Aston Villa get their 2024-25 Premier League campaign under way with an away win. Check out the best facts, stats and Opta data from Saturday’s game at the London Stadium with our West Ham vs Aston Villa stats page.
Aston Villa earned a 2-1 win at West Ham on Saturday to take all three points in their opening game of the 2024-25 Premier League season.
Debutant Amadou Onana headed in a Youri Tielemans corner in just the fourth minute to give Villa the lead, before Lucas Paquetá equalised from the penalty spot after Matty Cash was judged to have fouled Tomás Soucek in the box.
However, Jhon Durán came off the bench to score the winner in the 79th minute when he slammed in Jacob Ramsey’s pass. It was Villa’s fourth Premier League goal in 2024 where both players involved were subs, more than any other side.
Our Opta match centre delivers you all the West Ham vs Aston Villa stats from their Premier League clash at the London Stadium.
The match centre below includes team and player stats, expected goals data, passing networks, an Opta chalkboard and more. It gives you everything you need to do your own post-match analysis.
Underneath the match centre you can find the official Opta stats on the game as well.
West Ham vs Aston Villa: Post-Match Facts
- Aston Villa’s win was their first in the opening round of a new Premier League season since 2020-21 (1-0 v Sheffield United), with the Villans having lost each of their previous three MD1 games prior to today, including a 5-1 defeat to Newcastle last year.
- West Ham have now won just one of their last nine Premier League opening round fixtures (D1 L7), with each of their last four opening round losses having come at home; additionally, the Hammers have now won just two of their last 21 Premier League games against the previous season’s top four (D4 L15).
- Jhon Durán has now scored six Premier League goals from just 616 minutes played in the competition, an average of one every 103 minutes; among players to have scored 5+ Premier League goals, only Erling Haaland (85) has averaged a better minutes to goals rate.
- Lucas Paquetá has now scored all five penalties he’s taken for West Ham United in all competitions (excl. shootouts), with four of those coming in the Premier League; overall, the Hammers have scored 14 of their last 15 penalties in all competitions (excl. shootouts), with the only miss during that period being Saïd Benrahma v Arsenal in December 2023.
- Amadou Onana’s header in the fourth minute was the joint earliest goal (from the start of a game) a player has scored on their Premier League debut for Aston Villa alongside Kevin Phillips’ strike against Bolton back in August 2005.
- All four of Onana’s Premier League goals have been headers from corners, with his effort today making him the 27th different player to have scored on their Premier League debut for Aston Villa, the joint-most of any side (also Chelsea).
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