Aston Villa vs Arsenal Preview


Aston Villa vs Arsenal

Competition – Barclays Premier League

Stadium: Villa Park

Date: 19th March 2022

Kick-off time – 12:30 GMT

Steven Gerrard and his Aston Villa side will welcome Arsenal to Villa Park this Saturday for their 30th round game of the 2021/22 Premier League season.

The hosts will look to bounce back from their recent defeat when they welcome the Gunners on Saturday. After going on a three-game-winning run, Aston Villa were beaten by West Ham last weekend.

In an evenly contested game at the Olympic Stadium in London, second-half goals from Andriy Yarmolenko and Pablo Fornals made sure that Gerrard’s men left empty-handed. Jacob Ramsey pulled one back for the visitors late in the game but his goal was only a consolation.

They will now hope they can bounce back to winning ways so that they can keep their quest for a top ten finish alive. Villa are currently in ninth position, 12 points adrift on the Europa League spots with ten games left to play.

Given that they have won three of their last five games against the Gunners, they will hope to get an excellent result when they host Mikel Arteta’s side who are reeling from their loss to Liverpool.

The Gunners’ top-four hopes was dealt an immense blow on Wednesday when they were beaten 2-0 by a solid Liverpool side.

Arsenal were the better side for much of the first half, but were undone by the clinical Reds who scored through Diogo Jota and substitute Roberto Firmino.

They will hope to bounce back immediately from that defeat to ensure they remain well on course to secure Champions League football next season.

They are one point ahead of Manchester United in the league table heading into this game. And so, Mikel Arteta will have to return to the drawing board to come up with a winning formula to make it two out of two against Aston Villa this season having won the reverse fixture.

Other fixtures taking place this week in the Premier League Fixtures:

February 23, 2024
Chelsea 01:00 Tottenham Hotspur
March 30, 2024
Newcastle United 13:30 West Ham United
AFC Bournemouth 16:00 Everton
Chelsea 16:00 Burnley
Nottingham Forest 16:00 Crystal Palace
Sheffield United 16:00 Fulham
Tottenham Hotspur 16:00 Luton Town
Aston Villa 18:30 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Brentford 21:00 Manchester United
March 31, 2024
Liverpool 13:00 Brighton & Hov…
Manchester City 15:30 Arsenal
April 2, 2024
Newcastle United 18:30 Everton
Nottingham Forest 18:30 Fulham
AFC Bournemouth 18:45 Crystal Palace
Burnley 18:45 Wolverhampton Wanderers
West Ham United 19:15 Tottenham Hotspur
April 3, 2024
Arsenal 18:30 Luton Town
Brentford 18:30 Brighton & Hov…
Manchester City 19:15 Aston Villa

Premier League Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Arsenal 28 20 4 4 70 24 +46 64
2 Liverpool 28 19 7 2 65 26 +39 64
3 Manchester City 28 19 6 3 63 28 +35 63
4 Aston Villa 29 17 5 7 60 42 +18 56
5 Tottenham Hotspur 28 16 5 7 59 42 +17 53
6 Manchester United 28 15 2 11 39 39 +0 47
7 West Ham United 29 12 8 9 46 50 -4 44
8 Brighton & Hov… 28 11 9 8 50 44 +6 42
9 Wolverhampton Wanderers 28 12 5 11 42 44 -2 41
10 Newcastle United 28 12 4 12 59 48 +11 40
11 Chelsea 27 11 6 10 47 45 +2 39
12 Fulham 29 11 5 13 43 44 -1 38
13 AFC Bournemouth 28 9 8 11 41 52 -11 35
14 Crystal Palace 28 7 8 13 33 48 -15 29
15 Brentford 29 7 5 17 41 54 -13 26
16 Everton 28 8 7 13 29 39 -10 25
17 Luton Town 29 5 7 17 42 60 -18 22
18 Nottingham Forest 29 6 7 16 35 51 -16 21
19 Burnley 29 4 5 20 29 63 -34 17
20 Sheffield United 28 3 5 20 24 74 -50 14

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