Aston Villa vs Leeds United Premier League Match

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This is the ﬁrst Premier League encounter between Aston Villa and Leeds United since February 2004, when Villa won 2-0 with goals from Juan Pablo Angel and Ronny Johnsen.

Leeds United‘s last league visit to Villa Park saw the Whites come from two goals down to win 3-2 in December 2018, with Kemar Roofe scoring the winner in the 90th minute.

Aston Villa are looking to win each of their opening ﬁve league games in a season for the ﬁrst time in their history. indeed, the Villans are looking to win ﬁve consecutive Premier League games for the ﬁrst time since April 1998 under John Gregory.

Aston Villa are unbeaten in their last eight Premier League games (W6 D2), the longest current run of all sides in the competition.

They’ve earned 20 points in these eight games, more than they had in their previous 26 matches in the competition (19). If Aston Villa avoid defeat in this match, they will ﬁnish a day top of the Premier League table for the ﬁrst time since August 2011, and for the ﬁrst time at least ﬁve games into a campaign since November 2001.

Leeds are looking to pick up back-to-back Premier League away wins for the ﬁrst time since December 2002, following their 1-0 win at Shefﬁeld United last time out. Aston Villa are top for direct attacks per game in the Premier League this season (2.8), while Leeds have had the most direct attacks against per game so far this term (4).

A direct attack is one that starts just inside a team's own half, has at least 50% of movement towards the opposition goal and ends with a shot or touch in the opponent's box. Aston Villa ranked 1 6th for this last season (1.4 per game).

Leeds United‘s Pablo Hernandez has been directly involved in six goals in seven league starts against Aston Villa (1 goal, 5 assists), including two assists at Villa Park in Leeds' 3-2 win in December 2018. Ross Barkley has scored in both of his Premier League appearances for Aston Villa so far — the last player to score in each of his ﬁrst three top- ﬂight games for the club was Dion Dublin in November 1998.

Leeds striker Patrick Bamford is looking to score in the club's ﬁrst three away league matches of a season for a second consecutive year, having done so in the Championship. Prior to that. only two players had managed it — Gordon Hodgson in the top-ﬂight In 1937-38 and Tresor Kandol in League One in 2007-08.