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Villa have hit a bit of form and seem to be getting back to the level they were at last season.
They had another good win in the Champions League this week, but then you’d expect them to beat Viking pretty comfortably.
Emery’s side played well against Newcastle last week too but I thought Newcastle were a bit too gung-ho, and paid the price. City are a lot more streetwise.
It took Ipswich 19 matches and until 30 December to rack up three wins the last time they were promoted to the Premier League, in 2024-25, but their new-look side have already matched that total in their first six games.
“Whenever you get promoted there is going to be a large amount of player turnover because, if you want to stay up, then you need to bring some players in
I’ve heard people suggest that City’s players will be frazzled because of what is going on with the club off the pitch, but I don’t see it that way.
I suspect that, along with the City fans, there will be this siege mentality now where they think ‘everyone hates us, everyone wants us to lose, everyone wants us to be relegated’ – even if I don’t think that is actually
Sunderland are a really good team and, on their day, they are more than a match for anyone.
The Black Cats are strong and robust, and when they get after teams and press you then they are phenomenal.
All of that makes me think this is a really hard game for Manchester City.
Their derby victory was a brilliant win and Maresca’s biggest result as their manager so far,
Chris picked up his first win of the season after getting seven correct results – including three exact scores – from the 10 matches in week two.
After a slow start, five of his correct results – and two of his exact scores – came in the five games on Sunday and Monday.
That gave him a total of 160 points, enough to hold off a strong challenge from the
Defending champions Arsenal made an impressive start to the season against newly-promoted Coventry but face a tougher test against Aston Villa on Monday.
But with the number of outgoings at Villa Park, will it be another eye-opener for Unai Emery’s men after last week’s heavy defeat by Brighton?
BBC Sport football expert Chris Sutton thinks so.
“There’s only one winner with this,” he said.
“Aston Villa had a
Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder says he expects midfielder Gus Hamer to rejoin newly-promoted Premier League side Coventry City.
The 29-year-old has scored 22 goals and provided 29 assists in 123 games in all competitions for the Blades since arriving from the Sky Blues in 2023.
Hamer, who was the Championship player of the season in 2024-25, has been strongly linked with a return to Coventry where he previously spent
Birmingham City “still have work to do” in the transfer window before it shuts at the start of next month says boss Chris Davies, who added a move to bring Ibrahim Osman back to the club is unlikely.
Blues have brought in five players so far this summer and reports had linked them with a bid for Brighton’s Osman following the forward’s successful loan spell at St. Andrew’s last season.
Lincoln have swiftly appointed Chris Cohen and Tom Shaw as joint head coaches in the wake of Michael Skubala’s departure to Bristol City.
Cohen and Shaw, both 39, had been working together under Skubala as assistant coaches as the Red Imps stormed to the League One title last season to reach the second tier of English football for the first time in 65 years.
Lincoln sporting director Jez George
Birmingham City head coach Chris Davies was full of praise for his Blues players after a convincing win against old rivals Wrexham at St Andrew’s.
He told BBC Radio WM: “It was a big day for us. We wanted a big performance and we got that [and] a big result.
“I thought we were thoroughly dominant throughout the match. We looked like a proper team again and got what we