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Competition: Premier League – Round 27
Date: Sat 21 Feb 2026
Kickoff: 15:00
Venue: Villa Park
Referee: Michael Oliver
Aston Villa Statistics (all competitions)
Form: WLDWL
Goals per match: 1.48
Average Possession: 54.3%
Goals conceded per match: 1
Pass Accuracy: 85.6%
Shots per game: 12.6
Tackles per game: 15.3
Clean Sheets: 12
Leeds United Statistics (all competitions)
Form: DLWDW
Goals per match: 1.4
Average Possession: 46.8%
Goals conceded per match: 1.7
Pass Accuracy: 80.5%
Shots per game: 12.7
Tackles per game: 17.8
Clean Sheets: 4
Aston Villa Team News
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Matty Cash is in contention to return from injury when Aston Villa host Leeds United in the Premier League on Saturday. The right-back has missed the past two matches but manager Unai Emery says he could feature against the Whites at Villa Park.
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Alysson and Harvey Elliot are both not available for tomorrow, while Marco Bizot is suspended, having been sent-off in last weekend's FA Cup tie versus Newcastle United.
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John McGinn, Youri Tielemans and Boubacar Kamara all remain long-term absentees.
Leeds United Team News
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Attacker Noah Okafor faces a spell on the sidelines with a hamstring strain.
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Anton Stach, Pascal Struijk, Daniel James are back in training and should be available Saturday.
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Aston Villa are unbeaten in their last six Premier League games against Leeds (W4 D2) and are looking to complete the double over them for the second time in the competition after 1999-00.
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Leeds have lost their last two Premier League games against Aston Villa, last losing three in a row between January and December 2000.
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Villa are unbeaten in all 18 of their Premier League games against promoted sides under Unai Emery (W14 D4).
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Since the start of December, only Manchester City and Manchester United (1 each) have lost fewer Premier League games than Leeds United (2), although the Whites have the most draws in that timeframe too (7).
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There has been just seven goals scored in Aston Villa’s last six Premier League games (4 for, 3 against), an average of just 1.2 per game. In their previous six games, more than treble the number of goals were scored in Villa’s games (23 – 3.8 per game).
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Leeds have won just one of their last 18 Premier League away games (D5 L12), beating Wolves 3-1 in September. Though they’re winless in their last 10 on the road, five of the last six have finished level, with the Whites coming from 2-0 down to draw at Chelsea last time out.
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Aston Villa have 50 points in 26 Premier League matches this season (W15 D5 L6) – it’s the third time they’ve reached 50 points in as few games, after 2008-09 (51 in 25 games) and 2023-24 (52 in 26 games).
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by just_boof_it
8 Comments
I think it’ll be a closer game than we want it to be, but Rogers will pull us through with another banger or two.
Ngl am worried for this one. Need to start well and get the lead early I think. A win would be massive with a tricky game against wolves next week.
Leeds are a good side these days but I watched them at home to Arsenal and they were piss poor in that game. If we give them a good game, everyone at their best, they’ll struggle to keep up.
Hope to see Tammy starting.
Martinez; Cash Konsa Lindelof Maatsen; Onana Dougie; Sancho Buendia Rogers; Tammy
It’s a shame that Alysson is still out, I’m keen to see more of him.
I’m assuming Garcia is back then? The club estimated a three week absence about three weeks ago. Typically, he returns just as Cash does (we seem to be suffering a lot of overlapping injuries in the same position this season – Mings & Pau, McGinn & Tielemans).
Not sure about this one, Leeds can be dangerous.
Think we can beat them but no slacking from players or fans needed.
Get at them from minute 1 and for chrissake don’t be weaklings on corners like we were at Elland Road.
Emery looked chipper as fuck in the presser!
Also, if we get the FA Cup version of Leeds we saw last weekend, we’ll absolutely batter them. Changes or not, they where as bad as I’ve seen them all season and a side with any quality would have put 3 or 4 past them no problem.
This one will be a grind. Leeds have got plenty to offer and Farke isn’t a tactical dud. Matty coming back is a big positive, but my jury is out on whether us having almost a full weeks rest is too. 😭 😂
I think as long as our goalkeeper doesn’t go Bundesliga logoing himself into one of their players during a quick counter, we should be onto a winner with this one. Fingers crossed for some good results elsewhere too. Glad to have Cash back. UTFV