Aston Villa – Manchester City. Prediction and announcement for the match of the championship of England

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 just over 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 the 4th place in the Premier League. This paved the way for the Champions League, where the debutant excelled, winning four times with only one loss. That 0-1 loss to Club Brugge coincided with a general autumn slump that saw the Villans also crash out of the League Cup and take 2 points from five Premier League games. But it seems that they 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 a serious responsibility may arise for this. But the real greatness was brought by Guardiola, establishing dominance in English football. The peak was the long-awaited victory in the Champions League last year. But the attempt to immediately repeat the treble did not bring success – in fact, only the Premier League won serious trophies. In the current season, after a good start, we had to experience an unprecedented decline: 6 defeats in 7 matches for a draw with Feyenoord, which was given a 3-0 win! It seemed that after defeating 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 dominance of the pair has been called into question since Emery’s return to England. The champion continued to win at home, but in Birmingham it was limited to a draw in 2022, and a year ago it lost 0:1.

Forecast

Bookmakers still consider the guests from Manchester as favorites. But there are questions about both clubs, so let’s limit ourselves to neutral totals of more than 3.0 goals (coefficient – 1.909).