Morgan Rogers believes that Aston Villa will focus on a place under the elite of the Premier League for years, after the big-to-go acquisitions of Marcus Rashford and Marco Asensio.
Rashford and Asensio came on loan from Manchester United and Paris Saint-Germain before the closure of the transfer window of the mid-season.
Both players made their debut from the bank in the 2-1 FA Cup victory of Sunday at Tottenham and were now able to make their Premier League bikes against Ipswich Town on Saturday.
Villa is eighth in the table after their derby defeat against Wolves two weeks ago, but Rogers believes that their newcomers – playing under the supervision of Unai Emery – can have a big impact.
“If a club wants you, it's one thing, but if the manager wants you, it's something else, and that's all they have ever said to me,” Rogers said the club's website.
“That feeling, there is nothing better than feeling looking. From moment one, as hard as he is on me, I feel it because he does it extra to want me to improve, to want me to get better, because he Seeing something and wants me to appear. “
Rogers believes that the signing sessions show that the future in Villa Park is rosy and says: “As a club we want to go to the next level and to do that, we have to play in large competitions, win the big games and compete in the big one Games.
“That is what the manager talks about; he doesn't just want to be satisfied with what we have done.
“He did not come here to do what we have done in the past two years and to go back to a sometimes team.”
It's not someone missing
Pitchide of our 2-1 victory over Spurs in the FA Cup is now live on Villatv
– Aston Villa (@AVFCofficial) 11 February 2025
Ipswich is now 19th in the table and saw their hope for survival take a big blow when they lost 2-1 at the bottom Southampton fourteen days ago.
“We know what this season is. We know what the challenge is,” said their head coach Kieran McKenna.
“You start from one of the top teams in the championship-Like that nobody expected that we are, apart from ourselves, to compete at the bottom of the toughest division in world football.
“We have improved this year, even in the Southampton game, I think we have shown that, but it is more difficult to win the victories that are going on and prove.”
Players to watch
Aston Villa – Marcus Rashford
Each of the four Premier League goals from Rashford is this season 15th in the table or lower, including road to Ipswich for Man United in November.
The last players who score against the same opponent for different clubs in a Premier League season are Alexis Sanchez (Arsenal and Man Utd v Huddersfield Town) and Olivier Giroud (Arsenal and Chelsea v Southampton), both in 2017-18.
Ipswich Town – Liam Delap
Only Dominic Solanke (399), Nicolas Jackson (317) and Erling Haaland (312) have included more pressure this season in the last third than Delap (305) in the Premier League.
In the meantime, excluding own goals, 95% of the 21 Premier League goals have been scored this season by British or Irish players, the highest share by a team in one campaign since Wolves in 2011-12 (98% -39/40) .
Match forecast – Aston Villa Win
Aston Villa has only lost one of their last 14 top meetings with Ipswich (10 victories, three draws), a 1-0 home defeat in March 1994.
Villa has only lost one of their last 20 Premier League matches against opposition in the relegation zone (13 wins, six draws), although that only defeat came to Wolves (0-2) last time on match day.
In the meantime, Ipswich has lost 10 of their last 12 in the league matches against Villa, with both exceptions being 1-0 victories (March 1994 in the Premier League, February 2017 in the championship).
The Tractor Boys have also lost each of their last four Premier League matches – their longest losing run of the season. They last lost more consecutive league games between October and December 2011 under Paul Jewell (seven in the championship).
They make one of the most difficult trips in the Premier League and his big outsiders.
Since the start of last season, only Everton and Brentford have won a larger share of their total Premier League points at home than Aston Villa (60% – 63/105) among the current parties in the division.
Opta wins probability
Aston Villa – 64.6%
Ipswich Town – 16.3%
Drawing – 19.1%
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