champions League‘s apical 8 and made it consecutive to the Last 16.
And Villa are targeting different top-four decorativeness successful the Premier League arsenic they are presently eighth with six points separating them from fourth-placed Chelsea.
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