Aston Villa vs Crystal Palace live stream and match preview, Saturday March 4, 3.00pm GMT
Aston Villa vs Crystal Palace live stream and match preview
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One place separates mid-table Aston Villa and Crystal Palace ahead of their clash in Birmingham on Saturday.
Both sides look set for a comfortable season of consolidation, although the Eagles will be keeping a wary eye over their shoulder - they sit just six points above the relegation zone despite being all the way up in 12th place.
Neither side comes into the clash in particularly good form, although Villa did manage to end a three-match losing run by beating Everton 2-0 at Goodison Park last weekend.
Palace are in a rut and have gone nine matches without a win in all competitions.
Patrick Vieira’s side can’t stop drawing games – they’ve picked up a single point in five of their last six Premier League outings.
Kick-off is at 3.00pm GMT. Make sure you know how to watch the Premier League wherever you are.
Team news
Unai Emery has named the following Aston Villa starting 11: (4-2-2-2) Emi Martinez; Matty Cash, Ezri Konsa, Tyrone Mings, Alex Moreno; Boubacar Kamara, Douglas Luiz; John McGinn (captain), Jacob Ramsey; Emi Buendia, Ollie Watkins
Patrick Vieira has selected the following Crystal Palace starting 11: (4-2-3-1) Vicente Guaita; Nathaniel Clyne, Joachim Andersen, Marc Guehi (captain), Tyrick Mitchell; Cheick Doucoure, Albert Sambi Lokonga; Michael Olise, Jordan Ayew, Eberechi Eze, Wilfried Zaha
Form
Aston Villa: WLLLW
Crystal Palace: DDDLD
Referee
Craig Pawson will be the referee for Aston Villa vs Crystal Palace.
Stadium
Aston Villa vs Crystal Palace will be played at Villa Park in Birmingham.
Kick-off and channel
Aston Villa vs Crystal Palace kick-off is at 3.00pm GMT on Saturday 4 March. It isn't being televised in the UK.
In the US, kick-off time is 10.00am ET / 7.00am PT. The match will be shown on NBC in the US. See below for international broadcast options.
VPN guide
Use a VPN to watch Premier League football from outside your country
If you’re out of the country for a Premier League fixture, then you won't be able to watch on your domestic streaming service as usual. The broadcaster knows where you are because of your IP address (boo!) and blocks you from watching it. You can use a VPN to get around that, though, without resorting to illegal feeds you’ve found on Reddit.
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.
There are plenty of good-value options out there. For the Premier League, FourFourTwo currently recommends:
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.
