Aston Villa Vs Arsenal

Aston Villa

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Aston Villa will be hoping to return to winning ways here following a 1-3 Premier League loss in their previous game against West Ham United.

In that match, Aston Villa had 56% possession and 9 shots on goal with 2 on target. The only player to score for Aston Villa was Ollie Watkins (81'). On the other side, West Ham United had 20 attempts at goal with 10 on target. Tomáš Souček (51') and Jesse Lingard (56', 83') scored for West Ham United.

In their last six games, Dean Smith's Aston Villa have managed to score 7 times, with that being an average number of goals per match of 1.17.

Ahead of this meeting, Aston Villa haven't lost in the league to Arsenal in their previous 2 matches.

Arsenal

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Since being defeated in their last game at the hands of Wolverhampton Wanderers in Premier League competition, Arsenal and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that match, Arsenal had 46% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Arsenal was Nicolas Pépé (32'). Wolverhampton Wanderers had 11 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. Rúben Neves (45') and João Moutinho (49') scored for Wolverhampton Wanderers.

A series of hard-working showings by the Arsenal defence has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally amounting to 4 from their last 6 fixtures in total. During the same period, their forwards have scored 7.