Aston Villa and Southampton are going to clash on Saturday the 5th of March at 3:00 pm in the 28th week of the Premier League. The match is going to be staged in Birmingham at the Villa Park. The referee will be Peter Bankes.
Aston Villa sits in the 13th position in the table with 30 points. It comes from a 0-2 win against Brighton & Hove Albion in its last match in the Premier League. As of now, it has won 8 times, draw 3 times, and lost 13 times.
Southampton sits in the 9th place in the league with 35 points. It comes from a 2-0 win against Norwich City in its last match in the Premier League. Thus far, it has won 8 times, draw 11 times, and lost 7 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 (14 times or 58.33%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (14 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 Southampton with the following players: D. Martínez, S. Swinkels, T. Mings, E. Konsa Ngoyo, M. Cash, J. McGinn, J. Ramsey, D. Soares de Paulo, P. Coutinho Correia, O. Watkins and D. Ings.
Assuming that this will be the line-up, the resulting average age of Aston Villa would be 26.00.
Steven Gerrard will probably not be able to employ B. Traoré because of injury.
M. Nakamba will definitely miss the match.
Southampton
Southampton has mostly adopted the 4-4-2 line-up most used during the season (20 times or 76.92%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-2 (20 times), 3-5-2 (2 times), 4-1-4-1 (2 times), 5-3-2 (once) and 3-4-3 (once).
Ralph Hasenhüttl is expected to play against Aston Villa with the following players: F. Forster, R. Perraud, J. Bednarek, V. Livramento, O. Romeu Vidal, J. Ward-Prowse, S. Armstrong, A. Broja and C. Adams.
Assuming that the line up is confirmed, the estimate average age of Southampton would be 26.78.
There are doubts about the presence of M. Karim and M. Elyounoussi.
Ralph Hasenhüttl will probably not be able to employ K. Walker-Peters and S. Long because of injury.
A. McCarthy, L. Silveira Neves Vojnović and N. Tella will definitely miss the match.