Brentford vs Aston Villa live stream and match preview, Saturday April 22, 3.00pm BST
Brentford vs Aston Villa live stream and match preview
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High-flying Aston Villa’s surprise late push for the top four continues with a trip to a Brentford side whose own hopes of Europe are fading fast.
Villa’s superb 3-0 win over Newcastle last weekend was their fifth in a row and boosted them into sixth place, six points outside the Champions League spots.
Brentford have held hopes of a top-six finish for much of the season, but a winless run of five games – including defeats in the last three – has left them in ninth, seven points behind Villa.
The first meeting of the season ended in an emphatic 4-0 win for the Birmingham club, when Danny Ings struck twice between goals from Leon Bailey and Ollie Watkins.
Kick-off is at 3.00pm BST. Make sure you know how to watch the Premier League wherever you are.
Team news
Keane Lewis-Potter and Pontus Jansson are out for Brentford, while Kristoffer Ajer is still carrying a calf injury.
Aston Villa are without Leon Bailey, Jed Steer and Philippe Coutinho, while Matty Cash and Boubacar Kamara also miss out.
Brentford XI: Raya; Hickey, Mee, Pinnock; Schade, Jensen, Norgaard, Janelt, Henry; Toney, Mbeumo.
Aston Villa XI: Martinez; Young, Konsa, Mings, Alex Moreno; McGinn, Dendoncker, Douglas Luiz, Ramsey; Watkins, Buendia.
Form
Brentford: LLLDD
Aston Villa: WWWWW
Referee
Michael Salisbury will be the referee for Brentford vs Aston Villa.
Stadium
Brentford vs Aston Villa will be played at the Gtech Community Stadium in Brentford.
Kick-off and channel
Brentford vs Aston Villa isn't being shown on TV the UK. Kick-off is at 3.00pm BST.
VPN guide
Use a VPN to watch Premier League football from outside your country
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A Virtual Private Network (VPN), assuming it complies with your broadcaster’s T&Cs, creates a private connection between your device and t'internet, meaning the service can’t work out where you are and will let you watch. And all the info going between is entirely encrypted, anonymous and safe – and that's a result.
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International Premier League TV rights
• UK: Sky Sports and BT Sport are the two main players once again, but Amazon also have a slice of the pie in 2022/23.
• USA: NBC Sports Group are the Premier League rights holders, with the Peacock Premium streaming platform showing even more than the 175 games it aired last season. If you pick up a fuboTV subscription for the games not on Peacock Premium, you'll be able to watch every game.
• Canada: The way to watch Premier League football in 2022/23 is fuboTV, which has exclusive rights to all the action.
• Australia: Optus Sport will screen every game of the Premier League season. Non-subscribers can access the action via a Fetch TV box and other friendly streaming devices.
• New Zealand: Sky Sport are serving up all 380 games – plus various highlights and magazine shows throughout the week, as well as the Champions League.
