Aston Villa gained the course at the crucial moment of the season. After a confident victory 3-0 over Brighton, the Unai Emery team rose to the seventh place in the table and is in the active pursuit of the Champions League zone. Night of beginners – Rushford, Asensio and Malena – proved that the attacker three “lions” is in excellent form. Particularly noteworthy is Marcus Rashford, who has already participated in seven effective actions from the moment of transition in January.

Home statistics also speak in favor of Birminghamets – 14 matches without lesions on the Villa Park, including an effective game even when you have to play. Marco Asensio is the main weapon of the owners in their native walls: six of the last seven home heads scored. And if you add Extraordinary Activity of Ollie Watkins (4.1 beats in 90 minutes) – in the future we have a real attacker conveyor.

However, Nottingham Forest will come to Birmingham with his own ambitions. The Nuno Ashpirita team beat Manchester United 1: 0 in the middle of the week thanks to Anthony Elanga’s brilliant solo breakthrough, who once again demonstrated that Forrest to realize and decide the fate of loud confrontation even at a small number of moments. “Foresters” occupy third place and have a real chance of historically holding it to the finish line.

Guests are distinguished not only by brilliant counter-countervoy, but also by their main strength in the form of strong defense-13 “dry” matches and only 35 missed heads, which is one of the best indicators in the premiere. Despite the injury of the leader of the attack, Chris Wood, who has already scored Willy in the past, Forest retains fire strength for the presence of Gibbs, Elang and Hadson-Odoi. But the story is not on the side of the guests: Nottingham Forest has not won the Villa Park as part of the League since 1994. Villa, in turn, scored at least twice in each of the last seven home matches against “foresters”.

According to bookmakers, the favorites of the future confrontation are the wards of Emery. Thus, the victory of Aston Hill is offered a factor of 2.05, while the potential success of Nottings Forest is estimated by 3.70. The likelihood of a draw is represented by a factor of 3.55.

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