Aston Villa and Manchester City will play on Wednesday the 1st of December at 8:15 pm in the 14th week of the Premier League. The match is going to be played in Birmingham at the Villa Park. The appointed referee is Mike Dean.
Aston Villa sits in the 13th position in the table with 16 points. It comes from a 1-2 win against Crystal Palace in its last match in the Premier League. So far, it has won 5 times, drawn once, and lost 7 times.
Manchester City occupies the 2nd position in the table with 29 points. It comes from a 2-1 win against West Ham United in its last match in the Premier League. Thus far, it has won 9 times, drawn twice, and lost twice.
Manchester City won the last 3 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 30th of October against Crystal Palace and the score was 0-2.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Aston Villa
Aston Villa has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (4 times or 30.77%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (4 times), 3-5-2 (3 times), 4-2-3-1 (2 times), 5-3-2 (2 times), 3-4-1-2 (once) and 4-1-4-1 (once).
Steven Gerrard is expected to play against Manchester City with the following players: D. Martínez, M. Targett, T. Mings, E. Konsa Ngoyo, M. Cash, J. McGinn, J. Ramsey, D. Soares de Paulo, E. Buendía, O. Watkins and D. Ings.
Assuming that the above line up is confirmed, the projected average age of Aston Villa would be 25.45.
B. Traoré will definitely miss the match.
Manchester City
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (13 times).
Josep Guardiola i Sala is expected to play against Aston Villa with the following players: E. Santana de Moraes, J. Cavaco Cancelo, A. Laporte, R. Santos Gato Alves Dias, K. Walker, İ. Gündoğan, R. Hernández Cascante, B. Mota Veiga de Carvalho e Silva and R. Sterling.
Presuming that this will be the line-up, the estimate average age of Manchester City would be 27.44.
There are doubts about the presence of K. De Bruyne and P. Foden.
J. Grealish and F. Torres García will definitely miss the match.
Josep Guardiola i Sala will not be able to have the presence of B. Mendy who is suspended.
