Aston Villa vs Crystal Palace prediction | 5 Dec 2026 | xGtoday


Aston Villa
Ranking: #19 overall, #9 in England

82.7 → 83.3 (+0.6 over last 10 games)

Rating
2-3 08 Sep Club Brugge (A) 83.8 +1.1
1-2 12 Sep Nottm Forest (H) 82.5 -1.3
2-3 19 Sep Tottenham (A) 82.4 -0.1
2-2 10 Oct Brentford (H) 83.1 +0.7
6-0 14 Oct Fenerbahçe (H) 83.3 +0.2
Crystal Palace
Ranking: #26 overall, #12 in England

84.9 → 81.7 (-3.2 over last 10 games)

Rating
2-3 05 Sep Fulham (A) 83.9 -0.8
2-3 12 Sep Ipswich (H) 82.6 -1.3
4-0 17 Sep Lech Poznań (H) 82.5 -0.1
0-0 20 Sep Leeds Utd (A) 82.5 0.0
3-1 11 Oct Nottm Forest (H) 81.7 -0.8

Aston Villa vs Crystal Palace: by the numbers

Crystal Palace trail Aston Villa by 7 places in our proprietary European rankings, and by 3 in England.

Over their last 10 matches Aston Villa have moved +0.6 rating points, against -3.2 for Crystal Palace.

Crystal Palace lost 0.5 rating points in the last contest between these two, on 7 January 2026.

The best xGtoday rating Aston Villa have ever held is 85.2, first set on 16 May 2025.

Crystal Palace first climbed to #9 in our European rankings on 18 October 2025.