📏 Form Guide

Aston Villa

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Aston Villa enter this fixture coming off the back of a 2-2 Premier League drawn game against Burnley.

In that game, Aston Villa had 66% possession and 18 attempts at goal with 7 on target. For Aston Villa, the scorers were Ross Barkley (42') and Ollie Watkins (56'). On the other side, Burnley had 15 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Jaidon Anthony (8') and Zian Flemming (58') scored for Burnley.

It has been seldom in recent games that Aston Villa have shown defensive steel. The reality is that Aston Villa have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 9 goals on the way. Such a trend won’t necessarily be continued into this match, though.

Coming into this contest, Aston Villa have left without a victory over Liverpool in their previous 10 matches in the league.

Liverpool

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In the game prior to this, Liverpool drew 1-1 in the Premier League match with Chelsea.

In that match, Liverpool had 49% possession and 8 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. The scorer for Liverpool was Ryan Gravenberch (6'). For their opponents, Chelsea got 6 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Enzo Fernández (35') was the scorer for Chelsea.

Looking at their form, and Liverpool have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 8 goals in total. Defensively, Liverpool have been far from perfect.

A look at their previous results shows us that Liverpool:

• have not registered a win against Aston Villa when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 league games.
• have not lost to Aston Villa when having played them away from home in the previous 4 league matches. A solid away record against them.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their past head-to-head clashes dating back to 20/05/2023 shows us that Aston Villa have won 0 of these games & Liverpool 3, with the tally of draws standing at 3.

A total of 19 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 6 from The Villans and 13 belonging to The Reds. That is an average goals per game value of 3.17.

The previous league meeting featuring these sides was Premier League match day 10 on 01/11/2025 which ended up with the score at Liverpool 2-0 Aston Villa.

On that day, Liverpool managed 54% possession and 16 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Goals were scored by Mohamed Salah (45') and Ryan Gravenberch (58').

On the other side, Aston Villa got 10 shots on goal with 3 on target.

The referee was Stuart Attwell.

ℹ️ Team News: Aston Villa

It’s our opinion that The Villans will probably go for a 4-2-3-1 system in the match with Emiliano Martinez, Matty Cash, Ezri Konsa, Pau Torres, Lucas Digne, Youri Tielemans, Douglas Luiz, John McGinn, Ross Barkley, Morgan Rogers and Ollie Watkins.

📰 Team News: Liverpool

It’s our belief that The Reds will likely elect for a 4-2-3-1 system, going with Giorgi Mamardashvili, Joseph Gomez, Ibrahima Konate, Virgil van Dijk, Milos Kerkez, Ryan Gravenberch, Alexis Mac Allister, Dominik Szoboszlai, Curtis Jones, Rio Ngumoha and Cody Gakpo.

💡 Prediction

We feel that in this game, Liverpool are likely to convert a lot of goal-scoring opportunities.

At the same time, Aston Villa may well struggle getting on the scoresheet although we reckon that they could well end up getting the chances to score, too.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a decent 1-3 winning margin for Liverpool after 90 minutes.

Victor Martins, 18:05 15/05/2026