📏 Form Guide

Aston Villa

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Aston Villa will be looking for an improved result here after the 2-0 Premier League loss in their previous game against Wolverhampton Wanderers.

In that match, Aston Villa had 61% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 5 on target. For their opponents, Wolverhampton Wanderers got 9 shots on goal with 2 on target. Gomes (61', 98') scored for Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Fewer than three goals per match were seen in 5 of the past 6 fixtures where Aston Villa have taken part. Breaking down the goal attribution from this period, their opponents scored an aggregate of 8 and Aston Villa managed a tally of 4.

Their previous form shows that Aston Villa:

• have not lost a league tie with Chelsea in their last 2 games.
• have not been beaten in their last 2 league matches at home.

Chelsea

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After being beaten in their last game against Arsenal in Premier League competition, Chelsea and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that game, Chelsea managed 59% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 3 on target. At the other end, Arsenal had 12 shots on goal with 5 on target. William Saliba (21'), Piero Hincapié (45' Own goal) and Jurriën Timber (66') scored for Arsenal.

The numbers tell their own story, and Chelsea have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, conceding 6 goals overall. Defensively, Chelsea can certainly do much better. We will have to see if that trend can be sustained into this next match.

Going into this encounter, Chelsea have left without a victory over Aston Villa in away games against them for the last 2 league games.

👥 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head meetings stretching back to 26/01/2024, neither club has come out on top overall with Aston Villa winning 2 of those games, Chelsea 2 and 2 being drawn in normal time.

A sum of 17 goals were scored between them in this period, with 7 from The Villans and 10 netted by The Blues. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.83.

The previous league clash featuring these clubs was Premier League match day 18 on 27/12/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Chelsea 1-2 Aston Villa.

In that game, Chelsea managed 63% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Pedro (37').

Aston Villa had 11 shots on goal with 8 on target. Ollie Watkins (63', 84') scored.

The match was refereed by Stuart Attwell.

📋 Team News: Aston Villa

It’s our opinion that The Villans should go for a 4-2-3-1 formation for this game with Emiliano Martinez, Matty Cash, Ezri Konsa, Tyrone Mings, Ian Maatsen, Amadou Onana, Douglas Luiz, Jadon Sancho, Ross Barkley, Morgan Rogers and Ollie Watkins.

🗞️ Team News: Chelsea

From our viewpoint, The Blues seem most likely to elect for a 4-2-3-1 system, settling for Robert Sanchez, Reece James, Wesley Fofana, Trevoh Chalobah, Malo Gusto, Moises Caicedo, Andrey Santos, Cole Palmer, Enzo Fernandez, Alejandro Garnacho and Joao Pedro.

✨ Prediction

Our thinking is that Chelsea and Aston Villa should both be able to score here although it’s hard to pick a clear winner.

We’ll see, but this looks like it could end up all-square. That is why we are leaning toward a close game with a score draw when all is said and done.

Lucas Pereira, 19:02 04/03/2026