Aston Villa vs Chelsea Prediction and Betting Tips: Best bets for FA Cup fourth round replay
Wednesday's televised FA Cup fourth round replay pits two Premier League teams experiencing different kinds of seasons against one another as Aston Villa take Chelsea back to Villa Park, live on ITV1 at 8pm GMT.
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The pair's first FA Cup fourth round encounter was a fairly uneventful tie, with Aston Villa coming closest to winning the match through a ruled out goal due to offside and a late surge on the Chelsea goal. Heading into this replay, The Blues are yet to beat The Villans across two meetings this season, with Villa taking away all three points from Stamford Bridge in September's Premier League fixture.
15 points separates these two in the league as pressure continues to mount over Mauricio Pochettino's future as Chelsea manager, with bookmakers making him the second favourite to be the next PL manager to leave at 3/1. If Chelsea exit the competition in Birmingham on Wednesday then that price could plummet further.
Team News:
Aston Villa - Ezri Konsa has been ruled out for 3-4 weeks with a knee injury sustained during the second half of the Sheffield United match last weekend. Pau Torres returns to the bench for this clash after training this week. Long-term absentees Tyrone Mings and Emi Buendia remained sidelined.
Chelsea - Trevoh Chalobah, Marc Cucurella, Robert Sanchez, Levi Colwill, Reece James, Romeo Lavia and Lesley Ugochukwu will all miss this FA Cup replay, with each at various different reconditioning and rehabilitation stages in their injury programmes.
Aston Villa vs Chelsea Tips
Despite the Newcastle anomaly that occurred last week, Unai Emery has fortified Villa Park since taking over in November 2022. That 3-1 defeat was their first in just shy of a year unbeaten in B6 since Arsenal's comeback victory last February.
AVFC returned to winning ways with a 5-0 romping of Sheffield United at Bramall Lane last weekend, meanwhile Chelsea suffered back-to-back defeats, conceding four goals in each loss. The Blues are languishing outside of the top half of the Premier League table after that latest loss and had it not been for Dorde Petrovic then things could have been even worse for them lately.
Midnite's price of 6/5 for a home win cannot be beaten by another bookmaker at the time of writing, so we suggest getting onside with Villa to progress to a fifth round date with Leeds or Plymouth inside the regular 90 minutes.
Of potential players taking to the field on Wednesday only Ollie Watkins has outscored Cole Palmer's tally of 10 Premier League goals. The former Man City talent has been a remarkable signing for Chelsea and demands a better standard from his teammates for the showings he's put on, netting four in his last four.
Likewise, Leon Bailey has stepped up to the plate this campaign, returning seven goals and six assists in the Premier League as part of a wider tally of 10G and 9A in all 31 of his appearances. The Jamaican curled in a fantastic effort for Villa's third in Sheffield on Saturday and after agreeing a new contract with the club, should be immediately rewarded with a second successive start.
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