Sunderland vs Aston Villa

Sunderland are only the third newly promoted team in the last seven Premier League seasons (since 2019-20) to win as many as eight points from their opening five games of the campaign (W2 D2 L1) alongside Brentford in 2021-22 and Fulham in 2022-23 (both also 8).

Aston Villa have failed to win any of their first five games of a league campaign for only the fourth time (D3 L2), also doing so in 1919-20 and 1964-65 in the top-flight (first seven for both), and most recently in 1969-70 in the second tier (first nine).

Sunderland’s Wilson Isidor became the first player to score in each of his first three Premier League home appearances since Steven Bergwijn for Tottenham Hotspur in 2019-20.

Sunderland have won just one of their last 12 league meetings with Aston Villa (D5 L6), although that was the most recent Premier League game between the pair in January 2016 (3-1).

Aston Villa completed a league double over Sunderland when they last faced in 2017-18 in the Championship and could win three in a row in the league against the Black Cats for the first time since December 2009 under Martin O’Neill.

Sunderland are looking to win three consecutive home Premier League matches for the first time since February 2012, while a win in this game would see them equal their total wins at the Stadium of Light in their last top-flight campaign in 2016-17 (W3 D5 L11).

Aston Villa have failed to score in their last five league games, only once having a longer run in their history (six between December 2014 and February 2015). Meanwhile, they could become just the third team in top-flight history to fail to score in any of their first five league games to a campaign after Ipswich Town (1970-71) and Crystal Palace (2017-18).

Sunderland last won their first three home top-flight games in a season back in 1965-66, while the last newly promoted side to win their first three home games in the Premier League were Burnley in 2009-10.