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20 is plenty for Ollie
Birmingham Mail
|January 06, 2026
VILLA striker Ollie Watkins believes he can still score 20 Premier League goals this season after finding his form in recent weeks.
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The 30-year-old opened the scoring against Nottingham Forest on Saturday - his fourth goal in three matches - after bagging a brace at Chelsea and scoring a consolation for Villa against Arsenal.
Now with seven league goals to his name, Watkins has silenced his critics who not long ago called for him to be dropped from the starting XI - by scoring the joint-most goals (six) in the league since December.
The England international has just one fewer strike after the first 20 matches of the season than he managed at the same stage last term, when he went on to score 16 over the course of the campaign.
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