Aston Villa vs Brentford - prediction, team news, lineups

Two teams astatine other ends of the Premier League array quadrate disconnected astatine Villa Park connected Saturday day arsenic Aston Villa play big to Brentford.

Unai Emery’s men volition beryllium seeking revenge implicit the Bees aft suffering a constrictive 1-0 location decision successful their erstwhile brushwood with Keith Andrews’s broadside successful February.

Match preview

After failing to triumph immoderate of their opening 4 Premier League games for lone the 4th clip successful their past (D1 L3), Aston Villa claimed their archetypal triumph of the caller play erstwhile they beat basement nine Tottenham 3-2 successful North London anterior to the planetary break.

Despite a precocious fightback from Spurs, Villa held connected to unafraid their 3rd triumph successful 4 matches crossed each competitions, and caput manager Unai Emery was pleased with his team’s antiaircraft resilience successful a “very demanding” lucifer that “challenged” his players.

The reigning Europa League champions volition endeavour to drawstring a affirmative tally of signifier unneurotic successful the coming weeks successful their bid to ascent from 16th successful the Premier League table; this clip past year, they began a memorable tally that included 12 wins retired of 13 successful the apical flight.

Aston Villa instrumentality to Villa Park this play seeking to debar a 3rd successive location league decision for the archetypal clip since November 2020 nether erstwhile brag Dean Smith. Emery, meanwhile, has ne'er mislaid 3 location league games successful a enactment successful his 22-year managerial career.

Furthermore, Villa person mislaid their past 2 Premier League meetings against Brentford without scoring; their past top-flight location triumph implicit the Bees was successful December 2024 erstwhile goals from Morgan Rogers, Ollie Watkins and Matty Cash sealed a 3-1 victory.

Brentford are 1 of lone 5 teams yet to suffer successful the Premier League this play and person made their champion commencement to a top-flight run aft accumulating 9 points from their opening 5 matches (W2 D3).

Just nether a period connected from beating Spurs 3-0 connected the opening weekend, the Bees convincingly bushed West London neighbours Chelsea by the aforesaid scoreline connected location ungraded anterior to the planetary break, helping Keith Andrews’s broadside ascent to 4th successful the table.

The 22-day planetary interval arguably came astatine the worst imaginable clip for Brentford, who person enactment unneurotic a nine-game unbeaten tally crossed each competitions (W4 D5) and person scored astatine slightest doubly successful 5 of those matches.

Nevertheless, Andrews is assured that his ‘competitive’ and ‘adaptable’ squad tin physique connected their affirmative start, arsenic they effort to assertion their 4th consecutive triumph implicit Aston Villa successful each tournaments, and their 2nd astatine Villa Park successful 2026.

Brentford person recovered it hard to grind retired wins connected the road, though, arsenic they person failed to travel retired connected apical successful immoderate of their past 7 Premier League distant games (D5 L2) since beating Burnley 4-3 successful February.

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Team News

Aston Villa duo Amadou Onana (knee) and Ian Maatsen (ankle) stay sidelined with injuries, portion Pau Torres (hamstring), Matty Cash (dead leg), Alysson (muscle) and Marco Bizot (back) are each doubtful.

Summer signing Leon Goretzka (knee), who is yet to marque his debut for the club, and 17-year-old starlet Brian Madjo (ankle) volition besides beryllium assessed up of kickoff, with the anticipation that some players tin marque the matchday squad.

Johan Manzambi, different caller recruit, became the 2nd subordinate to some people and assistance connected their archetypal PL commencement for Aston Villa aft Kevin Phillips successful August 2005. The Swiss prima is apt to proceed connected the near broadside of midfield, with Emiliano Buendia and John McGinn besides providing enactment successful onslaught for striker Nicolas Jackson.

As for Brentford, Mikkel Damsgaard is acceptable for a spell connected the sidelines aft sustaining “a bigger injury” to his ankle connected planetary work with Denmark. Young guardant Kaye Furo (unspecified) is besides successful the attraction room.

Dango Ouattara is doubtful with an unwellness that forced him to miss Burkina Faso’s planetary fixtures, portion Mathias Jensen (unspecified), Joshua Dasilva (thigh), Antoni Milambo (knee), Nathan Collins (calf) and Sepp van den Berg (groin) volition beryllium assessed up of kickoff.

New signing Jannik Schuster delivered a standout show against Chelsea and should beryllium rewarded with different commencement astatine centre-back adjacent to Kristoffer Ajer, portion Vitaly Janelt - who ranks archetypal for interceptions (16) among each Premier League players this play - could beryllium joined successful midfield by Yehor Yarmolyuk and Mamadou Sangare.

Aston Villa imaginable starting lineup:

Suzuki; Wan-Bissaka, Lindelof, Mings, Ruggeri; Kamara, Gomes; McGinn, Buendia, Manzambi; Jackson

Brentford imaginable starting lineup:

Kelleher; Kayode, Schuster, Ajer, Lewis-Potter; Sangare, Yarmolyuk, Janelt; Anthony, Thiago, Schade

We say: Aston Villa 1-1 Brentford

Goals astatine some ends of the transportation could beryllium connected the cards this weekend, fixed that 7 of Brentford’s past 9 league matches person seen some teams find the backmost of the net, portion Villa person lone kept 1 cleanable expanse successful 7 games this season.

While the Bees person routinely recovered a mode to borderline choky contests with Villa implicit the past 12 months, we are backing the hosts to travel up their morale-boosting triumph implicit Tottenham past clip retired by claiming astatine slightest a hard-earned constituent connected location soil.

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