West Ham vs Aston Villa Betting Odds, Tips, Predictions, Preview 17th March 2024

When Aston Villa come to London Stadium for the Premier League match this coming Sunday, West Ham will be hoping to use their home advantage to their advantage.

With 2 defeats from their last 6 matches, the mood around the West Ham camp could probably be a lot better. They need to up their game or prepare for more disappointment, when facing Aston Villa on their home ground.

The Hammers go into their next Premier League match, scoring a humble average of 1.4 per game in their last ten matches. They scored a mundane 14 times, while conceding 19. That amounts to an average of 1.9 per game, where they kept their opponents from scoring two times.

Aston Villa show off splendid stats in their last ten matches, where they hit the target 2.1 times on average per game. They scored 21 goals and conceded 19, an average of 1.9 a game. They held on for a clean sheet in two of these.

Supporters will be hoping to see a similarly thrilling encounter, as it turned out to be the last time West Ham played against Aston Villa. It finished 4-1 in a great match between the pair.

West Ham vs Aston Villa Prediction

West Ham Form

West Ham have seen it all in their last three matches, which gave them four points. First, they went down 1-0 against Freiburg, before picking up a 2-2 draw against Burnley. Their latest match brought a 5-0 win in their encounter with Freiburg. West Ham managed to win two of their past six home matches in the Premier League. In the remaining four, they drew three and lost one, as they scored nine and conceded 11 goals.

Aston Villa Form

In their last three matches, Aston Villa drew 0-0 with Ajax, lost 0-4 against Tottenham and beat Ajax 4-0. Aston Villa claimed 13 points in their last six Premier League matches, winning four, drawing once as well as losing once. They conceded seven and scored 14 goals themselves.

West Ham and Aston Villa looks like an equal pairing, and since it's difficult to separate one from the other currently, we wouldn't be surprised by a draw.

West Ham have taken 17 points from their last 12 games against teams from the top half of the Premier League table. They won five of these matches with a scoreline of 17 goals to 23. Aston Villa won five of their last 12 matches against teams from the top half of the Premier League table, scoring 20 and conceding 24 goals. They collected 16 points from these. West Ham claimed 12 wins, seven draws as well as nine defeats in the Premier League this season. Aston Villa are looking at 17 wins, four draws and seven defeats in the Premier League.

West Ham vs Aston Villa Squads

West Ham Squad

Moyes will select the starting XI for the upcoming match against Aston Villa from the following players (the statistics in the brackets represent goals scored and matches played in the Premier League this season):

Alphonse Areola (0/25), Joseph Anang (0/0), Lukasz Fabianski (0/5), Aaron Cresswell (0/5), Angelo Ogbonna (0/7), Ben Johnson (0/9), Emerson (1/26), Konstantinos Mavropanos (1/13), Kurt Zouma (2/23), Nayef Aguerd (1/20), Vladimir Coufal (0/26), Edson Alvarez (1/24), James Ward-Prowse (5/27), Kalvin Phillips (0/10), Lucas Paqueta (3/21), Mohammed Kudus (6/23), Oliver Scarles (0/0), Tomas Soucek (6/27), Danny Ings (1/14), Divin Mubama (0/5), Jarrod Bowen (14/27), Lewis Orford (0/0), Maxwel Cornet (1/5), Michail Antonio (2/16).

Aston Villa Squad

Here is the full team squad of Aston Villa. The 52 year-old Unai Emery will select his starting lineup from the following players:

Emiliano Martinez (0/27), Joe Gauci (0/0), Robin Olsen (0/1), Alex Moreno (2/15), Calum Chambers (0/1), Clement Lenglet (0/11), Diego Carlos (0/18), Ezri Konsa (0/25), Kortney Hause (0/0), Lucas Digne (1/23), Matty Cash (2/25), Pau Torres (2/21), Tyrone Mings (0/1), Boubacar Kamara (0/20), Douglas Luiz (9/27), Emiliano Buendia (0/0), Jacob Ramsey (1/16), John McGinn (6/28), Nicolo Zaniolo (1/19), Tim Iroegbunam (0/5), Youri Tielemans (1/24), Jhon Duran (2/14), Leon Bailey (8/26), Morgan Rogers (0/3), Moussa Diaby (4/28), Ollie Watkins (16/28).

West Ham vs Aston Villa Team News

At the time of writing, it looks as if only two players are unavailable for West Ham, when they prepare for their upcoming assignment.

Lucas Paqueta and Michail Antonio are all absent from the West Ham squad that faces Aston Villa at London Stadium.

Aston Villa could have a whole host of players on the injured and absent players for their next match, as six players are nursing various problems. John McGinn is ineligible for selection in the Aston Villa squad, as he is suspended.

Names like Boubacar Kamara, Ezri Konsa, Jhon Duran, Kortney Hause, Tyrone Mings and Emiliano Buendia most likely won't be deemed fit enough to play West Ham.

West Ham vs Aston Villa Lineups

West Ham vs Aston Villa H2H

The latest encounter between these two teams was a belter of a 4-1 match. Are we in for a similar goal-fest this coming Sunday? West Ham tend to have the upper hand against Aston Villa, grabbing all three points six times in ten matches. The bookies best betting odds on a home win are at 13/8.

West Ham vs Aston Villa Results

Of the last ten encounters between West Ham Aston Villa over 2.5 goals came out five times. Odds on over 2.5 goals are at 4/7 with bookies.

West Ham vs Aston Villa Betting Tips

He banged in 16 goals so far this season, and Ollie Watkins also hammered in six goals in his last six games in this tournament. No doubt, he will be hungry for more, when travelling to face West Ham.

West Ham claimed a modest five wins from their previous 10 home matches across all tournaments. They split the points with the visiting team in four of the games, whilst losing one. Aston Villa won five of their last 10 games away, drew four and lost one of the games in this run. It is a tough one to call who gets to draw first blood this coming Sunday. West Ham managed to open the scoring in no less than six of their previous 10 league games at home. Aston Villa have been equally quick to get off the mark, scoring the opener in seven of their last 10 away games.

West Ham managed an average of 1.7 goals in the past ten encounters against Aston Villa, who scored one goal on average. Over 2.5 goals happened five times, while both teams scored seven times. West Ham saw over 2.5 goals in seven of their last ten matches across all tournaments, as they scored an average of 1.7 goals during this run. Over 2.5 goals happened in nine of the last ten games for Aston Villa, who managed to hit the net 2.1 times on average in these games.