📏 Form Guide

Aston Villa

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Aston Villa will be hoping for a better result after a 1-3 FA Cup loss in their previous game against Newcastle United.

In that game, Aston Villa had 43% possession and 8 shots on goal with 2 on target. The only player to score for Aston Villa was Tammy Abraham (14'). Newcastle United got 12 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Sandro Tonali (63', 76') and Nick Woltemade (88') scored for Newcastle United.

Unai Emery's Aston Villa have managed to score 8 times over their prior six outings. Conversely, the number of goals that they have conceded in those games amounts to 7.

Ahead of this clash, Aston Villa have not lost a league tie with Leeds United in their previous 6 games.

Leeds United

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In their previous fixture, Leeds United drew 1-1 in the FA Cup match with Birmingham City.

In that game, Leeds United had 45% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. The scorer for Leeds United was Lukas Nmecha (49'). At the other end, Birmingham City had 18 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Patrick Roberts (89') was the scorer for Birmingham City. After a tense 4-2 penalty shootout, Leeds United were victorious.

Looking at their form, and Leeds United have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 9 goals in all. In defence, Leeds United have been far from perfect. It will be interesting to see whether or not that trend can be continued on here.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Leeds United:

• have not registered a win against Aston Villa in away games against them for the last 2 matches in the league.
• are unbeaten in their last 2 away league matches.
• are without an away win for the past 10 league matches. Their travelling support will be needed here, for sure.

👥 Head to head

An inspection of past results between these clubs stretching back to 27/02/2021 tells us that these fixtures have been pretty painful for Leeds United. They’ve not managed to register any victories at all whereas Aston Villa have managed to find a way, beating them in 67 per cent of those match-ups.

A combined sum of 16 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 11 of them from The Villans and 5 for The Whites. That’s an average goals per game of 2.67.

The previous league game between these clubs was Premier League match day 12 on 23/11/2025 when it finished Leeds United 1-2 Aston Villa.

On that occasion, Leeds United managed 47% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Lukas Nmecha (8').

Aston Villa had 14 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Morgan Rogers (48', 75') was the scorer.

The referee was Robert Jones.

📰 Team News: Aston Villa

It’s our opinion that The Villans could go for a 4-2-3-1 formation for this one and select Emiliano Martinez, Matty Cash, Ezri Konsa, Tyrone Mings, Ian Maatsen, Douglas Luiz, Amadou Onana, Leon Bailey, Morgan Rogers, Emiliano Buendia and Ollie Watkins.

📋 Team News: Leeds United

From our viewpoint, The Whites seem likely to play in a 3-2-4-1 system, going with Karl Darlow, Ethan Ampadu, Pascal Struijk, Joe Rodon, James Justin, Gabriel Gudmundsson, Jayden Bogle, Ilia Gruev, Anton Stach, Brenden Aaronson and D. Calvert-Lewin.

✨ Prediction

In this match, Aston Villa will probably create the chances to score more than once when they line up against Leeds United, who might well find it a difficult task to break down their defence.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a comfortable 2-0 win for Aston Villa by the time that the referee blows the final whistle.

Andre Moura, 14:03 21/02/2026