PREVIEW | Liverpool vs Aston Villa - team news, lineups, predictions

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·30 October 2025

PREVIEW | Liverpool vs Aston Villa - team news, lineups, predictions

Saturday night football comes from Anfield this weekend, where Liverpool welcome Aston Villa for Matchweek 10 of the Premier League season. Kick-off is at 20:00, with live coverage on TNT Sports 1.

Both sides are locked on 15 points and separated only by goal difference, setting up what should be a fascinating contest between two clubs with European ambitions.

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Liverpool’s recent dip in form has raised a few eyebrows. Arne Slot’s men crashed out of the League Cup with a 3-0 defeat to Crystal Palace and are still searching for consistency in the league. Another loss would mark a fifth straight Premier League defeat - something the Reds have never experienced before.

Aston Villa arrive in strong spirits after edging past Manchester City 1-0 last weekend. Unai Emery’s side have quietly gathered momentum and now look every bit the side that caused so many problems for the league’s top teams last season.

The last meeting between the two ended 2-2, and with both attacks full of quality, this latest encounter could serve up another dramatic evening under the Anfield floodlights.

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Neil Dunworth (For the Love of Paul McGrath ): Villa come into this game on the back of some good wins away at Spurs and at home to Man City.

Liverpool come into this game losing six of the last seven.

As a Villa fan you’d be forgiven for thinking you’ve seen this movie before. However there is a recent steeliness to a Villa team that started out of the traps like a distracted toddler with a full nappy.

Since September they have been more coherent and certainly more consistent going forward. Where they have lacked in goals from Ollie Watkins, goal are coming from other areas.

Villa will look to keep things tight and like other team lately they will look to expose the full back positions on the counter (it worked really well vs City).

Saying that Liverpool rested a lot of big guns in the week so they will be fresh and looking to stop a horrible run.

Villa would bite your hand off for a 1-1 away at Anfield and that’s what I am going with.

Prediction: 1-1

Predicted lineups

Liverpool: Giorgi Mamardashvili, Conor Bradley, Ibrahima Konaté, Virgil Van Dijk, Milos Kerkez, Curtis Jones, Dominik Szoboszlai, Mohamed Salah, Florian Wirtz, Cody Gakpo, Hugo Ekitiké

Aston Villa: Emiliano Martínez, Matty Cash, Ezri Konsa, Pau Torres, Lucas Digne, Amadou Onana, Boubacar Kamara, Evann Guessand, John McGinn, Morgan Rogers, Ollie Watkins

Unavailable

Liverpool

Jeremie Frimpong - Injury
Alisson Becker - In doubt
Giovanni Leoni - Injury
Alexander Isak - In doubt

Aston Villa

Youri Tielemans - Injury
Andrés García - Injury
Emiliano Buendía - Injury
Harvey Elliott - Others

Last starting XIs

Liverpool ( vs Crystal Palace 2025-10-29): Freddie Woodman, Calvin Ramsay, Joe Gomez, Andy Robertson, Wataru Endo, Milos Kerkez, Kieran Morrison, Alexis Mac Allister, Trey Nyoni, Rio Ngumoha, Federico Chiesa

Aston Villa ( vs Manchester City 2025-10-26): Emiliano Martínez, Matty Cash, Pau Torres, Ezri Konsa, Lucas Digne, Amadou Onana, Boubacar Kamara, Emiliano Buendía, John McGinn, Ollie Watkins, Morgan Rogers

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MANAGERS

Arne Slot has faced Unai Emery on two occasions, recording one win and one draw
Unai Emery has faced Liverpool on 13 occasions, recording one win, five draws and seven defeats
Arne Slot has faced Aston Villa on two occasions, recording one win and one draw

TEAMS

Away from home, Aston Villa currently has one defeat in the last six games.
Away from home, Aston Villa comes from five consecutive games scoring goals.
Aston Villa currently has one defeat in the last ten games.
Aston Villa comes from nine consecutive games scoring goals.
At home, Liverpool comes from five consecutive games conceding goals.
At home, Liverpool comes from two consecutive games without winning.
At home, Liverpool comes from two consecutive defeats.
Liverpool currently has one draw in the last 15 games.
Liverpool currently has one win in the last seven games.
Liverpool comes from ten consecutive games conceding goals.
Liverpool comes from two consecutive games without winning.
Liverpool comes from two consecutive defeats.

HEAD TO HEAD

Liverpool and Aston Villa have faced each other 205 times, with Liverpool having the advantage: 103 wins, against 59 victories for Aston Villa.
At Anfield, Liverpool has an advantage in duels against Aston Villa: 64 wins in 101 games. Aston Villa has 17 victories.
In the English League, there have been 192 games between the two teams, with Liverpool winning 94, 42 draws and 56 victories for Aston Villa.