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Aston Villa face a trip to Arsenal at Highbury on Saturday afternoon, needing to turn around their fortunes at the ground. The Villans will be hoping to improve upon a record which has seen them ending up on the losing side in more than half of the games played between the two.
The most recent encounter between these two sides was less than a year ago, in April 2006, with Arsenal annihilating their visitors 5 - 0 in a Premiership match.
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| Recent encounters between the teams: | |||||
| 2005/2006 | Sat 01 Apr | Arsenal | 5 - 0 | Aston Villa | PREM |
| 2005/2006 | Sat 31 Dec | Aston Villa | 0 - 0 | Arsenal | PREM |
| 2004/2005 | Sat 05 Feb | Aston Villa | 1 - 3 | Arsenal | PREM |
| 2004/2005 | Sat 16 Oct | Arsenal | 3 - 1 | Aston Villa | PREM |
| 2003/2004 | Sun 18 Jan | Aston Villa | 0 - 2 | Arsenal | PREM |
| 2003/2004 | Wed 27 Aug | Arsenal | 2 - 0 | Aston Villa | PREM |
| 2002/2003 | Sat 05 Apr | Aston Villa | 1 - 1 | Arsenal | PREM |
Recent respective form guides
Arsenal are unbeaten in their last six home games, winning five of them, and drawing the other one. In this time, Gunners have rattled up an impressive 16 goals, and conceded 4.
In complete contrast to Arsenal, Aston Villa are having a torrid time on their travels, losing every single one of the last six matches played! While the Villans have hit 5 goals, 19 have hit the back of the wrong net.
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| Current form guides: | P | W | D | L | F | A | P |
| Arsenal | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 13 |
| Aston Villa | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 7 |
FootyMad's prediction ...
FootyMad see this game edging towards a narrow win for the Gunners, as the Villans have been none too clever on the road in recent matches. Home win
| Sequence statistics: | |
| Arsenal | Not drawn a match in their last 5 . |
| Aston Villa | Lost each of the previous 6 away matches. Not won in previous 7 away matches. Last drawn game 6 outings ago. |