Aston Villa vs Newcastle: Aston Villa and Newcastle lock horns with each other in the Premier League on Saturday as they eye a first win of the season.
Match Details:
Teams: Aston Villa vs Newcastle United
Venue: Villa Park, Birmingham
Date: Saturday 21st August, 2021
Time: 07:30 PM IST
Live Link: https://www.hotstar.com/in/sports/football/tournament/premier-league-2021-22-294
Preview
Both sides will look to bounce back from their opening day losses as Aston Villa hosts Newcastle in the Premier League on Saturday.
Villa were beaten by Watford 3-2 in their fixture as Dennis, Sarr and Hernandez scored the crucial goals for the newly promoted side.
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The Claret and Blue side pulled 2 goals back through McGinn and Ings late in the piece but could not overturn the deficit.
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On the other hand, Newcastle was beaten at home by a strong West Ham United side 4-2 in their opener.
In what was an exciting match, Wilson broke the deadlock for the Magpies before Cresswell equalized for the Hammers. Murphy and Benrahma cancelled out each other’s strikes as well to make it 2-2.
But Soucek and Antonio scored the match clinching goals to inflict defeat on the Magpies.
In recent times, Newcastle has the edge over Aston Villa in this fixture but not by much and hence we can expect a closely fought match.
Both sides met last in March 2021, where it finished 1-1 at St. James’ Park as Clark’s OG was cancelled out by an extra time equalizer by Lascelles.
Form Guide
Aston Villa: WWLWL
Newcastle: WDWWL
Last Matches of both teams:
Watford 3-2 Aston Villa
Newcastle 2-4 West Ham United
Where to watch the live streaming and broadcast of Aston Villa vs Newcastle in India?
The match can be live streamed on the Hotstar App while the broadcast is available on the Star Sports, Star Sports Select Network in India.
Team News
Luiz misses out for the hosts as he returns from Olympic duty while Trezeguet and Sanson are ruled out due to injuries.
Newcastle sees Anderson (Hip), Dubravka (foot) and Dummett (calf) miss out this one due to the mentioned injuries. Shelvey and Darlow are other ones out as well due to calf injury and Covid-19 respectively.
Aston Villa possible 11:
Martinez, Young, Konsa, Mings, Cash, Nakamba, McGinn, Bailey, Buendia, Watkins and Ings
Newcastle United possible 11:
Woodman, Clark, Lascelles, Fernandez, Ritchie, Murphy, Hayden, Almiron, Willock, Saint-Maximin and Wilson
Prediction: Aston Villa 2-2 Newcastle United
Aston Villa did not have the best of opening day’s but with the squad depth, are expected to get back on track,
Newcastle was poor in their loss but with the permanent signing of Willock, their target man remains a threat.
With both sides not being at their best, we can expect a stalemate take place.
Players to watch out for: Saint-Maximin, Ings, Watkins, Willock.
