Aston Villa vs West Ham Premier League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Aston Villa have won just one of their last nine Premier League meetings with West Ham (D5 L3), winning 1-0 at Villa Park in May 2015.
West Ham are looking to secure their first league double over Aston Villa since 2005-06. However, the Hammers have won just one of their last 10 Premier League visits to Villa Park (D4 L5) - 2-0 in February 2014.
Aston Villa have failed to score in five of their last nine Premier League meetings with West Ham, netting just once in each of the other four. Indeed, only against Newcastle (15) have West Ham kept more Premier League clean sheets than they have against the Villans (14).
Aston Villa have lost 15 of their last 17 Premier League games in the month of February, drawing at Cardiff (2014) and winning against Norwich (2016) in the others.
After a run of three consecutive home league defeats in which they conceded a total of nine goals, Aston Villa have kept a clean sheet in each of their last three at Villa Park. They last kept four straight home clean sheets in the Premier League in October 2001.
West Ham are looking to win three consecutive Premier League away games for the first time since December 2018. The Hammers have already won more league games on the road this season (5) than they managed in the whole of 2019-20 (4).
Jack Grealish has been directly involved in eight goals in eight Premier League home games for Aston Villa this season (three goals, five assists) – if he scores or assists in this game, he will have more goal involvements at Villa Park this season than he did in the whole of last season (8 in 18 home league games).
West Ham manager David Moyes is unbeaten in his last nine Premier League matches against Aston Villa (W4 D5), although he has only registered a league double over Villa once previously, with Manchester United in 2013/14.
Aston Villa’s Bertrand Traoré has scored in each of his last two Premier League appearances at Villa Park – the last Villa player to score in three in a row at home in the top-flight was Darren Bent in November 2011.
Since the start of the 2009-10 season, West Ham's Craig Dawson has scored more league goals than any other defender in England's top four tiers (41).
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