Fixtures
- Tottenham Hotspur Vs. Aston Villa – Sun, Nov 3rd 2024, 14:00
Aston Villa return to Premier League matters this afternoon, with a trip to the capital to take on Tottenham Hotspur (ko 2pm).
Unai Emery’s side will be looking to get back to winning ways in north London after falling to a first defeat in 12 matches in all competitions midweek, exiting the Carabao Cup at the hands of Crystal Palace.
Villa remain unbeaten in seven matches in the league and enter the clash fourth in the table having been pegged back in the 96th minute against Bournemouth last weekend.
Emery’s men will be looking for a repeat of the corresponding 2023/24 fixture last November, when goals from Pau Torres and Ollie Watkins secured a 2-1 victory at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium – a venue where the Lions have triumphed on three of their last four visits.
The hosts, meanwhile, enter the clash eighth in the Premier League, five points behind their visitors.
They will be looking to pick up where they left off on Wednesday night when they knocked Manchester City out of the Carabao Cup with a 2-1 win, having been the first side to lose to Crystal Palace in the Premier League this season last weekend.
Stats
Tottenham have scored 49 goals in 23 home Premier League games under Ange Postecoglou. The only manager to hit 50 goals in 24 or fewer home games with Spurs is Antonio Conte (50 in first 20).
In 2024, Aston Villa have scored the most Premier League goals from subs (10) and have the most goals and assists combined from subs (10 goals, 7 assists). It is the joint most sub goals they’ve scored in a single year, also netting 10 in 2023.
Tottenham’s Heung-Min Son has been involved in nine goals in eight Premier League games against Aston Villa (6 goals, 3 assists), though all six of his goals against them have come at Villa Park. No player has scored more against an opponent without netting a home goal in the competition.
Only two of Tottenham’s last 71 home Premier League games have ended in draws (W47 L22) and they are the only side without a home draw since the start of last season (W16 L7).
Aston Villa have won nine of their 13 away Premier League games in London under Unai Emery (D3 L1). That 69% win ratio is the best by a manager at a single club in away games in London in Premier League history (minimum 10 games).
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).
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 is Newcastle United in 2002 (8).
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).
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 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).
The Last Meeting
The last meeting between the two sides was one to forget for the Villans, as a second-half surge from Spurs saw them record a 4-0 victory at Villa Park.
Quickfire goals from James Maddison and Brennan Johnson shortly after the restart, and in stoppage time from Heung-Min Son and Timo Werner, wrapped up the points for the visitors as John McGinn saw red just after the hour mark for Villa.
The win for Spurs ended a run of three-straight Villa victories between the two sides, as Postecoglou’s men closed the gap from fifth to fourth in the table to two points.
Team News
Ross Barkley will be the only absentee for the Villans after Unai Emery revealed he will be missing for around two weeks with an injury at Friday’s pre-match press conference.
Otherwise, Emery has a fully-fit squad to choose from. Jaden Philogene is back available in the Premier League having served his one-match suspension last weekend and returned on Wednesday, while Tyrone Mings could be set for his first Premier League minutes of the season after making his long-awaited return from injury in midweek.
Ange Postecoglou will be without defender Micky van de Ven who was withdrawn with a hamstring injury just 14 minutes into Wednesday’s Carabao Cup success over Manchester City, and is now set to miss a number of weeks.
Spurs will make late calls on Cristian Romero and Timo Werner after early withdrawals in midweek, though are still missing Wilson Odobert (hamstring) and Djed Spence (groin). Postecoglou hopes to have Heung-Min Son available despite him missing six of the last seven through injury.
Managers’ Pre-Match Thoughts
“It is a very difficult match. The style they have is so, so strong. They have, individually, very good players. Of course, it is a very motivating match, very exciting match for our supporters, for us, for me as a coach, the players, the club. It is a really, really great match on Sunday.” – Unai Emery
“Our games against them have been really good. Last year, we won at their place and played really well, but I thought we played well at our place too, but they got on top of us. They got ahead of us for the Champions League last year. It’s great competition for us.” – Ange Postecoglou
