Aston Villa vs Brighton Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Aston Villa

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Aston Villa will play in this fixture after a 1-1 Premier League tied result vs Liverpool.

In that match, Aston Villa had 34% possession and 6 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. The scorer for Aston Villa was Jacob Ramsey (27'). Liverpool had 10 shots on goal with 5 on target. Roberto Firmino (89') was the scorer for Liverpool.

Under three goals per match were seen in 5 of the last 6 meetings where Aston Villa have been involved. Regarding the goal distribution in this period, their opponents scored an aggregate of 5 while Aston Villa managed a tally of 5.

Brighton & Hove Albion

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In the game prior to this, Brighton drew 1-1 in the Premier League match with Manchester City.

In that game, Brighton & Hove Albion managed 39% possession and 20 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. The scorer for Brighton & Hove Albion was Julio César Enciso (38'). Manchester City got 13 attempts at goal with 4 on target. Phil Foden (25') scored for Manchester City.

In their previous half-dozen outings, Brighton & Hove Albion have bagged a total of 10 goals. Brighton & Hove Albion have also not failed to score on each one of those occasions. During that period, they have had 11 goals go against them. We shall soon find out whether or not that trend can be continued on into this next match.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their prior head-to-head clashes dating back to 18/01/2020 tells us that Aston Villa have won 3 of these games & Brighton 1, with the tally of drawn matches being 2.

A sum of 12 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 8 of them from The Villans and 4 belonging to The Seagulls. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.

The previous league encounter between these sides was Premier League match day 16 on 13/11/2022 when it ended Brighton & Hove Albion 1-2 Aston Villa.

In that match, Brighton & Hove Albion had 65% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. The scorer was Alexis Mac Allister (1').

Aston Villa had 8 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Danny Ings (20', 54') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Chris Kavanagh.

📋 Team News: Aston Villa

The Aston Villa boss Unai Emery will be grateful not to have any fitness concerns to speak of coming into this match owing to a completely healthy group available to choose from.

It’s our opinion that The Villans may well line up in a 4-2-3-1 formation for this one and select Emiliano Martinez, Matty Cash, Ezri Konsa, Tyrone Mings, Lucas Digne, Boubacar Kamara, Douglas Luiz, Leon Bailey, John McGinn, Jacob Ramsey and Ollie Watkins.

📰 Team News: Brighton

Brighton manager Roberto De Zerbi has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Jeremy Sarmiento (Metatarsal Fracture) and Tariq Lamptey (Knee Injury) are not able to play.

We reckon that The Seagulls appear most likely to make use of a 4-2-3-1 formation, settling for Jason Steele, Pascal Gross, Adam Webster, Levi Colwill, Joel Veltman, Yasin Ayari, Alexis Mac Allister, Facundo Buonanotte, Deniz Undav, Julio Enciso and Evan Ferguson.

🧠 Prediction

In this match, Brighton & Hove Albion certainly have the ability to break down this Aston Villa team, although it probably won’t quite be enough to avoid a loss.

Our selection here is for a close game with a 2-1 victory for Aston Villa after the 90. We’ll have to see what happens.

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Renata Leite, 00:13 24/05/2023