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

On Saturday, February 7, the match of the 25th round of the English championship between “Bournemouth” and “Aston Villa” will take place. The game will start at 17:00 Kyiv time.

Bournemouth

After a not very successful part of the season, the team is starting to show good results again. In general, after 24 rounds of the Premier League, the team has 33 points on its balance sheet, which allows it to be on the 12th step of the tournament table. Only 3 points separate the team from 7th and 15th place, but the Cherries are already 13 points away from the relegation zone.

Bournemouth was eliminated from the FA Cup at the round of 32 after losing to Newcastle.

Aston Villa

Unaya Emery’s team is having an extremely strong season. For 24 rounds of the English championship, the “villians” managed to score 46 points, thanks to which they now occupy the 3rd place in the tournament table. Aston Villa is separated by 7 points both from the leader and from the 6th position. In the FA Cup, the team knocked out “Tottenham” and qualified for the 1/16 finals, where they will play against “Newcastle”.

Also, the English performed excellently in the Europa League – in 8 rounds of the main stage, the team scored 21 points and took the 2nd place, thanks to which it qualified for the 1/8 finals of the competition.

Personal meetings

In the last 5 games between the clubs, “Aston Villa” has a certain advantage. During this stretch, the Birmingham team scored 3 points, and 2 more meetings ended in a draw.

Interesting facts

• “Bournemouth” is undefeated already during 4 matches of the Premier League. The team has 3 wins and 1 draw.
• Bournemouth have scored at least 1 goal in each of their previous 10 matches.
• Aston Villa have lost only 1/10 of their previous away matches.

Forecast

“Bournemouth” is a very scoring team in the current season – the same can be said about “Aston Villa”. That is why I will bet on “both will score” (coefficient 1.58 according to BC betking line).