Chelsea and Aston Villa will play on Saturday the 1st of April at 5:30 pm in the 29th week of the Premier League. The match will be staged in London at the Stamford Bridge. The referee will be Andy Madley.
Chelsea sits in the 10th place in the league with 38 points. It comes from a 2-2 draw against Everton in its last match in the Premier League. Until now, it has won 10 times, draw 8 times, and lost 9 times.
Aston Villa is in the 11th place in the table with 38 points. It comes from a 3-0 win against AFC Bournemouth in its last match in the Premier League. Thus far, it has won 11 times, draw 5 times, and lost 11 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Chelsea
Chelsea has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (7 times or 25.93%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (7 times), 3-4-2-1 (5 times), 3-4-3 (4 times), 4-3-3 (3 times), 3-5-2 (3 times), 4-2-2-2 (2 times), 3-5-1-1 (once), 3-1-4-2 (once) and 4-4-2 (once).
Graham Potter is expected to play against Aston Villa with the following players: Kepa Arrizabalaga, Kalidou Koulibaly, Cucurella, Ben Chilwell, Mateo Kovačić, Enzo Fernández, Christian Pulišić and João Félix.
Assuming that this will be the line-up, the resulting average age of Chelsea would be 26.63.
There are doubts about the presence of Wesley Fofana, Reece James and Kai Havertz.
Graham Potter will probably not be able to employ Edouard Mendy, César Azpilicueta, Mason Mount and Raheem Sterling because of injury.
Thiago Silva and Armando Broja will definitely miss the match.
Aston Villa
Aston Villa has mostly adopted the 4-4-2 line-up most used during the season (10 times or 37.04%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-2 (10 times), 4-2-3-1 (5 times), 4-3-3 (5 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 Chelsea with the following players: Emiliano Martínez, Álex Moreno, Ezri Konsa, Tyrone Mings, Ashley Young, Douglas Luiz, Jacob Ramsey, Emiliano Buendía, Leon Bailey, John McGinn and Ollie Watkins.
Presuming that this will be the line-up, the projected average age of Aston Villa would be 28.27.
Unai Emery Etxegoien will probably not be able to employ Matty Cash, Philippe Coutinho and Boubacar Kamara because of injury.
Leander Dendoncker will definitely miss the match.
