Aston Villa v Man City: What the stats say

Aston Villa are winless in 13 Premier League games against Manchester City (D2 L11) since a 3-2 home win in September 2013 and they will hope to turn that around on Wednesday. Kick-off at 22:15 CAT live on SuperSport.

Manchester City have scored at least once in 17 of their last 18 Premier League games against Aston Villa (48 goals in total), with the exception being a goalless draw at Villa Park in November 2015.

Aston Villa have won just one of their last 12 Premier League games on a Wednesday (D4 L7), winning 2-1 at Spurs in May 2021.

Manchester City have won 25 of their last 26 Premier League games played on a Wednesday, with the exception being a 1-1 draw at Brighton in their last such match back in May.

Aston Villa have won just four of their 56 Premier League games against reigning champions (D15 L37), with each one coming against a different side – 2-0 v Blackburn in February 1996, 3-2 v Arsenal in

December 1998, 1-0 v Man Utd in December 2009 and 7-2 against Liverpool in October 2020.

Aston Villa have won their last 13 Premier League home games, the longest ongoing run in the division.

Only twice in their league history have they won more consecutive home games, having 14-game runs between January-November 1903 and December 1930-October 1931.

Man City have won just one of their last four Premier League away games (D1 L2), beating Manchester United 3-0. They’ve conceded 2+ goals in two of those four games, as many times as they’d conceded multiple goals in their previous 22 on the road in the league.

Aston Villa boss Unai Emery has never beaten Man City’s Pep Guardiola in 13 previous meetings across spells with Valencia, Arsenal and the Villans (D4 L9). He’s lost his last five against Guardiola, including allthree v Manchester City.

Ollie Watkins has been directly involved in 15 goals in his last 15 Premier League home games for Aston Villa, scoring 11 and assisting four.

Man City’s Erling Haaland has scored a brace in his last two Premier League away games, doing so against Manchester United and Chelsea. He could become just the third player to score 2+ goals in three consecutive appearances on the road, after Dennis Bergkamp (September 1997) and Harry Kane (September 2017).