Young Boys vs Aston Villa Match Analysis and Prediction

Young Boys vs Aston Villa Match Analysis & Prediction

Young Boys

17/09/2024 7:45 pm

Aston Villa

by Vincent

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One of five teams making their Champions League debut this season, Aston Villa begin their league phase campaign on Tuesday night, as they visit Young Boys at Stadion Wankdorf in Bern.

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While Aston Villa are participating in Europe’s top club competition for just the third time ever, Young Boys have progressed through qualifying for a fourth time in the past six years.

After finishing third in their group last season – behind Manchester City and RB Leipzig – Young Boys dropped down into the Europa League, where they were immediately knocked out by Sporting Lisbon in the knockout-round playoffs.

This time around, they will experience UEFA’s new-look 36-club league phase, having qualified by beating Turkish champions Galatasaray in both legs of last month’s playoff.

However, it has been a far from plain sailing for Young Boys since winning their sixth national title in seven years, as they made a disappointing start to the new Swiss Super League campaign and are yet to record a league win.

Young Boys lost each of their first three matches – conceding an average of three goals per game – and a trio of draws later they have just three points from a possible 18, leaving them rock-bottom of the table.

At the weekend, Patrick Rahmen’s side avoided more embarassment against third-tier Vevey-Sports in the Swiss Cup, having let a two-goal lead slip before scoring twice in the final ten minutes to secure victory.

Including their victories over Galatasaray, that actually made it six matches unbeaten run across all competitions, and Young Boys will now seek just a second win in 12 against English opponents – the other coming against Manchester United in 2021.

Meanwhile, becoming the 11th English team to feature in the Champions League proper, Aston Villa will finally return to UEFA’s elite competition after 41 years of waiting after the club broke into England’s top four last season.

The 1982 European Cup winners last experienced such rarefied air when losing to Juventus in the quarter-finals one year after lifting the trophy in Rotterdam following a 1-0 victory over German giants Bayern Munich.

More recently, the Lions were involved in European competition for the first time in more than a decade last season, as an Unai Emery-inspired side went all the way to the Europe Conference League semi-finals.

Although they were comprehensively beaten by eventual champions Olympiacos, Aston Villa had previously finished first in their group before seeing off Ajax and Lille in the knockout rounds.

Suffering just one defeat to Arsenal so far, Aston Villa came from two goals down to beat Everton 3-2 at Villa Park on Saturday, with England striker Ollie Watkins scoring twice before substitute Jhon Duran struck a spectacular winner.

However, ahead of their history-making trip to Bern on Tuesday, Aston Villa have won just twice in 11 European away matches, including a chastening defeat in Greece that sealed last season’s semi-final exit.

Soon to face Bayern and Juventus again, Villa will be keen to get points on the board against Swiss opposition – all four of their previous encounters with teams from Switzerland came in the intertoto Cup, but two decades later they are finally back in the big time.

Young Boys vs. Aston Villa Head to head

This will be the first meeting between these two teams.

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Young Boys Team News

Silvere Ganvoula has scored three of Young Boys’ seven league goals so far, but he will have to compete with Cedric Itten, Darian Males and Meshack Elia for selection.

Lille loanee Alan Virginius was the second-leg match-winner against Galatasaray, while Swiss winger Joel Monteiro is another option for Rahmen in the final third.

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Aston Villa Team News

Taking his sixth different team into the Champions League, Emery will have most of his key players available on Tuesday, but Leon Bailey (hamstring) and Matty Cash (thigh) are both set to miss out.

Long-term absentees Tyrone Mings and Boubacar Kamara are back in team training, although neither is ready to feature just yet, while Jaden Philogene is making his way back to full fitness.