Brentford and Aston Villa will face on Saturday the 22nd of April at 3:00 pm in the 32nd week of the Premier League. The match will take place in London at the Brentford Community Stadium. The encounter will be officiated by Michael Salisbury.
Brentford occupies the 9th place in the standings with 43 points. It comes from a 2-0 loss against Wolverhampton Wanderers in its last match in the Premier League. Up to now, it has won 10 times, draw 13 times, and lost 8 times.
Aston Villa is in the 6th place in the league with 50 points. It comes from a 3-0 win against Newcastle United in its last match in the Premier League. To date, it has won 15 times, draw 5 times, and lost 11 times.
Aston Villa won the last 5 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 18th of February against Arsenal and the score was 2-4.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Brentford
Brentford has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (16 times or 51.61%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (16 times), 3-5-2 (10 times), 5-3-2 (4 times) and (once).
Thomas Frank is expected to play against Aston Villa with the following players: David Raya, Rico Henry, Ethan Pinnock, Ben Mee, Aaron Hickey, Joshua Da Silva, Christian Nørgaard, Mathias Jensen, Kevin Schade, Bryan Mbeumo and Ivan Toney.
In case that this will be the line-up, the estimate average age of Brentford would be 26.64.
Kristoffer Ajer, Pontus Jansson and Keane Lewis-Potter will definitely miss the match.
Aston Villa
Aston Villa has mostly adopted the 4-4-2 line-up most used during the season (13 times or 41.94%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-2 (13 times), 4-2-3-1 (6 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 Brentford with the following players: Emiliano Martínez, Álex Moreno, Tyrone Mings, Ezri Konsa, Ashley Young, Leander Dendoncker, Douglas Luiz, Jacob Ramsey, Emiliano Buendía, John McGinn and Ollie Watkins.
If the line up is confirmed, the resulting 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.