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Unai Emery is the first Villa boss in the Premier League era to break the 300-goal barrier

Absolute Number of Goals Scored, All Competitions

First, let's start with the simple one. Only Unai Emery has broken the 300-goal barrier in the Premier League era as the manager of Aston Villa. Indeed only four other managers have broken the 200-barrier over the same period.

2022- Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 |

300 Goals in 177 games across all competitions

Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

285 Goals in 190 games across all competitions

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

256 Goals in 189 games across all competitions

Dean Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2018-2021

212 Goals in 177 games across all competitions

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

206 Goals in 164 games across all competitions

David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

171 Goals in 131 games across all competitions

Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1991-1994

164 Goals in 129 games across all competitions

Steve Bruce | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2016-2018

137 Goals in 102 games across all competitions

Paul Lambert | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 2012-2015

125 Goals in 115 games across all competitions

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003

76 Goals in 60 games across all competitions

Steven Gerrard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2021-2022

49 Goals in 40 games across all competitions

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-2011

48 Goals in 34 games across all competitions

Alex McLeish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 2011-2012

44 Goals in 42 games across all competitions

Tim Sherwood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2015

38 Goals in 28 games across all competitions

Rémi Garde | 🇫🇷 | 2015-2016

15 Goals in 23 games across all competitions

Roberto Di Matteo | 🇮🇹 | 2016

11 Goals in 12 games across all competitions

Goals per Game, All Competitions

Now let's look at average goals scored per game across all competitions.

Only Unai Emery has broken the 1.60+ goals per game barrier in the Premier League era as the manager of Aston Villa.

Indeed only two other managers have broken the 1.50+ barrier over the same period.

Few who witnessed them will be surprised to see the bottom five of Rémi Garde, Roberto Di Matteo, Alex McLeish, Paul Lambert and Steven Gerrard but even fewer will have expected Brian Little to be behind Graham Taylor's torrid 2002-03 tenure.

2022- Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 |

All competitions 1.69 goals per game

Dean Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2018-2021

All competitions 1.53 goals per game

Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

All competitions 1.50 goals per game

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-2011

All competitions 1.41 goals per game

Tim Sherwood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2015

All competitions 1.36 goals per game

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

All competitions 1.35 goals per game

Steve Bruce | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2016-2018

All competitions 1.34 goals per game

David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

All competitions 1.31 goals per game

Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1991-1994

All competitions 1.27 goals per game

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003

1.27 goals per game

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

1.26 goals per game

Steven Gerrard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2021-2022

1.23 goals per game

Paul Lambert | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 2012-2015

1.09 goals per game

Alex McLeish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 2011-2012

1.05 goals per game

Roberto Di Matteo | 🇮🇹 | 2016

0.92 goals per game

Rémi Garde | 🇫🇷 | 2015-2016

0.65 goals per game

Absolute Number of Goals Scored, Premier League

Let's drill down to the Premier League, and we can say goodbye to Di Matteo and Bruce at this point.

Only Martin O'Neill and Unai Emery have broken the 200+ Premier League goals barrier with MON leading the way on 220 goals, eight ahead of Emery.

Only five other managers have broken the 100+ barrier over the same period. With an honourable mention needed for Dean Smith who took a second-tier team to the top-flight and still outscored Big Ron's stylish outfit.

Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

220 Premier League Goals in 152 games

2022- Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 |

212 Premier League Goals in 127 games

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

195 Premier League Goals in 148 games

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

159 Premier League Goals in 130 games

David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

135 Premier League Goals in 114 games

Dean Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2018-2021

118 Premier League Goals in 87 games

Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1991-1994

118 Premier League Goals in 98 games

Paul Lambert | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 2012-2015

98 Premier League Goals in 101 games

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003

57 Premier League Goals in 51 games

Steven Gerrard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2021-2022

45 Premier League Goals in 38 games

Alex McLeish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 2011-2012

37 Premier League Goals in 38 games

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-2011

36 Premier League Goals in 28 games

Tim Sherwood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2015

28 Premier League Goals in 23 games

Rémi Garde | 🇫🇷 | 2015-2016

12 Premier League Goals in 20 games

Goals per Game, Premier League

Average goals scored per Premier League game? Yessir.

Once again only Unai Emery has broken the 1.60+ Premier League goals per game barrier as the manager of Aston Villa.

His closest rival, Martin O'Neill, lags way behind on 1.45.

Whilst an even more honourable mention goes to Dean Smith who scored more goals per game than anyone bar Emery and MON despite being the only manager in the list bringing the club out of the second tier.

2022- Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 |

1.66 goals per game

Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

1.45 goals per game

Dean Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2018-2021

1.36 goals per game

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

1.32 goals per game

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-2011

1.29 goals per game

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

1.22 goals per game

Tim Sherwood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2015

1.22 goals per game

Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1991-1994

1.20 goals per game

David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

1.18 goals per game

Steven Gerrard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2021-2022

1.18 goals per game

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003

1.12 goals per game

Paul Lambert | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 2012-2015

0.97 goals per game

Alex McLeish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 2011-2012

0.97 goals per game

Rémi Garde | 🇫🇷 | 2015-2016

0.60 goals per game

Spread of Goals per Game Scored, All Competitions vs. Premier League

Unai Emery and John Gregory are the managers with the closest correlation between their Premier League goalscoring form and their overall competition goalscoring form.

Given both these managers have had more than their fair share of European competition entries to deal with, that's truly impressive.

Albeit at a lower goalscoring level, Brian Little brought some consistency across competitions, whilst Martin O'Neill did so without ever getting close to Unai Emery's heights.

Interestingly, both Steven Gerrard and Rémi Garde prove their ability to have been universally shit whilst Lambert, Houllier, O'Leary, Sherwood and Taylor were clearly propped up by the Cups especially given they no Euro comp to tackle.

Dean Smith, as the only cross-tier manager, comes out worst, but then he can be excused for struggling to maintain consistency in the step up from the Championship to the Premier League.

2022- Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 |

All Competitions 1.69 goals per game Premier League 1.66 goals per game -0.03

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

All Competitions 1.35 goals per game

Premier League 1.32 goals per game -0.03

Brian Little | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1994-1998

All Competitions 1.26 goals per game

Premier League 1.22 goals per game -0.04

Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

All competitions 1.50 goals per game

Premier League 1.45 goals per game 0.05

Steven Gerrard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2021-2022

All Competitions 1.23 goals per game

Premier League 1.18 goals per game

-0.05

Rémi Garde | 🇫🇷 | 2015-2016

All Competitions 0.65 goals per game

Premier League 0.60 goals per gam

-0.05

Ron Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1991-1994

All Competitions 1.27 goals per game

Premier League 1.20 goals per game

-0.07

Alex McLeish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 2011-2012

All Competitions 1.05 goals per game

Premier League 0.97 goals per game

-0.08

Paul Lambert | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 2012-2015

All Competitions 1.09 goals per game

Premier League 0.97 goals per game

-0.12

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | 2010-2011

All Competitions 1.41 goals per game

Premier League 1.29 goals per game

-0.12

David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

All Competitions 1.31 goals per game

Premier League 1.18 goals per game

-0.13

Tim Sherwood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2015

All Competitions 1.36 goals per game

Premier League 1.22 goals per game

-0.14

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003

All Competitions 1.27 goals per game

Premier League 1.12 goals per game

-0.15

Dean Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2018-2021

All Competitions 1.53 goals per game

Premier League 1.36 goals per game -0.17

2022- Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 |

Unai Emery is the first Villa boss in the Premier League era to break the 300-goal barrier.

Unai Emery has the highest goals per game average across all competitions of any Villa boss in the Premier League era.

Unai Emery has the highest Premier League goal per game average of any Villa boss.

Unai Emery has the equal highest correlation of Premier League goal per game average vs. All Competition goal per game average of any Villa boss.

We've never had it so good.