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Out of the Team & Out of Luck: Where It's All Going Wrong for Aston Villa's Henri Lansbury

Aston Villa host Nottingham Forest this Saturday, just over a year on from the last time the two clubs met at Villa Park.

On that encounter in September 2016, then Forest midfielder Henri Lansbury made all the headlines by scoring a late equaliser.

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At the time, Lansbury was the star turn in an average Forest team and was playing superbly for the East Midlands club, so much so that he won Championship player of the month just two months later.

His outstanding performances for Forest convinced Aston Villa boss Steve Bruce that Lansbury was the man needed to help fire the Villans back to the Premier League.