Villa win eleven consecutive games for the first time since the 1913-14 season under George Ramsay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Jadon Sancho will return after his loan terms prevented him from facing his parent club last time out. Harvey Elliott has recovered from his sickness, but it's doubtful he'll make the squad. Tyrone Mings, Ross Barkley and Pau Torres remain sidelined. Mings will miss his 11th consecutive game, and Pau Torres his third, as both are not expected to return until the New Year. Barkley is likely out until February.

Match: #5807 Season: 2025-26 Matchday: #25 League Game: #18 Manager Game: #165 Date: Saturday, 27 December 2025 Manager: Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 | Hondarribia, 2022- Referee: Stuart Attwell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Nuneaton, 2009- Kick off: 5.30pm

Match Details Match: #5806 Season: 2025-26 Matchday: #24 League Game: #17 Manager Game: #164 Date: Sunday, 21 December 2025 Manager: Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 | Hondarribia, 2022- Referee: Michael Oliver | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Northumberland, 2010- Kick off: 4.30pm Full Head to Head: https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/aston-villa/manchester-united Last Five Games 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 Injury News Tyrone Mings, Ross Barkley and Pau Torres remain sidelined. Mings will miss his 10th consecutive game an

Emiliano Martínez may return. Tyrone Mings, Ross Barkley and Pau Torres remain sidelined. Mings will miss his 10th consecutive game and is not expected to return until the New Year. Barkley is likely out until February, whilst Torres is pencilled in for pre-Christmas return. Jadon Sancho is ineligible due to his loan terms and Harvey Elliott sick.

Match Details: Match: #5806 Season: 2025-26 Matchday: #24 League Game: #17 Manager Game: #164 Date: Sunday, 21 December 2025 Manager: Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 | Hondarribia, 2022- Referee: Michael Oliver | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Northumberland, 2010- Kick off: 4.30pm

Villa fall behind to a freak chance after 29 seconds, dominate, equalise, only to concede so much against the run of play that it is almost embarrassing for the hosts. Patience and perseverance win through in typical Emery style, however, and Villa, almost inevitably, have nine wins in a row.

Villa secured their seventh successive win in all competitions in dramatic fashion as leaders Arsenal were dispatched at Villa Park by a 95th minute Emi Buendía stunner.

Villa fall 0-2 behind to a scrappy tap-in and an own-goal in the first 25 minutes before Ollie Watkins breaks his drought and scores two, the second an equaliser on the stroke of half-time. Villa come out and storm to a 4-2 lead and look like adding more before Brighton get another scruffy goal and Villa’s defensive nous delivers another three points, consolidates third place and further cements the mental legacy being built at the club under Unai Emery.

Since 2019-20 Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal have spent an average of €1.4bn on players. Over the same period, the remainder of the participants in the Premier League have averaged a total outlay of €537m. One club, Chelsea, has a spend in excess of €2bn, four other clubs, Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur have a spend in excess of €1bn. One rule for them you say... hold my beer say the Premier League.

In August 2025, the Premier League fined Villa £125,000 for breaching multiball rules in five matches in 2024-25. Villa are also prohibited from operating the multiball system in its first three home league matches of 2025-26. The Premier League accuse Aston Villa’s ball boys of acting “deliberately and under instruction... with no other reason than to attempt to affect passages of play for the benefit of the Club.”

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