Aston Villa vs Brentford

Now ahead of Brentford in the Premier League standings, the Bees plan to increase the margin on the struggling Villa side when the two teams duel on Wednesday evening.

As the Bees overwhelmed Leicester City at the weekend, Villa plunged into the relegation zone by watching the unbroken uncoupled by Chelsea.

An alarming streak of Aston Villa in terms of not securing a victory in their games reached up to eight on Sunday afternoon as an anonymous loss at Stamford Bridge pushed Unai Emery’s struggling team down three places on the Premier League table.

Merely embarrassing the Blues, the Villans were outclassed and defeated 3-0, and while Cole Palmer put the icing on the cake for the hosts’ making a substitute goalkeeper Robin Olsen a spectator with a sensational strike.

Emery is surviving the most torrid period at Villa Park where his team has not tasted victory since October when they walloped Bologna 2-0 in the Champions League play, and have only managed a paltry one point in the four English Premier League games between then and now.

And also outside the champions league top eight of the week, Villa after the goalless draw at home with Juventus last weekend will look to start making amends before it gets worse and worse for them.

Nevertheless, the Birmingham club have been able to lose only one of the last 11 of the top-flight home games with each of the last three of them ending in a draw.

Which gives Villa some grounds for optimism in fourth league encounter with Brentford – largely winless in eight – that a turn around can start midweek.

Of course, Brentford will have very different strategies for the Wednesday match, where the club will target to take a fourth consecutive victory in the league and the fifth win in the last seven in all competitions.

As the Bees defeated Leicester City 4-1 over the weekend, Kevin Schade scored his first professional hat-trick, setting a club record for the fourth straight Premier League home win.

With roughly 49 goals scored in their first 13 games—26 goals for and 23 goals against—the London club may rightfully be regarded as one of the top flight's greatest entertainers.

Though no team has won less away games this season—just one, level with bottom-place Southampton—Thomas Frank's team has surprisingly taken more points from home games than any other team (19).

In addition, Brentford has only visited Stoke City and Halifax Town more frequently without ever winning a league game at Villa Park in their nine prior efforts.

Both Amadou Onana (ankle) and Jacob Ramsey (hamstring) are currently out, however there is still uncertainty regarding Martinez's potential availability.

Kevin Schade of Brentford, meanwhile, should maintain his spot after becoming the fourth German player to score a Premier League hat-trick in the most recent game; his three goals against Leicester were more than he had scored in his 41 prior games.


Given that Mathias Jensen was sidelined on Saturday due to a hamstring injury, Vitaly Janelt, his midfield replacement, might be elevated to the starting lineup.

Brentford is the poorest away team in the Premier League, having lost all five of their away games this season. They broke that streak with a valiant goalless draw at Everton, even though Christian Nørgaard was sent off in error just before halftime. However, Thomas Frank's club is nearly unbeatable at home, giving up 19 of a possible 21 points in front of their own fans. Most recently, they rallied from a goal behind to defeat Leicester 4-1 on Saturday.