{"id":284898,"date":"2011-02-28T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/02\/28\/aston-villa-manager-gerard-houllier-tips-stewart-downing-for-england-call\/"},"modified":"2011-02-28T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T23:00:00","slug":"aston-villa-manager-gerard-houllier-tips-stewart-downing-for-england-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/28\/aston-villa-manager-gerard-houllier-tips-stewart-downing-for-england-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa manager Gerard Houllier tips Stewart Downing for England call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Alex Fisher<\/h3>\n<h4>28 Feb 2011 23:00:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"63.4236284289\">\n<div readability=\"14.9178082192\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EPL ; Stewart Downing, Aston Villa v Fulham(Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/5e87474c123285_news.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>EPL ; Stewart Downing, Aston Villa v Fulham(Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"27.1705202312\"><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/95\/aston-villa\">Aston Villa<\/a> manager <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/france\/10115\/g%C3%A9rard-houllier\">Gerard Houllier<\/a> believes that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/1995\/stewart-downing\">Stewart Downing <\/a>has improved dramatically this season, something which could benefit both Villa and England.<\/p>\n<p>The winger has made 33 appearances for Villa this season and Houllier has hailed his performances as \u201coutstanding\u201d and believes he should be involved more in Fabio Capello\u2019s England squad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stewart is outstanding. Anyone who has seen practically all our games will have noticed he has improved a lot,\u201d he told the club\u2019s official website.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s more confident, he can pass, he can score, his goal was fantastic against Blackburn too. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He can make runs sometimes to cover and sometimes to fill in. His technique is good and his awareness is good. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stewart can be on either side too, right or left. He&#8217;s one of those rare players who can use his right or left foot when he&#8217;s running. Most players can do it standing still but he can do it on the move. <\/p>\n<p>Downing has won 24 caps for his country but has never been a regular for the Three Lions however Houllier is hopeful his form will see him included in the squad to face Wales in a Euro 2012 qualifier in March, he said: &#8220;I hope he&#8217;s in the next party, for us and for himself, because I like when our players go and play for their country.&#8221;<br \/><em><br \/><\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/5e87474c123285_news-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/02\/28\/2373573\/aston-villa-manager-gerard-houllier-tips-stewart-downing-for\" title=\"Aston Villa manager Gerard Houllier tips Stewart Downing for England call\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aston Villa manager Gerard Houllier tips Stewart Downing for England call<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Alex Fisher 28 Feb 2011 23:00:00 EPL ; Stewart Downing, Aston Villa v Fulham(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Aston Villa manager Gerard Houllier believes that Stewart Downing has improved dramatically this season, something which could benefit both Villa and England. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Aston Villa manager Gerard Houllier tips Stewart Downing for England call - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\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.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/28\/aston-villa-manager-gerard-houllier-tips-stewart-downing-for-england-call\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Aston Villa manager Gerard Houllier tips Stewart Downing for England call - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Alex Fisher 28 Feb 2011 23:00:00 EPL ; 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