Villa Park played host to an entertaining Premier League contest on Sunday evening. Re-live the action with the best facts and Opta data in our Aston Villa vs West Ham stats page.
West Ham produced a performance that will encourage new manager Graham Potter as they were ultimately unfortunate to only draw 1-1 with Aston Villa at Villa Park on Sunday.
Unai Emery’s Villa are on the second-longest unbeaten run at home in the Premier League (11 matches), highlighting the task that had been before for West Ham.
But the away team left Birmingham having arguably been the better team on the day, giving Potter his first away point as West Ham boss.
Villa had begun the game well enough.
Amid an energetic start, the hosts went ahead in just the eighth minute as Jacob Ramsey exchanged a give-and-go with Ollie Watkins before bursting into the box and applying the finish.
That took Watkins to 100 goal involvements for Villa in the Premier League, making him only the second player to reach that figure for the club after Gabriel Agbonlahor (108).
It also made him the quickest player to reach 100 Premier League goal involvements since Kevin De Bruyne in 2020, with the Belgian needing 155 games and Watkins requiring 169.
Watkins might have taken his tally to 101 but Morgan Rogers had a goal disallowed after his teammate strayed just offside.
But the withdrawal of the injured Tyrone Mings in the 38th minute seemed to upset Villa’s momentum considerably, with West Ham improving markedly after that.
West Ham, who saw a Carlos Soler attempt cleared off the line on the hour, were ultimately good value for their equaliser with 20 minutes to go – Emerson Palmieri heading in from Edson Álvarez’s right-wing cross.
Most of the late pressure came from the Hammers, spurred on by the excellent Lucas Paquetá.
The Brazilian briefly thought he’d scored a dramatic late winner, only for the assistant’s flag to cut short their celebrations as Tomás Soucek had been offside.
And that proved to be the final incident of note, as Villa held on gratefully for a point, while West Ham moved above Manchester United in the table for at least a couple of hours.
Our Opta match centre delivers you all the Aston Villa vs West Ham stats from their Premier League meeting at Villa Park.
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.
Aston Villa 1-1 West Ham Stats: Post-Match Facts
- Mohamed Kudus has completed 5+ dribbles on 20 occasions for West Ham in the Premier League (6 v Aston Villa today). Since joining the club at the start of last season, he’s done so in more different matches than any other player in the big five European leagues.
- Jacob Ramsey’s opener (7:20) was Aston Villa’s quickest Premier League goal since August, in the reverse fixture against West Ham (Amadou Onana, 3:29). Indeed, the Hammers have conceded more goals in the opening 10 minutes than any other team in the competition this season (9).
- Despite losing their lead, Aston Villa remain unbeaten in their last 11 Premier League home games (W6 D5). Only twice in their history in the competition have they had longer runs on home soil, with the longest being under current boss Unai Emery (17 games in December 2023 – along with 15 games under John Gregory in November 2001).
- Aston Villa have failed to win four of the 11 Premier League games they’ve scored first in this season (W7 D2 L2), more than they did in the 19 games they opened the scoring in last term (W16 D2 L1).
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