Fulham head coach Marco Silva says playing Aston Villa is “a very good challenge” for his side
TEAM NEWS
Nathaniel Chalobah is serving the last game of a three-game suspension for Fulham while Kenny Tete is unlikely to be fit.
Manor Solomon and Layvin Kurzawa remain injured.
Aston Villa have no new fitness problems while Cameron Archer has recovered from illness.
Ashley Young will make his 400th Premier League appearance, becoming the second oldest outfield player to reach the milestone, behind Teddy Sheringham.
CHRIS SUTTON’S PREDICTION
Aston Villa did decently in the first half of the Chelsea defeat but they couldn’t build on that good start.
The pressure is mounting on Villa boss Steven Gerrard and I’m not sure the fans are still with him. In fact it’s the other way around so he needs a good result here and it won’t be easy.
I was eyeing Fulham against Bournemouth at the weekend and Cottagers are a dangerous side. I’m gonna sit here on the fence and leave with a tie.
Forecast: 1-1
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MATCH FACTS
head to head
- Aston Villa may end their longest league winning streak against Fulham of three games in 2003-04.
- Villa’s 3-0 Premier League win at Craven Cottage in September 2020 ended a five-game losing streak against Fulham in all competitions.
Fulham
- A win at Fulham would give them 11 points from their six home league games this season, one more than they managed in all of their last Premier League campaign of 2020-21.
- Fulham ended a run of 18 consecutive home defeats in the Premier League in Saturday’s 2-2 draw with Bournemouth when they conceded their first goal.
- Since a 0-0 draw with Wolves, they have gone eight premier league games without conceding a goal, conceding 18 goals.
- Their only two midweek Premier League wins in the last 17 tries both came against Brighton at Craven Cottage.
- Bernd Leno is missing one of 400 career league games.
AstonVilla
- Nine points from 10 games marks Villa’s worst start to any Premier League season other than 2015-2016 when they were relegated.
- They have won just two of their last 18 games against current Premier League opponents.
- Aston Villa have won just four times and lost 11 in 21 league games.
- Villa have not gone more than five games away without a win since the start of a Premier League season since 2011/12.
- Their only win in 16 league games against London opponents was a 2-1 win at Crystal Palace last November.
- Only Wolves have scored fewer Premier League goals than Villa’s seven this season.
- Aston Villa’s last nine league goals have been scored by nine different players.
- Philippe Coutinho has scored one goal and failed to provide an assist in his last 21 league games.
- Since the start of the 2019/20 season, no outfield player has made more mistakes that resulted in Premier League goals than Villa’s Tyrone Mings’ five.
- Steven Gerrard lost just one of his 16 games as a Liverpool player against Fulham in all competitions, winning 12.
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