Aston Villa will be looking to end their four-match winless run across all competitions when they visit Goodison Park to take on a struggling Everton in Premier League’s Saturday early kickoff with kickoff at 15:30.
Everton will begin the rest of the season under caretaker manager, Duncan Ferguson who was appointed to oversee Everton’s upcoming matches starting with the visit of Aston Villa, following the dismissal of the controversial manager Rafa Benitez who had served since the begin of this season.
At first Rafa did well to win most of the Blues fanbase with a good start to the Premier League but, a poor run of form and drop in the league standings has seen led to the Spaniard being the latest Premier League to face the axe this season with a disastrous 2-1 defeat to rock-bottom Norwich spackling his dismissal.
The defeat meant that the Merseysiders have just won one in the top flight since September, a run that has left them sitting just two places and six points above the relegation zone. To salvage their season Everton appointed Ferguson to help them through the reminder of the season and it was him who saved the Toffees bacon in 2019, when he was brought in as interim boss and he will aim to replicate such performances starting with Villa’s visit.
Meanwhile Aston Villa brought in Steven Gerrard who has the Villans playing the best football at the moment and improvement around the club has been realized under the former Liverpool legend. In his nine Premier League matches in charge of Villa, they have claimed four victories, one draw and four defeats with three of those coming against Man City, Liverpool and Chelsea.
Gerrard’s troops did well to hold Manchester United to a 2-2 draw at home in their previous top-flight fixture, staging a spirited comeback with Jacob Ramsey and Philippe Countinho cancelling out Bruno Fernandes’ efforts for United with 13 minutes remaining on the clock.
Surely, with the performance they displayed against the Red Devils and with Everton’s current low spirits, Gerrard will be confident in his side swooping a victory here as he aims to break into the top-half.
Everton vs Aston Villa head to head
Both sides have met in 52 encounters since 1993 with Aston Villa claiming 20 victories while Everton have claimed 13 victories and there have been 19 draws.
- Aston Villa 3-0 Everton 18/09/21
- Aston Villa 0-0 Everton 13/05/21
- Everton 1-2 Aston Villa 01/05/21
- Everton 1-1 Aston Villa 16/07/20
- Aston Villa 2-0 Everton 23/08/19
Home
- Norwich 2-1 Everton
- Hull 2-3 Everton
- Everton 2-3 Brighton
- Chelsea 1-1 Everton
- Palace 3-1 Everton
Away
- Aston Villa 2-2 Man United
- Man United 1-0 Aston Villa
- Brentford 2-1 Aston Villa
- Aston Villa 1-3 Chelsea
- Norwich 0-2 Aston Villa
Everton team news
Everton will be without Tom Davis through an injury, while Fabian Delph will miss due to testing positive forCovid-19 and Alex Iwobi is unavailable is remains in AFCON with Nigeria.
Aston Villa team news
Aston Villa will be without Leon Bailey and Marvelous Nakamba through injuries, while John McGinn wis ruled out due to accumulation of yellow cards and Trezeguet and Bertrand Traore left for the ongoing AFCON.
Prediction and odds
- Aston Villa win
- Both sides to score
- Goals over 2.5
