Aston Villa vs Burnley Prediction & Betting Tips - Premier League

Prediction published on 28/12/2023, 10:00  by Sridhar | Modified on 30/12/2023 at 02:00 in Premier League Prediction

Aston Villa will be keen to return to winning ways at home when they host a struggling Burnley side in their last match of the calendar year. This matchday 20 will be played at the Villa Park on Saturday with the hosts 3rd with 39 points and the visitors 19th with 11 points. Villa are one point behind Arsenal who have a game in hand and could move top. The hosts will be looking to get their season on track, as Man City are right behind with a game in hand and only two points adrift. They won 3-1 at Turf Moor earlier in the season and could do a league double over Burnley for the first time since the 1925/26 campaign. Unai Emery has happy memories of facing the Clarets having won all four of his Premier League matches against them.

Burnley are two points from the bottom of the table, while a five-point gap to safety shows the amount of work they have to do. The visitors will look back at their history of finishing a calendar year, having won five of the last eight games in a year. They drew one and lost two of those matches, so the visitors will have something to look back to. Additionally, they are unbeaten on their last four visits to Villa Park winning once and drawing three. Those stalemates came on the bounce and realistically, they wouldn’t mind going back with a point from this trip.