Aston Villa and Brighton & Hove Albion are going to face off on Sunday the 28th of May at 4:30 pm in the 38th week of the Premier League. The match is going to take place in Birmingham at the Villa Park.
Aston Villa occupies the 7th place in the standings with 58 points. It comes from a 1-1 draw against Liverpool in its last match in the Premier League. Thus far, it has won 17 times, draw 7 times, and lost 13 times.
Brighton & Hove Albion is in the 6th place in the standings with 62 points. It comes from a 1-1 draw against Manchester City in its last match in the Premier League. As of now, it has won 18 times, draw 8 times, and lost 11 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 (15 times or 40.54%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-2 (15 times), 4-2-3-1 (10 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 Brighton & Hove Albion with the following players: Emiliano Martínez, Ashley Young, Tyrone Mings, Ezri Konsa, Matty Cash, Douglas Luiz, John McGinn, Jacob Ramsey, Emiliano Buendía, Leon Bailey and Ollie Watkins.
Suppose that the line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Aston Villa would be 27.91.
Unai Emery Etxegoien will probably not be able to employ Lucas Digne, Álex Moreno and Diego Carlos because of injury.
Jed Steer and Philippe Coutinho will definitely miss the match.
Brighton & Hove Albion
Brighton & Hove Albion has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (25 times or 67.57%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (25 times), 3-4-2-1 (4 times), 3-4-1-2 (2 times), 4-4-2 (2 times), 3-5-2 (2 times), 3-5-1-1 (once) and 3-3-3-1 (once).
Roberto De Zerbi is expected to play against Aston Villa with the following players: Jason Steele, Pervis Estupinan, Lewis Dunk, Levi Colwill, Joël Veltman, Pascal Groß, Moisés Caicedo Corozo, Kaoru Mitoma, Alexis Mac Allister, Facundo Valentín Buonanotte and Evan Ferguson.
If the above line up is confirmed, the projected average age of Brighton & Hove Albion would be 26.50.
Robert Sanchez, Adam Lallana, Tariq Lamptey, Solly March, Jakub Moder and Jeremy Sarmiento will definitely miss the match.