📏 Form Guide

Burnley

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Burnley will be hoping for a better result following a 3-1 Premier League loss in their previous game against Leeds United.

In that match, Burnley had 52% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 3 on target. The only player to score for Burnley was Loum Tchaouna (71'). For their opponents, Leeds United got 18 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target. Anton Stach (8'), Noah Okafor (52') and Dominic Calvert-Lewin (56') scored for Leeds United.

It’s been all too rare in recent games that Burnley have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Burnley have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 13 goals along the way. However, we will just have to wait and see if that pattern might be replicated here in this match.

Looking at their past form shows that Burnley:

• have not registered a win against Aston Villa in their last 5 league matches.
• haven’t won at home in the past 13 league games. It's simply not good enough.

Aston Villa

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Aston Villa will go into this meeting after a 4-0 Europa League win with the downing of Nottingham Forest in their previous fixture.

In that game, Aston Villa had 51% possession and 18 shots at goal with 10 of them on target. For Aston Villa, goals were scored by Ollie Watkins (36'), Emiliano Buendía (58') and John McGinn (77', 80'). Nottingham Forest got 7 attempts at goal with 2 on target.

Looking at their form, and Aston Villa have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 8 goals in all. Defensively, Aston Villa could really do with shoring things up.

Taking a look at their past results, Aston Villa:

• remain unbeaten by Burnley in away games against them for the last 2 league matches.
• are without a win away from home in their last 5 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 27/01/2021 tells us that Burnley have won 1 of these and Aston Villa 4, with the number of draws being 1.

There were also plenty of goals scored in those games, 23 in total which averages out at 3.83 goals per meeting.

The previous league fixture between these sides was Premier League match day 7 on 05/10/2025 when it ended Aston Villa 2-1 Burnley.

On that occasion, Aston Villa managed 56% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 7 on target. Their only player to score was Donyell Malen (25', 63').

Burnley got 5 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. Lesley Ugochukwu (78') scored.

The match was refereed by Andrew Kitchen.

ℹ️ Team News: Burnley

In our view, The Clarets should employ a 4-2-3-1 system for this one with Martin Dubravka, Kyle Walker, Hjalmar Ekdal, Maxime Esteve, Quilindschy Hartman, Josh Laurent, James Ward-Prowse, Loum Tchaouna, Hannibal Mejbri, Jaidon Anthony and Zian Flemming.

🗞️ Team News: Aston Villa

There’s a good chance that The Villans seem likely to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 lineup, starting Emiliano Martinez, Matty Cash, V. Nilsson Lindeloef, Tyrone Mings, Ian Maatsen, Ezri Konsa, Ross Barkley, John McGinn, Youri Tielemans, Morgan Rogers and Ollie Watkins.

💭 Prediction

In our opinion, Burnley are capable enough to put one past this Aston Villa side, however a single goal may not be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We’ve gone for a close game with a 1-2 winning margin for Aston Villa at the end of the match. Let’s just see how this one goes.

Andre Moura, 12:03 10/05/2026