Aston Villa hosts Chelsea in round 19 of the English Premier League. The match will be played on Sunday, December 26th at Villa Park (Birmingham)
Steven Gerrard's team is in 10th position in the Premier League standings with 22 points after 17 rounds. Aston Villa gained seven victories and one draw and suffered nine losses. Villa is one of the teams whose calendar has suffered due to the COVID-19 epidemic among football players. Due to a large number of diseased players, the Lions were unable to take part in the match against Burnley on 18 December. The results of the team from Birmingham in the last rounds were not bad. Gerrard's footballers defeated all opponents in six games, except for Manchester City (1-2) and Liverpool (1-0). On December 14, the Villains dealt with the worst team in the league, Norwich (0-2).
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Thomas Tuchel's team is in 3rd place in the Premier League standings with 38 points after 18 games. Chelsea gained 11 victories and five draws and suffered two defeats. The Blues avoided problems with the postponement of matches, but there were also significant losses in the squad of the Pensioners due to the coronavirus. This has proven to be one of the reasons for their decline in recent weeks. Chelsea missed out on 1st place in Group H of the Champions League and tied against Everton (1-1) and Wolverhampton (0-0) in two previous Premier League games. On December 22, the Blues achieved an away victory over Brentford in the League Cup quarterfinals (0-2). Tuchel fielded a mixed lineup in that game, but even so he gained an advantage at the end of the 2nd half. First, Pontus Jansson hit his own net, and five minutes later, Jorginho doubled the lead from a penalty spot.
In the current season, the opponents crossed paths two times in London over 11 days. On 11 September, Chelsea defeated Aston Villa in the Premier League match (3-0), and on 22 September the Lions were weaker in the penalty shootout in the League Cup match (1-1 and 4-3 on penalties). The opposition between Aston Villa and Chelsea in the Premier League is characterized by high production. At least three goals were scored in seven out of nine head-to-head matches, and an exchange of goals took place in four out of five previous games. It is quite possible that these trends will continue on Sunday. Another circumstance in favor of the high production is the statistics of Aston Villa in the home Premier League games. Five out of six matches in Birmingham ended with at least three goals scored.
Prediction for the match: Over 2.5 goals scored
