Aston Villa vs Tottenham Hotspur LIVE: Premier League preview, team news, stats & head-to-head
Aston Villa gained this precise fixture 2-0 final season, final beating Tottenham Hotspur in consecutive house league video games in May/November 2004.
Tottenham Hotspur have misplaced six of their final 10 Premier League video games in opposition to Aston Villa (W4), greater than they’d of their earlier 34 in opposition to the Villans (W19 D10 L5).
None of the final 21 Premier League conferences between Aston Villa (7 wins) and Spurs (14) have completed stage. Only Chelsea v Crystal Palace (26 between September 1997 and February 2024) has had an extended run with no attracts within the competitors’s historical past.
Aston Villa have gained simply two of their earlier seven Premier League video games (D1 L4), struggling as many defeats as of their prior 24 matches (W15 L5), though they may win three in a row at house for the primary time since January (run of eight).
Spurs ended a 15-game winless run in opposition to Wolves final day out (1-0) and will document successive victories within the Premier League for the primary time since their opening two matches of this season in opposition to Burnley (3-0) and Manchester City (2-0).
36.9% of the probabilities Aston Villa have created within the Premier League this season have come by means of the center third of the pitch, the fourth-highest proportion behind Bournemouth (39.4%), Brighton (37.7%) and Newcastle (37.5%), whereas 33.9% of possibilities created in opposition to Spurs this season have come by means of the center; the fifth-highest price.
Under Roberto De Zerbi, Spurs are averaging extra pressed sequences per recreation (12.7) and possession gained within the ultimate third per recreation (5.3) than they had been beneath Thomas Frank (11.1 and three.7) and Igor Tudor (10.8 and three.8) within the Premier League this season.
10 of Ollie Watkins’ 11 Premier League targets this season have come because the begin of December, no participant has extra in that point. Indeed, he is scored targets in three earlier Premier League video games in opposition to sides managed by Roberto De Zerbi, together with a hat-trick in September 2023.
Aston Villa’s Pau Torres is averaging 9.5 line-breaking passes per 90 within the Premier League this season, the fifth-most of any central defender with a minimum of 1,500 minutes. In Aston Villa’s defeat to Fulham final day out, his 11 performed was essentially the most of any participant.
Spurs’ Richarlison is averaging 0.72 aim involvements per 90 this season (9 targets, 4 assists in 1,615 minutes), his third-best price in a Premier League marketing campaign behind 2023-24 and 2024-25 (each 0.9 per 90).
