Loyal fans at Academy Stadium haven’t enjoyed many victories this season, with Manchester City W struggling in the 9th position. The visiting Aston Villa W will hope to guard their higher league position in this match.
- Manchester City W have lost all their home matches so far.
- Aston Villa W have scored at least twice as many goals away as Manchester City W have scored home.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Manchester City W form and stats
Manchester City W have played three Women's Super League home games so far, perhaps enough to set expectations for the season. In that case, only 0 points from these matches could be a signal of rough times ahead. With Manchester City W having lost three times in a row here, the pressure is increasing on the manager G. Taylor.
Manchester lost their last game at Manchester United W (placed 5th) after a 1-2 scoreline.
Preceding that match was a Women's Super League defeat to Chelsea W (0-4).Manchester has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches in the league: 1 goal from 3 games. As for conceded goals, Manchester City W's unpleasant statistic is 8 goals surrendered.
Aston Villa W form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Women's Super League travels is 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a League Cup Women home defeat versus Sheffield Utd W with 1-2 on the scoreboard.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Birmingham W at their stadium, the result 1-0.The visitors have scored 3 goals from 4 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. 4 goals have been conceded by Villa in these games.
Head 2 Head
Head to head numbers (for the last four meetings): Manchester City W won four games, zero matches ended in a draw and Aston Villa W have zero wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: three / oneTop Goalscorers
  L. Hemp 2 goals | K. Shaw 2 goals |   R. Allen 2 goals |
Manchester City W missing players
Aston Villa W missing players
| Manchester City W | Aston Villa W | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 16 | 8 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 50% | 57% |
| 86% | 67% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 25% | 43% |
| 71% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 43% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 25% | 29% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 50% | 29% |
| 43% | 67% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 43% |
| 8.6 | 10.7 | 13 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 6.5 | 4.9 |
| 4.9 | 2.7 | 1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 1 | 2.2 | 3.7 |
| 0.4 | 0.3 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 1 | 1.1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12.3 | 13.3 | 19 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5 | 8.8 | 6.4 |
| 5.6 | 5.3 | 7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 2.5 | 2 |
| 28% | 6% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 100% | 30% | 36% |
| 8.4 | 7.7 | 7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 3 | 6.2 | 9.7 |
| 4.1 | 4.7 | 5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 1 | 2.8 | 4.4 |
- All of Manchester City W's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Aston Villa W have scored at least twice as many goals away as Manchester City W have scored home.
- Aston Villa W have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded away.
- Aston Villa W have won significantly more corners away than at home.
- Aston Villa W haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Manchester City W have lost all their home matches so far.
- Manchester City W have scored more than double the goals of Aston Villa W.
- Manchester City W have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Manchester City W have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Manchester City W haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 W | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 19 |
| 2 | Chelsea W | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 17 | 18 |
| 3 | Brighton W | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 15 |
| 4 | Tottenham W | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 14 |
| 5 | Manchester United W | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 12 |
| 6 | Aston Villa W | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -5 | 10 |
| 7 | West Ham W | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 9 |
| 8 | Reading W | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | -4 | 7 |
| 9 | Manchester City W | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 8 | -5 | 7 |
| 10 | Everton W | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -7 | 7 |
| 11 | Birmingham W | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -14 | 1 |
| 12 | Leicester W | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 9 | -15 | 0 |