Aston Villa and Leicester City are going to play on Sunday the 5th of December at 4:30 pm in the 15th week of the Premier League. The match is going to be played in Birmingham at the Villa Park. The chosen referee is Michael Oliver.
Aston Villa occupies the 13th position in the league with 16 points. It comes from a 1-2 loss against Manchester City in its last match in the Premier League. Until now, it has won 5 times, drawn once, and lost 8 times.
Leicester City sits in the 10th place in the league with 19 points. It comes from a 2-2 draw against Southampton in its last match in the Premier League. As of now, it has won 5 times, draw 4 times, and lost 5 times.
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 (5 times or 35.71%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (5 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 Leicester City with the following players: D. Martínez, A. Young, T. Mings, E. Konsa Ngoyo, M. Cash, J. McGinn, J. Ramsey, D. Soares de Paulo, A. El Ghazi, E. Buendía and O. Watkins.
Suppose that the line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Aston Villa would be 26.09.
Steven Gerrard will probably not be able to employ M. Targett and D. Ings because of injury.
B. Traoré and L. Bailey Butler will definitely miss the match.
Leicester City
Leicester City has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (5 times or 35.71%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (5 times), 4-3-3 (3 times), 3-4-1-2 (3 times), 4-4-2 (2 times) and 3-4-3 (once).
Brendan Rodgers is expected to play against Aston Villa with the following players: K. Schmeichel, L. Thomas, J. Evans, C. Söyüncü, T. Castagne, B. Soumaré, O. Ndidi, H. Barnes, J. Maddison, A. Lookman and J. Vardy.
Suppose that this will be the line-up, the average age of Leicester City would be 27.30.
W. Fofana, J. Justin, R. Barbosa Pereira and Y. Tielemans will definitely miss the match.