Tim Sherwood is the man tasked with preserving Aston Villa’s ever-present Premier League status and igniting their misfiring attack after being confirmed as the struggling club’s new manager on Saturday.
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Former Tottenham Hotspur manager Sherwood, 46, replaces Paul Lambert who was sacked by the Midlands club after they were beaten 2-0 against fellow strugglers Hull City on Tuesday, their fifth successive league defeat.
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Goal-shy Villa, who have hit the net only 12 times in 25 Premier League games this season, are 18th in the table having won none of their previous 10 games.
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“It is a great honour to manage one of the biggest clubs in English football. I can’t wait to get started and I’m really looking forward to the challenge,” Sherwood, given a three-and-a-half year contract, said in a statement on the club website (www.avfc.co.uk).
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Villa will hope Sherwood, who stepped up from Tottenham’s backroom staff to replace the sacked Andre Villas-Boas, can have the same impact on their misfiring forwards as he did with Emmanuel Adebayor at Tottenham.
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The appointment of Sherwood coincided with the revitalisation of the often-maligned Togo forward who scored 14 goals in 25 games in all competitions last season, having been left out by Villas-Boas.
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