Chelsea face Aston Villa within the Premier League on Sunday afternoon at Villa Park.
It be the final day of the 2020/21 league season and all the pieces remains to be to play for, for the Blues. A capture will procure them a location within the head four. Anything other than all three parts will learn about them counting on finally ends up in different locations to head in their favour.
Listed below are the all-fundamental statistics sooner than the Premier League clash:
Head-to-Head
- The 1-1 procedure at Stamford Bridge in December ended Aston Villa’s six-match losing plod against Chelsea within the Premier League.
- Villa have lost 10 of the past 12 league conferences, with their solitary victory for the length of that duration coming at home in March 2014.
- Chelsea can register four successive away league wins on this fixture for handiest the 2nd time, having done so between 1995 and 1999.
Aston Villa
- Villa are assured to live the season in 11th location, their very most practical enact within the Premier League since coming ninth in 2010-11.
- Handiest Chelsea and Manchester Metropolis have saved more Premier League neat sheets than Villa’s 15 this season.
- Emiliano Martinez has equalled the membership’s Premier League fable for a good deal of neat sheets by a goalkeeper in a season. Brad Friedel also saved 15 in 2009-10.
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- Aston Villa have failed to capture their final league match in any of their past six high-flight campaigns since beating Liverpool 1-0 a decade within the past (D2, L4).
- Ollie Watkins has scored eight Premier League targets against established high-six opposition in 2020-21, two bigger than any other participant.
- He needs one operate to turn out to be the first Englishman to rating 15 instances in a Premier League season for Villa, surpassing Julian Joachim’s fable from 1998-99.
Chelsea
- Chelsea will explain a location in next season’s Champions League within the event that they capture or match Liverpool and Leicester’s results. If Chelsea lose by three targets, Leicester would overtake them with a procedure.
- Their handiest defeat on the final day of a Premier League season within the past nine years became as soon as by 3-0 at Newcastle United in 2017-18.
- The Blues have earned 38 parts from their 18 league matches below Thomas Tuchel (W11, D5, L2). They took 29 parts from 19 games below Frank Lampard.
- Since Tuchel’s first match in fee, handiest Manchester Metropolis have earned more parts than Chelsea.
- They are unbeaten in their 12 away matches in all competitions below the German, handiest conceding 5 targets (W9, D3).
- Edouard Mendy would possibly maybe turn out to be the handiest Chelsea goalkeeper other than Petr Cech to establish bigger than 16 Premier League neat sheets in a season.
- Olivier Giroud has a occupation-high 10 competitive targets versus Aston Villa, scoring in every of his past eight appearances against them.
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