Aston Villa face a trip to Everton at Goodison Park on Saturday afternoon, hoping to improve upon an average previous return from this fixture. Of the 94 games played, Villans have recorded 25 wins, and Everton have come away with 47 victories.
The most recent encounter between these two sides was less than a year ago, in April 2003, the Blues carving out a narrow 2 - 1 victory in a Premiership match.
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| Recent encounters between the teams: | |||||
| 2003/2004 | Sat 25 Oct | Aston Villa | 0 - 0 | Everton | PREM |
| 2002/2003 | Sat 26 Apr | Everton | 2 - 1 | Aston Villa | PREM |
| 2002/2003 | Sun 22 Sep | Aston Villa | 3 - 2 | Everton | PREM |
| 2001/2002 | Wed 30 Jan | Aston Villa | 0 - 0 | Everton | PREM |
| 2001/2002 | Sat 20 Oct | Everton | 3 - 2 | Aston Villa | PREM |
| 2000/2001 | Sat 14 Apr | Aston Villa | 2 - 1 | Everton | PREM |
| 2000/2001 | Sun 05 Nov | Everton | 0 - 1 | Aston Villa | PREM |
Recent respective form guides
Everton are not in the best of form at home, with two wins, two draws, and two defeats in their last six. The goals for column just outweighs the goals against over this period, 9 to 8.
The Villans have had a decent run of form away from home recently, coming away with three points on 3 occassions, but drawing 1 and losing 2. The games have constituted a decent return of 11 goals for the Villans, and 7 goals against.
Everton are hovering perilously just above the relegation zone, with 26 points from 26 matches. Aston Villa's 37 points from 26 games sees them lie inside the top half of the table, in 7th position.
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| Current form guides: | P | W | D | L | F | A | P |
| Everton | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 3 |
| Aston Villa | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 13 |
FootyMad's prediction ...
Aston Villa are in reasonable form away from home coming into this match, and the Madmen are quite confident that they should come away with a comfortable victory from this contest. Away win
| Sequence statistics: | |
| Everton | Failed to win in previous 4 home matches. Not won in the 9 most recent games. |
| Aston Villa | 5 games since last away draw. 6 games since last defeat. |