Newcastle United vs Aston Villa: Premier League preview, team news, stats and head-to-head

Newcastle are unbeaten in their last 15 Premier League home games against Aston Villa since a 3-0 defeat in April 2005 (W9 D6). They have won their last three games in a row with an overall score of 10-1.

Aston Villa have lost four of their last five Premier League games against Newcastle (W1), including both meetings last season. They last lost three times in a row to the Magpies between January 2013 and February 2014.

Newcastle (16) and Aston Villa (15) lost more Premier League games on Boxing Day than any other team in the competition’s history.

Newcastle have lost their last three home games on Boxing Day, including a 3-1 defeat to Nottingham Forest last year. It is the longest such losing streak in league history.

Aston Villa have lost on Boxing Day in each of the last three seasons, conceding three goals in each. Only once have they lost on this day in four consecutive league games, between 1932-33 and 1935-36.

After a run of two wins in 11 Premier League games, Newcastle have won their last two games 4-0 (against Leicester and Ipswich). The Magpies have never before won three league games in a row by more than 4 goals, while Manchester City became the last team in the Premier League to do so in May 2022.

Aston Villa have lost their last four away games in the Premier League, as many as in their previous 17 away games (W9 D4). They last lost more times in a row away from home in a season between February and May 2016 (7).

In his last three Premier League games, Jacob Murphy provided two assists against Brentford, scored two goals against Leicester and scored and assisted against Ipswich. No Newcastle player has ever been involved in multiple goals in four consecutive Premier League games.

Alexander Isak has scored 23 Premier League goals in 2024, only Erling Haaland (26) and Cole Palmer (25) have scored more. The only Newcastle players to score more goals in a single calendar year in the competition are Alan Shearer (27 in 2002) and Andrew Cole (24 in 1994).

Only Chris Wood (5) has scored more winning goals in the Premier League this season than Aston Villa’s Jhon Durán (4), while the Colombian has the best minutes-per-goal ratio in the competition this season (one every 80 minutes ).