📊 Form Guide

Aston Villa

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Aston Villa head into this game coming off the back of a 2-2 Premier League drawn game versus Burnley.

In that game, Aston Villa managed 66% possession and 18 attempts on goal with 7 on target. For Aston Villa, the goalscorers were Ross Barkley (42') and Ollie Watkins (56'). At the other end, Burnley had 15 attempts at goal with 6 on target. Jaidon Anthony (8') and Zian Flemming (58') scored for Burnley.

It has been seldom in recent games that Aston Villa have shown defensive steel. The reality is that Aston Villa have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 9 goals on the way. Such a trend won’t necessarily be continued into this match, though.

Coming into this contest, Aston Villa have left without a victory over Liverpool in their previous 10 matches in the league.

Liverpool

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Previously, Liverpool drew 1-1 in the Premier League match with Chelsea.

In that game, Liverpool managed 49% possession and 8 shots on goal with 3 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Liverpool was Ryan Gravenberch (6'). On the other side, Chelsea had 6 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Enzo Fernández (35') was the scorer for Chelsea.

Looking at their form, and Liverpool have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 8 goals in total. Defensively, Liverpool have been far from perfect.

A look at their previous results shows us that Liverpool:

• have not registered a win against Aston Villa when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 league games.
• have not lost to Aston Villa when having played them away from home in the previous 4 league matches. A solid away record against them.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their most recent head to head clashes dating back to 20/05/2023 shows that Aston Villa have won 0 of these and Liverpool 3, with the number of draws being 3.

In all, 19 goals were scored between them in this period, with 6 of them for The Villans and 13 netted by The Reds. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.17.

The previous league match featuring these clubs was Premier League match day 10 on 01/11/2025 and the score finished Liverpool 2-0 Aston Villa.

That day, Liverpool had 54% possession and 16 shots at goal with 4 on target. The goals were scored by Mohamed Salah (45') and Ryan Gravenberch (58').

Aston Villa got 10 shots at goal with 3 on target.

The match was refereed by Stuart Attwell.

ℹ️ Team News: Aston Villa

In all likelihood, The Villans will probably line up in a 4-2-3-1 system for this one and select Emiliano Martinez, Matty Cash, Ezri Konsa, Pau Torres, Lucas Digne, Youri Tielemans, Douglas Luiz, John McGinn, Ross Barkley, Morgan Rogers and Ollie Watkins.

🗞️ Team News: Liverpool

It’s our belief that The Reds could decide to elect for a 4-2-3-1 formation, starting the game with Giorgi Mamardashvili, Curtis Jones, Ibrahima Konate, Virgil van Dijk, Milos Kerkez, Ryan Gravenberch, Alexis Mac Allister, Jeremie Frimpong, Dominik Szoboszlai, Florian Wirtz and Cody Gakpo.

🧠 Prediction

We feel that in this game, Liverpool are likely to convert a lot of goal-scoring opportunities.

At the same time, Aston Villa may well struggle getting on the scoresheet although we reckon that they could well end up getting the chances to score, too.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a decent 1-3 winning margin for Liverpool after 90 minutes.

Victor Martins, 14:03 15/05/2026