There is Friday night English Premier League football to look forward to with Newcastle hosting Aston Villa and we take a look at the game from a betting angle.

Newcastle are currently 16^th on the log and without a victory in their last 4 starts. They are coming off back-to-back draws away at West Brom and at home to Wolves. They have won 4 and drawn 3 of 13 home matches this season and digging a bit deeper into their goal stats and we find that 9 of the 13 Newcastle home matches have delivered profits had you being backing over 2.5 goals and those home matches of theirs averaged 2.9 goals each.

Aston Villa are 9^th on the table, but they have only won 1 of their last 5 games. They are coming off a goalless draw at home to Wolves and their last away game was a 1-0 defeat to Sheffield United.

5 out of the last 6 Aston Villa matches have had 1 goal or less in them. Looking at their away form they have a decent record with 7 wins and 2 draws in 14 starts and the Villa away games averaged 2.1 goals each with only 6 of the 14 games reaching 3 goals or more.

Aston Villa won the reverse fixture 2-0 earlier this season and this was the 10^th successive match between the sides (dating back to 2014) that has seen under 2.5 goal backers in the layout queue.

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BETTING – Click here to bet

Newcastle 59/20

Draw 49/20

Aston Villa 1/1

Suggested Bet: The draw at 49/20

I am expecting this to be a tight, low scoring affair and under 2.5 goals is trading at 7/10. There hasn’t been much to choose between these sides fixtures in recent years and 2 of the last 3 meetings has seen the game drawn.

For those looking for a bit of a longer price you can turn to the Correct Score Markets where 1-1 is trading at 5/1 and if you do think we could have a goalless draw on our hands then 31/4 is the price there. If you want both of those markets covered then look at under 3.5 goals and the draw in the Match Bet + Totals Market which is trading at 26/10.

There are also markets such as First Goal Scorer / Any Time Goal Scorer so plenty of opportunities to get involved in this one and of course there will be in-running action as well.

Note: All prices correct at the time of writing but are subject to change