Aston Villa vs West Ham United Matchday Stats Preview
Aston Villa have won two of their last three Premier League games against West Ham (D1), as many as they had in their previous 16 (D6 L8).
West Ham’s 4-1 defeat in this exact fixture last season ended a five game unbeaten run away against Aston Villa in the Premier League (W3 D2). They last lost consecutive visits to Villa Park in February 2013.
Following their 2-1 win at the London Stadium on the opening weekend, Aston Villa are looking to complete their first league double over West Ham since 2010-11, when the Hammers finished bottom of the table.
Only Arsenal (14) are on a longer home unbeaten run in the Premier League than Aston Villa (10 – W6 D4). Villa have only had three previous runs of 11+ unbeaten games at Villa Park, most recently between March and December 2023 when they won 16 out of 17 games (D1).
West Ham’s last away game was a 2-1 defeat to Aston Villa in the FA Cup third round earlier this month, with the Hammers losing 10 of their last 16 on the road (W3 D3). The last Premier League side to lose consecutive away games against the same team was Everton against Bournemouth in November 2022.
No side has scored more headed Premier League goals this season than Aston Villa (8), with Youri Tielemans involved in 50% of those (1 goal, 3 assists), scoring at Arsenal last time out.
This will be Graham Potter’s first Premier League away match in charge of West Ham United, with three Hammers bosses winning their first game on the road – Trevor Booking in 2003, Slaven Bilic in 2015 and Julen Lopetegui this season. The last team to have two managers win their first away game within the same season was Chelsea in 2008-09 (Felipe Scolari and Guus Hiddink).
Since the start of last season, West Ham have played seven games without Jarrod Bowen and have lost five of those (W2). In the 53 games he has featured, the Hammers average 13.1 shots per game and 4.3 shots on target per game, compared to just 8.7 shots and 2.4 shots on target without him.
Ollie Watkins has been involved in 99 Premier League goals in 168 appearances for Aston Villa (69 goals, 30 assists). If he scores or assists in this game he’ll be the fastest player to 100 goal involvements since Kevin De Bruyne in July 2020 (155th game) and fastest Englishman since Harry Kane in November 2017 (128th game).
Lukasz Fabianski’s next Premier League appearance for West Ham will be his 313th in the competition since he turned 30, taking him level with Edwin van der Sar for games aged 30+. Only Brad Friedel (425), Mark Schwarzer (375) and David James (329) have more games after their 30th birthday.
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