Villa's 8 in a row Swiss roll

🟩 11 Dec 2025 Villa 2-1 Basel, St. Jakob-Park

Scorer(s): Evann Guessand | 12’ | Youri Tielemans | 53’ |

Assist(s): Emiliano Buendía | 53’ |

Full Match Report: https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/game/5804

An unconventional Villa line up take the lead, fail to heed Basel's warnings, before patience and quality pay off to send Villa joint top of the Europa League table with five wins in six.

• Villa win eight consecutive games in all competitions as a top-flight club for the first time since 1913-14 under George Ramsay.

• Villa win eight consecutive games in all competitions for the first time since winning ten consecutive Championship matches under Dean Smith in 2018-19.

• Villa secure their 60th win in 119 games in European competitions.

• Unai Emery becomes only the sixth manager in Villa’s history to win 90 games.

• Unai Emery secures his 90th win as Villa boss in 162 games. George Ramsay’s came in 173 games, Billy Smith 184, Joe Mercer & Ron Saunders 186 (both including one second-tier season) and Vic Crowe 190 exclusively in the second and third tiers.

• Matty Cash 🇵🇱 makes his 200th appearance for Villa.

• Lucas Digne 🇫🇷 secures his 75th win for Villa in 155 appearances.

• Ollie Watkins 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 secures his 120th win for Villa in 245 appearances.

• Lucas Digne 🇫🇷 makes his 125th start for Villa in 155 appearances.

• Lamare Bogarde 🇳🇱 secures his 20th win for Villa in 34 appearances.

• John McGinn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 collects his 69th booking 

• Matty Cash 🇵🇱 makes his 25th European appearance for Villa.

• Lucas Digne 🇫🇷 makes his 20th European start for Villa. 

• Emiliano Buendía 🇦🇷 contributes his first European assist on his 11th appearance.

• Ollie Watkins 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 30th European appearance for Villa.