Aston Villa host high-flying Bournemouth in a Premier League clash at Villa Park.
Victory could lift Villa into the top ten in the table, whilst Bournemouth can go second with a win for at least a few hours.
Team News
Villa have no fresh injury concerns to report after their 2-0 Europa League victory against Maccabi Tel Aviv, with Tyrone Mings (hamstring) and Andres Garcia (unspecified) still absent.
Bournemouth will hand Tyler Adams (knee) and Alejandro Gimenez (calf) late fitness tests.
When is Kick-Off?
Villa host Bournemouth at Villa Park on Sunday 9 November at 2pm GMT, live on Sky Sports Cricket in the UK.
Stat Attack
- Aston Villa are unbeaten in their last five meetings against Bournemouth (W3, D2).
- Bournemouth have avoided defeat in three of their last five visits to Villa (W2, D1, L2).
- Villa have kept just one clean sheet in their last four meetings against Bournemouth.
- Unai Emery’s Villains have kept just two clean sheets at home this season (W3, D1, L1).
- Eli Kroupi has scored three goals in two of Bournemouth’s last three away matches.
Prediction
After a wasteful league defeat at Liverpool last weekend, Villa bounced back with a clinical and well controlled display to beat Maccabi Tel Aviv but they now need to find more gears because Bournemouth won’t make this easy such is their attacking flair and intensity.
Bournemouth though were outclassed at Manchester City last weekend as was to be expected given their form at that stadium, but they did at least take the fight to them throughout which will give them positivity to bring into this game where a win is achievable.
I however do feel that Villa will give Bournemouth a tough game if they can build on Thursday’s performance but the Cherries should have a strong enough reaction to last weekend’s result to nick this if not get a draw.
Prediction: Aston Villa 1-2 Bournemouth
Result: Aston Villa 4-0 Bournemouth