Predictions For Charlton Athletic vs Aston Villa

Last updated : 25 August 2004 By David Robson
Aston Villa is aways a difficult fixture for Charlton Athletic. I have seen a number of different performances when it comes to playing Villa, in recent times Villa do seem to get the better of us at home, they beat us last season home and away and they are improving each season.

Plus the addition of former striker Carlton Cole will make tonights game hopefully entertaining, but I do fear him scoring against us. It seems to happen all the time, a player returns to his former club, he gets booed and then scores the winner. The last two to do this were Defoe last season and Danny Mills a few seasons back.

But tonight I feel we have a better team than last season, we lost 3 big players in Di Canio, Jensen and Parker but I think Rommendahl, Murphy and Jeffers does strengthen us alittle more. Im hoping for more of the same from saturday's game where we did dominate but were alittle lucky with the result.

Prediction:

1-0 Charlton, I cant bet against us, it will be tough but I can see us stealing it late on with a goal from new boy Francis Jeffers.