Wolves vs Aston Villa

Aston Villa have lost six of their last eight Premier League away games (W1 D1). Indeed, no side has lost more often on the road than the Villans since the start of November (6, same as Leicester City).

Wolves have kept three clean sheets in their eight Premier League games under Vítor Pereira, more than they had in their final 33 games under Gary O’Neil (2).

Aston Villa have failed to scored in six of their 24 Premier League games this season, as many times as in the whole of the 2023-24 campaign.

Having lost three of their first four Premier League home games against Aston Villa (D1), Wolves have now lost just one of their last five against them at Molineux (W3 D1).

Aston Villa won the reverse fixture 3-1 at Villa Park – they’ve not done the league double over Wolves since the 2003-04 campaign.

Wolves picked up seven points in their first three Premier League games under Vitor Pereira (W2 D1) but have since lost four in a row. They’ve already lost five consecutively once this season, under previous manager Gary O’Neil – the only team to have separate runs of 5+ defeats in a row under different managers in a season and survive relegation was West Ham in 2006-07 (Alan Pardew & Alan Curbishley).

Aston Villa are yet to lose a Premier League match under Unai Emery against a side starting the day in the drop zone (W13 D5), while overall Emery has lost just one out of 29 games against sides in 18th, 19th or 20th, losing 3-2 to Southampton with Arsenal in December 2018.

Wolves have shipped 19 set piece goals (excl. pens) this season, the most of any Premier League side. The earliest a side has conceded 20 set piece goals in a single campaign is 25 games (Tottenham in 2007-08).