Everton and Aston Villa are going to play on Saturday the 22nd of January at 12:30 pm in the 23rd week of the Premier League. The match is going to be staged in Liverpool at the Goodison Park. The appointed referee is Craig Pawson.
Everton sits in the 16th position in the league with 19 points. It comes from a 2-1 loss against Norwich City in its last match in the Premier League. As of now, it has won 5 times, draw 4 times, and lost 10 times.
Aston Villa sits in the 13th position in the table with 23 points. It comes from a 2-2 draw against Manchester United in its last match in the Premier League. Up to now, it has won 6 times, drawn twice, and lost 11 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Everton
Everton has mostly adopted the 4-4-1-1 line-up most used during the season (11 times or 57.89%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-1-1 (11 times), 4-4-2 (3 times), 5-4-1 (2 times), 4-1-4-1 (once), 3-4-3 (once) and 4-2-3-1 (once).
Rafael Benítez Maudes is expected to play against Aston Villa with the following players: J. Pickford, V. Mykolenko, B. Godfrey, M. Keane, S. Coleman, D. Gray, A. Doucouré, A. Gordon, R. de Andrade and D. Calvert-Lewin.
Presuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the average age of Everton would be 26.40.
There are doubts about the presence of A. Marques Loureiro.
Rafael Benítez Maudes will probably not be able to employ J. Branthwaite and F. Delph because of injury.
T. Davies and A. Iwobi will definitely miss the match.
Aston Villa
Aston Villa has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (9 times or 47.37%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (9 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 Everton with the following players: D. Martínez, S. Swinkels, T. Mings, K. Hause, M. Cash, D. Soares de Paulo, J. McGinn, J. Ramsey, O. Watkins, E. Buendía and D. Ings.
Assuming that the above line up is confirmed, the estimate average age of Aston Villa would be 25.91.
Steven Gerrard will probably not be able to employ E. Konsa Ngoyo because of injury.
M. Targett, M. Nakamba, L. Bailey Butler, J. Philogene-Bidace and B. Traoré will definitely miss the match.