Premier League Quick Preview: Aston Villa Vs Brentford
Saturday afternoon at Villa Park pits the division’s most watertight side against the one that cannot buy a shot.
Brentford are fourth on nine points and the Bees are on their best start to a Premier League season.
Aston Villa are 16th on four points, but they arrive on the back of a first win - a thrilling 3-2 victory at Tottenham which was their first three points of the campaign. Brentford are slight favourites on betting apps.
Could It Be One-Way Traffic?
Villa have failed to score in three of their five games and have managed one goal at Villa Park all season, losing both home fixtures.
Brentford, by contrast, have scored in all five, and both of their clean sheets came at home in 3-0 wins. On the road they have conceded in both games.
The projection lands at 2.7 goals, and it is lopsided - 1.9 of those to Brentford.
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The Bluntest Attack In The League
This is the heart of the fixture. Villa average just 9.6 shots a game, the lowest in the Premier League, and 2.4 on target, also the lowest. Against Arsenal they managed seven attempts and not one of them on target.
They also allow 16.2 a game, so the traffic runs almost entirely one way.
Brentford register 16.2 a game themselves and have had at least eight in every outing. Their 12.3% conversion is comfortably the better of the two - Villa’s is 8.3%.
Hot Streaks & Stats:
- Aston Villa have recorded the fewest shots (48) and shots on target (12) in the Premier League this season.
- 12 of Villa’s last 14 games produced over 2.5 goals.
- Seven of Brentford's last nine matches saw both teams score.
- Brentford’s last five away league outings produced an average of 5.4 yellow cards per game.
Early Season Team Streaks
- Aston Villa’s opponents 1+ cards - 5 games
- Aston Villa 6+ shots registered - 5 games
- Aston Villa 7+ shots allowed - 5 games
- Aston Villa 6 or fewer corners won - 5 games
- Aston Villa’s games 12 or fewer total corners - 5 games
- Brentford 1+ cards received - 5 games
- Brentford 10+ fouls committed - 5 games
- Brentford 1+ goal scored - 5 games
- Brentford 8+ shots registered - 5 games
- Brentford 2+ shots on target - 5 games
Early Season Player Streaks
- Igor Thiago 1+ shot - 5 games
- Keane Lewis-Potter 1+ shot - 5 games
- Boubacar Kamara 1+ foul committed - 5 games
- Keane Lewis-Potter 1+ foul committed - 5 games
- Mamadou Sangare 1+ foul committed - 5 games
- John McGinn 1+ foul won - 5 games
- Kevin Schade 1+ foul won - 5 games
- Boubacar Kamada 1+ tackle - 5 games
- John McGinn 1+ tackle - 5 games
- Keane Lewis-Potter 1+ tackle - 5 games
- Mamadou Sangare 1+ tackle - 5 games
- Vitaly Janelt 1+ tackle - 5 games
Brentford won both league meetings 1-0 last season with Dango Ouattara scoring the only goal in both games - both in the first half.
The Bees also won a League Cup tie at the Gtech Community Stadium on penalties after a 1-1 draw in 90 minutes.
