Aston Villa have lost their last two home league matches against Leeds, losing 3-2 in the Championship in December 2018 and 3-0 in the Premier League last season. They’ve never lost three in a row at home to the Whites.
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The home team has won just one of the last seven league meetings between Aston Villa and Leeds (D3 L3), a 1-0 Villa win in April 2018 at Villa Park.
This will be Leeds United’s 4,000th league match since joining the Football League in 1920. The last four teams to hit this figure as a Premier League side have lost their 4000th game – Spurs in November 2017 (1-2 vs Leicester), Watford in April 2018 (0-1 vs Huddersfield), Bournemouth in December 2019 (0-2 vs Brighton) and Crystal Palace in July 2020 (2-3 vs Chelsea).
Aston Villa have alternated between scoring once and scoring twice in their last seven home Premier League games (2-3, 1-4, 2-0, 1-2, 2-1, 1-3, 2-2) and have only failed to score in one of their last 16 games at Villa Park, a goalless draw with Everton in May.
Leeds won their last away match against West Ham, winning 3-2. They haven’t won consecutive away games since May when they beat Burnley and Southampton, while the Whites last won their first two away league games in a year back in 2005 in the Championship, beating Coventry and Stoke.
Since shipping eight goals in open play across their two defeats to Manchester City and Arsenal (four in each game), Leeds have only conceded once in open play in three Premier League games in 2022, a Pablo Fornals goal for West Ham. However, the Whites have conceded from both direct free-kick efforts they have faced this year (Maxwel Cornet for Burnley & Jonjo Shelvey for Newcastle scoring those goals).
Steven Gerrard has lost two of his five home Premier League matches as Aston Villa manager (W2 D1) – he only lost three of his 59 home league games as Rangers manager (W48 D8).
This could be Raphinha’s 50th Premier League appearance for Leeds, and the Brazilian has been involved in 25 goals in 49 games so far (14 goals, 11 assists), the most of any Whites player since his debut in October 2020. In that time he has also created the most chances (103), completed the most dribbles (101) and had the most touches in the opposition box (208) of any Leeds player.
Leeds striker Patrick Bamford has started two matches at Villa Park in his club career and netted five goals, scoring twice for Middlesbrough in the League Cup in September 2017 and a hat-trick for Leeds last season in the Premier League. In Leeds’ history, the only player to score in consecutive league appearances at Villa Park is defender Pontus Jansson in 2016-17 and 2018-19.
Lucas Digne has created four chances for Aston Villa in the Premier League since his move from Everton, all for Emiliano BuendÃa, including assisting his winner against the Toffees. BuendÃa has also created one chance for Digne, with the duo combining once every 36 minutes, the second-best ratio of any duo to play 100 minutes alongside one another this season (Jamie Vardy/Ayoze Pérez, one every 32 mins).