Newcastle United vs Aston Villa Matchday Stats Preview

Newcastle are unbeaten in their last 15 Premier League home games against Aston Villa (W9 D6), since a 3-0 loss in April 2005. They’ve won the last three in a row by an aggregate score of 10-1.

Aston Villa have lost four of their last five Premier League games against Newcastle (W1), including both meetings last season. They last lost three in a row against the Magpies between January 2013 and February 2014.

Newcastle (16) and Aston Villa (15) have lost more Premier League games on Boxing Day than any other sides in the competition’s history.

Newcastle have lost their last three Boxing Day home games, including a 3-1 loss against Nottingham Forest last year. It’s their longest such losing streak in their league history.

Aston Villa have lost on Boxing Day in each of the last three seasons, conceding three goals in each defeat. Only once have they lost on the day in four consecutive league campaigns, doing so between 1932-33 and 1935-36.

After a run of two wins in 11 Premier League games, Newcastle have won both of their last two matches by a 4-0 scoreline (vs Leicester and Ipswich). The Magpies have never won three consecutive league games by 4+ goals before, while the last side to do so in the Premier League were Manchester City in May 2022.

Aston Villa have lost their last four Premier League away games, as many as in their previous 17 on the road (W9 D4). They last lost more consecutively away from home in a single campaign between February and May 2016 (7).

In his last three Premier League games, Jacob Murphy has provided two assists against Brentford, scored two goals against Leicester, and scored and assisted against Ipswich. No Newcastle player has ever been involved in multiple goals in four consecutive Premier League appearances.

Alexander Isak has scored 23 Premier League goals in 2024, with only Erling Haaland (26) and Cole Palmer (25) netting more. The only Newcastle players to score more across a single calendar year in the competition are Alan Shearer (27 in 2002) and Andrew Cole (24 in 1994).

Only Chris Wood (5) has scored more winning goals in the Premier League this season than Aston Villa’s Jhon Durán (4), while the Colombian has the best minutes-per-goal ratio in the competition this term (one every 80 minutes).