Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest will face on Saturday the 8th of April at 3:00 pm in the 30th week of the Premier League. The match will be staged in Birmingham at the Villa Park. The encounter will be officiated by Anthony Taylor.
Aston Villa sits in the 7th place in the standings with 44 points. It comes from a 1-2 win against Leicester City in its last match in the Premier League. Thus far, it has won 13 times, draw 5 times, and lost 11 times.
Aston Villa won the last 3 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 18th of February against Arsenal and the score was 2-4.
Nottingham Forest occupies the 17th place in the standings with 27 points. It comes from a 2-1 loss against Leeds United in its last match in the Premier League. To date, it has won 6 times, draw 9 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 (12 times or 41.38%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-2 (12 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 Nottingham Forest with the following players: Emiliano Martínez, Álex Moreno, Ezri Konsa, Tyrone Mings, Ashley Young, Emiliano Buendía, Douglas Luiz, John McGinn, Jacob Ramsey, Ollie Watkins and Leon Bailey.
If this will be the line-up, the projected average age of Aston Villa would be 28.27.
Matty Cash, Philippe Coutinho and Boubacar Kamara will definitely miss the match.
Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (8 times or 27.59%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (8 times), 4-3-2-1 (6 times), 4-3-1-2 (5 times), 4-2-3-1 (3 times), 3-4-1-2 (3 times), 3-4-2-1 (2 times), 5-3-2 (once) and (once).
Steve Cooper is expected to play against Aston Villa with the following players: Keylor Navas, Renan Lodi, Felipe, Moussa Niakhaté, Neco Williams, Remo Freuler, Orel Mangala, Danilo dos Santos de Oliveira, Brennan Johnson, Morgan Gibbs-White and Taiwo Awoniyi.
Suppose that the line up is confirmed, the average age of Nottingham Forest would be 26.73.
Steve Cooper will probably not be able to employ Serge Aurier, Emmanuel Dennis and Ryan Yates because of injury.
Dean Henderson, Giulian Biancone, Willy Boly, Scott Mckenna, Omar Richards, Jesse Lingard and Chris Wood will definitely miss the match.