📊 Form Guide

Aston Villa

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Aston Villa will be hoping to return to winning ways here following a 3-0 FA Cup defeat in their last game at the hands of Crystal Palace.

In that game, Aston Villa had 70% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Crystal Palace got 9 shots on goal with 4 on target. Eberechi Eze (31') and Ismaïla Sarr (58', 94') scored for Crystal Palace.

It has not been often in recent games where Aston Villa have kept a clean sheet. In fact, Aston Villa have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 11 goals during that time. We will just have to see whether or not that trend will end up being sustained here.

Pre-game facts show that Aston Villa:

• have not lost a league tie with Fulham in their last 4 matches.
• have not been beaten in their last 16 home league matches. It really has been a fortress.

Fulham

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Fulham will go into the encounter following on from a 1-2 Premier League win as they beat Southampton in their last outing.

In that match, Fulham managed 64% possession and 26 attempts on goal with 5 on target. For Fulham, goals were scored by Emile Smith Rowe (72') and Ryan Sessegnon (92'). Southampton got 7 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Jack Stephens (14') scored for Southampton.

In a total of 5 of the previous 6 games involving Fulham, at least three goals have been hit. The average goals scored per match within that spell is 3, with the number of goals averaged by Fulham equalling 1.17.

Ahead of this meeting, Fulham have left without a victory over Aston Villa when they have played them away from home in the previous 5 matches in the league. Not good.

👥 Head to head

Looking over their past head to head meetings stretching back to 04/04/2021 shows that Aston Villa have won 5 of these games & Fulham 1, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 0.

A combined sum of 19 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 12 for The Villans and 7 created by The Cottagers. That’s an average goals per game of 3.17.

The last league contest between these clubs was Premier League match day 8 on 19/10/2024 which ended up with the score at Fulham 1-3 Aston Villa.

That day, Fulham had 52% possession and 10 attempts on goal with 4 on target. The goals were scored by Raúl Jiménez (5') and Issa Diop (69' Own goal).

For their opponents, Aston Villa got 14 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Morgan Rogers (9') and Ollie Watkins (59') scored.

The referee was Darren England.

ℹ️ Team News: Aston Villa

Almost everyone can be considered, as there’s just a single fitness concern for the Aston Villa gaffer Unai Emery to be concerned with thanks to an otherwise robust set of players. Marcus Rashford (Hamstring injury) misses out.

It looks as if The Villans may well use the 4-2-3-1 system for this one with Emiliano Martinez, Matty Cash, Ezri Konsa, Pau Torres, Ian Maatsen, Boubacar Kamara, Youri Tielemans, Morgan Rogers, Marco Asensio, John McGinn and Ollie Watkins.

📋 Team News: Fulham

Fulham boss Marco Silva has a number of players out of action. Rodrigo Muniz (Achilles tendon problems) and Reiss Nelson (Hamstring injury) will not be playing here.

We believe The Cottagers seem likely to play in a 4-2-3-1 lineup using Bernd Leno, Kenny Tete, Joachim Andersen, Calvin Bassey, Antonee Robinson, Sasa Lukic, Sander Berge, Ryan Sessegnon, Harry Wilson, Alex Iwobi and Raul Jimenez.

💡 Prediction

We feel that in this game, Fulham have the ability to get a goal against this Aston Villa side, but that is unlikely to be enough to avoid defeat.

Our selection here is for both teams to score in a 2-1 winning margin for Aston Villa when all is said and done. It should be a decent one.

Peter Guest, 11:02 03/05/2025