Aston Villa and Fulham will face each other in the Championship playoff final this weekend, and Darren Bent predicts Steve Bruce’s side to win.
Villa will take on Fulham at the Wembley Stadium in London in the Championship playoff final on Saturday evening.
Bent, who is leaving Championship club Derby County this summer, has backed Steve Bruce’s side to get the better of the Cottagers.
The 34-year-old former Tottenham Hotspur and Sunderland striker has played for both Villa and Fulham in his career.
Bent said on the Kick Off show on talkSPORT on Monday evening (9:55pm, May 21, 2018): “Aston Villa for me. I think they are going to win.
“Steve Bruce, he knows how to get teams out of the division, and he very rarely fails when he gets to this part of the season, the playoff final. I genuinely believe that Aston Villa will go up.”
Aston Villa or Fulham?
Fulham finished above Villa in the Championship table in the ‘regular’ season, and the London club will be looking to use that as an inspiration this Saturday evening.
The Cottagers have been superb in recent weeks, and perhaps they were even unlucky not to win automatic promotion to the Premier League.
Villa, though, have one of the best managers in the Championship in Bruce, and the Villans also have some brilliant footballers as well.
The Villans need to be defensively strong against Fulham, who have a brilliant attacking unit who will be confidence of scoring at least once at the Wemley Stadium in London.
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