Aston Villa and AFC Bournemouth are going to face on Saturday the 18th of March at 3:00 pm in the 28th week of the Premier League. The match will take place in Birmingham at the Villa Park. The appointed referee is Robert Jones.
Aston Villa is in the 11th place in the table with 35 points. It comes from a 1-1 draw against West Ham United in its last match in the Premier League. So far, it has won 10 times, draw 5 times, and lost 11 times.
AFC Bournemouth is in the 18th position in the league with 24 points. It comes from a 1-0 win against Liverpool in its last match in the Premier League. Up to now, it has won 6 times, draw 6 times, and lost 14 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Aston Villa
Aston Villa has mostly adopted the 4-4-2 line-up most used during the season (10 times or 38.46%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-2 (10 times), 4-3-3 (5 times), 4-2-3-1 (4 times), 4-3-2-1 (3 times), 4-3-1-2 (2 times), 4-2-2-2 (once) and (once).
Unai Emery Etxegoien is expected to play against AFC Bournemouth with the following players: Emiliano Martínez, Álex Moreno, Tyrone Mings, Ezri Konsa, Matty Cash, Douglas Luiz, John McGinn, Jacob Ramsey, Emiliano Buendía, Leon Bailey and Ollie Watkins.
Granting that the above line up is confirmed, the estimate average age of Aston Villa would be 27.18.
Philippe Coutinho, Leander Dendoncker and Boubacar Kamara will definitely miss the match.
AFC Bournemouth
AFC Bournemouth has mostly adopted the 4-4-2 line-up most used during the season (7 times or 26.92%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-2 (7 times), 4-2-3-1 (6 times), 4-4-1-1 (4 times), 3-4-2-1 (3 times), 5-4-1 (2 times), 5-3-2 (2 times), 3-5-1-1 (once) and 3-1-4-2 (once).
Gary O\’Neil is expected to play against Aston Villa with the following players: Neto, Lloyd Kelly, Jack Stephens, Marcos Senesi, Adam Smith, Jaidon Anthony, Jefferson Lerma, Dango Aboubacar Faissal Ouattara, Philip Billing and Dominic Solanke.
Assuming that the line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of AFC Bournemouth would be 28.00.
There are doubts about the presence of Hamed Junior Traorè.
Gary O\’Neil will probably not be able to employ Jordan Zemura and Junior Stanislas because of injury.
Illia Zabarnyi and Marcus Tavernier will definitely miss the match.
