Five Aston Villa players are out for the upcoming match against Liverpool.
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Five Aston Villa players are out ahead of the match against Liverpool.
Five Aston Villa players have been ruled out for their encounter against Liverpool.
Third meets fourth in the penultimate round of Premier League fixtures on Monday evening, as Aston Villa and Liverpool square off at Villa Park.
While the Reds are already assured of Champions League football for next season ahead of Jurgen Klopp‘s final away game, the Lions can join them at Europe’s top table with maximum points.
Unai Emery‘s previous penchant for glory on the continent did not translate into a place in the Europa Conference League final for Aston Villa this time around, as the Lions were undone by Greek giants Olympiacos, who put one foot in the showpiece with a stunning 4-2 first-leg success in the West Midlands.
If Villa defenders were not already having nightmares about hat-trick hero Ayoub El Kaabi, the Olympiacos striker guaranteed that he would be haunting Lions’ dreams for a little while longer thanks to a second-leg brace, ensuring that the Greek giants would scrap it out with Fiorentina for European stardom on May 29.
Either side of their two losses to Olympiacos, Aston Villa also became a rare victim of a shot-shy Brighton & Hove Albion side in Premier League action, going down 1-0 to the Seagulls in the second of three consecutive defeats; they have never lost four on the spin under Emery’s wing, however.
Tottenham Hotspur’s success over Championship-bound Burnley on Saturday also denied Villa the chance to seal fourth without kicking a ball, but still four points clear of Spurs, a return to the European big time will be theirs if they come out on the correct end of Monday’s scoreline.
However, the hosts have lost their Villa Park sparkle after their historic 15-game winning sequence on home field, only prevailing in three of their last eight Premier League contests in front of their own fans, but Emery is yet to oversee back-to-back top-flight defeats in 2023-24.
