Aston Villa v West Ham United
Premier League | Villa Park
Sunday, 22 October 2023 @ 4.30pm
Aston Villa host West Ham United on Sunday at Villa Park in the Premier League.
In their last league match, on October 8, Villa drew with Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-1 away, with their goal scored by Pau Torres.
West Ham also drew, 2-2 at home against Newcastle United, with Mohammed Kudus and Tomáš Souček on the scoresheet.
With 19 goals in eight games so far this season, Villa are the league's joint-third-highest scorers with 2.4 goals per game. And they are conceding at an average rate, letting in 12 goals at a rate of 1.5 per game.
West Ham are also above average scorers, with 1.9 goals per game, compared to a league average of 1.5. They have conceded 1.5 goals per game.
In the last 10 years, Villa and West Ham have played each other on 14 occasions. Villa won one of them, West Ham seven, and they drew six times.
On average, the Villa scored 0.6 goals and the Hammers 1.4 in those matches.
Their last meeting was on March 12, when they played out a 1-1 draw.
In Jarrod Bowen, United have one of the league's most on-form strikers so far this season. He has notched five goals in eight appearances, to sit fourth in the scoring charts.
His goal rate of one every 144 minutes is quicker than that of Ollie Watkins, the Villa's top scorer with a goal every 171 minutes, and a total of four goals in eight games.
The home team are fifth in the table after eight games, of which they have won five and drawn one, earning 16 points.
The Hammers are two places behind Villa in seventh, with four wins and two draws putting them on 14 points.
Villa are in good form in the Premier League, with four wins and a draw from their last six games.
With three wins and a draw over that period, the visitors' form is less good – they have taken 10 points from 18, compared to the Villa's 13.
Sunday's match will be refereed by David Coote, who has taken charge of four Premier League games so far this season, issuing one red card and booking 17 players. He has awarded three penalties.
He is yet to oversee a match featuring either Villa or West Ham this season.