May 25, 2015: Aston Villa U-21 coach Gordon Cowans says his side will “do their utmost” to win this week’s HKFCsbo128 Citibank Soccer Sevens at Hong Kong Football Club, where Sunday’s knockout stage will be held the day after Tim Sherwood’s first team face Arsenal in the FA Cup final.Villa’s season has turned around following Sherwood’s appointment in mid-February. The team have since won eight of their last 16 matches in the Premier League and FA Cup, while Jack Grealish – the Soccer Sevens’ top scorer in in 2013 and 2014 – has become a first-team regular and one of the league’s hottest prospects.As the club target a weekend Cup double in Wembley and Hong Kong, Cowans is counting on the likes of left-back Lewis Kinsella and midfielder Riccardo Calder – who have both been part of the first-team squad this season – to help Villa win the Soccer Sevens for the first time since 2010.“We definitely want to win the Cup again. We’re going out there to try and do our best, and we’ll do our utmost to get something out of the competition,” said Cowans, who said spirits at the club had lifted since the arrival ofsbo128 Sherwood, a former teammate at Blackburn Rovers.The difference since Tim has come into the club has been so positive. He has just lifted everybody and there’s a real positivity about the place. Everybody’s full of confidence, hence the reason why we’re getting the results we are.”After last reaching the Soccer Sevens Cup final in 2012, Villa have twice won the second-tier Shield, but remain easily the event’s most successful side with five wins. Cowans’ side start their campaign on Saturday against Wellington Phoenix, HKFA U-18 and hosts Hong Kong Football Club in Group C.Статистика: Публикувано на от thanloeuth — 26 Авг 2018 05:44
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