Aston Villa vs Brentford Prediction & Betting Tips

Contrasting recent form

Villa's last five Premier League matches have brought one win, one draw and three defeats, including home losses to Nottingham Forest and Arsenal. They did pick up morale-boosting wins away from home in the League Cup at Coventry and in the Champions League at Club Brugge, but their domestic form on home soil has been shaky.

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Aston Villa to win

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Brentford to win

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Aston Villa: 20 completed matches; Brentford: 20 completed matches.

Aston Villa

20 matches

Win

45% 9 / 20

Draw

10% 2 / 20

Loss

45% 9 / 20

Scored

40

Conceded

32

Difference

+8

Brentford

20 matches

Win

35% 7 / 20

Draw

55% 11 / 20

Loss

10% 2 / 20

Scored

42

Conceded

22

Difference

+20

Brentford, by contrast, remain unbeaten in the Premier League this season. Their five league games have brought two wins and three draws, and they've also added a League Cup win at Reading and a heavy 6-1 success at Birmingham along the way.

Brentford arrive with far more momentum than Villa right now.

Comparative Team Statistics: Aston Villa vs Brentford

Recent head-to-head

The last two meetings between these sides have both gone Brentford's way, including a 1-0 win at Villa Park back in February.

Further back this fixture has produced plenty of goals, with a 3-3 draw and a 4-0 Villa win among the scorelines, so it hasn't always followed one clear pattern.

Where they sit

After five league games, Brentford are up in fourth with nine points from two wins and three draws, having scored ten goals and conceded just four.

Aston Villa sit sixteenth with four points from five matches, having won only once and lost three times, shipping nine goals already this season.

Key contributors

Kevin Schade has been Brentford's main source of goals, netting three in his last five appearances, and he'll fancy his chances against a Villa defence that has already conceded nine in five league games.

Aston Villa:

Best assist providers:

J. McGinn - 2

Penalty cards:

João Gomes x 1 x 1

J. McGinn x 2

Brentford:

Best scorers:

K. Schade - 3

Penalty cards:

V. Janelt x 3

M. Sangaré x 2

Thiago x 2

John McGinn continues to supply the creativity for Villa, leading their assist charts this season. Discipline is also worth watching, with João Gomes picking up a red card in a recent cup outing and several Brentford players collecting yellow cards of their own.

Villa's leaky defence and Brentford's sharp finisher both point the same way.

How it could play out

Villa's home matches this season have brought goals at both ends, and with Brentford also scoring freely on their travels, an open contest looks plausible.

Villa's fragile defensive record at this stage gives Brentford, who have conceded just four in five league games, a real platform to control long spells of the match.