Aston Villa vs Bologna Prediction & Picks - Champions League

Prediction published on 10/20/24, 3:00 PM  by Carlos Zabala | Modified on 10/20/24 at 5:54 PM in Champions League Picks

After a last expected defeat against Liverpool in the last Champions League match at Anfield, Bologna will travel to England to face Aston Villa this time.

The Italian team maintains the trend of the last 5 years of being one of the teams in the top 5 European leagues that draws the most, but unlike the previous campaign where they finished 5th, in the new edition they are 13th because this time the draws have rarely been converted into victories. In what seemed like a last easy victory against Genoa where Bologna was favored to win with odds of +100, and where they went ahead with goals from Orsolini and Odgaard, they could not maintain the advantage and would end up allowing Genoa 2 goals in the last 20 minutes.

Aston Villa will be favourites to beat Bologna at odds of 1.61 to beat them at Villa Park, and for Bologna, despite having 1 out of 6 possible points, a draw will be considered a good result, given that they host Monaco in the next continental matchday.

Emery's team had another excellent start, having only lost 11 of their games so far this season and where they are sixth in the Champions League and are one of the 4 teams that have not conceded a goal in two games, in addition to the surprising result of beating Bayern without conceding a single goal.