Aston Villa vs Sheffield Utd — Premier League 2026
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on xG from last 9+ matches
Aston Villa54%
Sheffield Utd22%✓ Correct in 49 of 100 matches — 5 more than always backing the home side
The model picks a winner (home or away) for each finished match using only pre-kickoff data, then checks it against the real result: 48.6% correct across 15,072 matches, vs 43.8% for always backing the home side.
Home picks 50.1% correct · Away picks 45.3% correct
Football matches only. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Expected goals in this match
What is xG?
Every shot is scored 0–1 by how likely it is to be a goal from that spot — a chance in the middle of the box ≈ 0.4, a long shot from a tight angle ≈ 0.03, a penalty ≈ 0.76. Add them up over a match and that is the xG.
The scoreline can lie: you can win 1-0 on a fluke while creating half the chances. xG shows who was really closer to scoring — and over a season it predicts results better than goals alone.
Aston Villa creates 75% more chances
Season form · 30 home / 9 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Under53
- Over47
Fewer than 3 goals likely
Both teams score
- No51
- Yes49
Close call
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Aston Villa ↓
Most likely 1–0 (13%) · grid covers 97% of scorelines
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Combos
Model probabilities, not odds. For information only.
How is this calculated?
Every number below comes from this match — nothing is made up.
Recent form of each side
Aston Villa at home — creates 1.43, concedes 1.27 · 30 matches
Sheffield Utd away — creates 0.59, concedes 1.83 · 9 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
Aston Villa attack 1.43 + Sheffield Utd defence 1.83 → ÷2 → 1.63
Sheffield Utd attack 0.59 + Aston Villa defence 1.27 → ÷2 → 0.93
Each side's attack is blended with the other's defence, then averaged.
Chance of every scoreline
From those two numbers a Poisson distribution gives the probability of each exact score — the grid shown above.
The answer to "why 54%?"
Aston Villa at 54% is simply the biggest of the three — that is the pick.
What the model can't see
It reads only the stats of recent matches. It knows nothing about:
- injuries & suspensions
- the matchday lineup
- motivation — cup, relegation, a title race
- weather & pitch condition
- in-game coaching decisions
So 54% does not mean "Aston Villa will win" — it means "on the available stats, this is the most likely result."
Statistical model based on expected goals (xG). For informational purposes only.
Player of the match
Match Events
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Statistics
Aston Villa host Sheffield Utd on Friday, 22 December 2023 at 20:00. The match is part of the Premier League 2026/2027 season.
Premier League: Aston Villa 1–1 Sheffield Utd
Aston Villa and Sheffield Utd drew 1-1 in Premier League on December 22, 2023.
Goals: C. Archer (87'), N. Zaniolo (90+7').
Aston Villa controlled possession (78%) and registered 12 shots to 5.
The match was played at Villa Park in Birmingham.