Indonesia All-Stars vs Aston Villa - prediction, team news, lineups

Amid an unsettling summertime successful the transportation market, Aston Villa volition proceed their build-up to the caller play connected Saturday, erstwhile they play Indonesia All-Stars successful Jakarta.

After a palmy 2025-26 campaign, Villa volition soon instrumentality to the Champions League and are gathering up to the UEFA Super Cup, but they person conscionable mislaid back-to-back friendlies.

Match preview

Having yet claimed immoderate large silverware past season, lifting the Europa League trophy successful May, Aston Villa besides clung connected to 4th spot successful the Premier League and secured Champions League qualification.

Unai Emery's men emphatically defeated Freiburg successful their archetypal European last for 44 years, but overmuch has changed since then, with cardinal midfielder Youri Tielemans and England guardant Morgan Rogers some heading for the exit. 

To compensate, some Joao Gomes and Swiss prima Johan Manzambi person arrived astatine the Birmingham club, who precocious enactment 5 goals past adjacent Walsall successful their archetypal pre-season friendly.

After their accepted curtain-raiser, Villa stepped up preparations for the 2026-27 run by facing Porto and Real Sociedad, but they were beaten 2-0 by the Portuguese broadside and 4-2 by the Copa del Rey holders.

Now, the Villans are bound for a trio of affable games successful Asia, starting disconnected against Indonesia All-Stars connected Saturday. Alternately branded arsenic Indonesia XI oregon Indonesia Dream Team, they annually correspond the I-League successful affable matches against overseas opposition.

In the past, they person played Inter Milan, Liverpool, Chelsea and Liverpool without ever winning, portion past twelvemonth they mislaid 6-3 to Oxford United.

Soon aft the teams clash astatine Gelora Bung Karno Main Stadium, Villa indispensable tackle 2 clubs of precise antithetic stature: humble Thai broadside BG Pathum United and German giants Bayern Munich. 

Emery's men volition past conscionable Paris Saint-Germain successful Salzburg to contention the UEFA Super Cup, earlier opening their Premier League play distant to Brighton & Hove Albion connected August 23.

Aston Villa pre-season form:

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Team News

While established regulars Matty Cash, Tyrone Mings and Emi Buendia each started Tuesday's decision to Real Sociedad, astir of Aston Villa's World Cup players are inactive unavailable. 

Ollie Watkins, Ezri Konsa, John McGinn, Victor Lindelof, Lucas Digne, Emi Martinez and summertime signing Manzambi - the second of whom is besides injured - are not expected to diagnostic this weekend. 

Signed from LASK past summertime earlier staying with the Austrian broadside connected loan, Modou Cisse has been deputising successful cardinal defence during pre-season.

Following his accomplishment from Chelsea, Alejandro Garnacho could beryllium progressive for the archetypal time, but Boubacar Kamara is recovering from semipermanent wounded and Amadou Onana (ACL) volition beryllium sidelined for the foreseeable future.

In the lack of Watkins, teenage striker Brian Madjo has scored 3 times successful arsenic galore matches; the Luxembourg planetary tin vie with Tammy Abraham to commencement up front.

Meanwhile, location manager Kurniawan Dwi Yulianto has selected a squad including Indonesian starlets Kelly Stroyer, Reno Salampessy and Arkhan Kaka, the second of whom was precocious called up by elder nationalist squad brag John Herdman for the archetypal time.

Of the All-Stars overseas contingent, Portuguese midfielder Ze Valente and Madura United's Jordy Wehrmann basal out, portion Dutch-born striker Ezra Walian scored respective free-kicks successful the 2025-2026 I-League campaign.

Indonesia All-Stars imaginable starting lineup:

Winata; Kaffa, Yama, Scheunemann, Guntara; Slamat, Tanjung, Wehrmann, Valente; Kaka, Walian 

Aston Villa imaginable starting lineup:

Bizot; Cash, Cisse, Torres, Maatsen; Bogarde, Gomes; Burrowes, Hemmings, Buendia; Madjo

We say: Indonesia All-Stars 1-4 Aston Villa

Tougher tests prevarication ahead, but aft a brace of affable defeats, Aston Villa tin get backmost to winning ways with a comfy triumph successful Jakarta.

Now sharpened up by 3 summertime fixtures,  the Villans volition person acold excessively overmuch firepower for a hastily assembled I-League XI.

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