Dean Smith is backing Aston Villa duo to hit it off
Dean Smith is confident Danny Ings and Ollie Watkins will form a potent Villa strikeforce.
Smith will consider unleashing the pair again in tomorrow’s clash with Everton after they started together for the first time in last weekend’s 3-0 defeat at Chelsea.
Villa paid £25million to bring Ings from Southampton during the summer but Smith insists he has no plans to move last season’s top scorer Watkins out to a wide position and believes the pair are capable of forming an effective partnership up front.
He said: “We brought Danny in because we feel he will compliment the way Ollie Watkins plays. I certainly see them playing together.
“If I play them they will definitely play together (in a two). It would be foolish of me to move Ollie Watkins out wide when he scored 16 goals last season and 25 the season before that for Brenford in a central position.”
