Manchester United Vs Aston Villa Premier League Football Match Live

When Manchester United travels to Villa Park to face Aston Villa on Saturday evening, they will be trying to get back on track in the Premier League. When the two clubs played in the FA Cup on Monday, the Red Devils won 1-0, with Scott McTominay scoring the lone goal in the third-round match at Old Trafford. On Monday, a powerful Villa side was unable to defeat Man United in the FA Cup, but head coach Steven Gerrard will have been pleased with what he saw from his squad for lengthy periods of the match, with the home side relying on luck to progress to the fourth round of the cup.

Villa showed their ambition by signing Philippe Coutinho and Lucas Digne in the January transfer window, and there is little doubt that Gerrard will aim for a top-half finish, despite the fact that the squad is now 14th in the standings after 19 games of the 2021-22 season. The hosts have won seven, drawn one, and lost 11 of their 19 league games this season for a total of 22 points, but they are only three points behind 10th-placed Leicester City, and it is difficult to look at the table too closely at the moment because a number of teams are playing catch-up matches due to COVID-19 issues.

Villa have lost four of their previous five games in all competitions, including three of their last four in the Premier League against Liverpool, Chelsea, and Brentford, causing them to drop to the bottom of the standings. The Lions won 1-0 at Old Trafford in the opposite fixture in September, but they haven’t beaten United at Villa Park in the league since August 1995.

The visitors may have beaten Villa in the FA Cup on Monday, but they dropped out of the top four after losing their previous league game at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers on January 3. Ralf Rangnick’s team are now seventh in the standings, six points behind fourth-placed West Ham United, but with two games in hand, they are still in contention for a Champions League position.

Only a top-three finish will suffice for the club, according to Cristiano Ronaldo, but they are 11 points behind third-placed Liverpool and will struggle to finish higher than fourth this season. The 20-time English champions have three crucial Premier League matches remaining in January, against Villa, Brentford, and West Ham, before facing Middlesbrough in the FA Cup at the start of February.