Aston Villa hopes to improve a series of championship results that saw them winning a single victory in seven Premier League games when they go to the Gtech community stadium on Saturday.
The form of villa has stuttering in the league in recent weeks, but the men of Unai Emery will be supported by an impressive 3-1 victory against the club Brugge in the Champions League Tuesday evening to get into a strong position to go to the last eight.
The Emery team is also still in FA Cup, but their return from the poor league threatens to see them completely miss European football next season. They arrive in Brentford in 10th place.
Brentford, meanwhile, has lost only one of their last five, winning three. Thomas Frank’s team was involved in several cases at home at home this quarter.
Although they sit in 11th place, bees are the sixth top scorer in the league with 48 goals.
Here is the news of the team for what promises to be an intriguing confrontation.
News from the Brentford team
The hosts will be stimulated by the return of Mathias Jensen, who missed the two previous games with an adductor injury, and Christian Norgaard, who missed the 1-1 draw with Everton with a concussion.
Norgaard begins while Jensen is the bench. However, Rico Henry, Aaron Hickey, Josh Dasilva, Gustavo Nunes, Igor Thiago and Sepp van den Berg remain absent for Frank.
Your bees to face Aston Villa 👊@Premierleague | #Beavl pic.twitter.com/yjr5p6bmnv
– Brentford FC (@brentfordfc) March 8, 2025
Aston Villa Team News
The big news of the team for visitors is the absence of goalkeeper Emi Martinez and the Marco Asensio form, who are both sidelined due to an injury.
Robin Olsen begins with the goal, while Emery names a line before from Leon Bailey, Morgan Rogers and Jacob Ramsey behind Ollie Watkins.
Our departure XI to face Brentford 👊 #Beavl pic.twitter.com/xwojffbgpx
– Aston Villa (@AvfCofficial) March 8, 2025
