Aston Villa-Arsenal is a match of the 16th day of the Premier League and is played on Saturday at 6:30pm: TV, lineups, predictions.
Among the teams hoping for an Aston Villa victory over City on Wednesday was Arsenal, which, by virtue of its resounding success the day before at home to Luton Town (3-4), was able to widen the gap on the defending champions.
Although they are going through a peculiar moment, Pep Guardiola’s men remain in fact the main candidates for winning the title. The top of the standings, however, has now receded, with the Cityzens finishing -6 behind the Gunners after once again missing the appointment with the three points at Villa Park. Against the Villans, this time, they could not even console themselves with a point. In Birmingham, Manchester City ran into its third defeat of the season (1-0) against what is probably the most in-form team in the league at the moment. In the midweek round Aston Villa, taking advantage of the many absences in the midfield of the champions of all, taught Haaland and his teammates, rarely seen in such difficulty. Bailey’s decisive goal crowned a sumptuous performance by the Lions, who leapfrogged the Cityzens in the standings, becoming the third force in the tournament after Arsenal and Liverpool.
Aston Villa bursting with health
Eulogies galore, of course, for Unai Emery. The Basque coach is proving that he can do well even in a hyper-competitive environment like the Premier League after his not particularly successful experience at the helm of Arsenal a few years ago.
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The former Sevilla, Psg and Villarreal coach will meet the Gunners again this weekend, with a chance to move (if they win) to -1 from first place. The Londoners on Tuesday got their hands on their sixth consecutive league and Champions League success. But what a struggle to get the better of its newly-promoted Luton, bent only in mid-recovery by a Rice goal in a match that really provided plenty of emotions.
The Prediction
Arsenal has won the last four confrontations. Including the one last February in which there month of his also the Argentine goalkeeper Martinez, by the way one of the exes of the match. This time it will be more difficult for the Gunners to come away with the three points from a stadium, Villa Park, that so far no one has managed to violate. For Emery’s Villans, seven wins out of seven in home matches. The feeling is that Aston Villa, in splendid form, will manage to avoid defeat even against the Gunners in a match with at least one goal on each side. A draw is not to be ruled out.
The probable lineups of Aston Villa-Arsenal
ASTON VILLA (4-4-1-1): Emi Martinez; Konsa, Diego Carlos, Pau Torres, Digne; Diaby, Douglas Luiz, Kamara, McGinn; Tielemans; Watkins.
ARSENAL (4-3-3): Raya; White, Saliba, Gabriel, Zinchenko; Odegaard, Rice, Havertz; Saka, Gabriel Jesus, Martinelli.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 2-2
