Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur will play on Saturday the 9th of April at 5:30 pm in the 32nd week of the Premier League. The match is going to be played in Birmingham at the Villa Park. The appointed referee is Graham Scott.
Aston Villa is in the 11th place in the table with 36 points. It comes from a 2-1 loss against Wolverhampton Wanderers in its last match in the Premier League. As of now, it has won 10 times, draw 3 times, and lost 16 times.
Tottenham Hotspur occupies the 4th place in the standings with 54 points. It comes from a 5-1 win against Newcastle United in its last match in the Premier League. Thus far, it has won 17 times, draw 3 times, and lost 10 times.
Tottenham Hotspur won the last 3 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 12th of March against Manchester United and the score was 3-2.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Aston Villa
Aston Villa has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (14 times or 48.28%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (14 times), 4-3-1-2 (5 times), 3-5-2 (3 times), 4-2-3-1 (2 times), 5-3-2 (2 times), 4-3-2-1 (once), 3-4-1-2 (once) and 4-1-4-1 (once).
Steven Gerrard is expected to play against Tottenham Hotspur with the following players: D. Martínez, E. Konsa Ngoyo, M. Cash, J. McGinn, J. Ramsey, D. Soares de Paulo, P. Coutinho Correia, L. Bailey Butler and O. Watkins.
Presuming that this will be the line-up, the average age of Aston Villa would be 26.00.
There are doubts about the presence of S. Swinkels and T. Mings.
Steven Gerrard will probably not be able to employ K. Hause, E. Buendía, M. Nakamba and D. Ings because of injury.
Tottenham Hotspur
Tottenham Hotspur has mostly adopted the 3-4-2-1 line-up most used during the season (16 times or 53.33%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-2-1 (16 times), 4-2-3-1 (4 times), 4-3-3 (4 times), 4-4-2 (once), 3-5-2 (once), 3-4-3 (once), 5-3-2 (once), 4-3-2-1 (once) and 4-3-1-2 (once).
Antonio Conte is expected to play against Aston Villa with the following players: H. Lloris, B. Davies, E. Dier, C. Romero, M. Doherty, R. Bentancur Colmán, P. Højbjerg, D. Kulusevski, H. Son and H. Kane.
Granting that this will be the line-up, the average age of Tottenham Hotspur would be 28.00.
Antonio Conte will probably not be able to employ S. Reguilón Rodríguez because of injury.
J. Tanganga and O. Skipp will definitely miss the match.
