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Last Updated 9th December 2025 at 18: 09 Please Note: All times UK. Tables are subject to change. The BBC is not responsible for any changes that may be made. Premier League All competitions All competitions All competitions West Ham are winless in their last five Premier League games against Aston Villa (D3 L2), having won five in a row against them before that. Having been winless in nine consecutive away league games against West Ham between August 2012 and March 2024, Aston Villa won this exact fixture 2-1 last season. They last won consecutive visits to the Hammers in December 1996. West Ham have just 13 points in 15 Premier League games this season (W3 D4 L8), their worst start since 2017-18 when they had 10 points. However, in their last three campaigns when they’ve had 13 or fewer points at this stage, they’ve avoided relegation – 13 in 2013-14 (came 13th), 13 in 2016-17 (11th) and 10 in 2017-18 (13th). Aston Villa have won nine of their last 10 Premier League matches (L1), winning the most points in the division in that timeframe from 28 September onwards (27). They are the first team in any of the top four divisions in the history of the Football League to win none of their first five games of a season and then win as many as nine of their next 10. Only Leeds and Newcastle (6 each) have conceded more 90th minute goals in the Premier League this season than West Ham (5), while the Hammers have faced both the most shots (30) and most shots on target (14) in the 90th minute of matches in 2025-26. Aston Villa were the only side not to score in any of their first four Premier League games this season, but since MD5 only Man City (27) have scored more goals than Villa (22), with the Villans enjoying the third-best conversion rate in that time (15. 9%), behind Spurs (17%) and Man City (16. 3%). West Ham manager Nuno Espírito Santo has gone 21 consecutive Premier League matches without seeing his side keeping a clean sheet (11 with Nottingham Forest, 10 with the Hammers). He’s the first manager in Premier League history to fail to keep a clean sheet in any of his final 10 games at a club and then any of his first 10 games in his next spell at another club. Under Unai Emery, Aston Villa have won the fourth-most points in the Premier League (213), winning 63 of their 116 games under the Spaniard (D24 L29). In the timeframe of the previous 116 Villa matches before his first game (November 2019 – October 2022), Villa won the joint fewest points of any ever-present side in that time (136). Jarrod Bowen has 99 goals and assists combined in the Premier League for West Ham (60 goals, 39 assists) and could be the second player to get to treble figures for the Hammers, after Michail Antonio (68 goals, 33 assists). Ollie Watkins could make his 200th Premier League appearance in this match – the Aston Villa frontman has 78 goals and 34 assists in 199 games so far, with only 11 English players involved in more goals in their first 200 games, most recently Jamie Vardy (97 goals, 28 assists). Copyright © 2025 BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking.