The Birmingham club have not won in their last four official matches in a row. This week Aston Villa was visiting Manchester City and looked very good in terms of the game, but still left with nothing. Villane kept a dry score for 80 minutes, but the townspeople still put the squeeze on, getting a 0:2 defeat. Earlier in the Premier League, Dean Smith’s charges lost to Manchester United (1:2) and ended in a draw with Chelsea (1:1), while in the FA Cup they lost to Liverpool (1:4). Despite these results, it cannot be said that Aston Villa is in crisis now. After all, the level of rivals during this period was really serious and the match with the townspeople showed that even the situation with the coronavirus did not knock the Birmingham people off track. However, after a series of setbacks, the chances of competing for a spot in the top four have significantly decreased for Dean Smith’s team. Now Villane are in 11th place in the standings and are already 14 points behind the leading Manchester United, although they played three matches less. It must be said that Aston Villa did not play their last home games in the best way. In the previous five, they managed to beat only Crystal Palace (3:0) in their home arena, losing three times. John McGinn will be serving suspension. Mahmoud Trezeguet, Courtney House and Wesley are injured. Conor Hourihane left the club.
Atalanta had a very weak start to the season, but the crisis of the Bergamascans did not reach levels that could lead to a departure from the race for a ticket to the Champions League. Gradually, the team of Gianpiero Gasperini gained momentum and now they are already sixth in the table with 33 points in the asset. The desired fourth line is at the distance of one point and today the club has the opportunity to break into it. Atalanta could have achieved what they wanted in the middle of the week. They were to meet Udinese in a postponed 10-th match. Despite all their efforts, they failed to achieve victory. The zebras opened the scoring already in the first minute and all that Atalanta could do was equalize it at the end of the first half. The 1:1 draw did not allow the Bergamascans to win in the second match in a row, but the streak without defeat in all tournaments reached 12 fights, which certainly cannot but give Atalanta optimism. More soccer prediction today can be obtained from the link provided.
