The fifth round in the Premier League ends on Monday-evening with the mutual game between Aston Villa and West Ham United at Villa Park. PhD student Aston Villa is under the line after four games, while West Ham United has started the season well.
Aston Villa:
During the transfer period, PhD student Aston Villa decided to spend more than one hundred million euros on new acquisitions, with the hope that coach Dean Smith would be able to maintain himself with The Villans. After four games, however, Aston Villa has only taken three points and this Aston Villa seems to be facing some difficult months. Smith certainly does not have – for relegation terms – a bad team with players such as Tyrone Mings, Wesley Moraes and Tom Heaton, but in terms of results it is still not with the club from Birmingham.
Aston Villa only beat Everton (2-0) in the Premier League, while the remaining three games were all lost to the Smith team. Especially the defeat in the second round against AFC Bournemouth (1-2) and the loss for the international break against Crystal Palace (1-0) hurts with the Aston Villa supporter, because Bournemouth and Crystal Palace are competitors of Aston Villa. With Monday’s home game against West Ham United and the away game of next weekend against Arsenal, there will be two tough duels for The Villans, whereby it is certainly not inconceivable that Aston Villa will still be on three points after six games.
West Ham United:
West Ham United is currently doing a lot better than Aston Villa; the East Londoners already grabbed seven points in the Premier League and also managed to advance to the next round of the Carabao Cup. Logically, the Premier League has the priority at West Ham United, that with this material it must certainly make a shot at the coveted seventh place. Prior to the fifth round of the Premier League, West Ham United was also in seventh place.
The team of Manuel Pellegrini only lost to Manchester City this season (0-5) and that can happen to any club in the world. That all happened in the first round, after which West Ham United in the duels then took points against Brighton & Hove Albion (1-1), Watford (1-3 win), and Norwich City (2-0 win). As far as I am concerned, West Ham United is also the favorite on Villa Park on Monday evening, because The Hammers simply play good football and have a lot more quality than the PhD student individually. Moreover, for the first time since his arrival, Pellegrini has to miss relatively few players due to injuries.
