Aston Villa and Newcastle United will clash on Saturday the 15th of April at 12:30 pm in the 31st week of the Premier League. The match will be staged in Birmingham at the Villa Park. The appointed referee is John Brooks.
Aston Villa is in the 6th position in the table with 47 points. It comes from a 2-0 win against Nottingham Forest in its last match in the Premier League. As of now, it has won 14 times, draw 5 times, and lost 11 times.
Aston Villa won the last 4 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 18th of February against Arsenal and the score was 2-4.
Newcastle United occupies the 3rd place in the league with 56 points. It comes from a 1-2 win against Brentford in its last match in the Premier League. So far, it has won 15 times, draw 11 times, and lost 3 times.
Newcastle United won the last 5 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 4th of March against Manchester City and the score was 2-0.
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 (13 times or 43.33%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-2 (13 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 Newcastle United with the following players: Emiliano Martínez, Álex Moreno, Tyrone Mings, Ezri Konsa, Ashley Young, Douglas Luiz, John McGinn, Jacob Ramsey, Emiliano Buendía, Bertrand Traoré and Ollie Watkins.
Granting that the line up is confirmed as above, the estimate average age of Aston Villa would be 28.45.
Unai Emery Etxegoien will probably not be able to employ Matty Cash, Philippe Coutinho, Boubacar Kamara and Leon Bailey because of injury.
Newcastle United
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (29 times).
Eddie Howe is expected to play against Aston Villa with the following players: Nick Pope, Dan Burn, Fabian Schär, Sven Botman, Kieran Trippier, Bruno Guimarães, Joseph Willock, Sean Longstaff, Joelinton, Jacob Murphy and Alexander Isak.
Granting that the line up is confirmed as above, the estimate average age of Newcastle United would be 27.73.
Eddie Howe will probably not be able to employ Miguel Almirón because of injury.
Emil Krafth, Matthew Longstaff and Allan Saint-Maximin will definitely miss the match.