Delightful dogfight as daring Aston Villa duels with determined Newcastle United

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Competition: England Premier League
Competition: Sat 21.August
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Villa Park (42682 seats)

With the tense opening fixture finished it’s time for the second Premier League battle of the season. Aston Villa look forward to welcoming Newcastle United in front of their stadium regulars.

Both parties have had a decent time to rest since their last match. Let's wish for an active game!

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Aston Villa form and stats

The previous season, Aston Villa's league statistics were 16 wins, 7 draws and 15 losses, leading to 11th spot in the Premier League. During these 38 matches they scored 55 goals and let in 46. Appearing as the home side in the former season Aston Villa produced 7-4-8 (win-draw-lost) with 29 goals and 27 conceded.

In their previous game, the manager D. Smith led his Villa to a defeat in the Premier League match away at Watford. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Villa Park. John McGinn (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.3/10. McGinn scored one goal and had 29 successful passes (of 35 total).

Ahead of that match, Aston Villa won a home game hosting Chelsea (2-1).

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Villa handle that role? We have found six games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are two wins, two draws and two defeats.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Villa as they are travelling to their away game against Barrow in the Carabao Cup. That match is three days after this one.

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Newcastle United form and stats

Let's have a look at how Newcastle United performed last season in the Premier League: They landed a 12th position in the league table after playing out 12 victories, 9 draws and 17 defeats. In total they scored 46 and conceded 62 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 6 - drew 4 and lost 9 with 20/29 goals scored/conceded.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Premier League home defeat versus West Ham United with 2-4 on the scoreboard. Attacker Allan Saint-Maximin got a player rating of 7.85 in the game. "Man of the match" Saint-Maximin served one assist, hit four key passes, dribled passed the opponent 10 of 12 times and had 32 successful passes (of 36 total). As you can tell from the result, the match against West Ham United was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today?

Preceding that game was the away victory against Fulham with the score of 2-0.

We have checked recent matches where Newcastle have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those nine games were three victories, two draws and four defeats.

A new game in only two days for Newcastle United, the Carabao Cup home match versus Burnley. Busy days.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: two - six - two (Villa wins - draws - Newcastle United wins). As for goals, zero matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), ten had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

VillaJ. McGinn
J. McGinn
1 goals
Aston VillaD. Ings
D. Ings
1 goals
Newcastle UnitedJ. Murphy
J. Murphy
1 goals

Aston Villa missing players

Newcastle United missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Aston Villa Newcastle United
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
1 0 0 Played P 0 0 1
0 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
1 0 0 Lost L 0 0 1
2 0 0 Scored S 0 0 2
3 0 0 Conceded C 0 0 4
100% 0% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 0% 100%
100% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 100%
100% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 100%
100% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 100%
100% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 100%
100% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 100%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
4 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 7
2 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 6
1 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 1
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 0 17
2 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 3
100% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 67%
Aston Villa Last season Newcastle United
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
38 19   Played P   19 38
16 7   Won W   6 12
7 4   Drew D   4 9
15 8   Lost L   9 17
55 29   Scored S   20 46
46 27   Conceded C   29 62
89% 84%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   95% 95%
71% 74%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   89% 89%
58% 63%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   32% 47%
21% 32%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   16% 24%
11% 11%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   11% 16%
50% 53%   BTTS BTTS   37% 55%
39% 37%   Clean Sheets C S   26% 18%
21% 26%   Failed to Score F T   42% 32%
 
5.6 6.2   Corners for (avg) C F   4.2 4.2
5.1 4.9   Corners against (avg) C A   6.9 5.9
1.9 1.8   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.6 1.7
4 3   Red cards R C   1 3
 
13.9 14.4   Shots (avg) S (   8.6 10.5
4.9 5.1   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.3 3.8
29% 30%   Goal Efficiency G E   32% 32%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Manchester United 1 1 0 0 5 1 1 1 0 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 3
2 Chelsea 1 1 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
3 Liverpool 1 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 3 3
4 West Ham United 1 1 0 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 2 2 3
5 Everton 1 1 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
6 Brentford 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
7 Watford 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
8 Brighton & Hove Albion 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3
9 Leicester City 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
10 Tottenham Hotspur 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
11 Aston Villa 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1 0
12 Burnley 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
13 Manchester City 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0
14 Wolverhampton Wanderers 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0
15 Newcastle United 1 0 0 1 2 4 1 0 0 1 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0
16 Southampton 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 -2 0
17 Arsenal 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 0
18 Crystal Palace 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 -3 0
19 Norwich City 1 0 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0
20 Leeds United 1 0 0 1 1 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 5 -4 0
Last season Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Manchester City 38 27 5 6 83 32 19 13 2 4 43 17 19 14 3 2 40 15 51 86
2 Manchester United 38 21 11 6 73 44 19 9 4 6 38 28 19 12 7 0 35 16 29 74
3 Liverpool 38 20 9 9 68 42 19 10 3 6 29 20 19 10 6 3 39 22 26 69
4 Chelsea 38 19 10 9 58 36 19 9 6 4 31 18 19 10 4 5 27 18 22 67
5 Leicester City 38 20 6 12 68 50 19 9 1 9 34 30 19 11 5 3 34 20 18 66
6 West Ham United 38 19 8 11 62 47 19 10 4 5 32 22 19 9 4 6 30 25 15 65
7 Tottenham Hotspur 38 18 8 12 68 45 19 10 3 6 35 20 19 8 5 6 33 25 23 62
8 Arsenal 38 18 7 13 55 39 19 8 4 7 24 21 19 10 3 6 31 18 16 61
9 Leeds United 38 18 5 15 62 54 19 8 5 6 28 21 19 10 0 9 34 33 8 59
10 Everton 38 17 8 13 47 48 19 6 4 9 24 28 19 11 4 4 23 20 -1 59
11 Aston Villa 38 16 7 15 55 46 19 7 4 8 29 27 19 9 3 7 26 19 9 55
12 Newcastle United 38 12 9 17 46 62 19 6 5 8 26 33 19 6 4 9 20 29 -16 45
13 Wolverhampton Wanderers 38 12 9 17 36 52 19 7 4 8 21 25 19 5 5 9 15 27 -16 45
14 Crystal Palace 38 12 8 18 41 66 19 6 5 8 20 32 19 6 3 10 21 34 -25 44
15 Southampton 38 12 7 19 47 68 19 8 3 8 28 25 19 4 4 11 19 43 -21 43
16 Brighton & Hove Albion 38 9 14 15 40 46 19 4 9 6 22 22 19 5 5 9 18 24 -6 41
17 Burnley 38 10 9 19 33 55 19 4 6 9 14 27 19 6 3 10 19 28 -22 39
18 Fulham 38 5 13 20 27 53 19 2 4 13 9 28 19 3 9 7 18 25 -26 28
19 West Bromwich Albion 38 5 11 22 35 76 19 3 6 10 15 39 19 2 5 12 20 37 -41 26
20 Sheffield United 38 7 2 29 20 63 19 5 1 13 12 27 19 2 1 16 8 36 -43 23

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  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Manchester United 1 1 0 0 5 1 1 1 0 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 3
2 Chelsea 1 1 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
3 Liverpool 1 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 3 3
4 West Ham United 1 1 0 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 2 2 3
5 Everton 1 1 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
6 Brentford 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
7 Watford 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
8 Brighton & Hove Albion 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3
9 Leicester City 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
10 Tottenham Hotspur 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
11 Aston Villa 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1 0
12 Burnley 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
13 Manchester City 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0
14 Wolverhampton Wanderers 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0
15 Newcastle United 1 0 0 1 2 4 1 0 0 1 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0
16 Southampton 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 -2 0
17 Arsenal 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 0
18 Crystal Palace 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 -3 0
19 Norwich City 1 0 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0
20 Leeds United 1 0 0 1 1 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 5 -4 0

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The English Premier League is the top level of the English football league pyramid. 20 teams play 38 fixtures each to see who tops the Premier League table. The Premier League is the most watched sports league in the world. Seasons run from August to May with most games on Saturdays and Sundays.