Comments and predictions for Aston Villa vs Newcastle: Crazy scenario at Villa Park
The match between Aston Villa vs Newcastle in the Premier League takes place at 0:30 on April 20. Nghe An Newspaper analyzes performance, makes football comments and predicts the score.
Latest Aston Villa vs Newcastle team information
Aston Villa have the most fit squad in the Premier League at the moment. Leon Bailey was fit enough to sit on the bench against PSG, and no players are injured.
Emery surprised by leaving Ollie Watkins out of the starting line-up and taking Rashford off early in the second leg, but Watkins is likely to return to the starting line-up this weekend. A few minor tweaks could be made to rotate personnel after the tense midweek game.
Jacob Ramsey and Marco Asensio are both ready to compete for a starting spot, but Asensio – after two missed penalties against Southampton and a missed chance against PSG – may no longer be trusted by Emery.
Newcastle still have the same squad as the match against Palace. The absent list only includes Sven Botman (knee), Jamaal Lascelles (knee) and Lewis Hall (foot).
With a longer break – their next game is against Ipswich on 26 April – Newcastle have no need to rotate their squad. Harvey Barnes is likely to continue to start, leaving Anthony Gordon out, while Jacob Murphy has been directly involved in 13 goals in his last 17 Premier League away games (4 goals, 9 assists) and will continue to be given opportunities.
Aston Villa vs Newcastle latest expected lineup
Aston Villa:
Martinez; Konsa, Torres, Disasi, Maatsen; Kamara, Tielemans; Rogers, McGinn, Rashford; Watkins
Newcastle United:
Pope; Trippier, Schar, Burn, Livramento; Guimaraes, Tonali, Joelinton; Murphy, Isak, Barnes
Latest football commentary on Aston Villa vs Newcastle
Under other circumstances, former PSG boss Unai Emery would have been celebrating wildly as his side staged a stunning comeback against the French champions. But on Tuesday night, the Spaniard left the pitch in a rage, perhaps the angriest he has been since arriving in the West Midlands.
Aston Villa fought back, responding to goals from Hakimi and Nuno Mendes with goals from Tielemans, McGinn and Konsa. However, goalkeeper Donnarumma was excellent and denied Villa the fourth goal they needed to progress.
PSG celebrated a 5-4 aggregate victory, with Emery throwing a water bottle in the air in anger as he headed down the tunnel. However, his and his players' extraordinary efforts were warmly applauded by Villa fans as soon as the final whistle blew.
Despite being eliminated from the European semi-finals, Emery still has the FA Cup to play – Aston Villa will face Crystal Palace in the semi-finals later this month – and they are now looking to make it five Premier League wins in a row to keep their top-five hopes alive.
Villa are currently 7th, level on points with Chelsea and just 1 point behind Man City (ranked 4th). More importantly, their home ground remains a solid support as they have just had their 5th consecutive win at Villa Park – including the unaffected return match against PSG – and are on an 18-match unbeaten run here in all competitions, despite only keeping 4 clean sheets.
As for Newcastle, they also had a great match in the middle of the week when they crushed Crystal Palace 5-0. Under the direction of assistant Jason Tindall, the Northeastern team continued their destructive form with their 6th consecutive victory in all competitions.
Newcastle are now just four points behind second-placed Arsenal and still have a theoretical chance of winning the title. However, that would require them to win all their games between now and the end of the season, while Liverpool can only take a maximum of one point from their remaining six games – a scenario that is almost impossible.
However, beating Liverpool in the League Cup final and securing a place in next season's Champions League would be a worthy reward for the Magpies, who have won eight away games this season – their best run since 2001-02 – if they can add another win.
The head-to-head record also favors Newcastle when they won all 3 recent times against Aston Villa in the Premier League, scoring at least 3 goals in each match.
Latest Aston Villa vs Newcastle score prediction
Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the results of the match.Aston Villa vs Newcastleas follows:
- Sportsmole:Aston Villa 0-1 Newcastle
- WhoScore:Aston Villa 1-2 Newcastle
- Our newspaper predicts:Aston Villa 2-3 Newcastle
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