Aston Villa fans on Twitter have been responding to the latest news regarding the current Premier League season.
This comes after the official Villa Twitter account shared a post on their page that contained a link to an article on their website that relayed a recent statement made by the Premier League.
The statement revealed that Premier League Shareholders have “agreed to a new provisional restart date for the 2019/20 season of Wednesday 17 June, provided that all safety requirements are in place.”
The statement also revealed that the first game played will be Villa’s clash against Sheffield United, which was originally pushed back due to Villa’s participation in the previous Carabao Cup final earlier in the season.
This post then gathered a lot of replies from Villa fans who were quick to share their thoughts on this latest update.
Here’s a sample of Villa fans responding to the post:
Premier League Shareholders today agreed to a new provisional restart date for the 2019/20 season of Wednesday, June 17, provided that all safety requirements are in place. #AVFC
— Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) May 28, 2020
Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Villa are staying up staying up Villa are staying uppppp
— Garin Williams (@GW_94) May 28, 2020
The Premier League has been temporarily suspended since March due to the impact of the current global pandemic.
Come on lads, make sure we are still in the league by the time we get back in the stadium
— Lewis Price (@lewispavfc) May 28, 2020
C”mon you Villa boys! Survival it is ?
— Mitchell Ellis (@Mitchel53183269) May 28, 2020
Will Villa avoid relegation this year?
Yes
No
Villa’s last Premier League game saw them lose 4-0 to Brendan Rodgers’ Leicester City side at the King Power Stadium, resulting in Dean Smith’s side landing in the relegation zone of the Premier League table.
This is the time to show us that you mean business and to stay in the premier League so good luck
— tim o’donovan (@egghead3) May 28, 2020
Dean smith is keeping us up
— L1PMN Reece (@C_Hourihane_14) May 28, 2020
As this statement started to do the rounds on Twitter, it quickly led to lots of Villa fans rallying around their team to share their hopes that they will be able to avoid relegation this season.
However, there was one Villa fan who decided to focus on the fact that all of Villa remaining games in the Premier League, including their home fixtures at Villa Park, will be played behind closed doors, with no fans in the stadium.
Will never be the same without us ?
— josh ???????? (@joshkentx) May 28, 2020
It’s good to see that the majority of these Villans are optimistic and feeling positive about Villa’s chances of Premier League survival.
The hope for these fans now will be that Dean Smith’s side will be able to repay the fans’ belief in them by getting some positive results in their remaining fixtures to avoid being relegated back to the Championship.
Villa will certainly want to start their remaining fixtures off to a good start to take away the disappointment of their previous fixture against Leicester back in March.