Aston Villa will be looking to earn promotion to the Premier League this season.
In what has been a season of struggle and a season of indifferent performances, not many Aston Villa players can claim to have improved from the season before.
Therefore, it won’t be surprising to hear that there are a lot of individuals that have, unfortunately, gone backwards for a team that reached the play-off final under Steve Bruce during the previous campaign.
One name that stands out above all is, Albert Adomah. Last term, he was a regular for Villa and one of their most reliable attacking weapons.
Over the course of the 2017/18 campaign, he scored 14 goals from the left flank and provided his teammates with five assists in the process [transfermarkt].
By contrast, during this campaign, the 31-year-old versatile attacker has only found the back of the net on one occasion and supplied his teammates with three assists.
A far cry from the player that won the Players’ Player of the Year.
The senior player has struggled to establish himself out on the wings this season. That bite in his attacking play has gone, his age seems to have caught up on him and the creativity is no longer there in his game.
Adomah’s standout display this term was arguably Villa’s 4-2 home win against Birmingham City when he supplied two assists for Jonathan Kodjia and Jack Grealish’s goals.
In that match, he tested the Blues fullback, controlled the situation in an attacking area and provided two pin-point crosses for his teammates. But that has been a rarity.
Not only that, during the previous campaign, Villa’s 2016 summer signing found this knack of scoring goals at the far post. Finding that extra space in the penalty area. But once again, confidence and a lack of form has resulted in those occasions hardly occurring this season.
There is still time left for Adomah to prove his worth because eight games remain and a play-off place is still up for grabs.
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