📊 Form Guide

Aston Villa

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Aston Villa will be wanting a better result here following the 3-0 Premier League defeat in their last game at the hands of Chelsea.

In that match, Aston Villa managed 36% possession and 10 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Chelsea had 17 attempts on goal with 8 of them on target. Nicolas Jackson (7'), Enzo Fernández (36') and Cole Palmer (83') scored for Chelsea.

Aston Villa have struggled with their forward play in more recent games. Their goals record stands at just 4 vs opposing sides over the course of their last 6 fixtures. In those meetings, Aston Villa have also seen the number of goals that have gone against them total 11.

Their previous form shows that Aston Villa:

• have not lost a league tie with Brentford in their last 4 matches.
• are undefeated in their last 5 league matches at home.
• have not won at home in their last 3 matches in the league.

Brentford

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Brentford go into this encounter following on from a 4-1 Premier League win against Leicester City in their previous outing.

In that match, Brentford managed 60% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 6 on target. For Brentford, the scorers were Yoane Wissa (25') and Kevin Schade (29', 45', 59'). Leicester City had 8 shots on goal with 3 on target. Facundo Buonanotte (21') scored for Leicester City.

Looking at their form, and Brentford have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 9 goals overall. Defensively, Brentford could really do with shoring things up. Still, we’ll just have to find out whether that pattern will be replicated in this next game or not.

Heading into this contest, Brentford are without an away win for the past 6 league matches.

👥 Head to head

Looking over their most recent head to head meetings stretching back to 28/08/2021 shows that Aston Villa have won 2 of them & Brentford 1, with the number of draws being 3.

In all, 20 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 12 for The Villans and 8 belonging to The Bees. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.33.

The previous league clash featuring the two was Premier League match day 32 on 06/04/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Aston Villa 3-3 Brentford.

On that day, Aston Villa managed 69% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 3 on target. The scorers were Ollie Watkins (38', 80') and Morgan Rogers (46').

For their opponents, Brentford got 8 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Mathias Jørgensen (59'), Bryan Mbeumo (61') and Yoane Wissa (68') scored.

The match was refereed by Michael Salisbury.

📰 Team News: Aston Villa

It doesn’t get much better regarding selection, with just one fitness concern for the Aston Villa manager Unai Emery to contend with from an otherwise complete group of players. Kortney Hause (Knee surgery) misses out.

It’s our opinion that The Villans will possibly line up in a 4-4-1-1 formation in the match featuring Robin Olsen, Matty Cash, Ezri Konsa, Pau Torres, Lucas Digne, Leon Bailey, Boubacar Kamara, Youri Tielemans, John McGinn, Morgan Rogers and Ollie Watkins.

📰 Team News: Brentford

Brentford manager Thomas Frank has a number of players out of action. Gustavo Nunes (Back injury), Kristoffer Ajer (Foot injury), Rico Henry (Muscle injury), Josh Dasilva (Knee surgery) and Aaron Hickey (Hamstring injury) can’t be considered.

We believe The Bees appear most likely to make use of a 4-4-2 system, starting the game with Mark Flekken, Sepp van den Berg, Nathan Collins, Ethan Pinnock, Keane Lewis-Potter, Bryan Mbeumo, Christian Noergaard, Vitaly Janelt, Mikkel Damsgaard, Yoane Wissa and Kevin Schade.

⚡ Prediction

Brentford will have a difficult task to find the net against a Aston Villa team who should create many chances to win well.

Our selection here is for a comprehensive 3-0 winning margin for Aston Villa at the end of the 90 minutes.

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Peter Guest, 20:01 04/12/2024