Ten days ago Roberto di Matteo left Villa Park and from that moment it seemed a pretty big certainty that it would be former Hull boss Steve Bruce who would be walking into the vacant hot seat. That was confirmed on Thursday this week and the Midlands giant will be hoping that his experience of getting teams promoted from the Championship to the English top flight will pay off for them.
Bruce has gotten both Birmingham and Hull promoted twice to the Premier League so he now gets the chance to improve his record to five promotions to the Premier League as he takes over at Villa. However, Bruce has a huge task on his hands this season with Aston Villa sitting down in 19th place in the Championship, having won just the one league game this season of the eleven that they have played.
So their fortunes from last season haven’t changed at all in having put up a W1 D7 L3 record. But if Bruce can start turning those drawn matches, which does hint at decent resiliency, into wins then they can start climbing the ladder. There is still 35 games left on the season to get through, so there’s still a chance. Online betting site Bet365 have Villa at 15/2 to get promoted this season and they have gone 1/2 on Villa finishing above rivals Birmingham, while they naturally have a price of 9/4 on Brice not surviving the season with the Villains.
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