Aston Villa face a trip to Middlesbrough at Riverside Stadium on Saturday afternoon,
The most recent encounter between these two sides was just last season, in December 2004, with Middlesbrough running out comfortable 3 - 0 winners in a Premiership match.
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Recent encounters between the teams: | |||||
2005/2006 | Sun 02 Oct | Aston Villa | 2 - 3 | Middlesbrough | PREM |
2004/2005 | Sat 05 Mar | Aston Villa | 2 - 0 | Middlesbrough | PREM |
2004/2005 | Sat 18 Dec | Middlesbrough | 3 - 0 | Aston Villa | PREM |
2003/2004 | Sat 24 Apr | Middlesbrough | 1 - 2 | Aston Villa | PREM |
2003/2004 | Sat 08 Nov | Aston Villa | 0 - 2 | Middlesbrough | PREM |
2002/2003 | Tue 28 Jan | Middlesbrough | 2 - 5 | Aston Villa | PREM |
2002/2003 | Sat 28 Dec | Aston Villa | 1 - 0 | Middlesbrough | PREM |
Recent respective form guides
Middlesbrough's poor home run has seen them win just 1 and draw 2 of the last six. The Boro's have scored 10 goals in these games, but conceded an alarming 11.
Aston Villa's away form is none too clever either, unbeaten in the last six, but with four of them resulting in draws. The Villans's have a narrow positive goal difference over these games, with 8 goals for and 6 against.
Middlesbrough are hovering perilously just above the relegation zone, with 25 points from 23 matches. Aston Villa find themselves struggling down in 14th position in the league having picked up 27 points from their 24 matches.
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Current form guides: | P | W | D | L | F | A | P |
Middlesbrough | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 8 |
Aston Villa | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 11 |
FootyMad's prediction ...
Aston Villa are not doing too bad on their travels, and I think they should continue by carving out a narrow victory at Middlesbrough. Away win
Sequence statistics: | |
Middlesbrough | No sequences of note |
Aston Villa | Undefeated in last 6 away games. 4 games since last defeat. |