Brentford vs Aston Villa

Brentford have won their first home of the season in eight of their 10 top-flight campaigns (D2); the Bees are the only team to play more than three top-flight seasons in English football and never lose their opening home match to season.

Aston Villa have failed to win either of their opening two games to a Premier League season for the first time since 2019-20, while they last failed to score a single goal across these two matches in 2002-03.

Brentford won just their second Premier League game against Aston Villa, keeping a clean sheet against the Villans for the first time in the competition.

Brentford are winless in their last six league games against Aston Villa (D2 L4), and haven’t kept a clean sheet in any of their eight Premier League meetings with the Villans.

Aston Villa have won their last two away league games against Brentford, having lost four of their previous five visits beforehand (D1).

Brentford have never lost their first home top-flight match in any of their nine seasons at this level of English football (W7 D2), scoring at least two goals in every match.

Aston Villa have gone two Premier League games without a goal (D1 L1) for just the second time under Unai Emery. They haven’t gone three without scoring in the division since July 2020 under Dean Smith.

There were 75 goals scored at the Gtech Community Stadium in the Premier League in 2024-25, the most of any venue. Brentford both scored and conceded two or more goals in eight different home matches, the most by a team in a Premier League season since Wigan in 2012-13.