Crystal Palace vs Aston Villa Prediction & Betting Tips (26 April)

Unhappy finalist of this FA Cup in 2016, Crystal Palace aims to win the most prestigious trophy in its history this season. To reach the last square of the competition, the London training in turn removed Stockport 1-0, Doncaster 0-2, Millwall 3-1 and Fulham 0-3 . In the league, the Eagles found the right carburetor after a completely missed departure. They are currently 12th in the Premier League and can no longer hope or fear at the end of the season. Less to its advantage for a few weeks, Crystal Palace has pocketed only one victory in 5 games, for 2 draws and 2 losses, before going to the Arsenal lawn in the middle of the coming week. Back to a very good level since the arrival on the bench of Unai Emery in October 2022, Aston Villa hopes to assert itself a little more by winning this FA Cup.

At the previous towers, the club based in Birmingham got out of West Ham 2-1, Tottenham 2-1, Cardiff 2-0 and Preston 0-3. 7th of the Premier League with 2 points behind 5th place, the Villans are fully engaged in the fight to qualify in the Champions League. This week, they carried out a bad operation by bowing in the lair of Manchester City 2-1. This result put an end to an excellent series of 5 hits in the championship, including a convincing success acquired against Newcastle last weekend 4-1 .

Like the past few weeks, the Crystal Palace coach must do without the midfielder passed by Lens Doucouré and the defender replacing Riad, injured. On the other hand, the defender holder Richards is back from suspension. It should reintegrate the defense at 3 which also appear the tauliers Lacroix and Guehi. The Sarr attackers (7 goals and 4 PL passes), Mateta (13 PL goals) and Eze (3 goals and 8 PL passes) form an immutable offensive trio. Santed by injuries at the moment, Aston Villa presents itself with all of its workforce for this semi-final of FA Cup. Unai Emery is spoiled for choice to compose its offensive sector.

Arrived at the club in January, Rashford (2 goals and 2 assists in 10 PL games) went ahead of Watkins (15 goals and 7 PL passes) in the hierarchy of n ° 9. The other winter recruits Malen (3 goals in 11 PL games) and Asencio (3 goals in 9 PL games) are also available but are not guaranteed to start. The English international Rogers (8 goals and 8 PLs passes) is an indisputable holder just like the Martinez porter or the Kamara and Tielemans environments. The probable compositions for Crystal Palace - Aston Villa: Crystal Palace: Henderson - Richards, Lacroix, Guehi - Munoz, Lerma, Hugues, Mitchell - Sarr, Mateta, Eze. Martinez - Cash, Konsa, Pau Torres, Digne - Kamara, Tielemans - Rogers, McGinn, Ramsey - Rashford.

• Summary: Crystal Palace is going head to head with Aston Villa starting on 26 Apr 2025 at 16:15 UTC . The match is a part of the FA Cup .
• Referee: Anthony Taylor
• Crystal Palace Feedinco Rating: 7.8
• Aston Villa Feedinco Rating: 7.1