Everton are winless in their last 12 Premier League matches against Aston Villa, all since Villa returned to the competition in 2019-20 (D3 L9). Their last win was in March 2016, a 3-1 win at Villa Park.

Aston Villa have won four of their last five away Premier League visits to Everton (D1), keeping a clean sheet in each of their last four. It is Villa’s longest ever run of away league clean sheets against a single opponent.

Everton have failed to score in their last four home Premier League games against Aston Villa, with Dominic Calvert-Lewin the last Toffees player to score against Villa on home soil. The only time they’ve gone five without a home league goal against an opponent was six in a row against Liverpool between 1973 and 1978.

Everton have won five of their last six Premier League games (L1), as many as their previous 21 beforehand (W5 D10 L6). At home, the Toffees are looking to win 3+ successive league games for the first time since May 2024 (5).

For just the second time in the club’s history, Aston Villa have failed to score in their first three league games of a season, also doing so in 1997-98 (first 3). Only four teams have failed to score in their first four Premier League games of a season: Sheffield Wednesday in 1993-94, Newcastle in 2005-06, Swansea in 2011-12 (all 4) and Crystal Palace in 2017-18 (7).

Everton won their first Premier League match at the Hill Dickinson Stadium on MD2, in a 2-0 win over Brighton. Two teams have won their first two matches at their second permanent home stadium in the competition – Derby at Pride Park in 1997 and Spurs at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in 2019.

Since the start of May, no side has won more Premier League points than Everton (16 – W5 D1 L1), and only Liverpool (14) have scored more goals than the Toffees (13).

Harvey Elliott could make his Aston Villa debut in this match – he was involved in seven goals in his last seven Premier League starts for former side Liverpool (2 goals, 5 assists), assisting in five of those seven starts. The last player to assist on his Premier League debut for Villa was Leon Bailey in August 2021.

Jack Grealish has assisted two goals in both of his last two Premier League appearances – the first ever Everton player to achieve this, and as many times as he had recorded more than one assist in his first 191 appearances in the competition beforehand. No player in Premier League history has ever assisted 2+ goals in three successive matches.

No Englishman has created more chances in the Premier League this season than Everton’s Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall (8) – he has already played more league minutes for the Toffees (270) than he did for Chelsea in the 2024-25 campaign (259).