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Villa replaced a 108-goal striker with a club-record signing who plays the position in a very different way.
11.11.26Analysis
Villa scored four times from 12 shots and still drew. Behind the scoreline is a second half they spent almost entirely in their own penalty area.
09.11.26Analysis
Villa led 4-2 in the 90th minute and drew 4-4. Emery was in the tunnel before the game had finished, and he subsequently justified that decision.
08.11.26News
Before you laugh at Tielemans on Sunday, look at what happened to the role he used to fill.
06.11.26Analysis
A manager protecting his midfielder in public while making it perfectly clear what he had seen.
04.11.26News
Nine shots, one on target, and the misplaced pass that started Villa's joint-heaviest European defeat.
03.11.26Analysis
A manager defending Suzuki, explaining his penalty order, and using a different word about progress than he did last week.
31.10.26Matchday
Villa took more shots and created the better chances on paper. Fulham still generated more expected goals, and a missed penalty proved consequential.
31.10.26Analysis
Manchester City led every stats column but one. The numbers behind a win built on two shots on target and a second half that offered little.
24.10.26Analysis
The Aston Villa head coach's words after beating Manchester City, and for the third time in four days he has reached for the same one-syllable compliment.
24.10.26News
Emery explains the team sheet nobody understood, and delivers his warmest verdict yet on the winger who caused most of the damage.
21.10.26News
A night decided by what Villa did with a small number of visits to the penalty area, and by a Brazilian winger who caused nearly all of it.
21.10.26Analysis
Beaten in the air, outshot and outcrossed, and three points better off. The numbers behind a win built entirely inside the penalty area.
18.10.26Analysis
A milestone reached at Newcastle and waved away in a sentence. Emery's post-match words, and who he was really speaking to.
17.10.26News
Villa's historic European night came with less of the ball and fewer entries into the box. The numbers explain how.
15.10.26Analysis
Aston Villa won 6-0 and Unai Emery spent his press conference discussing the scoring opportunities they gave away.
14.10.26News
Villa outshot Brentford 20-14 and hit the target seven times to four. Caoimhín Kelleher kept them out. Underneath, the Opta data shows a Villa side that recovered the ball in the attacking third exactly once in 90 minutes, lost it in midfield more often than their visitors, and spent the afternoon being fouled every four minutes.
12.10.26Analysis
Cash is a right-back, so his dead leg has no bearing on Ruggeri's selection. With Ian Maatsen out until late October, Ruggeri is the only fit senior left-back at the club. What matters is the matchup: Brentford engineer most of their attacks down their right, carry the division's highest set-piece xG, and Ruggeri's one elite trait is aerial.
08.10.26Opinion
Alejandro Garnacho scored his first goal in a Villa shirt at Sevilla, in his first start for the club. The numbers behind him tell a clear story: he is one of the most productive ball-carriers in the Premier League and one of its least efficient finishers. Unai Emery can only fix one of those, and it is the one that matters.
05.10.26Analysis
Ten Aston Villa players are away with their countries, and the halfway point has already delivered plenty. Nicolas Jackson set up Ibrahim Mbaye for Senegal's winner, Matteo Ruggeri made his senior Italy debut, and Johan Manzambi was the best player on the pitch at Hampden. Both internal derbies, meanwhile, went the same way.
30.09.26News
Villa's under-21s lost 4-1 at Crewe. Three goals came from errors and set-pieces, and Max Jenner supplied the one moment of real class.
23.09.26News
Villa's under-18s were level after an hour. Two Brighton goals in ninety seconds settled it, and the fixture record keeps getting worse.
21.09.26News
Villa won 3-2 at Tottenham with 36.1% possession and 1.16 xG to their hosts' 1.56. The numbers behind a win built on finishing.
20.09.26Analysis
A 16-year-old scored both goals with Villa's only two shots on target, and Blade Earley saved a penalty, as the U21s drew 2-2 with Middlesbrough.
18.09.26News
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