Aston Villa vs Crystal Palace

Aston Villa have failed to win any of their opening three games of a league campaign for the first time since 2017-18 in the Championship. In the Premier League, they last failed to win any of their first three matches in 2012-13.

Crystal Palace are unbeaten across their last 14 matches across all competitions (W6 D8) – their longest ever run as a top-flight team in club history.

In this match, Aston Villa conceded the same amount of goals as across their prior five matches at Villa Park combined across all competitions. It was Unai Emery’s side’s heaviest home defeat since a 4-0 loss to Tottenham in March 2024 in the Premier League.

Aston Villa are unbeaten in their last eight Premier League home games against Crystal Palace (W5 D3), since a 1-0 loss on Boxing Day in 2013.

Crystal Palace won 4-1 in their last meeting with Aston Villa in February, last winning consecutive league games against them in the 2013-14 campaign.

Aston Villa are unbeaten in their last 19 home Premier League matches (W11 D8), the longest current unbeaten run on home soil of any side. The Villans last had a run of 20 or more unbeaten home league games between October 1971 and September 1972 (23), while in the top-flight they last did so between December 1922 and January 1924 (26).

Crystal Palace have drawn their first two Premier League games this season (0-0 v Chelsea, 1-1 v Nottingham Forest) but have only drawn each of their opening three games of a league campaign twice before, doing so in the top-flight in both 1979-80 (3) and 1992-93 (first 4).  

Crystal Palace lost five of their first 10 away Premier League matches under Oliver Glasner (W2 D3) but have since lost just two of their last 16 on the road (W7 D7). Since the start of last November, the only ever present side to lose fewer away games is Arsenal (1).