Arsenal v Aston Villa: Premier League Match-day 5

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Next Wednesday at 7:30pm GMT, on matchday 5 of the Premier League, we will see Arsenal play Villa at Emirates Stadium.

Leaders Arsenal are currently 14 places higher than their rivals Villa, when the two sides meet, they will sit in first and fifteenth positions respectively.

To retain first position in the Premier League is Arsenal’s target this week

Arsenal will be buoyant, following a 2-1 home win against Fulham in their last fixture.

Also, that’s a run of four wins for League leaders Arsenal, a rich vein of form that has drastically improved their Premier League position. They are the current League leaders with 12 points, that is, 4 wins, 0 losses and 0 draws having won four meetings.

Arsenal have won two matches of their two League matches at home this season.

The ultimate prize this season will be for Arsenal to finish top of the Premier League and secure automatic qualification for the Champion’s League. However, they must play each game as it comes and secure the points, if that is to be achieved.

A solid defensive team

Arsenal have a solid defence, with only three goals conceded in their previous games. Arsenal have impressed this season, in terms of goal scoring ability, with 11 so far. This has been largely down to the key attacking players: Martin Odegaard (3), Gabriel Jesus (2), and Gabriel Martinelli (2).

Arsenal are likely to be missing three of their key players when they start Wednesday’s game, due to injury and illness.

Aston Villa arrive at this meeting, having secured three points so far this season

Villa come to this fixture on the back of a 0-1 home loss against West Ham United at Villa Park.

Also, with an unfortunate Villa that has not managed to win in their last League so far, Steven Gerrard’s men form is worryingly poor. The Villa should solve their trend if they don’t want to occupy the lasts places in the League Table. Now they have 1 matches won, 3 games lost and 0 duels drawn; that’s why they currently sit in fifteenth place, with a total of three points having won one game and lost three fixtures.

Playing away from home, Villa have lost two matches.

Victory for Aston Villa would take their points tally to 6 so far this season.

Injury and illness have depleted Steven Gerrard’s Villa and they will likely be missing two key personnel for Wednesday’s match.

Arsenal v Aston Villa – Head-to-Heads.

Regarding their historical duels this is an encounter that has often resulted in a local win. Arsenal have the lion’s share of victories with 31 victories and 14 draws. Also, the two sides have drawn in five of their last nine meetings encounters. Their most recent encounter in this competition was March 2022 and the score line ended up with a 0-1 away win for Aston Villa.

Performance Report

For Arsenal, Martin Odegaard is a top performing player who has scoredthree goals in four League games this Premier League Season, while Danny Ings is one of the top performing players after having scoredone goal in four League fixtures this campaign for Villa.

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