📏 Form Guide

Aston Villa

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Aston Villa, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following the 1-2 FA Cup victory vs Tottenham Hotspur.

In that game, Aston Villa managed 60% possession and 17 shots at goal with 8 of them on target. For Aston Villa, the scorers were Emiliano Buendía (22') and Morgan Rogers (45'). For their opponents, Tottenham Hotspur got 13 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Wilson Odobert (54') scored for Tottenham Hotspur.

Aston Villa have been finding it hard to keep clean sheets lately, although they have also done enough to hit the back of the net themselves. Analysis of their previous 6 games shows that Aston Villa have conceded in 5 of them in addition to managing to get on the scoresheet in 5 of those games.

Their past results show that Aston Villa:

• haven't lost in the league to Everton in their last 13 matches. A very long unbeaten run against them.
• have not been beaten in their last 8 home league matches. They have been so resilient here.

Everton

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In their previous fixture, Everton drew 1-1 in the FA Cup match with Sunderland.

In that game, Everton had 46% possession and 14 shots on goal with 3 on target. The scorer for Everton was James Garner (89'). On the other side, Sunderland had 15 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. Enzo Le Fée (30') was the scorer for Sunderland. The match went to penalties and was won 0-3 by Sunderland.

Over the course of 5 of the prior six games involving Everton, a notably low volume of goals have been hit between them and opposing teams. The overall average goals scored per game in that period comes to just 2.17, with the average goals for The Toffees standing at 1. We will have to see if that trend will be sustained in this game.

Leading up to this clash, Everton:

• have left without a victory over Aston Villa when they've played them away from home in the last 6 matches in the league. Not the best of away records.
• are undefeated in their last 2 away league matches.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their prior head-to-head clashes going back to 20/08/2023 shows that Aston Villa have won 3 of these games and Everton 1, with the number of draws standing at 2.

In all, 13 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 9 of them from The Villans and 4 created by The Toffees. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.17.

The last league match featuring these sides was Premier League match day 4 on 13/09/2025 and the score finished Everton 0-0 Aston Villa.

In that match, Everton had 48% possession and 20 shots at goal with 2 of them on target.

Aston Villa got 6 shots at goal with 1 on target.

The match was refereed by Simon Hooper.

📋 Team News: Aston Villa

We are thinking that The Villans should go for a 4-2-3-1 formation for the game with Marco Bizot, Matty Cash, Ezri Konsa, Pau Torres, Ian Maatsen, Lamare Bogarde, Youri Tielemans, John McGinn, Morgan Rogers, Emiliano Buendia and Ollie Watkins.

📋 Team News: Everton

We’re of the thinking that The Toffees could decide to utilise a 4-3-3 formation by sending out Jordan Pickford, Nathan Patterson, James Tarkowski, Jake O'Brien, Vitaliy Mykolenko, Harrison Armstrong, Merlin Roehl, James Garner, Dwight McNeil, Thierno Barry and Jack Grealish.

💭 Prediction

Aston Villa have it within them to be able to create a high number of chances and successful shots on target.

In contrast, Everton will be up against it to make a breakthrough but we do fancy them scoring.

We’re therefore expecting to see a decent 3-1 winning score for Aston Villa at the end of the match.

Andre Moura, 16:01 18/01/2026