Aston Villa – Manchester City. Forecast and announcement for the England Championship match

On December 21, “Villa Park” will host a match of the 17th round of the English Premier League, in which “Aston Villa” will meet with “Manchester City”. The match will start at 14:30 Kyiv time.

Aston Villa

The team lured Unai Emery to Birmingham a little more than two years ago. And it already gave results. Last season, the club played in the Conference League for a long time, finally returning to the European Cups. And still managed to win 4th place in the EPL. This opened the way to the Champions League, where the debutant showed himself magnificently, winning four times with only one defeat. That 0:1 with Brugge led to a general autumn slump, when Villane were also eliminated from the League Cup and took 2 points in five rounds of the Premier League. But it seems that he managed to get out of it in December, beating both RB Leipzig in the European Cup and Brentford and Southampton in the domestic arena. However, Nottingham Forest lost 1:2 in the last round.

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Manchester City

The club was very rich a long time ago – and, by the way, now serious responsibility can come for it. But Guardiola brought true greatness, established dominance in English football. The peak was the long-awaited victory in the Champions League last year. But the demand to immediately repeat the treble did not bring success – in fact, of the serious trophies, only the Premier League was won. This season, after a good start, they had to go through an unprecedented slump: 6 defeats in 7 matches with a draw with Feyenoord, who were given a 3-0 win! It seemed that they defeated the strong Nottingham Forest, the townspeople showed a way out of the hole, but then they lost points to Crystal Palace. And last week they lost both to Juventus and in the derby with Manchester United, although they were leading until the 86th minute.

Statistics of personal meetings

City’s long-term dominance in the pair was called into question after Emery’s return to England. The champion continued to win at home, but in Birmingham it was limited to a draw in 2022, and an hour ago it lost 0:1.

Forecast

Bookmakers still consider the guests from Manchester as favourites. But there are questions about both clubs, so we will limit ourselves to neutrals with a total of more than 3.0 goals (coefficient – 1.909).