Aston Villa will aim to draw on their home advantage to give everything they have against today’s adversaries. The team playing at home are currently 13 points behind Manchester City.
- Aston Villa have the most matches over the total-line (8) in Premier League
- Manchester City is in the best form (5-0-1) in Premier League
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 Manchester City.
Aston Villa form and stats
When playing at home in the Premier League, Aston Villa have managed 3 wins, 1 draw and suffered 2 defeats from 6 games.
Aston Villa enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Crystal Palace's place. The match ended 2-1 with John McGinn and Matt Targett scoring. Midfield player John McGinn got a match rating of 8.62 in that game, the max score being 10. McGinn scored one goal, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 3 of 3 times and had 27 successful passes (of 30 total).
Before that game, the 2-0 home victory against Brighton & Hove Albion.The home team are doomed in this game if you believe the odds offered on Manchester City to win. Let's see if Aston Villa are capable of creating a surprise here by looking at their earlier home games as massive outsiders: four games found revealing zero Villa wins, zero draws and four defeats.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Leicester City are coming to town in four days.
Villa have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Villa Park with 11 goals in 6 league matches. 8 goals have been conceded.
Manchester City form and stats
Manchester City have an excellent away record in the Premier League so far with 4-1-1 from 6 games. It could be a hat trick of victories away for City, as they have won on their previous two travels.
Impressive finishing from Fernandinho and İlkay Gündoğan secured the home win 2-1 against West Ham United in their previous game. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of manager J. Guardiola i Sala when Fernandinho scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 87th minute. İlkay Gündoğan got a match rating of 8.1 in that game, top player of the team. Gündoğan scored one goal, served one assist, hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times and had 56 successful passes (of 58 total).
Prior to that match, a home win 2-1 against Paris Saint Germain in the Champions League.Again, the away team are huge favourites in this match and any other result would be an upset. We checked our Tipsway database for earlier, recent games with City given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed 13 matches with 13 wins as expected, zero draws and zero surprise home wins. The favourites won ten of these games by at least two goals.
The schedule is very tough for City now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Premier League game at Watford is waiting in only three days.
City are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 10 times in 6 away games so far. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (4 so far).
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Villa zero wins, one draw and Manchester City nine victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  B. Mota Veiga de Carvalho e Silva 4 goals |   J. McGinn 3 goals |  O. Watkins 3 goals |
Aston Villa missing players
Manchester City missing players
| Aston Villa | Manchester City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 4 | 6 | 13 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 4 | 9 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | 2 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 18 | 11 | 3 | Scored | S | 7 | 10 | 27 |
| 21 | 8 | 7 | Conceded | C | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 85% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 50% | 69% |
| 62% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 33% | 46% |
| 31% | 33% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 33% | 31% |
| 23% | 33% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 17% | 23% |
| 54% | 50% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 25% | 33% | 23% |
| 31% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 50% | 62% |
| 15% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 17% | 23% |
| 5.2 | 4.2 | 4.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 8.5 | 8.5 | 8.2 |
| 5.3 | 4.8 | 6.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 3.8 | 2.8 |
| 2.4 | 2.2 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.2 | 1.6 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11.5 | 10.8 | 11.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 20.2 | 18 | 17.9 |
| 3.5 | 3.7 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 7.5 | 6.2 | 6.4 |
| 40% | 50% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 23% | 27% | 33% |
| 13.4 | 11 | 15.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.8 | 7.7 | 6.5 |
| 4.5 | 3.3 | 7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 2.3 | 2.1 |
- All of Aston Villa's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Aston Villa have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Aston Villa have the most matches over the total-line (8) in Premier League
- Aston Villa have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Aston Villa haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Manchester City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Manchester City have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Manchester City haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Manchester City is in the best form (5-0-1) 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 | Chelsea | 13 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 31 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 26 | 30 |
| 2 | Manchester City | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 27 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 20 | 29 |
| 3 | Liverpool | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 39 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 6 | 28 | 28 |
| 4 | West Ham United | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 24 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 23 |
| 5 | Arsenal | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 11 | -2 | 23 |
| 6 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 20 |
| 7 | Tottenham Hotspur | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -6 | 19 |
| 8 | Manchester United | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 21 | 22 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 11 | -1 | 18 |
| 9 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | -2 | 18 |
| 10 | Leicester City | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 23 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 11 | -3 | 18 |
| 11 | Crystal Palace | 13 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 19 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 16 |
| 12 | Brentford | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 16 |
| 13 | Aston Villa | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 18 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 13 | -3 | 16 |
| 14 | Everton | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | -4 | 15 |
| 15 | Southampton | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 14 | -7 | 14 |
| 16 | Watford | 13 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 18 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 12 | -6 | 13 |
| 17 | Leeds United | 13 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 11 | -8 | 12 |
| 18 | Burnley | 12 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 | -6 | 9 |
| 19 | Norwich City | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 27 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 16 | -20 | 9 |
| 20 | Newcastle United | 13 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 29 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 16 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 13 | -14 | 6 |
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