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Aston Villa will be taking on away side Southampton at Villa Park, Birmingham in Premier League game on Saturday 17th September 2022 at 12:30am(IST).
Form Summary
Aston Villa: W L W L L D
Aston Villa prepare for this match after a 1-1 Premier League drawn game versus Manchester City.
In that match, Aston Villa had 27% possession and 3 shots at goal with 1 on target. The only player to score for Aston Villa was Leon Bailey (74'). Manchester City had 13 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. Erling Haaland (50') scored for Manchester City.
Aston Villa have not been the best at stopping their opponents of late, although they’ve also found ways to hit the back of the net themselves. Looking at their last 6 games, Aston Villa have been punished defensively in 6 of them as well as managing to get on the scoresheet in 5 of those matches. That aside, we must now wait to see whether that pattern shall persist in this match or not.
Southampton: D W W L W L
Following on from being beaten in their last game against Wolverhampton Wanderers in Premier League action, Southampton will be aiming to make amends here.
In that game, Southampton had 49% possession and 12 shots at goal with 1 of them on target. Wolverhampton Wanderers got 7 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Daniel Podence (45') scored for Wolverhampton Wanderers.
The stats don’t lie, and Southampton have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 6 goals in total. In defence, Southampton have seen their frailties exposed.
Head to Head
A glance at their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 21/12/2019 tells us that Aston Villa have won 2 of them & Southampton 4, with the tally of drawn matches being 0.
In all, 19 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 9 from The Villans and 10 being from The Saints. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.17.
Team News: Aston Villa
There are Three fitness concern for the Aston Villa to be concerned with.
Diego Carlos, Leander Dendoncker and Matty Cash will miss out this match due to injury.
In all likelihood, Aston Villa look set to go for a 4-3-3 lineup formation.
Team News: Southampton
Southampton have Three fitness concerns to speak of before this game.
Duje Caleta Car, Romeo Lavia and Valentino Livramento wont be in action.
We’re of the thinking that Southampton will likely begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 lineup.
Aston Villa Top Scorers(2022-23)
1)Ollie Watkins=1 Goal
2)Danny Ings=1 Goal
3)Douglas Luiz=1 Goal
4)Emiliano Buendia=1 Goal
5)Leon Bailey=1 Goal
Southampton Top Scorers(2022-23)
1)Che Adams=2 Goals
2)Adam Armstrong=1 Goal
3)James Ward-Prowse=1 Goal
4)Joe Aribo=1 Goal
5)Kyle walker peters=1 Goal
6)Romeo Lavia=1 Goal
Prediction
Our thinking is that Everton and Aston Villa might face difficulty to score goal against each other.
But we think that Both will get success to score at least one goal.
We therefore predict that it’s going to be a easy win with a 2-1 winning margin for Aston Villa at the end of the 90 mins.
Dream11 Team (Probable Lineups)