Premier League preview: Can Aston Villa edge out victory against Wolverhampton Wanderers?

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Competition: England Premier League
Competition: Wed 04.January
Match begins: 20:00 (UTC)
Venue: Villa Park (42682 seats)

Aston Villa have won 21 points performing as the home side. Wolverhampton Wanderers have 13 points playing the role of visitors. Will this be a home win?

Insights:
  • Aston Villa haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Wolverhampton Wanderers have the fewest scored goals (10) in Premier League

It's no vacation for neither Aston Villa nor Wolverhampton Wanderers as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Aston Villa form and stats

When playing at home in the Premier League, Aston Villa have managed 4 wins, 1 draw and suffered 3 defeats from 8 games.

A good away victory last time out for Villa, who won 2-0 against Tottenham Hotspur (placed 5th). Midfielder Luiz was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.1 (out of ten) in that game. Luiz scored one goal, hit one key pass and had 48 successful passes (of 52 total).

Ahead of that match, Aston Villa lost 1-3 at home to Liverpool.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Aston Villa handle that role? We have found 12 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 5 wins, 5 draws and 2 defeats.

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Villa, as the FA Cup home game vs Stevenage is only four days away.

A decent goal production from Aston Villa in their home games so far, with 12 goals from 8 league matches. It's worth mentioning that 8 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Aston Villa have conceded 9 in these home matches.

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Wolverhampton Wanderers form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Wolverhampton Wanderers so far with only 5 points returning home. The records show 1-2-5 (win-draw-lose).

This game can not go any worse than the last one, the home defeat versus Manchester United with 0-1 on the scoreboard. It's possibly a bad omen for Wolves that their goalie Sá pulled off six saves in the Manchester United match, but still couldn't hinder a beating.

Preceding that game was the away victory against Everton with the score of 2-1.

We have checked recent matches where Wolverhampton Wanderers have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 8 games were 3 victories, 1 draw and 4 defeats.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Wolverhampton Wanderers manager Argote as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Liverpool.

The visitors have scored 5 goals from 8 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Wolves struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 12 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

Aston Villa-Wolverhampton Wanderers H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Aston Villa three wins, Wolverhampton Wanderers six wins, one draw. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Aston VillaD. Ings
D. Ings
5 goals
Wolverhampton WanderersR. Da Silva Neves
R. Da Silva Neves
4 goals
Aston VillaO. Watkins
O. Watkins
3 goals

Aston Villa missing players

Wolverhampton Wanderers missing players

Aston Villa Wolverhampton Wanderers
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
17 8 3 Played P 3 8 17
6 4 2 Won W 0 1 3
3 1 0 Drew D 1 2 4
8 3 1 Lost L 2 5 10
19 12 3 Scored S 2 5 10
25 9 2 Conceded C 6 12 26
94% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 88% 88%
82% 75% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 65%
53% 50% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 50% 41%
29% 38% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 12%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 6%
47% 50% 33% BTTS BTTS 67% 50% 35%
24% 25% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 12% 24%
35% 25% 33% Failed to Score F T 33% 50% 53%
 
4.1 4 4.7 Corners for (avg) C F 3.3 4.1 4.8
5 4.4 4.3 Corners against (avg) C A 3.7 3.8 4.9
2.4 1.9 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.3 1.9 2.1
1 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 3
 
10.8 11.1 11 Shots (avg) S ( 11 13.5 11.9
3.9 4.8 3.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.3 3.8 3.4
28% 32% 27% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 17% 18%
 
11.3 10.5 10 Shots against (avg) S A 14.3 12.8 13.2
4.4 3.9 2.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.7 4.1 4.2
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Aston Villa have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Wolverhampton Wanderers have scored away.
  • Aston Villa haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Wolverhampton Wanderers have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Wolverhampton Wanderers have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Wolverhampton Wanderers have the fewest scored goals (10) in Premier League
  • Wolverhampton Wanderers have the fewest scored goals in the second half (3) in Premier League

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Arsenal 16 14 1 1 40 14 7 7 0 0 22 8 9 7 1 1 18 6 26 43
2 Manchester City 16 11 3 2 44 16 9 7 1 1 31 10 7 4 2 1 13 6 28 36
3 Newcastle United 17 9 7 1 32 11 9 5 4 0 17 5 8 4 3 1 15 6 21 34
4 Manchester United 16 10 2 4 24 20 7 5 1 1 12 4 9 5 1 3 12 16 4 32
5 Tottenham Hotspur 17 9 3 5 33 25 9 6 0 3 21 13 8 3 3 2 12 12 8 30
6 Liverpool 16 8 4 4 33 19 9 6 2 1 23 9 7 2 2 3 10 10 14 28
7 Chelsea 16 7 4 5 20 18 7 4 2 1 12 6 9 3 2 4 8 12 2 25
8 Fulham 17 7 4 6 29 27 9 4 3 2 16 14 8 3 1 4 13 13 2 25
9 Brighton & Hove Albion 16 7 3 6 28 24 8 3 2 3 13 10 8 4 1 3 15 14 4 24
10 Brentford 17 5 8 4 27 27 8 3 4 1 15 9 9 2 4 3 12 18 0 23
11 Crystal Palace 16 6 4 6 17 21 8 4 1 3 10 11 8 2 3 3 7 10 -4 22
12 Aston Villa 17 6 3 8 19 25 8 4 1 3 12 9 9 2 2 5 7 16 -6 21
13 Leicester City 17 5 2 10 26 30 8 2 2 4 9 9 9 3 0 6 17 21 -4 17
14 Leeds United 16 4 4 8 23 29 8 3 2 3 13 12 8 1 2 5 10 17 -6 16
15 AFC Bournemouth 17 4 4 9 18 36 9 3 2 4 9 10 8 1 2 5 9 26 -18 16
16 Everton 17 3 6 8 13 20 8 2 2 4 7 8 9 1 4 4 6 12 -7 15
17 West Ham United 17 4 2 11 13 22 9 3 1 5 9 12 8 1 1 6 4 10 -9 14
18 Nottingham Forest 17 3 5 9 12 34 9 3 3 3 11 12 8 0 2 6 1 22 -22 14
19 Wolverhampton Wanderers 17 3 4 10 10 26 9 2 2 5 5 14 8 1 2 5 5 12 -16 13
20 Southampton 17 3 3 11 15 32 8 1 3 4 9 15 9 2 0 7 6 17 -17 12

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