Aston Villa vs Liverpool Premier League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Aston Villa have lost their last five Premier League meetings with Liverpool by an aggregate score of 3-15. They last lost more league games consecutively against the Reds between 1964 and 1975 (7).
Liverpool have lost just one of their last 19 Premier League away games against Aston Villa (W13 D5), winning their last six visits since a 0-1 loss in May 2011.
Aston Villa are winless in their last 15 Premier League games against reigning champions, losing the last 12 in a row (D3). Their last such victory at home was back in December 1998 against Arsenal, with the Villans drawing seven and losing 11 at Villa Park since.
Only Manchester United (16 at both Aston Villa and Everton) have won more away Premier League games against a single opponent than Liverpool have at Aston Villa (14).
Indeed, Aston Villa v Liverpool has seen more away wins overall (20 -14 by Liverpool, six by Villa) than any other Premier League fixture. Aston Villa haven't won each of their first three league games in a single campaign since 1962-63.
Meanwhile, they haven't kept a clean sheet in each of their opening three league games since 1900-01. Liverpool won each of their opening four Premier League games in both 2018-19 and 2019-20, and could become the first team in top-flight history to do so in three consecutive campaigns.
Coming into this weekend's games, Liverpool have had at least 17 more shots than any other Premier League side this season (61 ).
Aston Villa faced a league-high 608 shots in the Premier League last season, though are facing just 10 shots-per-game this season compared to 16 in 2019-20.
Aston Villa are on the longest current unbeaten run of any side in the Premier League (6 -W4 D2), with the Villans looking to win three consecutively in the competition for the first time since April 2010.
Jack Grealish has scored two goals in his last three Premier League games for Aston Villa, as many as in his previous 19.
He's looking to score in back-to-back games in the competition for the first time since October 2019. Liverpool's Sadio Mane has scored six goals in his six Premier League games against Aston Villa, only scoring more against Crystal Palace (9) and Arsenal (7) in the competition.
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This includes the fastest ever Premier League hat-trick, which he scored for Southampton against the Villans in May 2015, with just 2 minutes and 56 seconds separating his three goals.
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