Damian
It is a little bit completely different. First, it isn’t a discussion board and proper above the place I am penning this, it has the phrase article. This was one of many the explanation why I used to be truly fairly pleased with what occurred in January and my knowledge heart points.
However, the discussion board service I moved to has been bought and it simply looks as if I am destined to do these posts.
Extra coming later, however for now, what a time to be an Aston Villa fan.
😫 “Aston Villa are unfortunate, they may do with the season being six weeks longer.”
😳 “It says an terrible lot about Gerrard…”@ChelseaRory reacts to #AVFC’s current run of sensible type beneath Unai Emery 🦁
📺 WATCH – https://t.co/raFAU3nHPm pic.twitter.com/dZt8cmpcdX
— talkSPORT (@talkSPORT) April 18, 2023
Match info from the BBC
Head-to-head
- Brentford have earned 4 straight dwelling wins over Aston Villa in all competitions, together with a primary top-flight victory in opposition to them in January final yr.
- Villa’s most up-to-date aggressive victory at Brentford got here in a FA Cup fourth-round replay in February 1953, six years after their final away league triumph on this fixture.
Brentford
- Brentford are winless in 5 Premier League video games, shedding every of the final three.
- Their solely two league defeats at dwelling this season got here in opposition to Arsenal in September and Newcastle United on 8 April.
- The Bees are three factors shy of their last tally of 46 from final season.
- Brentford’s subsequent top-flight win will likely be their a centesimal.
- Ivan Toney has alternated between scoring a objective and never scoring throughout his final 11 league appearances; he failed to attain on this most up-to-date outing.
- Mathias Jensen has scored 4 objectives in his final six dwelling league video games for Brentford.
- Thomas Frank has gained 99 of his 225 matches as Brentford head coach in all competitions.
Aston Villa
- Villa have equalled the membership report of 5 consecutive Premier League victories, set in 1996 and matched 25 years in the past.
- Their most up-to-date longer top-flight successful streak spanned seven video games between December 1989 and February 1990 beneath Graham Taylor.
- Aston Villa have taken 22 factors out of the final attainable 24, maintaining six clear sheets throughout that run.
- It is six wins in eight Premier League away fixtures for Villa beneath Unai Emery, as many victories as in all 19 makes an attempt beneath Steven Gerrard.
- They’ve scored in all 18 Premier League matches beneath Emery, the longest streak by any membership this season.
- Villa can web a number of objectives in six successive top-flight video games for the primary time since a run of seven from October to November 1980.
- Ollie Watkins has scored 11 instances in 12 league appearances, together with one in every of his final six away matches. He wants yet another objective to turn into the primary Villa participant to succeed in 15 in a top-flight season since Christian Benteke a decade in the past.
- Watkins, who scored 49 objectives in 143 appearances for Brentford previous to becoming a member of Villa, has been instantly concerned in probably the most Premier League objectives in 2023, with 11 objectives and three assists.