Aston Villa hopes to improve a number of competition results, so that they have only collected one victory in Seven Premier League matches when they travel to the Gtech Community Stadium on Saturday.
The form of Villa has stuttered in the competition in recent weeks, but the men of Unai Emery will be stimulated by an impressive 3-1 win against Club Brugge in the Champions League on Tuesday evening to bring itself into a strong position to continue to the last eight.
Emery’s side is also still in the FA Cup, but their bad competition -back from late, threatens to see them completely missed on European football next season. They arrive at Brentford in 10th place.
In the meantime, Brentford has only lost one of their last five and has won three. The side of Thomas Frank has been involved in various high -scoring issues this period at home.
Although they are in 11th place, the bees are the sixth highest scorers of the competition with 48 goals.
This is the team news for what promises to be an intriguing collision.
Brentford Team News
The hosts are stimulated by the return of Mathias Jensen, who missed the previous two games with an adductor injury, and Christian Norgaard, who missed the 1-1 draw with Everton with concussion.
Norgaard starts while Jensen makes the bank. Rico Henry, Aaron Hickey, Josh Dasilva, Gustavo Nunes, Igor Thiago and Sepp van den Berg, however, remain absent for Frank’s side.
Your bees to compete against Aston Villa 👊@premierleague | #BReavl pic.twitter.com/yjr5p6bmnv
– Brentford FC (@brentfordfc) March 8, 2025
Aston Villa Team News
The big team news for the visitors is the absence of goalkeeper Emi Martinez and in-form Marco Asensio, both offside due to injury.
Robin Olsen starts in Doel, while Emery mentions a forward line by Leon Bailey, Morgan Rogers and Jacob Ramsey behind Ollie Watkins.
Our starting XI to be confronted against Brentford 👊 #BReavl pic.twitter.com/xwojffbgpx
– Aston Villa (@AVFCofficial) March 8, 2025
