Wolverhampton Wanderers and Aston Villa are going to take on on Sunday the 8th of October at 2:00 pm in the 8th week of the Premier League. The match will be staged in Wolverhampton at the Molineux Stadium. The encounter will be officiated by Robert Jones.
Wolverhampton Wanderers occupies the 15th position in the league with 7 points. It comes from a 2-1 win against Manchester City in its last match in the Premier League. So far, it has won twice, drawn twice, and lost 3 times.
Aston Villa is in the 5th place in the league with 15 points. It comes from a 6-1 win against Brighton & Hove Albion in its last match in the Premier League. As of now, it has won 5 times and lost twice.
Aston Villa won the last 3 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 3rd of September against Liverpool and the score was 3-0.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Wolverhampton Wanderers has mostly adopted the 4-4-2 line-up most used during the season (3 times or 42.86%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-2 (3 times), 3-4-3 (once), 4-2-3-1 (once), 4-3-3 (once) and 4-4-1-1 (once).
Gary O’Neil is expected to play against Aston Villa with the following players: José Sá, Craig Dawson, Toti Gomes, Max Kilman, Rayan Aït Nouri, Mario Lemina, João Gomes, Nélson Semedo, Hwang Hee-Chan, Pedro Neto and Matheus Cunha.
Presuming that the above line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Wolverhampton Wanderers would be 26.45.
Gary O’Neil will not be able to have the presence of Jean-Ricner Bellegarde who is suspended.
Aston Villa
Aston Villa has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (5 times or 71.43%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (5 times), 4-4-2 (once) and 3-4-2-1 (once).
Unai Emery Etxegoien is expected to play against Wolverhampton Wanderers with the following players: Emiliano Martínez, Lucas Digne, Pau Torres, Ezri Konsa, Matty Cash, Boubacar Kamara, Douglas Luiz, Nicolò Zaniolo, Youri Tielemans, John McGinn and Ollie Watkins.
Assuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the projected average age of Aston Villa would be 26.82.
Unai Emery Etxegoien will probably not be able to employ Álex Moreno, Leon Bailey, Moussa Diaby and Tim Iroegbunam because of injury.
Tyrone Mings , Emiliano Buendía, Jaden Philogene-Bidace and Jacob Ramsey will definitely miss the match.
