English Premier League Odds: Aston Villa vs. Sheffield United Prediction

Payton Matthews
June 15, 2020

After being shuttered for more than three months, the English Premier League returns to action Wednesday with the first of two games featuring Aston Villa vs. Sheffield United from Villa Park with a 1 p.m. ET start. The hosts are +220 to win on the soccer odds with Sheffield at +120 and a draw +220.

Aston Villa vs. Sheffield United Soccer Odds

The top four finishers in the Premier League standings earn automatic entry into the next season’s Champions League, and Sheffield United still has an outside shot at a fourth-place finish as it sits seventh with 43 points, five behind No. 4 Chelsea. Sheffield United hasn’t even had a top-six finish since the 1974-75 season and had been relegated for a while. The bottom three of the 20 EPL teams are relegated, and Aston Villa is 19^th with just 25 points.

Aston Villa Odds and News

Aston Villa is without two key players for the rest of the 2019-20 campaign in forward Wesley and No. 1 netminder Tom Heaton. Wesley ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament on New Year’s Day against Burnley, while Heaton did the same vs. his former club. Heaton, an English international, was going to miss Euro 2020 as well, but that was moved to 2021 due to the coronavirus.

The Lions dropped their final game before the shutdown, 4-0 at Leicester City – Villa’s fourth straight loss — as Spain’s Pepe Reina had a rough outing. He has been playing in Heaton’s spot. Reina has allowed 13 goals in six Premier League appearances with one win.

Sheffield United +120
Draw +220
Aston Villa +220

Sheffield United Odds and News

Sheffield United is unbeaten in its past four EPL matches (one draw) and beat Norwich 1-0 before the break on a header from Billy Sharp. Dean Henderson kept the clean sheet – his 10^th of the EPL season in 27 appearances. Henderson is on loan from Manchester United and will return to Old Trafford after the season.

Thanks to Henderson, Sheffield allows only 0.89 goals per league match. That’s No. 2 in the EPL. On the flip side, Aston Villa has allowed a league-high 56 goals.

These sides met at Bramall Lane in Sheffield on Dec. 14, 2019, and the hosts won 2-0. John Fleck had both goals in the second half. Villa captain Jack Grealish missed a penalty shot off the crossbar in the second half. Aston Villa outshot Sheffield United 8-7. Villa has won five of the past seven meetings, however, with one draw.

The over/under for goals in this match is at 2.5 on the English Premier League odds board, with the under a -137 favourite. The favoured anytime goalscorer is Lys Mousset of Sheffield United at +180. Mbwana Ally Samatta has the shortest odds for Aston Villa at +245. That both teams score is -132 with no at -118.