| Club – Aston Villa |

| Manager – Smith |

| Formation – usually plays 4-5-1 |

• Aston Villa enter their second consecutive season in the Premier League having won the 2018/19 Championship Play Off final and finished 17th in 2019/20.

• Finished 17th in the Premier League in 2019/20.

• Former European Cup winning club.

• Were more compact and tougher to beat in more recent Premier League matches and conceded less goals but did not score many either.

• Key player is Grealish, who did not score or assist many goals in a more defensive side later on in the 2019/20 season but did score 8 goals in the league campaign and was one of the highest creaters of chances in the league.

| Main Starters |

Mings

Targett

Douglas Luiz

McGinn

Grealish

| Set Piece Takers |

Penalties – Grealish/El Ghazi

Direct/in direct free kicks – Grealish/McGinn/Douglas Luiz/Hourihane

Corners – Grealish/McGinn/Hourihane

| Possible XI |

|4-5-1]

Nyland; Hause, Mings, Konsa, Targett; Trézéguet, McGinn, Douglas Luiz, Hourihane, Grealish; Watkins

| Goalkeepers |

Heaton
Steer
Nyland

| Right Backs/Right Wing Backs |

Guilbert
Hause
El Mohamady
Engels

| Centre Backs |

Mings
Konsa

| Left Backs/Left Wing Backs |

Targett
Taylor

| Defensive/Central Midfielders |

Douglas Luiz
El Ghazi
Nakamba
Jota
Lansbury
Hourihane

| Central Midfielders/Wide Attackers |

Grealish
McGinn
Trézéguet

| Central Strikers/Number 9s |

Watkins
Davis

Wesley
Samatta
Vassilev