Liverpool and Aston Villa will play on Saturday the 11th of December at 3:00 pm in the 16th week of the Premier League. The match is going to be played in Liverpool at the Anfield. The encounter will be officiated by Stuart Attwell.
Liverpool is in the 2nd position in the table with 34 points. It comes from a 0-1 win against Wolverhampton Wanderers in its last match in the Premier League. So far, it has won 10 times, draw 4 times, and lost once.
Liverpool won the last 4 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 7th of November against West Ham United and the score was 3-2.
Aston Villa sits in the 11th position in the table with 19 points. It comes from a 2-1 win against Leicester City in its last match in the Premier League. Thus far, it has won 6 times, drawn once, and lost 8 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Liverpool
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (15 times).
Jürgen Klopp is expected to play against Aston Villa with the following players: A. Becker, A. Robertson, J. Job Matip, V. van Dijk, T. Alexander-Arnold, J. Henderson, T. Alcântara do Nascimento, T. Minamino, R. Firmino, S. Mané and M. Salah Ghaly.
Granting that the above line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Liverpool would be 28.55.
Jürgen Klopp will probably not be able to employ D. Teixeira da Silva because of injury.
N. Phillips, C. Jones and H. Elliot will definitely miss the match.
Aston Villa
Aston Villa has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (6 times or 40.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (6 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 Liverpool with the following players: D. Martínez, T. Mings, E. Konsa Ngoyo, M. Cash, J. McGinn, M. Nakamba, D. Soares de Paulo, J. Ramsey, E. Buendía and O. Watkins.
Assuming that the line up is confirmed, the projected average age of Aston Villa would be 25.20.
There are doubts about the presence of M. Targett.
Steven Gerrard will probably not be able to employ D. Ings because of injury.
B. Traoré and L. Bailey Butler will definitely miss the match.