We look ahead to Tuesday’s UEFA Champions League clash with our Barcelona vs Aston Villa prediction and preview. Will the Blaugrana bounce back from defeat to PSG?
Barcelona vs Aston Villa: The Key Stats
Barcelona are heavy pre-match favourites, with the Opta supercomputer calculating that they have a 72.0% win probability over Aston Villa. Emiliano Buendía is on the longest scoring streak of any Aston Villa player in major European competition, netting in each of his last four appearances (4 goals). Lamine Yamal could set a new record for the most UEFA Champions League goals scored by a teenager (currently level with Kylian Mbappé on 13).Aston Villa will face the sternest test of their UEFA Champions League campaign when they take on Barcelona in a match that sees Unai Emery return to the site of his most ignominious defeat.
Villa have taken maximum points from their three games against Club Brugge, Fenerbahce and Viking, but taking on a free-scoring Barcelona side at Camp Nou will provide the true litmus test of their continental quality.
Emery will also be keen for his team to put in a strong display having suffered his heaviest loss in European competition at Barça – Paris Saint-Germain’s 6-1 reverse in March 2017, a match famously dubbed La Remontada.
There could be worse times to play Barça, though. Hansi Flick’s side have not kept a clean sheet in the Champions League in 18 games – the longest run of any team in this season’s edition.
They also went down 4-2 to reigning champions PSG in their previous outing, and followed that up with a 2-1 defeat to Real Madrid in El Clásico.
But the Catalan giants got back on track on Saturday, thrashing Alavés 6-1 at Camp Nou to give Flick his 100th victory in 131 matches at the helm – only Luis Enrique reached a century of wins quicker for the Blaugrana (126 games).
Nicolas Jackson.
Since his first start for Villa in September, Manzambi has been involved in six goals in all competitions (three goals, three assists) – only Erling Haaland and Jackson (both seven) have had a hand in more.
Jackson also struck six times in October – his latest coming in the 1-1 draw against Fulham on Saturday, which included a missed penalty from John McGinn and a howler from Zion Suzuki that resulted in an own goal.
Buendía will be keen to score for the fifth consecutive game in major European competition, especially having lost both his previous games against Barça 6-0 while at Getafe, while Ross Barkley has three goals and one assist in the Champions League this season.
And with Villa having led for more minutes than any other team in the Champions League this season and being one of only three that are yet to trail at any point (also PSG and Stuttgart), they have a solid foundation for pulling off an upset. However, they are up against a team who have averaged 2.97 goals per game in the competition under Flick (86 goals in 29 matches).
There are no new injury concerns for Emery to contend with. Amadou Onana, Matteo Ruggeri and Aaron Wan-Bissaka are the only players likely to be absent.
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