Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Aston Villa team of the late 19th century Aston Villa Football Club are an English professional association football club based in Aston, Birmingham, who currently play in the Premier League. The club was founded in 1874 and were founding members of the Football League in 1888, as well as the Premier League in 1992. They are one of the oldest football clubs in England, having won the First ...
The Aston Villa team of 1897 that won The Double. This is a list of seasons played by Aston Villa Football Club in English and European football, from 1879 (the year of the club's first FA Cup entry) to the most recent completed season. Aston Villa football club was founded in March, 1874, by members of the Villa Cross Wesleyan Chapel in Aston. Throughout the 1870s, Aston Villa played a small ...
Due to the lack of local football teams Aston Villa's first match was against the local Aston Brook St Mary's Rugby team. As a condition of the match, the Villa side had to agree to play the first half under Rugby rules and the second half under Association rules. Villa won their first game 1–0. [14]
Most games played: Aston Villa, 257; Most games won: Aston Villa, 149; Most games drawn: Liverpool, 60; Most games lost: Brentford, 78; Biggest win in a match: 10–0, joint record: West Ham United 10–0 Bury (second round, second leg, 25 October 1983) Liverpool 10–0 Fulham (second round, first leg, 23 September 1986)
The only other team to have scored nine times in a match are Tottenham Hotspur, in their 9–1 victory over Wigan Athletic at White Hart Lane on 22 November 2009. This game boasts the record of total number of goals scored in one half of Premier League football (nine), and by one team in one half of Premier League football (eight, by Tottenham).
First Half ends, Aston Villa 0, West Ham United 1. Aston Villa vs West Ham United. 20:49. Lucas Paquetá (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Aston Villa vs West Ham United. 20:46
Aston Villa also saw a number of club records broken during Emery's first seven months in charge, including striker Ollie Watkins not only break the record for number of consecutive games scored in for a Villa player in the Premier League era with five, but also number of consecutive Premier League away games scored in at six, [102] and ...
Aston Villa have looked the most dangerous side so far, creating 1.34 expected goals (xG) from 12 shots. Brighton have produced just 0.43, but there's nothing to separate the two teams at the break.