Tottenham vs Aston Villa

Since the start of last season, Tottenham Hotspur have gone on to win 10 Premier League matches in which they conceded the first goal, the joint-most of any team in the competition along with Manchester City, while winning three of their last four in which they've gone 0-1 down.

Spurs’ Dominic Solanke has now scored more goals against Unai Emery’s Aston Villa in the Premier League than any other player, netting four goals in four appearances against them.

Aston Villa have scored five goals from set-pieces (excl. pens) in the Premier League this season, with no team scoring more than Unai Emery’s men (Arsenal also 5).

Tottenham have lost three of their last four Premier League meetings with Aston Villa, though did win the last such match 4-0 in March. They’d only lost two of their previous 21 against the Villans (W16 D3).

Aston Villa have won three of their last four Premier League away games against Tottenham (L1), including the last two in a row under Unai Emery. They last won three consecutive away league games against Spurs between 1922 and 1924.

Tottenham have lost nine of their last 16 Premier League games (W6 D1), with only Wolves (12) losing more since the first game in this run in April. Spurs had only lost seven of their first 31 games under Ange Postecoglou (W18 D6).

Tottenham have conceded the first goal in 11 of their 13 home Premier League matches in 2024 but have come back to win seven of those games. The only team with more home wins when conceding first in a single year are Newcastle United in 2002 (8).

Only Liverpool (13) and Nottingham Forest (11) have won more away Premier League points this season than Aston Villa (10 – W3 D1). Villa have only won as many as four of their opening five away league games in a season once before, doing so in 2020-21 (W4 L1).