Fulham and Aston Villa will take on on Saturday the 17th of February at 3:00 pm in the 25th week of the Premier League. The match will be played in London at the Craven Cottage. The appointed referee is Lewis Smith.
Fulham sits in the 12th position in the table with 29 points. It comes from a 3-1 win against AFC Bournemouth in its last match in the Premier League. To date, it has won 8 times, draw 6 times, and lost 10 times.
Aston Villa sits in the 5th position in the table with 46 points. It comes from a 1-2 loss against Manchester United in its last match in the Premier League. Thus far, it has won 14 times, draw 4 times, and lost 6 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Fulham
Fulham has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up during the season (18 times or 75.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (18 times) and 4-3-3 (6 times).
Marco Alexandre Saraiva da Silva is expected to play against Aston Villa with the following players: Bernd Leno, Antonee Robinson, Tim Ream, Timothy Castagne, João Palhinha, Tom Cairney, Willian, Andreas Pereira, Alex Iwobi and Rodrigo Muniz.
Granting that the above line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Fulham would be 30.20.
There are doubts about the presence of Tosin Adarabioyo.
Marco Alexandre Saraiva da Silva will probably not be able to employ Kenny Tete because of injury.
Raúl Jiménez will definitely miss the match.
Aston Villa
Aston Villa has mostly adopted the 4-4-2 line-up during the season (12 times or 50.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-2 (12 times), 4-2-3-1 (7 times), 4-4-1-1 (4 times) and 3-4-2-1 (once).
Unai Emery Etxegoien is expected to play against Fulham with the following players: Emiliano Martínez, Álex Moreno, Clément Lenglet, Pau Torres, Matty Cash, John McGinn, Douglas Luiz, Jacob Ramsey, Youri Tielemans, Leon Bailey and Ollie Watkins.
Presuming that this will be the line-up, the projected average age of Aston Villa would be 28.00.
Ezri Konsa, Tyrone Mings , Diego Carlos, Emiliano Buendía, Boubacar Kamara and Jhon Durán will definitely miss the match.
