On Tuesday, Aston Villa confirmed that they would be wearing their traditional home colours for the EFL Cup final against Manchester City on March 1.

Villa will be in their claret and blue kit for the clash at Wembley, where they will be tasked with overcoming the competition holders.

And the kit announcement on Tuesday went down extremely well with the club's supporters, who took to social media in their numbers.

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Others, though, were surprised to learn that an announcement even had to be made as there is technically no colour clash between the two clubs.

Villa overcame Crewe Alexandra, Brighton & Hove Albion and Wolverhampton Wanderers in the early rounds of this season's EFL Cup before famously beating a youthful Liverpool side 5-0 in the quarter-finals.

Leicester City were waiting in the semi-finals of the competition, and Dean Smith's side ran out 3-2 winners over the two legs to advance to the Wembley affair.

Villa have two Premier League matches before the clash with City, though, taking on Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday before facing Southampton on February 22.

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