Newcastle v Aston Villa Betting Preview – Championship 20th February 8.00pm
Not long ago we were looking at this as a Premier League fixture. Newcastle are on their way back up to the top flight though but they were ousted from top spot in the Championship on Saturday as Brighton took an away win at Barnsley. So the incentive for Newcastle on Monday night to land themselves three points to put them back on top of the pile. Aston Villa have been tanking lately with five defeats in their six league games and may not offer up too much resistance to the Magpies, although the two played out a 1-1 draw earlier in the season. Can the Magpies land the precious points they need?
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Newcastle v Aston Villa Betting Tips
There haven’t been many goals flying around between these two recently and each of the last four between them at St James Park have gone under 2.5 goals and each of the last six at either ground have gone that way. Under 2.5 goals at William Hill will return you a price of 3/4 which looks a solid bet heading into this one. The last four between Newcastle and Villa at St James Park have either ended in a 1-1 draw or a 1-0 home win for the Magpies. In the Correct Score market you have a price of 5/1 on a Newcastle 1-0 victory and the 1-1 draw is coming in at 6/1 and that was the scoreline when the two met earlier in the season at Villa Park. Newcastle are on a big stretch of uneaten form against the Villains now having gone W4 D5 in their last nine against the Midlands outfit. Each of the four wins that Newcastle did post in that sequence saw them take the win by just the one goal margin.
A Newcastle to win by a one margin at William Hill is a price of 5/2 to back to extend some big value to punters. Newcastle have gone W10 D1 L4 on home soil this season so they are certainly carrying the home form and they are unbeaten in their last four in the Championship (W3 D1). They have kept a clean sheet in two of their last three. They have averaged over two goals per game on home soil this season and in the William Hill anytime goalscorer marek there is a price of 11/10 on Dwight Gayle, with Aleksandar Mitrovic at 5/4 and Matt Ritchie at 15/8. Plenty of firepower there for the Magpies and they have have taken four clean sheets in their last six league encounters with Aston Villa. Will they have enough to land those important three points to put them back on top of the table at the expense of Brighton?
Aston Villa are on a really bad side at the moment having gone winless in their last eight league games now (D2 L6) and they are on a four match losing streak. So they are starting to look in some big trouble and they have failed to score in four of their last seven games played now. So they are highly vulnerable at the moment and their away record across the course of the Championship season is pretty miserable as well as they have gone just W2 D5 L9 for the term. They have lost their last four away from home in the Championship and have gone W1 L6 in their last seven out on the road. So rightly they are heavy underdogs for this Monday night clash especially with them being on a ten match unbeaten streak at St James Park against the Magpies.
Newcastle v Aston Villa Betting Odds
Newcastle 13/20, Draw 11/4, Aston Villa 11/2
Newcastle v Aston Villa Predictions
This should be a winnable match for the Magpies but this is likely going to be a low scoring affair on the day given the recent run of form between the two of them. Therefore is it possibly worth considering the option of a 1-0 correct score in favour of the Magpies or just rolling out with them going out and winning to nil in the fixture. Villa are on a bad slide and aren’t likely to pack too much of a punch, they would be happy to get out without defeat, but that’s not likely to happen.
