Arsenal vs Aston Villa Premier League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Arsenal have won their last three home league games against Aston Villa by an aggregate score of 12-2. However, only Chelsea (5), Man City and Man Utd (4 each) have won more Premier League away games at the Emirates than Aston Villa (3).
Aston Villa are looking to win consecutive league games against Arsenal for the first time since May/December 1998, though both victories back then came at Villa Park.
Aston Villa’s 1-0 win against Arsenal at Villa Park in July ended a run of seven straight defeats against the Gunners in all competitions, across which they had conceded 23 goals.
Arsenal lost 0-1 against Leicester in their last home league game, their first home league defeat of 2020. They last lost back-to-back league games at the Emirates in December 2019 (a run of three), while they last failed to score in consecutive games at home in February 2016.
Aston Villa are the only side yet to concede away from home in the Premier League this season, while they were the only side not to keep a clean sheet on the road in the competition last season. Their away games have seen fewer goals scored than any other Premier League side this season (4), while their home games have seen the most goals in the competition so far (20 – F11 A9).
Having won their first four Premier League games this season, Aston Villa have now lost their last two. They’ve conceded as many goals in these two defeats as they had in their previous nine league games combined (7).
Arsenal have conceded fewer goals than any other Premier League side this season (7). However, the Gunners haven’t kept a clean sheet in any of their last six home league games, since beating Norwich 4-0 in July.
Arsenal are averaging 18 open play sequences of 10+ passes per Premier League game this season, compared to just 11.6 last season. Indeed, the Gunners have had more build-up attacks (10+ pass sequences that end with a shot or touch in the opposition box) this season than any other Premier League side (27).
Arsenal captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang ended his five-game Premier League goal drought with the winning penalty at Manchester United last time out. The Gabonese international has scored 62.5% of his Premier League goals on Sundays (35 in 43 games on Sunday, 21 in 49 games on all other days).
Coming into this weekend’s games, only Spurs duo Harry Kane (14) and Son Heung-min (10) have been involved in more Premier League goals this season than Aston Villa’s Jack Grealish (8 – 4 goals, 4 assists).
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