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Aston Villa welcome Brentford to Villa Park when they return to Premier League action on Sunday afternoon. Villa are four points off the top of the Premier League and looking to continue an exemplary record in matches immediately after European games. Manager Unai Emery knows the Europa League inside-out and has turned winning the subsequent [...]

Manager Unai Emery has named his team for Aston Villa’s Europa League match against Red Bull Salzburg this evening. Villa must balance the need to avoid further injury problems with the advantage up for grabs with a top-two finish in the league phase of the Europa League, which offers home advantage all the way. Emery [...]

Aston Villa return to league duty on Sunday with their third game of the season against Brentford, their first away opponent of 2025-26 and the team that knocked them out of the League Cup. Villa will be eager to get a crack at the Bees at home in this weekend’s Premier League fixture, which could [...]

Aston Villa picked up all three points at Newcastle United and banked a whole load more for fantasy football players all over the world. Villa scored twice at St James’ Park, a boon to loyalist Fantasy Premier League managers in Gameweek 23. With a clean sheet thrown in for good measure, GW23 was one of [...]

Aston Villa face Austrian Bundesliga leaders Red Bull Salzburg in their eighth and final league phase match in the 2025/26 Europa League. Villa sit in second place in the Europa League table, level on points with Lyon, with 90 minutes remaining in the league phase. Their progress to the round of 16 without the need [...]

Aston Villa continue their 2025/26 Europa League campaign with their eighth and final league phase fixture on Thursday. Villa have won six out of their seven Europa League matches up to this point. Last week’s win against Fenerbahçe in conjunction with Midtjylland dropping points took Villa into second place behind Lyon in the league phase [...]

Manager Unai Emery has named his team for Aston Villa’s Premier League match against Newcastle United this afternoon. Villa are looking for their first win at St James’ Park since a dramatic and notorious 3-0 victory in the Premier League in 2005. They’ll try to do so with something approaching a first choice eleven albeit [...]

It was confirmed on Friday that injured Aston Villa midfielder Boubacar Kamara will miss the rest of the 2025-26 season after undergoing knee surgery. Villa are in the midst of a very particular kind of injury crisis. Other Premier League teams have many more players out of action, not least Crystal Palace and Everton who [...]

Aston Villa responded to last Sunday’s defeat against Everton by beating Fenerbahçe on their own patch in the Europa League on Thursday evening. Villa are riding high in third in the Premier League despite a draw and a loss in their last two matches, seven points behind leaders Arsenal and seven clear of Liverpool in [...]

Manager Unai Emery has named his team for Aston Villa’s Europa League match against Fenerbahçe this evening. Villa travelled to Istanbul for this early Europa League kick-off without a long list of injury absentees, which have badly affected their ability to rotate and rest players in midfield in particular. Emery has made five changes in [...]