Sunderland vs Aston Villa: Premier League seen, News News, Statistics and Tête-à-Tête

Sunderland has only won one of its last 12 championship meetings with Aston Villa (D5 L6), although this is the last Premier League match between the couple in January 2016 (3-1).

Aston Villa finished a double in Ligue on Sunderland during their last face in 2017-2018 in the championship and could win three consequences in the League against the Black Cats for the first time since December 2009 under Martin O’Neill.

Sunderland seeks to win three consecutive games for the Premier League at home for the first time since February 2012, while a victory in this match would see them equal their total victories at the Stade de la Lumière in their last high flight campaign in 2016-17 (W3 D5 L11).

Aston Villa has failed to score in its last five championship games, once once longer in their history (six between December 2014 and February 2015). Meanwhile, they could become the third team in high-level history so as not to score in one of their first five championship games at a campaign after Ipswich Town (1970-71) and Crystal Palace (2017-18).

Sunderland won its first three high-flying games at home in a season in 1965-66, while the last newly promoted team to win its first three home games in the Premier League was Burnley in 2009-10.

Aston Villa has not lost any of his 15 Premier League games under Unai Emery against the newly promoted teams (W12 D3) – their last defeat was in their last match under Steven Gerrard, losing 3-0 in Fulham.

Sunderland scored five goals on only nine shots on Target in the Premier League this season, with only Arsenal (64%) converting a higher part of their target attempts than Black Cats (56%).

It will be the first Premier League match by Unai Emery against Sunderland – he beat 25 of the 27 previous clubs with which he has already faced Arsenal and Aston Villa in the division, only failing against Ipswich (D2) and Liverpool (D4 L5).

Ollie Watkins of Aston Villa involved 12 goals in her last nine appearances in the Premier League against newly promoted clubs (6 goals, 6 assists). He is currently at the level of Gabriel Agbonlahor (14 goals, 6 assists) for most of the goal involvement against the teams promoted for villa in the competition (10 goals, 10 assists).

Wilson Isidor has scored the two home games from Sunderland so far this season. The last player to score in each of the first three of Black Cats at the Stadium of Light was Darren Bent in 2010-11.