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Warriors midfielder Marvelous Nakamba<\/a> is back in Aston Villa\u2019s starting eleven for tonight\u2019s Premier League clash with Chelsea.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old was an unused substitute in the last two league games, a 2-0 win win over Newcastle and a 2-2 draw with Manchester United Old Trafford.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see how he fares against the Chelsea pair of N\u2019Golo Kante and Mateo Kovacic, who both start in midfield for the Blues as they seek to bounce back from a 1-0 defeat to West Ham over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Here is Villa\u2019s startling eleven for the Chelsea game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Warriors midfielder Marvelous Nakamba is back in Aston Villa\u2019s starting eleven for tonight\u2019s Premier League clash with Chelsea. The 25-year-old was an unused substitute in the last two league games, a 2-0 win win over Newcastle and a 2-2 draw with Manchester United Old Trafford. It will be interesting to see how he fares against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":16326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[790,810],"class_list":{"0":"post-16324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-sport","9":"tag-football-in-zimbabwe","10":"tag-sports-in-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"\nNakamba back in Villa starting eleven - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Warriors midfielder Marvelous Nakamba is back in Aston Villa\u2019s starting eleven for tonight\u2019s Premier League clash with Chelsea.The 25-year-old was an unused\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/nakamba-back-in-villa-starting-eleven\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nakamba back in Villa starting eleven\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Warriors midfielder Marvelous Nakamba is back in Aston Villa\u2019s starting eleven for tonight\u2019s Premier League clash with Chelsea.The 25-year-old was an unused\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/nakamba-back-in-villa-starting-eleven\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-12-04T19:30:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2019\/12\/marvelous-nakamba.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"634\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"450\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/nakamba-back-in-villa-starting-eleven\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/nakamba-back-in-villa-starting-eleven\",\"name\":\"Nakamba back in Villa starting eleven - 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