Aston Villa and Crystal Palace are going to take on on Saturday the 16th of September at 3:00 pm in the 5th week of the Premier League. The match is going to be staged in Birmingham at the Villa Park. The encounter will be officiated by Darren England.
Aston Villa is in the 10th place in the standings with 6 points. It comes from a 3-0 loss against Liverpool in its last match in the Premier League. Thus far, it has won twice and lost twice.
Crystal Palace is in the 7th place in the table with 7 points. It comes from a 3-2 win against Wolverhampton Wanderers in its last match in the Premier League. So far, it has won twice, drawn once, and lost once.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Aston Villa
Aston Villa has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (2 times or 50.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (2 times), 4-4-2 (once) and 3-4-2-1 (once).
Unai Emery Etxegoien is expected to play against Crystal Palace with the following players: Emiliano Martínez, Lucas Digne, Pau Torres, Ezri Konsa, Matty Cash, Douglas Luiz, Boubacar Kamara, John McGinn, Leon Bailey, Moussa Diaby and Ollie Watkins.
Granting that the line up is confirmed, the average age of Aston Villa would be 26.82.
Unai Emery Etxegoien will probably not be able to employ Álex Moreno, Diego Carlos, Jacob Ramsey and Bertrand Traoré because of injury.
Tyrone Mings , Emiliano Buendía, Jaden Philogene-Bidace and Tim Iroegbunam will definitely miss the match.
Crystal Palace
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (4 times).
Roy Hodgson is expected to play against Aston Villa with the following players: Sam Johnstone, Tyrick Mitchell, Marc Guéhi, Joachim Andersen, Joel Ward, Jefferson Lerma, Cheick Doucouré, Jeffrey Schlupp, Eberechi Eze, Jordan Ayew and Odsonne Édouard.
In case that the above line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Crystal Palace would be 27.55.
Roy Hodgson will probably not be able to employ Michael Olise because of injury.
Nathan Ferguson and Matheus França will definitely miss the match.
