Southampton aim to continue good start at Aston Villa

Aston Villa will be looking to put some daylight between themselves and the bottom three on Monday night when they take on high flying Southampton at Villa Park in the Premier League.

Aston Villa currently find themselves sitting just above the relegation zone in 17th place on 11 points from their 11 games played so far this season. This has come courtesy of 3 wins, 2 draws and 6 defeats. Manager Paul Lambert will know that with the likes of Burnley picking up points away from home and Crystal Palace defeating Liverpool, his team can not afford to drop any more points at home, especially with two away trips coming up to both of these teams, who will be awaiting Aston Villa`s visit with renewed confidence. Aston Villa are available at 17/4 with bet365 to cause an upset and defeat Southampton.

If Aston Villa are to take all 3 points from this game, they will have to do it without star striker Christian Benteke who finds himself back on the sidelines, this time through suspension. Therefore, the goal scoring will fall on the shoulders of current top scorer Andreas Weimann. The Austrian forward has 3 goals to his name so far this season, the latest of which came at the start of the month against Tottenham Hotpsur. Weimann is on offer at 17/2 with bet365 to get the first goal of the game. Such has been Aston Villa`s poor goal scoring from this season, the only other player to find the back of the net in the Premier League has been Gabriel Agbonlahor, who has scored twice so far in 2014/15. The English forward is priced at 11/1 with paddypower to open the scoring in this one.

Southampton manager Ronald Koeman has enjoyed a dream start to life in the Premier League and his team currently find themselves sitting second in the Premier League, above the likes of Manchester City, Manchester United and Arsenal. With 8 wins, 1 draw and just 2 defeats from 11 games played, Southampton will see this match as an opportunity to add to those 8 wins and are 4/5 with BetVictor to do just that.

A key ingredient to the great start that Southampton have made this season has been Graziano Pelle, who has 6 goals to his name so far this season and is the joint 5th highest scoring player in the Premier League so far this season. Although the striker has not found the back of the net in his last two Premier League games, a double against Stoke City in the League Cup recently means the Italian is still in good form and is on offer at 4/1 with SkyBet to get the first goal of the game. Looking elsewhere in the team, Shane Long came off the bench to devastating effect in Southampton`s last Premier League game, scoring 2 goals and is 2/1 with BetVictor to score at any time against Aston Villa.

Only 6 of Southampton`s 23 Premier League goals this season have come away from home, factor in Aston Villa`s home goals total of just 3 and the signs are that it could be a low scoring affair. BetVictor offer 4/5 for there to be under 2.5 goals and under 1.5 goals is also a possibility at 23/10 with the same firm. With Southampton clearly being the in form team out of the two, it`s difficult to look beyond them as winners for this match and coupled with the fact that Aston Villa have failed to score in 6 of their last 7 games, BetVictor offer 15/8 for Ronald Koeman`s team to win the match without conceding a goal.

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