In this 5th week match, on Sat Sep 16th, Aston Villa plays host to Crystal Palace in a meeting of these two closely matched Premier League teams. In their last match, 10th placed Aston Villa, recorded a 0-3 loss against Liverpool. Dominik Szoboszlai struck first for Liverpool in the 3rd minute on a feed from Trent Alexander-Arnold, then Matty Cash added another on an own goal in the 22nd minute At the end of 90 a dissapointed Aston Villa couldn’t manage to score, and Liverpool took the shutout win. Aston Villa is looking for direction having 2 win and 2 losses in their last 10 matches, while in their last match, 7th placed Crystal Palace, recorded a 3-2 win against Wolverhampton Wanderers. Odsonne Édouard scored the first goal for Crystal Palace in the 56th minute, but Hee Chan Hwang got the equalizer for Wolverhampton Wanderers in the 65th minute , but luckily for Crystal Palace it didn’t end there. They were able to keep scoring to earn the win. Crystal Palace is looking for direction having earned 13 points in their last 10 matches.
These two teams have not yet played each other this season, so it will be interesting how the match turns out. Last season these teams were evenly matched with 1 win each.
Crystal Palace is fortunate enough to have Odsonne Édouard in top form. In the last 5 matches the attacker has scored four goals. For Aston Villa, their top scorers are Calum Chambers and Moussa Diaby, each having 2 goals in their last 5 matches
Tyrone Mings, Philippe Coutinho, Leander Dendoncker, Álex Moreno, Diego Carlos, Jacob Ramsey and Emiliano Martínez are unavailable to play for Unai Emery Etxegoien’s team, while Roy Hodgson’s Crystal Palace squad will be without Michael Olise and Matheus França de Oliveira.