Everton and Aston Villa will face off on Saturday the 22nd of January at 12:30 pm in the 23rd week of the Premier League. The match is going to take place in Liverpool at the Goodison Park. The chosen referee is Craig Pawson.
Everton occupies the 16th place in the table with 19 points. It comes from a 2-1 loss against Norwich City in its last match in the Premier League. Until now, it has won 5 times, draw 4 times, and lost 10 times.
Aston Villa sits in the 13th position in the standings with 23 points. It comes from a 2-2 draw against Manchester United in its last match in the Premier League. As of 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).
Duncan Ferguson 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, D. Calvert-Lewin and R. de Andrade.
Assuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the estimate average age of Everton would be 26.40.
There are doubts about the presence of A. Marques Loureiro.
Duncan Ferguson will probably not be able to employ J. Branthwaite because of injury.
T. Davies, F. Delph 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, J. McGinn, J. Ramsey, D. Soares de Paulo, O. Watkins, E. Buendía and D. Ings.
Granting that this will be the line-up, the 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 and B. Traoré will definitely miss the match.