Aston Villa vs Wolves: Betting tips and analysis

Aston Villa will be licking their lips as they prepare to face a helpless Wolves side at Villa Park on Saturday afternoon.

The hosts have already sunk their teeth into an inferior Young Boys side midweek and hope to secure their third victory in the space of seven days.

Odds Now's Brad Walker runs you through all of the key details ahead of the West Midlands derby.

Tale of the tape

Aston Villa

Unai Emery's side are on a roll following consecutive victories over Everton and Swiss outfit Young Boys in their last two matches.

The Villains had got themselves into a sticky situation after finding themselves 2-0 down against the Toffees (couldn't resist, sorry), but an Ollie Watkins brace and Jhon Duran screamer saw them secure a thrilling 3-2 comeback victory.

Villa have now won each of their last three matches in all competitions and the 2-0 loss to Arsenal on matchday two remains their only defeat of the season so far.

Talismanic striker Watkins had struggled in front of goal during the opening weeks but finally got off the mark against Everton, scoring his side's first two goals to level the score after 58 minutes played.

Duran wheels away in celebration after his stunning over Everton last weekend. (Photo credit: Alamy Images)

Wolves

Poor old Gary O'Neil can't catch a break in the Wolves dugout at the minute. His side are yet to win a Premier League match this season after drawing three and losing one of their opening four matches.

The Midlanders' hadn't lost a home match against Newcastle since 2017 prior to last week's meeting, yet still came out on the losing side on Sunday afternoon.

Wolves took an early lead through a brilliantly-worked Mario Lemina goal and were ahead up until the 75th minute, when Swiss centre-back Fabian Schar equalised for the visitors.

Winger Harvey Barnes then secured all three points for the Magpies with a long-range strike five minutes later.

O'Neil's men could have done with a boost in the League Cup on Wednesday but instead suffered yet another defeat, this time by a 3-2 scoreline at Brighton.

Aston Villa vs Wolves: Betting tips and predictions

I'd love to give Wolves fans reasons to be optimistic here but, if I'm honest, I can't see anything other than an Aston Villa win.

The hosts secured a 2-0 home victory in this fixture back in March and, although that was Wolves' first defeat in five to their neighbours, O'Neil's men are winless in their last seven league outings.

In fact, Wolves have managed just one win in 14 overall (D3, L10). No Premier League side has lost more than them since the start of March.

The visitors might have something to cheer about across the 90 minutes, though. Emery's men are far from impenetrable - they've not kept a clean sheet in any of their last six Premier League home fixtures and are yet to shut out an opponent after four league games this season.

Though, to be fair, their last home clean sheet was against...you guessed it...Wolves. Nevertheless, the away side have scored in three of their four league matches so far and I'm going to back them to get on the scoresheet before ultimately coming up short when all is said and done.

A Villa win with both teams scoring is currently best priced at 2/1 at the time of writing - more than a fair price in my view given the recent form of both.

I'm also going to back another Jhon Duran goal this weekend. The Colombian is still playing second fiddle to talisman Ollie Watkins, but that hasn't stopped him so far. Duran also has three league goals this season - all coming from the bench - and there's plenty of value in backing him to get another at 43/20 (general).

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