Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa will face on Saturday the 14th of December at 5:30 pm in the 16th week of the Premier League. The match is going to take place in Nottingham at the The City Ground. The encounter will be officiated by Samuel Barrott.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up during the season (14 times or 93.33%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (14 times) and 4-4-2 (once).
Nuno Herlander Simões Espírito Santo is expected to play against Aston Villa with the following players: M. Sels, N. Williams, N. Milenković, Murillo, Ola Aina, Ryan Yates, Elliot Anderson, Callum Hudson-Odoi, Morgan Gibbs-White, Jota Silva and Chris Wood.
If this will be the line-up, the estimate average age of Nottingham Forest would be 26.09.
Álex Moreno, Danilo and Ibrahim Sangaré will definitely miss the match.
Aston Villa
Aston Villa has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up during the season (12 times or 80.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (12 times), 4-4-2 (2 times) and 4-4-1-1 (once).
Unai Emery Etxegoien is expected to play against Nottingham Forest with the following players: Emiliano Martínez, I. Maatsen, Pau Torres, Ezri Konsa, Matty Cash, Boubacar Kamara , Y. Tielemans, Morgan Rogers, John McGinn and Jhon Durán.
Assuming that this will be the line-up, the resulting average age of Aston Villa would be 26.00.
Unai Emery Etxegoien will probably not be able to employ Leon Bailey and O. Watkins because of injury.
Jacob Ramsey will definitely miss the match.