Aston Villa vs Wolves prediction: ENGLAND: Premier League betting tips on match 2024-03-29 17:30.
[p]Aston Villa begin the final part of the season still in contention for a top-four Premier League finish and with a UEFA Europa Conference League quarter-final against Lille on the horizon. Their battle with Tottenham for that fourth-place spot looks set to go down to the wire, especially after they could only draw 1-1 with West Ham immediately before the international break. [/p]
[p]The Villans will hope they don’t come to rue their 4-0 home loss to Spurs earlier this month as Unai Emery’s side continue to struggle at Villa Park, where they’ve won just one of their last four league fixtures (L3). The visit of West Midlands rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers should stir them into action and they have a point to prove given none of the last four H2Hs here ended in victory (D2, L2).[/p]
[p]In fact, you have to go back to 2003 for the last time that Wolves lost a Premier League fixture at Villa Park (W3, D4) and on the back of winning three of their last four league games (L1) they spent the international break sitting inside the top half. However, their confidence must have taken a knock after conceding twice in injury time to lose their FA Cup quarter-final 3-2 to Coventry.[/p]
[p]Gary O’Neil’s side can at least now focus all their energy on their remaining league fixtures and Wolves can realistically target matching their PL-best effort of seventh, last achieved in 2019/20. The first step towards that goal is bouncing back from losing 3-0 at Newcastle in their last league trip which ended an impressive six-match unbeaten run in competitive away games (W4, D2).[/p]
[p]Players to watch: Frenchman Moussa Diaby has two goal contributions (G1, A1) across Villa’s last two games, with his last two goals arriving after the 80th minute. Wolves’ Rayan Aït-Nouri has scored in each of their last two games, on both occasions opening his side’s account by netting after the 50th minute.[/p]
[p]Hot streak: Aston Villa won the corner count in each of their last eight competitive home games.[/p]