Burnley vs. Aston Villa - prediction, team news, lineups

With Premier League relegation confirmed, Burnley person small to play for connected Sunday, arsenic they invited Europa League finalists Aston Villa to Turf Moor successful gameweek 36.

Unlike their hosts, Unai Emery’s men person a batch riding connected this weekend’s outcome, and they volition look to widen their awesome grounds against relegated teams portion staving disconnected precocious unit to clasp the 5th Champions League spot.

Match preview

It took lone 8 minutes into Burnley's sojourn to Leeds United past week to realise wherever some sides' information laic successful the opening lucifer of the league's 35th round.

With the Clarets' instrumentality to the Championship confirmed and Scott Parker departing connected the eve of the game, the Lancashire nine faced a losing conflict astatine Elland Road earlier a shot was kicked.

Two much concessions aboriginal successful the 2nd fractional enactment the crippled further retired of scope for Burnley earlier Loum Tchaouna's 71st-minute consolation extremity gave the visitors a much respectable feel.

Now winless successful 9 top-flight games since a stunning 3-2 triumph distant astatine Crystal Palace from 2-0 down, 7 of which person been losses, Mike Jackson's men anticipation to debar a sixth consecutive league defeat.

Their wide signifier successful that play is simply a joint-low with Chelsea, portion their results successful 2026 — 1 win, 5 draws and 10 defeats — are worse than those of the different 19 clubs.

Given their existent situation, it volition instrumentality a motivated show to debar a 4th consecutive nonaccomplishment against the Europa League finalists this weekend.

While Villa were ever going to caput to Turf Moor arsenic favourites, fixed the chasm successful prime betwixt the 2 sides, ending a three-match losing tally to unafraid a spot successful this season's Europa League last undoubtedly boosts those chances adjacent further.    

Emiliano Buendia and Ollie Watkins some scored and assisted, and John McGinn netted a brace successful the last 15 minutes to seal a historical occurrence for Emery's troops, who inflicted the heaviest decision connected an English broadside by different English side, overturned past week's 1-0 loss, and acceptable up May 20’s last day with Freiburg.    

Sunday's result against the Clarets volition beryllium connected avoiding the dreaded hangover pursuing Thursday's success, which gives the Villans a information nett of inactive making adjacent season's Champions League, adjacent if they someway negociate to stroke their vantage successful that contention via the league.    

Emery's squad presently inhabit 5th spot successful the table, six points wide of Bournemouth with 3 games remaining, though they bash not clasp a important vantage connected extremity difference.     Putting each their eggs successful the Europa League handbasket volition beryllium ill-advised, particularly considering Bournemouth are unbeaten successful the league since January, truthful Villa's Premier League information ought to enactment precocious up of this weekend’s travel to Lancashire.    

The distant broadside caput to the Clarets' location connected a three-match winning streak successful this fixture, and they person a grounds of 5 wins and 3 draws successful 9 matches against teams that person mislaid their top-flight status, albeit that nonaccomplishment came against this weekend's hosts successful May 2015.    

Nonetheless, they should backmost themselves heading into a fixture against an hostile with conscionable 1 triumph successful their past 26 matches astatine this level.  

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Although Axel Tuanzebe is nearing a instrumentality from an Achilles injury, Josh Cullen (knee), Connor Roberts (Achilles) and Jordan Beyer (hamstring) stay sidelined.

Despite Aston Villa's ongoing five-match winless tally distant from home, Martin Dubravka, who has already made 127 saves this season, should expect different engaged Sunday day successful Lancashire.

While Zian Flemming needs 1 much extremity to lucifer ex-Burnley forwards Danny Ings and Chris Wood successful reaching treble figures successful league goals, the Dutchman has scored 8 of his 9 strikes extracurricular Turf Moor.  

Villa, meanwhile, seemed to debar wounded setbacks connected Thursday night, but the Europa League finalists caput into this weekend's lucifer without semipermanent absentee Boubacar Kamara (knee), Amadou Onana (calf) and Alysson.    

Buendia has had a manus successful 5 goals arsenic a substitute this season, scoring 4 and assisting one, and the Argentina planetary could adhd to that and surpass Marlon Harewood's 2007-08 grounds if helium starts connected the seat aft Thursday's exertions.    

Although Emery volition beryllium keen to extremity the club's five-match winless distant run, the Spanish manager could besides manus rests to McGinn and Watkins, with Jadon Sancho and Tammy Abraham starting, respectively.  

Burnley imaginable starting lineup:

Dubravka; Walker, Ekdal, Esteve, Hartman; Humphreys, Laurent, Ward-Prowse; Tchaouna, Flemming, Anthony

Aston Villa imaginable starting lineup:

Martinez; Cash, Lindelof, Mings, Maatsen; Bogarde, Tielemans; Sancho, Barkley, Rogers; Abraham

We say: Burnley 1-2 Aston Villa

Although Aston Villa’s caller distant signifier offers Burnley a glimmer of encouragement, the hosts’ mediocre tally and deficiency of cutting borderline marque it hard to backmost them against a broadside chasing Champions League qualification.    

If the visitors debar immoderate European hangover, they should borderline Sunday’s contest, each but ending Bournemouth’s chances of overtaking them.  

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