Aston Villa and Bristol City spectators can't wait for Championship clash at Villa Park

Competition: England Championship
Date: Sat 13.April
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Villa Park (42788 seats)

A key match in Championship as both teams are battling for the top positions. With the home team in 5th position and the visitors placed 6th, this promises to be an exciting meeting. Read on to find out more!

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Aston Villa and Bristol City.

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Aston Villa form and stats

Aston Villa have played 20 games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 9-8-3 (wins-draws-losses). The team is able to perform also as the away side, as they are nurturing a very healthy winning streak of seven straight victories regardless of arena. It’s been three wins in a row for Aston Villa here at Villa Park, hoping to make this one the fourth consecutive victory.

Aston Villa are returning here after visiting Rotherham United in a Championship game and winning with a 2-1 scoreline. Before that match, a win away at Sheffield Wednesday.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Aston Villa have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found four games) they have won 3 times, drawn 1 and lost 0.

Goals decide football matches and Aston Villa are scoring many of them at home; 46 on target from 20 matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Aston Villa defense is not exactly impregnable. 33 goals conceded from 20 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Bristol City form and stats

Playing away, Bristol City have won 10 games, drawn 4 and suffered 5 defeats so far this season. It could be a hat trick of victories away for Bristol City, as they have won on their previous two travels.

Bristol City won their last game, 3-2 versus West Bromwich Albion played at home. Ahead of that game was the 2-2 draw at home against Wigan Athletic.

Bristol City are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 10 wins, 4 draws and 5 defeats. From a total of 19 matches.

Bristol City are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 27 away goals from 19 games. 21 goals have been conceded by Bristol City in these games.

Head 2 Head

The last H2H meeting was Bristol City - Aston Villa 1-1, played this season. Head-to-head totals (for the last five meetings): Aston Villa won 2 games, 2 matches ended with a draw and Bristol City has 1 win.

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Total Home Statistic Away Total
41 20 Played 19 40
75 46 Scored 27 54
57 33 Conceded 21 44
98% 100% Over 0.5 95% 98%
85% 95% Over 1.5 58% 65%
63% 75% Over 2.5 37% 38%
39% 55% Over 3.5 32% 25%
17% 30% Over 4.5 26% 18%
66% 70% Both teams to score 42% 52%
24% 25% Clean Sheet 47% 32%
12% 5% Failed To Score 16% 18%
Key stats this season:
  • Aston Villa hasn't played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Aston Villa is involved in more matches over 2.5 home, than away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Norwich City 41 25 10 6 84 50 21 14 3 4 47 31 20 11 7 2 37 19 34 85
2 Leeds United 41 24 7 10 68 42 20 13 3 4 35 18 21 11 4 6 33 24 26 79
3 Sheffield United 41 23 9 9 68 38 20 13 3 4 37 16 21 10 6 5 31 22 30 78
4 West Bromwich Albion 41 20 10 11 77 55 20 9 7 4 44 27 21 11 3 7 33 28 22 70
5 Aston Villa 41 17 15 9 75 57 20 9 8 3 46 33 21 8 7 6 29 24 18 66
6 Bristol City 40 18 11 11 54 44 21 8 7 6 27 23 19 10 4 5 27 21 10 65
7 Middlesbrough 41 16 13 12 43 36 20 7 6 7 19 16 21 9 7 5 24 20 7 61
8 Derby County 40 16 12 12 55 50 20 10 7 3 31 19 20 6 5 9 24 31 5 60
9 Hull City 41 17 9 15 61 58 21 11 5 5 36 20 20 6 4 10 25 38 3 60
10 Sheffield Wednesday 41 15 14 12 52 54 21 9 8 4 31 25 20 6 6 8 21 29 -2 59
11 Nottingham Forest 41 14 15 12 55 50 20 11 4 5 29 19 21 3 11 7 26 31 5 57
12 Preston North End 41 15 12 14 59 55 21 7 9 5 34 27 20 8 3 9 25 28 4 57
13 Swansea City 40 16 8 16 55 50 20 11 4 5 35 22 20 5 4 11 20 28 5 56
14 Brentford 41 14 12 15 65 56 21 12 4 5 45 23 20 2 8 10 20 33 9 54
15 Stoke City 41 11 18 12 39 45 20 8 6 6 20 18 21 3 12 6 19 27 -6 51
16 Blackburn Rovers 41 13 11 17 55 63 21 9 6 6 28 19 20 4 5 11 27 44 -8 50
17 Birmingham City 41 13 15 13 57 53 21 7 9 5 28 21 20 6 6 8 29 32 4 45
18 Queens Park Rangers 41 12 9 20 46 65 20 8 3 9 28 28 21 4 6 11 18 37 -19 45
19 Millwall 40 10 11 19 45 58 20 7 7 6 24 24 20 3 4 13 21 34 -13 41
20 Reading 41 9 14 18 45 62 20 7 4 9 27 30 21 2 10 9 18 32 -17 41
21 Wigan Athletic 41 10 11 20 44 61 20 9 7 4 25 19 21 1 4 16 19 42 -17 41
22 Rotherham United 41 8 15 18 44 70 21 7 8 6 30 33 20 1 7 12 14 37 -26 39
23 Bolton Wanderers 41 8 8 25 29 68 21 4 4 13 13 32 20 4 4 12 16 36 -39 32
24 Ipswich Town 41 4 15 22 32 67 20 2 10 8 18 27 21 2 5 14 14 40 -35 27

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