Aston Villa and Crystal Palace will play on Saturday the 16th of September at 3:00 pm in the 5th week of the Premier League. The match will be staged in Birmingham at the Villa Park. The chosen referee is Darren England.
Aston Villa occupies the 10th position in the table with 6 points. It comes from a 3-0 loss against Liverpool in its last match in the Premier League. So far, it has won twice and lost twice.
Crystal Palace sits in the 7th place in the league with 7 points. It comes from a 3-2 win against Wolverhampton Wanderers in its last match in the Premier League. As of now, 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.
In case that this will be the line-up, the projected average age of Aston Villa would be 26.82.
Tyrone Mings , Álex Moreno, Diego Carlos, Emiliano Buendía, Jaden Philogene-Bidace, Tim Iroegbunam, Jacob Ramsey and Bertrand Traoré 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, Rob Holding, Joachim Andersen, Joel Ward, Jeffrey Schlupp, Cheick Doucouré, Eberechi Eze, Jordan Ayew, Jean-Philippe Mateta and Odsonne Édouard.
Presuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the projected average age of Crystal Palace would be 27.73.
Nathan Ferguson, Marc Guéhi, James Tomkins, Jefferson Lerma, Michael Olise and Matheus França will definitely miss the match.
