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Aston Villa v Juventus
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Kick Off: Wednesday 27th November at 20:00
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Competition: UEFA Champions League
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Watch Live: TNT Sports 2
Aston Villa and Juventus became PSR buddies in the summer when a series of transfers took place as the two sides looked to navigate their way through football’s financial rules. On Wednesday the two teams do battle on the pitch.
Just two points separate the teams going into the game with Juventus looking to leapfrog Villa into an automatic qualification position to the latter stages of the Champions League.
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We could be in store for a close, low-scoring game with Juventus expected to have the greater share of possession and Villa forced to play in transitions. Villa’s Champions League matches this season average 1.75 goals per game. Juventus’ Champions League games average 3 goals per game – this average drops to 2.15 goals per game in Serie A.
3/4 of Villa’s Champions League matches this season have resulted in under 2.5 goals. 2/4 of Juventus’s Champions League matches have had under 2.5 goals.
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🔍 Aston Villa v Juventus Players to Watch
🟣 Emiliano Martinez
As is often the case in big matches, the player to watch for Aston Villa is Emi Martinez. Not for his theatrics but more for his importance in keeping Villa in matches. Villa’s high line means he is often called upon in sweeper situations or to save one-on-ones.
Also, in matches when Villa don’t have high possession numbers, they have a tendency to prioritise defending their box and encouraging shots from range – putting trust in the Argentinian stopper to make the rudimental saves.
Martinez averages 2.29 saves per game in the Premier League. That average increases to 4.34 saves per game in the Champions League where his shot save numbers read 5-7-3-4.
⚫ Teun Koopmeiners
Villa’s tendency to allow shots from the edge of the penalty area could lead to an abundance of shots at goal from Dutch attacking midfielder Teun Koopmeiners.
Koopmeiners’s Serie A shot numbers this season read 0-4-2-2-3-1-1-3-1. He has taken two shots in each of his three Champions League appearances this season.
Koopmeiners is yet to score a goal for Juventus since joining from Atalanta in the summer, where he scored 12 Serie A goals last season. He’ll have the opportunity to break his Juve duck here and looks a generous price for one effort on target.
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💻 Aston Villa v Juventus Form and Tactics
Aston Villa are in their poorest spell of form since Unai Emery became their manager. They are six games without a win, their last victory coming in their last Champions League home fixture v Bologna.
The winless run is bookended by home Premier League draws with Bournemouth and Crystal Palace, with defeats to Crystal Palace (Carabao Cup), Tottenham, Club Brugge (Champions League) and Liverpool in between. They have to inconsistency of teams around them to thank for keeping them in contention for the top four Premier League places.
In the Champions League, Villa got off to a flying start, beating Young Boys 3-0, Bayern Munich 1-0 and Bologna 2-0. They went into matchday 4 top of the table but were humbled in Belgium when Brugge beat them 1-0 and restricted them to just 0.42xG.
Emery’s side need something to shock them back into life and a Champions League Wednesday under the Villa Park lights could be the spark. But it won’t be straight forward and Villa have some selection issues going into the game.
Ezri Konsa, Boubacar Kamara, Amadou Onana and Jacob Ramsey all missed Saturday’s draw with Crystal Palace and only Ezri Konsa of that quartet is expected to be in contention for selection on Wednesday.
Villa line up in a 4-2-3-1. Emi Martinez lines up behind a back four of Matty Cash, who wasn’t risked from the start against Palace, Ezri Konsa (if fit), Pau Torres and one of Ian Maatsen or Lucas Digne.
Injuries to Kamara and Onana mean that Ross Barkley and Youri Tielemans will pair in midfield. John McGinn operates narrow from the left with Leon Bailey inverting from the right, although the out-of-form Jamaican is under pressure from Jaden Philogene for his shirt. Morgan Rogers plays off Ollie Watkins in attack with Jhon Duran expected to be in his usual substitute role.
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Juventus have only lost one game all season – a home Champions League match with Stuttgart. But their season has been hamstrung by too many draws. 7/13 Serie A matches and a further game in the Champions League.
It means that despite an undefeated domestic season so far, Juve are 6th in the league table – four points off leaders Napoli. In the Champions League, they place 11th – two points off Villa who occupy the final automatic qualification place of 8th.
Juventus have the highest average possession numbers in Serie A with 61% and have conceded the fewest goals per game with 0.5. They’ve kept ten clean sheets in thirteen Serie A matches!
Former Villa man, Douglas Luiz misses out on a Villa Park return because of a hamstring injury. Juventus, like Villa, are a 4-2-3-1 team but with subtle differences. Juventus’s #10, likely Teun Koopmeiners drops to become an extra midfielder with their two wide players getting advanced, flanking Dusan Vlahovic. Juventus’s defensive numbers are built upon a strong spine of goalkeeper Michele De Gregorio, centre-backs Pierre Kalulu and Federico Gatti and the midfield pivot of Manuel Locatelli and Khephren Thuram.
Juventus are likely to dominate the ball against Villa in a similar fashion to how Bayern Munich did when they came to Villa Park and had 70% possession.
🏁 Aston Villa v Juventus Ref Watch
- Referee: Jesus Gil Manzano (Spain)
- Has given a penalty in 4/8 matches officiated this season
- Averages 6.6 yellow cards per match refereed this season
- Has given two straight red cards this season
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