Tips for match Aston Villa — Manchester City

The 17th round of the Premier League will begin with the match Aston Villa - Manchester City, who are separated by only 2 points in the standings. City continues to try to get out of a steep dive, and Villa will do everything possible to return to the race for the top 4.

Aston Villa have been extremely unstable lately, they lose to Chelsea without a chance 3-0, then win 3 times in a row, but not without problems, and then lose in the last minutes to Nottingham Forest. Emery's team lacks tactical flexibility, their constant play with a high defensive line is easy to read and if the opponent has fast players, they often take advantage of it. But Villa itself scores in almost every match at home in this season of the Premier League, they were unable to score only 2 times - against United and Arsenal. Rodgers and Duran are showing themselves well, turning from bench players into stable first-team players.

Manchester City have won only 1 of their last 10 matches, but I think all fans of English football are well aware of the problems of Guardiola and his players. I will only say that everything looks like a snowball, which is accumulating more and more emotional problems in the team, it is unknown where this snowball will throw the team. Below the top 4 for the long-standing champion of England is already, if not a disaster, then a temporary failure, from which, as it seems to me, the team will not be able to get out this season. Yes, I think that this season City will finish below the top 4, here Arsenal and Chelsea show a better game, and the middle peasants are catching up and taking points from the citizens.

In the last 4 face-to-face confrontations between the teams, the bet “Both Teams to Score - Yes” did not go through only once, and this was in Villa’s home match, where they won 1-0. But here, in addition to the history of personal meetings, we must first of all look at the tactical confrontation - Villa plays with a high line of defense and often gets carried away with attacks, especially many claims to Quonsa and Digne in this parameter. And since Villa is not a top club, then Holland will probably score using the weakness in Aston Villa's defense. And City, even with the main central defenders (and this will not be the case in this match), often have failures, so a goal from Duran or other attacking players is also more than possible.

Sportwars.net forecast for the match Aston Villa - Manchester City, 12/21/2024, EPL: Both Teams to Score - Yes, odds 1.5. Yes, the odds are not very high, but the bet is more than reliable.

Forecast for the exact score in the match: 2-2, odds 10.

Also interesting is the bet on Holland's goal with odds of 1.96.