Manchester United haven’t enjoyed the best start to 2024-25, and a trip to Villa Park to face Unai Emery’s Aston Villa side provides another difficult challenge for Erik ten Hag. Follow along with the best facts and live Opta data in our Aston Villa vs Manchester United stats page.
Our Opta match centre delivers you all the Aston Villa vs Manchester United stats from their Premier League meeting at Villa Park on Sunday.
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 in-game and post-match analysis.
Underneath the match centre you can find the official Opta stats on the game as well.
Aston Villa vs Manchester United: Pre-Match Facts
- Aston Villa have won just one of their last 25 Premier League home games against Manchester United (D8 L16), with that victory coming in Unai Emery’s first game in charge of the club in November 2022 (3-1).
- Manchester United have won 40 Premier League games against Aston Villa, with only the Red Devils themselves beating an opponent more often in the competition’s history (41 vs Everton).
- Aston Villa have picked up 13 points in their opening six Premier League matches this season (W4 D1 L1), their best start to a season since 2008-09 under Martin O’Neill (also 13 points).
- Man Utd have lost eight Premier League matches by a margin of three or more goals under Erik ten Hag. Since the start of 2022-23, the only current Premier League managers to suffer more 3+ goal defeats are Gary O’Neil and Sean Dyche (9 each).
- Ahead of this matchday, only Man City (85), Liverpool (84) and Arsenal (81) have picked up more home points than Villa (74) since Unai Emery’s first Premier League game in charge of Aston Villa.
- Among Aston Villa managers to take charge of five or more home top-flight matches, only European Cup winning manager Tony Barton (70%, won 37/53) has a better home win percentage than Emery (66%, won 23/35).
- Man United have won just seven points in six Premier League games this season (W2 D1 L3), their joint fewest at this stage of a campaign in the competition, along with 2013-14 under David Moyes and 2020-21 under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
- Man Utd have kept consecutive away Premier League clean sheets, winning 3-0 against Southampton and drawing 0-0 with Crystal Palace. They last kept three away clean sheets in a row in March 2021.
- Ollie Watkins has been involved in 55 goals in 67 Premier League appearances under Unai Emery for Aston Villa (36 goals, 19 assists), with only Erling Haaland (65) and Mohamed Salah (60) scoring or assisting more goals in that time. Watkins is looking to score in four games in a row for the first time since April 2023.
- Aston Villa’s Jhon Durán has netted four goals in his last four Premier League appearances at Villa Park, all as a substitute. Durán averages a goal every 43 minutes at Villa Park in the competition, the second-best ratio by a player at a single venue (250+ minutes played there), behind Luis Suárez at Carrow Road (a goal every 38 minutes).
- Marcus Rashford has only scored one goal in nine Premier League appearances for Manchester United against Aston Villa, with that goal coming in the first he played against them in April 2016. Indeed, his minutes per goal ratio versus Villa is his worst against any opponent he’s scored against in the competition (765).
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