Aston Villa and Watford will face on Saturday the 19th of February at 3:00 pm in the 26th week of the Premier League. The match will be played in Birmingham at the Villa Park. The referee will be Robert Jones.
Aston Villa occupies the 12th place in the league with 27 points. It comes from a 1-0 loss against Newcastle United in its last match in the Premier League. Until now, it has won 7 times, draw 3 times, and lost 12 times.
Watford occupies the 19th position in the league with 15 points. It comes from a 1-0 loss against West Ham United in its last match in the Premier League. Up to now, it has won 4 times, draw 3 times, and lost 15 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 (12 times or 54.55%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (12 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 Watford with the following players: D. Martínez, S. Swinkels, T. Mings, C. Chambers, M. Cash, J. McGinn, J. Ramsey, D. Soares de Paulo, P. Coutinho Correia, E. Buendía and O. Watkins.
Suppose that the line up is confirmed as above, the average age of Aston Villa would be 25.91.
M. Nakamba and B. Traoré will definitely miss the match.
Steven Gerrard will not be able to have the presence of E. Konsa Ngoyo who is suspended.
Watford
Watford has mostly adopted the 4-1-4-1 line-up most used during the season (11 times or 50.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-1-4-1 (11 times), 4-4-2 (4 times), 4-2-3-1 (4 times), 4-3-3 (2 times) and 4-4-1-1 (once).
Roy Hodgson is expected to play against Aston Villa with the following players: B. Foster, H. Kamara, C. Cathcart, F. Femenía Far, E. Kayembe, J. Kucka, M. Sissoko, I. Sarr, E. Dennis and J. King.
Presuming that the above line up is confirmed, the average age of Watford would be 30.20.
Roy Hodgson will probably not be able to employ O. Etebo because of injury.
D. Rose, D. Gosling and I. Louza will definitely miss the match.