axes Unai Emery Four changes for Youri Tielemans – Aston Villa’s starting XI against Luton Town has been confirmed.
Unai Emery has made four changes to Aston Villa’s starting lineup for their Premier League match against Luton Town on Sunday at Villa Park.
Villa stated on October 29 via their official X account that Emery has dropped Diego Carlos, Clement Lenglet, Leon Bailey, and Youri Tielemans after they began in the 4-1 Europa Conference League win away at AZ Alkmaar on Thursday (26 October).
Emery has named a team that is more similar to the one that hammered West Ham 4-1 last week, including Pau Torres, Ezri Konsa, Nicolo Zaniolo, and Moussa Diaby.
Emery’s choice to bench Tielemans was fantastic.
Despite the fact that the 26-year-old Belgian international had arguably his greatest game for the Villans on Thursday in Alkmaar, it is appropriate to leave him out of the starting lineup and relegate him to the bench for the match against Luton.
Tielemans hasn’t started a Premier League game this season for good cause.
Despite a considerably improved goal-scoring performance in the Netherlands, he’s been a letdown in claret and blue since joining on a free transfer from Leicester in the summer.
According to WhoScored, Tielemans has averaged 1.2 crucial passes per 90 minutes of Premier League games this season.
It places him 10th in the squad, which is terrible for a supposed playmaker.
Tyrone Mings (2.9), Lucas Digne (1.7), and Jhon Duran (1.3) are among those contributing more to Villans scoring chances than Tielemans.
Tielemans has the most passes per 90 minutes in the Villa team of players who have played more than 25 minutes of league football this season (70.1).
It’s one thing to make a lot of passes, but the quality of those passes must also be high.
That does not appear to be the case with Tielemans.
Is he playing it too safe due to his own nervousness? Or is it because Emery plays him so late in games that he can’t make an impact and is more suited to keeping possession than creating chances?
In any case, Villa cannot afford to be that quiet against Luton on Sunday.
They must go for the jugular and win easily.
