Weimann enjoying sensational season years after leaving Aston Villa 'with a teardrop in my eye'

Former Aston Villa star Andi Weimann has been ripping it up for Bristol City in the Championship this season.

The 30-year-old is enjoying the most productive campaign of his life, having so far made 18 goal contributions in 40 Championship games. He has scored 19 times and assisted another nine under Nigel Pearson with six games left to play this season.

Weimann is in fine goalscoring company on the Championship goal scoring charts too. Only Aleksandar Mitrovic, Dominic Solanke and Ben Brereton Diaz have scored more times for their promotion-chasing clubs.

And those three forwards have all scored more than 20 goals, with Brereton Diaz on 23, Solanke on 24 and way out in front is Mitrovic, who currently has more goals than games played. The Serbian has netted 37 goals and 36 games to smash Ivan Toney's record from last season.

But for Weimann, who often plays in midfield for Bristol, his 31% goal conversation rate is the highest of any player in the top 10 of second division goal scorers. It's been a truly remarkable campaign for the Villa youth product.

Up until this season, Weimann's best goal return in a single campaign was 2018/19 when he broke into double figures for the first time, but scored just 10. At Villa, his best was seven goals in 2012/13 under Paul Lambert.

By 2012-13's standards, 2013-14 was anti-climactic for him with six goals and with four goals following in 2014-15 before Lambert's sacking in February 2015, he had it all to prove to Tim Sherwood. Though, he started just one game under Sherwood, but was included in every matchday squad under the new manager bar one.

He was left out of the match day squad no player wants to miss. "That hurt me the most, missing the FA Cup final, I'll tell you that