Aston Villa-Leicester is a match valid for the 20th day of the Premier League and is played Saturday at 4 p.m.: live TV, probable formations, prediction.
Unai Emery’s Aston Villa’s December has been an ups and downs of emotions: four wins between the league and Champions League but also three defeats (all suffered away from home) and a pyrotechnic draw with Brighton. The Villans are unable to find continuity, then: last Monday’s shocking 2-2 draw with the Seagulls did not allow the team led by the Basque coach to redeem itself after the net 3-0 loss suffered on Boxing Day in Newcastle but, above all, to make up ground against the direct competitors for Europe.
Aston Villa is currently ninth, ahead of more equipped teams on paper like United and Spurs but also behind the likes of Nottingham Forest and Bournemouth, who are undoubtedly doing better. Emery’s good fortune is that the standings remain very short, especially in that specific area, and-as Newcastle has shown in recent days-a string of wins would be enough to move closer to fourth place again. The opportunity to return to winning ways is the home match with Leicester, thunderously plunged back into the relegation zone (it is second-to-last). The van Nistelrooy effect seems to have already worn off: the Foxes are coming off four defeats in a row, and on Sunday came another knockout against the rediscovered Manchester City (0-2), who stormed the King Power Stadium 2-0. The offensive mentality brought by the former Manchester United striker is not enough to climb back up the slope: Leicester has scored only one goal in the last 4 but in return has conceded a total of 12 (worst defense in the Premier League along with Wolverhampton).
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The Prediction
Aston Villa in front of their home crowd usually has an edge: against a struggling Leicester struggling and grappling with a sieve defense, they shouldn’t miss out on the three points in a match of at least three goals total
The likely lineups for Aston Villa-Leicester
ASTON VILLA (4-5-1): Martinez; Konsa, Diego Carlos, Mings, Digne; Kamara, Tielemans, Bailey, McGinn, Ramsey; Watkins.
LEICESTER (4-5-1): Stolarczyk; Justin, Coady, Vestergaard, Kristiansen; Soumaré, Winks, Goodnight, El Khannous, Ayew; Vardy.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 2-1
