Aston Villa and Southampton are going to play on Saturday the 7th of December at 3:00 pm in the 15th week of the Premier League. The match is going to be played in Birmingham at the Villa Park. The encounter will be officiated by Darren Bond.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Aston Villa
Aston Villa has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up during the season (11 times or 78.57%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (11 times), 4-4-2 (2 times) and 4-4-1-1 (once).
Unai Emery Etxegoien is expected to play against Southampton with the following players: Emiliano Martínez, I. Maatsen, Diego Carlos, Pau Torres, Ezri Konsa, Y. Tielemans, Ross Barkley, Morgan Rogers, John McGinn, Jaden Philogene-Bidace and O. Watkins.
Assuming that this will be the line-up, the projected average age of Aston Villa would be 27.27.
Unai Emery Etxegoien will probably not be able to employ Amadou Onana because of injury.
Jacob Ramsey will definitely miss the match.
Southampton
Southampton has mostly adopted the 5-4-1 line-up during the season (6 times or 42.86%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 5-4-1 (6 times), 4-2-3-1 (3 times), 3-5-2 (3 times), 5-3-2 (once) and 4-5-1 (once).
Russell Martin is expected to play against Aston Villa with the following players: Joe Lumley, Ryan Manning, Nathan Wood, Taylor Harwood-Bellis, Kyle Walker-Peters, Yukinari Sugawara, Mateus Fernandes, Flynn Downes, Tyler Dibling, Adam Armstrong and Cameron Archer.
In case that this will be the line-up, the resulting average age of Southampton would be 24.09.
Russell Martin will probably not be able to employ J. Bednarek and Ross Stewart because of injury.
Gavin Bazunu , Aaron Ramsdale, Adam Lallana, Will Smallbone and Paul Onuachu will definitely miss the match.
Russell Martin will not be able to have the presence of Jack Stephens who is suspended.
