Predictions Premier League - Ipswich Town vs Aston Villa

Premier League - Ipswich Town vs Aston Villa
Match Time: 29-09-2024 20:00 Sunday (GMT+7)
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A seasoned winner of cups during his time with Sevilla and Paris Saint-Germain, Unai Emery witnessed his second-string Villa side make slightly hard work of Wycombe in the third round of the EFL Cup, but two second-half goals ultimately did the damage at Adams Park.

Famed for his exploits off the bench in the Premier League, Jhon Duran started and scored after Emiliano Buendia's header put Villa a goal to the good, and Richard Kone's injury-time response came far too late for Wycombe to mount an improbable comeback.

A fourth-round tie with Crystal Palace awaits at the end of October, although the Halloween horror show will begin imminently for Emery's men, who follow up their trip to Ipswich with a pair of daunting home clashes with Bayern Munich in the Champions League and Manchester United in the top flight.

However, the Lions have been biting back with sheer force over the past few weeks, coming from behind to sink Everton and Wolverhampton Wanderers in their last two Premier League matches, cementing their third-placed ranking in the table with just a one-point gap to make up to Manchester City as things stand.

Having already conquered West Ham United and Leicester City in their first two road matches of the season, Aston Villa could also win their opening three away games of a Premier League campaign for just the second time in their history, having first achieved that feat in 2020-21.

Speaking of three-game sequences, Sunday's hosts Ipswich have followed a peculiar pattern since opening their 2024-25 campaign, firstly suffering defeat in each of their first three contests before playing out consecutive stalemates in their most recent three affairs.

After clinging on for points against Fulham and Brighton & Hove Albion, Kieran McKenna's troops were on the cusp of being sunk at St Mary's last week courtesy of a Tyler Dibling strike, but Sam Morsy saved Ipswich's bacon with a phenomenal 95th-minute attempt.

The midfielder's last-ditch leveller ensured that 17th-placed Ipswich would keep their heads above water at Southampton's expense, and while recent results may demonstrate that the Tractor Boys are finding their feet at this level, they are one of six sides still on the hunt for their first top-flight win of the new term.

Not since the 1982-83 campaign have Ipswich failed to win any of their first six games of a top-flight season, but the head-to-head records do not make for pleasant reading for Sunday's hosts, who have suffered three defeats from their last four clashes with their Champions League-competing foes.

However, this will be the first meeting between Ipswich and Villa since the 2018-19 Championship campaign, where the Tractor Boys held out for a goalless draw on their own patch, but they have incredibly not beaten the Lions at Portman Road since a 1992 EFL Cup fourth-round replay.

Prediction:  Ipswich Town 1-3 Aston Villa