Aston Villa and Manchester United will play on Saturday the 15th of January at 5:30 pm in the 22nd week of the Premier League. The match is going to be played in Birmingham at the Villa Park. The referee will be David Coote.
Aston Villa sits in the 14th place in the standings with 22 points. It comes from a 2-1 loss against Brentford in its last match in the Premier League. Thus far, it has won 6 times, drawn once, and lost 11 times.
Manchester United occupies the 7th position in the table with 31 points. It comes from a 0-1 loss against Wolverhampton Wanderers in its last match in the Premier League. To date, it has won 9 times, draw 4 times, and lost 6 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 (8 times or 44.44%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (8 times), 3-5-2 (3 times), 4-2-3-1 (2 times), 5-3-2 (2 times), 4-3-1-2 (once), 3-4-1-2 (once) and 4-1-4-1 (once).
Steven Gerrard is expected to play against Manchester United with the following players: D. Martínez, M. Targett, T. Mings, E. Konsa Ngoyo, M. Cash, J. Ramsey, D. Soares de Paulo, M. Sanson, E. Buendía, O. Watkins and D. Ings.
Suppose that the line up is confirmed as above, the estimate average age of Aston Villa would be 26.45.
Steven Gerrard will probably not be able to employ A. Young because of injury.
M. Nakamba, L. Bailey Butler, J. Philogene-Bidace and B. Traoré will definitely miss the match.
Steven Gerrard will not be able to have the presence of J. McGinn who is suspended.
Manchester United
Manchester United has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (11 times or 57.89%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (11 times), 4-2-2-2 (5 times), 4-3-1-2 (once), 3-5-2 (once) and 3-4-1-2 (once).
Ralf Rangnick is expected to play against Aston Villa with the following players: D. de Gea Quintana, A. Telles, R. Varane, A. Wan-Bissaka, M. Rashford, N. Matić, B. Borges Fernandes, M. Greenwood and E. Cavani.
Granting that the line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Manchester United would be 28.78.
There are doubts about the presence of H. Maguire and C. Ronaldo.
Ralf Rangnick will probably not be able to employ D. Henderson, P. Jones and J. Sancho because of injury.
E. Bailly, P. Pogba and A. Martial will definitely miss the match.
Ralf Rangnick will not be able to have the presence of L. Shaw and S. McTominay who are both suspended.
