Aston Villa and Brentford are going to clash on Saturday the 6th of April at 3:00 pm in the 32nd week of the Premier League. The match will take place in Birmingham at the Villa Park. The chosen referee is Michael Salisbury.
Aston Villa occupies the 4th position in the table with 59 points. It comes from a 4-1 loss against Manchester City in its last match in the Premier League. Up to now, it has won 18 times, draw 5 times, and lost 8 times.
Brentford is in the 15th position in the league with 28 points. It comes from a 0-0 draw against Brighton & Hove Albion in its last match in the Premier League. Until now, it has won 6 times, draw 8 times, and lost 17 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Aston Villa
Aston Villa has mostly adopted the 4-4-2 line-up during the season (15 times or 48.39%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-2 (15 times), 4-2-3-1 (10 times), 4-4-1-1 (4 times), 5-3-2 (once) and 3-4-2-1 (once).
Unai Emery Etxegoien is expected to play against Brentford with the following players: Álex Moreno, Diego Carlos, Pau Torres, Ezri Konsa, John McGinn, Douglas Luiz, Youri Tielemans, Leon Bailey, Moussa Diaby and Jhon Durán.
If the line up is confirmed as above, the resulting average age of Aston Villa would be 27.20.
There are doubts about the presence of Emiliano Martínez.
Unai Emery Etxegoien will probably not be able to employ Ollie Watkins because of injury.
Matty Cash, Tyrone Mings, Emiliano Buendía, Boubacar Kamara and Jacob Ramsey will definitely miss the match.
Brentford
Brentford has mostly adopted the 3-5-2 line-up during the season (17 times or 54.84%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-5-2 (17 times), 4-3-3 (10 times), 5-3-2 (3 times) and 3-4-3 (once).
Thomas Frank is expected to play against Aston Villa with the following players: Mark Flekken, Nathan Collins, Kristoffer Ajer, Zanka, Sergio Reguilón, Mathias Jensen, Frank Onyeka, Vitaly Janelt, Mads Roerslev, Bryan Mbeumo and Ivan Toney.
If the line up is confirmed as above, the average age of Brentford would be 27.27.
Thomas Frank will probably not be able to employ Kevin Schade because of injury.
Rico Henry , Aaron Hickey , Ben Mee , Ethan Pinnock , Josh Dasilva and Christian Nørgaard will definitely miss the match.