Aston Villa vs Chelsea: Premier League preview, team news, stats & head-to-head
Following their 2-1 victory at Stamford Bridge earlier this season, Aston Villa wish to full a league double over Chelsea for the primary time because the 1989-90 marketing campaign.
Chelsea are winless of their final two Premier League visits to Villa Park (D1 L1), having received 5 of their earlier six video games there prior. The Blues have not misplaced consecutive away league video games at Villa since dropping in 2002-03 and 2003-04 underneath Claudio Ranieri.
Having received their final two Premier League matches towards Chelsea, Aston Villa are on the lookout for three league wins in a row towards the Blues for the primary time since a run of 4 between 1978 and 1984.
Aston Villa have solely received one among their final 4 Premier League dwelling video games (D1 L2), this after having received eight in succession beforehand. The Villans have scored simply two targets from 76 photographs (2.6% conversion fee) and 6.0 anticipated targets of their final 4 at Villa Park.
Chelsea have misplaced eight of their final 10 midweek (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) away video games within the Premier League (W2), together with each in 2025-26 to date, taking place 3-1 at Leeds in December and 2-1 at Fulham in January.
Aston Villa have received simply two of their final eight Premier League video games (D3 L3), netting simply 5 targets on this run (0.6 per recreation). The Villans had received 13 of their earlier 15 earlier than this (L2), averaging 2.1 targets per recreation.
Aston Villa common 16.5 photographs per 90 minutes when dropping within the Premier League this season, virtually double the quantity they common in a successful recreation state this time period (8.8).
Aston Villa’s Ollie Watkins has scored 4 targets in his final six Premier League video games towards Chelsea, though all have come at Stamford Bridge. He netted each targets of their 2-1 win within the reverse fixture in December, with Anwar El-Ghazi the final Villa participant to attain dwelling and away towards the Blues in a league season (2020-21).
Tammy Abraham, who scored 21 targets in 58 Premier League appearances for Chelsea, is seeking to rating in back-to-back dwelling video games within the competitors for the primary time since December 2019 when he was a Blues participant – the second recreation of which was towards his present aspect Aston Villa.
Chelsea’s João Pedro has been instantly concerned in 5 targets in 5 Premier League appearances towards Aston Villa (2 targets, 3 assists) – towards no aspect he has been concerned in additional within the competitors.
