Aston Villa Manager Roberto Di Matteo Is on the Verge of the Sack
"?As per "?The Daily Mail, Aston Villa manager is already on the brink of losing his job after his side extended their win-less run to nine games with a 2-0 defeat at Preston on Saturday.
The Italian, who is one of two Championship managers, along with Newcastle's Rafa Benitez, to have won the Champions League, was only appointed in the summer but already faces the sack, with the Villans just two points above the relegation zone in the second tier.
Aston Villa owner Dr. Tony Xia did not enjoy Ian Holloway's prediction that Villa will come 16th: pic.twitter.com/rzs55EO78Z
Despite watching one of his many expensive summer recruits, ex-Fulham striker Ross McCormack, miss a penalty, Di Matteo remained positive about his side's prospects.
"There's a team here that is good, it will come good for us. It's been a bad day at the office for sure. We are ten points from sixth place so it's still all possible.
"It's normal that when the results of the team aren't what you expect, the results will be questioned. That's part of our job."
Dr Tony Xia took over at Villa Park after lengthy fan-campaigning against previous Villa owner Randy Lerner in the summer with grand ambitions for the club and Di Matteo was expected to be the man to carry them out.
However, the Villans' start to the season hasn't suggested that a revival is on the cards, despite a spending spree that brought Tommy Elphick, McCormack, Jonathan Kodija and others to Villa Park in an attempt to make an instant return to the Premier League.
Xia scoffed at predictions from Sky Sports pundit Ian Holloway that his new club would struggle to bounce back at the first attempt, due to the huge rebuilding job required at the Midlands club, and it appears that the Chinese businessman might have underestimated the scale of the task he faces.
The result at Deepdale caps another poor week for Villa, who saw their former assistant and caretaker manager Eric Black embroiled in the Telegraph's #football4sale enquiries, that saw former England manager Sam Allardyce lose his job, after just one game in charge.
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