Man City vs Aston Villa: Preview and Prediction

Saturday 26th October 2019

England Premier League
Saturday 26th October 2019
Kick off at 12.30pm BST
Venue: Etihad Stadium

Match Preview:

It’s been a good week for the Premier League champions who beat Crystal Palace and then demolished Atalanta 5-1 in the Champions League. The icing on the cake was seeing Liverpool finally drop points this season as the league leaders drew against Manchester United and the gap to them is now 6 points.

City will be the massive odds on favourites being at home and playing the newly promoted Aston Villa. The last time City played at home in the league they lost in shocking fashion 2-0 against Wolves and it would take a brave person to predict that they will slip up for a 2^nd time in a row. The Atalanta victory was at the Etihad and that result has calmed everybody to the extent that the feeling is City won’t even have to break into second gear to get a win in this Saturday lunch time kick off. City have won just 50% of their games at home but they should have little trouble here.

Aston Villa come into this match in 12^th place with 11 points and Dean Smith’s side are in form having gone 3 games without defeat that includes winning their last two matches. Those victories were against Norwich and Brighton and the club are not shying from goals and have scored 7 from their last two games.

Victory would launch Villa into the top 10 but the club have won just 1 game from the four played away and lost the others. In their defeats against quality team such as Arsenal and Tottenham it should be noted on each occasion they conceded 3 goals, and on each occasion they were in winning positions.

Team News:

Manchester City: Rodri has a hamstring injury which happened in the clubs Champions League match, he is ruled out of this game

Aston Villa: Villa’s only problem is Jota who won’t return to the team until the beginning of next month as he is recovering from a recent hernia operation

Man City vs Aston Villa Head to Head:

The teams have not met since 2016 when Manchester City at home beat Aston Villa 4-0.

Manchester City have scored 8 goals and conceded none in their last two meetings with Aston Villa.

Aston Villa have not beaten Manchester City since 2013.

Man City vs Aston Villa Prediction:

City are massive odds on to win this game and we think not only will they win but they have goals in them too. Aston Villa will come here to defend and try to counter attack but to no avail and that is why we will take City on to win this game. We can’t go for the straight victory when odds are lower than 1.05 so we will take them to win on the handicap. Players such as Raheem Sterling are in such brilliant form we will also back him to score and we could see quite a few goals in what should be a routine win for the champions.

Man City vs Aston Villa Betting Tips:

Manchester City to beat Aston Villa with a -2 goal start at 1.83

Anytime goalscorer: Raheem Sterling at 1.57