Everton have lost their last three Premier League home games against Aston Villa, as many as in their previous 19 against them at Goodison Park in the league (W7 D9).

Since their return to the Premier League in 2019, Aston Villa have remained unbeaten in their nine league games against Everton (W7 D2), keeping six clean sheets and winning the last five in a row.

Everton have lost each of their last three Premier League games; the Toffees haven’t lost four in a row since March 2022 under Frank Lampard, while manager Sean Dyche last did so in April 2022 as Burnley boss.

Since Everton won 1-0 against a table-topping Arsenal side in February in Sean Dyche’s first game in charge, the Toffees haven’t won any of their nine Premier League games against sides starting the day in the top six of the division (D1 L8), losing their last seven in a row.

Aston Villa won 85 points in the Premier League in 2023, second only to Manchester City (93). Their 26 league wins last year were the second-most in one year in their league history, only winning more in 1972 (28) when they were playing in the second and third tiers of English football.

Only Sheffield United (7) have conceded more Premier League goals from corners than Everton (6) this season. They’ve conceded from a corner in each of their last three league games – as many as in their previous 39 matches combined.

Douglas Luiz’s 89th-minute winning penalty against Burnley in Aston Villa’s last game in 2023 was the seventh Premier League goal this season they’ve scored in the 89th minute or later, the joint-most of any side along with Liverpool. Indeed, three have been scored by Luiz, the joint most by a player along with Brentford’s Bryan Mbeumo.

Unai Emery is currently averaging 2.02 points-per-game in the Premier League with Aston Villa (91 points in 45 games). He is currently the only manager in Premier League history to manage 40+ games with a club and have an average of two or more points-per-game but not to have won the title with that side.

No player has more Premier League assists this season than Aston Villa’s Ollie Watkins (8), while only Mohamed Salah (22) and Erling Haaland (18) have more goals and assists combined than the Villa frontman (9 goals, 8 assists). He’s only the fifth different English player with 8+ goals and 8+ assists in his team’s opening 20 games of a season, and first since Harry Kane in 2020-21 (12 goals, 11 assists).

Since Sean Dyche’s first game in charge of Everton in February 2023, James Tarkowski has blocked more shots (62) than any other player, has made the second-most clearances (174) and third-most headed clearances (98). Indeed, between 2017-18 and Dyche’s last game at Burnley in April 2022, Tarkowski topped all three metrics in the competition (236 blocks, 967 clearances, 571 headed clearances).