Ipswich Town vs Aston Villa Matchday Stats Preview

Ipswich have won just one of their 10 Premier League games against Aston Villa (D2 L7), a 1-0 away win in March 1994.

Aston Villa are unbeaten in their last 10 away league games against Ipswich (W5 D5) since a 3-0 loss in September 1984. Only against Coventry have the Villans had a longer run without defeat on the road in their league history (13 between 1938 and 1986).

Ipswich Town have failed to win any of their opening five Premier League matches this season (D3 L2). They last had a longer winless start to a top-flight season in 1982-83 (opening six games).

Aston Villa have won their last three Premier League matches, beating Leicester, Everton and Wolves. They last had a longer winning run in March and April 2023 (five in a row).

Ipswich have drawn their last three league games, with the Tractor Boys last drawing more games in a row in February and March 2017 in the Championship (six). In the Premier League, they last had a longer run of draws in August and September 1992 (five).

Aston Villa have won their first two away Premier League matches this season – only once in their league history have they opened a season with three away wins, doing so in 2020-21.

In 18 Premier League matches against newly promoted teams, Unai Emery has a win percentage of 78% (W14 D2 L2), winning nine out of 10 as Aston Villa boss including victory in all four away games.

Only Bournemouth’s Marcus Tavernier (197) has applied more pressures to opponents in the Premier League this season than Ipswich’s Omari Hutchinson (196), while only three players have applied more pressures in the final third of the pitch than Hutchinson (69).

Since Unai Emery’s first Aston Villa game in November 2022, only Erling Haaland (66) and Mohamed Salah (59) have been involved in more Premier League goals than Ollie Watkins (53 – 35 goals, 18 assists).

Although he only has one Premier League clean sheet in 14 games for Burnley and Ipswich, according to Opta’s xGoT model Arijanet Muric has prevented 9.4 goals in the competition (21 goals conceded from an xGoT of 30.4), the best prevention rate of any goalkeeper since his debut on March 16.