Bournemouth vs Aston Villa - prediction, team news, lineups

Bournemouth play big to Aston Villa successful the EFL Cup 4th circular connected Wednesday evening, with the brace having toppled the 2 Manchester clubs implicit the weekend.

The Cherries and Villans present beryllium successful 13th and ninth presumption successful the Premier League table respectively.

Match preview

When Bournemouth mislaid 5-1 astatine Chelsea aft the planetary break, Marco Rose whitethorn person started to person concerns implicit however the squad could header with the continued absences of Alex Scott and Junior Kroupi.

Fast-forward 15 days, the south-coast outfit person 4 wins successful a enactment to their name, the astir caller coming by a 3-0 scoreline astatine Manchester United.

Such was the Cherries' dominance astatine Old Trafford that they could person prevailed by a wider margin, yet Rose would person been much than satisfied with his squad gathering connected the erstwhile top-flight triumph implicit Sunderland to kick-start their campaign.

As good arsenic Bournemouth moving to wrong 2 points of sixth spot successful a congested Premier League table, they besides person wins implicit Sturm Graz and AC Milan successful the Europa League to their name.

Aside from the defeats to Liverpool and Chelsea, Bournemouth are unbeaten successful the different 9 games successful each competitions (W6 D3).

Meanwhile, Villa marque the travel to the South seashore having recorded six wins and 1 gully from their past 7 matches.

That tally started with a 3-1 triumph astatine Coventry City successful this competition, portion their latest occurrence was the deserved 2-1 occurrence implicit Manchester City connected Saturday afternoon.

Although conscionable 2 cleanable sheets person been posted, Villa person netted 20 goals during that period, and Emery volition beryllium optimistic that their ratio successful the last 3rd tin continue.

This is conscionable the 18th competitory gathering betwixt these clubs. Villa are unbeaten successful the past seven, portion they person enactment unneurotic a three-match unbeaten streak (W2 D1) astatine the Vitality Stadium portion conceding conscionable the 1 goal.

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Team News

Rose volition rotate his Bournemouth XI, with the likes of Michele Di Gregorio, Bafode Diakite, Julio Soler, Ryan Christie, Ben Gannon-Doak, David Brooks, Amine Adli and Alvaro Rodriguez each successful enactment for starting opportunities.

However, with Junior Kroupi making his comeback from a semipermanent wounded connected Sunday, past season's apical goalscorer volition apt commencement connected the substitutes' bench.

Adam Smith, James Hill and Lewis Cook could beryllium the trio to support their places successful the team.

Emery volition besides marque wide changes to his Aston Villa team, though Pau Torres could support his spot to let rests for Matty Cash and Victor Lindelof. Ian Maatsen whitethorn besides commencement among the replacements aft his caller instrumentality from injury.

Lamare Bogarde could beryllium utilized astatine right-back, Leon Goretzka whitethorn marque his archetypal Villa start, portion Brian Madjo could commencement down the mediate of the attack.

Alejandro Garnacho and Tammy Abraham are successful enactment for places connected the bench.

Bournemouth imaginable starting lineup:

Di Gregorio; Smith, Hill, Diakite, Soler; Cook, Christie; Gannon-Doak, Brooks, Adli; Rodriguez

Aston Villa imaginable starting lineup:

Bizot; Bogarde, Harwood-Bellis, Torres, Mings; Barkley, Goretzka; Mbaye, Buendia, Hemmings; Madjo

We say: Bournemouth 2-3 Aston Villa

With dense squad rotation expected, this is simply a hard lucifer to predict. However, if some teams spell connected the offensive, that could suit an Aston Villa outfit with superior squad depth, leaving america to backmost the visitors to travel done successful a five-goal thriller.

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