Premier League: Red Devils Will Be Too Hot For Villa

Aston Villa vs Manchester United

The Premier League big games keep coming thick and fast folks, and we have another cracker on Thursday night when Aston Villa vs Manchester United is the entertainment on offer.

The Red Devils have been impressive since the restart. After opening up with a draw against Spurs, they beat Sheffield United, Norwich City, Brighton and Bournemouth, scoring 13 goals and conceding three.

Okay, they have been playing struggling teams over the last couple of weeks but you can only beat what is in front of you, and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s team has done it in style.

In contrast, Dean Smith’s Aston Villa can’t buy a win. But they have had a tough run of fixtures, losing to Chelsea, Wolves and Liverpool.

When you’re down on your luck, you don’t get a lot of help, so the 18^th-placed Villa must find something from within to get themselves out of this mess.

But the latest Aston Villa vs Manchester United betting odds here at SBOBET point to another tough night for the home team, with the Red Devils as short as 1.30 to take all three points.

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Huge week for Villa

Take a look at the Premier League fixtures and you can see just how daunting Villa’s position is.

With West Ham picking up four points from the last two games, it looks like two from Watford, Bournemouth, and the Villans will join Norwich City in the dreaded drop.

This week the Hornets are at home to Norwich, and you’d expect them to win that game against the bottom club to put a four-point gap between them and the other two battlers.

Four points is a big haul to make up with four games to play at the bottom end of the table. Then on Saturday, Watford have a very winnable home game against Newcastle United.

Dean Smith must find a way to get points from four very testing final games against Crystal Palace, Everton, Arsenal, and then on the final day, a potential shoot-out against West Ham.

For that last game to mean anything, the Hammers and Hornets must falter while Villa pick up unexpected points preferably starting on Thursday.

Premier League: Jack Grealish scores a goal in their 2-2 draw reverse fixture against Manchester United this season — Manchester United have been monitoring Aston Villa’s skipper Jack Grealish

Goals have been hard to come by for Villa and they have relied heavily on captain Jack Grealish who has seven. He may be a target for Manchester United should Dean Smith’s team take the drop back into the Championship.

Main striker Wesley has been out injured since he was stretchered off at Turf Moor on New Year’s Day. Villa splashed the cash again in January to bring Tanzanian forward Mbwana Samatta from Genk, but his endeavours haven’t brought points.

Mason building his reputation at United

Manchester United sit in fifth place and are pushing hard for a Champions League place.

But as well as overhauling one of Chelsea and Leicester City, the Red Devils will have to hold off a challenge from Nuno Espirito Santo’s Wolves who are still in the hunt.

OGS has his strikers playing with confidence.

Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford have 15 goals each, but it was young Mason Greenwood who made the headlines this week in a man-of-the-match performance against Bournemouth when he scored twice in a 5-2 victory.

Bruno Fernandes has six goals, and his arrival in the January window has been the turning point for the Red Devils.

History

Look away now Aston Villa fans, as we take a peek at the head-to-head Aston Villa vs Manchester United results and it doesn’t make pretty reading!

The Villan’s have won only two of the 51 meetings in the Premier League era, while Manchester United have helped themselves to 38 victories and 11 draws.

One of those draws came in December when Grealish and Tyrone Mings stunned the Old Trafford crowd with a 2-2 result. What they would give for a repeat of that outcome on Thursday.

But the Red Devils have been on a hot streak of form since then and are unbeaten in 16 games, whilst Aston Villa haven’t won any of their last ten matches.