📊 Form Guide

Crystal Palace

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Crystal Palace will play in this match after a 2-2 Premier League stalemate versus Arsenal.

In that match, Crystal Palace managed 32% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. For Crystal Palace, the goals were scored by Eberechi Eze (27') and Jean-Philippe Mateta (83'). Arsenal got 12 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. Jakub Kiwior (3') and Leandro Trossard (42') scored for Arsenal.

Matches involving Crystal Palace have proved to be entertaining ones of late with high scoring anticipated. Over their past 6 clashes, the sum of 20 goals have gone in for both sides combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 8 of them being chalked up by Crystal Palace. We will have to find out whether or not that trend can be continued on here.

Aston Villa

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After tasting defeat last time out to Manchester City in Premier League action, Aston Villa and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that match, Aston Villa had 38% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Aston Villa was Marcus Rashford (18'). Manchester City got 14 attempts on goal with 6 on target. Bernardo Silva (7') and Matheus Nunes (94') scored for Manchester City.

The stats don’t lie, and Aston Villa have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, letting opponents get 9 goals in all. In defence, Aston Villa have seen their frailties exposed.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their past head to head clashes going back to 04/03/2023 shows us that Crystal Palace have won 3 of them & Aston Villa 2, with the number of draws standing at 1.

Loads of goals were seen in those games, too - 22 in total at an average of 3.67 goals per match.

The previous league game between these sides was Premier League match day 27 on 25/02/2025 when it ended Crystal Palace 4-1 Aston Villa.

In that game, Crystal Palace managed 36% possession and 19 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. The goals were scored by Ismaïla Sarr (29', 71'), Jean-Philippe Mateta (59') and Eddie Nketiah (91').

On the other side, Aston Villa got 6 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. Morgan Rogers (52') scored.

The match was refereed by Samuel Barrott.

📰 Team News: Crystal Palace

It’s our opinion that The Eagles may well make use of the 4-4-2 system for this game and select Dean Henderson, Jefferson Lerma, Maxence Lacroix, Marc Guehi, Daniel Munoz, Will Hughes, Daichi Kamada, Tyrick Mitchell, Ismaila Sarr, Eberechi Eze and Edward Nketiah.

📰 Team News: Aston Villa

We reckon that The Villans seem most likely to begin the game with a 4-4-1-1 lineup, going with Emiliano Martinez, Matty Cash, Ezri Konsa, Tyrone Mings, Lucas Digne, Morgan Rogers, Boubacar Kamara, Youri Tielemans, Jacob Ramsey, Marco Asensio and Marcus Rashford.

💡 Prediction

We feel that over the course of the game, Crystal Palace will have to perform well to register a score against this Aston Villa side who we think will score at least once to gain the upper hand.

We therefore see a hard-fought 0-1 win for Aston Villa after 90 minutes.

Let’s see.

Andre Moura, 16:00 26/04/2025