Aston Villa – Derby Prediction & Picks (27.05.2019)

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On Monday is holiday in England. Traditionally, this day’s championship playoff finale will be the highlight of the three-day Football League Festival at Wembley Stadium, England. This year, the seven-time English champions and European Cup of Champions 1982, Aston Villa (Table 5, 76 points), and Derby County (Table 6, 74 points) face. The Rams – even two-time English Champion – reached directly in the premiere season under coach rookie Frank Lampard the final. One of the many stories surrounding the final is the clash between Chelsea legends Lampard and John Terry. “JT” lost the playoff final last season in their last year of play. This time he achieves as assistant coach again with Villa the last hurdle before the Premier League. While Lampard is traded as a potential successor to Maurizio Sarri for the coaching post at Chelsea due to the outstanding performance, Terry is as head coach at Middlesbrough for the upcoming season in conversation.

Lightweight favorite in Wembley is at Aston Villa Vs. Derby County according to odds of various bookmakers the team from Birmingham. The championship finale has always been like a lotto jackpot. 20 years ago, it was “only” ten million pounds of TV money, waving the climber this time 170 million pounds of prize money. Only for the sixth time since 1987 are the fifth and sixth of the regular season in a final (for the first time since 2005). West Ham beat Preston 1-0. The final championship final, in which both finalists met, was in 2012’s West Ham 2-1 win over Blackpool. In each of the last six finals met only one team. However, we expect this time with a repeat of 2012 and recommend between Aston Villa and Derby County according to the forecast a tip on “BTS”. If you cling to the scoreless 2017 final between Huddersfield and Reading, 14 of the 15 teams that made it to the Premier League in the final were promoted to Premier League. The only exception is Cardiff 2010 against Blackpool (2: 3).

Aston Villa:

Aston Villa reached two championship playoffs in a row for the first time since West Ham United (2004 final loser, 2005 winner). The last club to lose two finals in a row was Leicester City in 1992 and 1993. According to the bookmakers, Villa is more likely to be more like Hammers, as Aston Villa v Derby County is quoted as “Second City” success. -Birmingham. However, Dean Smith’s squad have lost five of their last six competitive games at Wembley Stadium. The only success Villa could celebrate in April 2015 in the FA Cup semi-final against Liverpool, as the then star players Christian Benteke and Fabian Delph made for a 2-1 win. Only Middlesbrough, Newcastle, Sunderland and Swindon have lost three consecutive games in Wembley without their own goals. Villa lost in the 2015 National Stadium Arsenal (0: 4) and last season Fulham (0: 1). For Villa Coach Smith – the life-long villa fan in October took over the job of the slain Steve Bruce – it is the first participation in a Football League Final as coach.

As a player Smith lost his two finals in the fourth highest English league in 1999 and 2001 with Leyton Orient. After under Smith meanwhile moved the playoff ranks in the distance, secured Villa with twelve undefeated games until the penultimate round of the playoff participation (10-2-0). In the semifinals succeeded in the Midlands Derby first home win against West Brom. In the second leg, it took until the penalty shootout before Villa could secure the endgame ticket. A guarantor of success this season was Tammy Abraham, who was the first Villan since 1977 (Andy Gray) scored 25 league goals. Against Derby the Chelsea loan four championship goals – only against Nottingham hit the youngster more often (five hits). Abraham is one of the reasons for our recommendation to place a tip on “BTS” at Aston Villa – Derby County. New injury concerns do not plague Villa before the final.

Derby:

Derby County wrote in the championship playoff semi-final Football League history. For the first time ever could draw a team into the final, which had lost the first leg at home. At Leeds United, the young Lambard lambs won 4-2 and became real rams. Afterwards, the crew in the cabin with “Front-Sänger” Lampard performed the Diss song of the Leeds fans “Stop crying Frank Lampard” and squirted in a pub among others for 75 Jägermeister, 65 Shots, 54 Sambucas and a Coke for 2,800 pounds, which Coach Lampard of course paid for his “boys” out of pocket. The Rams take part in a Championship Playoff final for the fourth time. Two of them were lost (1994, 2014). In 2007, Derby celebrated the climb. Twelve months later, however, it went back to league two as the worst Premier League team ever. The Rams are not favorites on Monday afternoon – this is proven by the numbers of bookmakers between Aston Villa and Derby County. One reason for the outsider role is the table space. In the last 13 championship seasons, only Blackpool 2010 has made the climb as the table sixth. However, should Derby actually rise, the Rams would be the newcomers with the lowest scores after the regular season since 2013 (Crystal Palace, 72 points).

Derby’s strength in the final could be carefree. The team in the semi-finals 2018 was much older than 2019. This time, for example, ran up to five players who were 22 years or younger. Twelve months ago, the Rams sent seven players with 30 years or older on the lawn. 66 of the 87 competitive matches were scored by players who signed Lampard (76 percent). 18 goals went to the account of Harry Wilson. The 22-year-old Liverpool loan is the first Rams non-striker to score so many goals since Bruce Rioch. This met in the championship season 1974/75 under coach Dave Mackay 20 times. Wilson is also the 113th most seeded championship player of the season, after Villas Jack Grealish (158). For the final advises Aston Villa vs.. Derby County’s betting base predicted a tip on “BTS”. In his last ten championship games Wilson was directly involved in eight goals (six goals, two assists). Left-back Scott Malone is suspended. For example, 38-year-old Ashley Cole will play in his possibly final professional career from the start. Martyn Waghorn is back in the squad.


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