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Manchester United vs. Aston Villa
Competition: Premier League – Round 30
Date: Sun 15 Mar 2026
Kickoff: 14:00
Venue: Old Trafford
Referee: Anthony Taylor
Aston Villa Statistics (all competitions)
Form: LDLLW
Goals per match: 1.4
Average Possession: 54.4%
Goals conceded per match: 1.2
Pass Accuracy: 85.7%
Shots per game: 12.5
Tackles per game: 15
Clean Sheets: 13
Manchester United Statistics (all competitions)
Form: WDWWL
Goals per match: 1.7
Average Possession: 53.9%
Goals conceded per match: 1.4
Pass Accuracy: 83%
Shots per game: 16.3
Tackles per game: 17.9
Clean Sheets: 5
Aston Villa Team News
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Aston Villa will assess Matty Cash ahead of Sunday’s Premier League test at Manchester United. The right-back was forced off at half-time in Villa’s defeat against Chelsea in early March, and duly missed Thursday’s UEFA Europa League success at LOSC Lille.
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Captain John McGinn returned from his spell on the sidelines as a second-half substitute for the club’s 1-0 victory in France.
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Ross Barkley and Alysson are also available to come up against United having been unable to face Lille in midweek.
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Midfielder Youri Tielemans is working towards his return but currently remains sidelined, along with long-term absentee Boubacar Kamara.
Manchester united Team News
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Mason Mount has resumed group training and could be in contention to return, when Manchester United host Aston Villa on Sunday.
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Noussair Mazraoui trained this week despite coming off with a knock during the 2-1 defeat at Newcastle United, nine days ago.
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Matthijs de Ligt, Patrick Chinazaekpere Dorgu and Lisandro Martinez are all set to miss out.
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Following their 2-1 win in December, Aston Villa are looking to complete the league double over Manchester United for the first time since 1954-55.
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Manchester United have lost just two of their last 37 home league games against Aston Villa (W28 D7), going down 1-0 both times in December 2009 and September 2021.
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Villa have won just three of their last 11 Premier League games (D3 L5); since the first game in this run (1-4 defeat to Arsenal on Dec 30th), only four sides have accrued fewer points than Unai Emery’s side (12) in the competition.
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Having lost three of their first six Premier League games this season (W2 D1), Manchester United have since lost just three of their last 23 (W13 D7), though they did slip to a 2-1 loss at Newcastle United last time out.
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In six Premier League games this season in which none of Boubacar Kamara, John McGinn or Youri Tielemans have started for Aston Villa, Unai Emery’s side have won just once (D2 L3), averaging 0.8 points-per-game. By contrast, the Villans have won seven of 10 league matches in which all three have started in 2025-26 (D2 L1), averaging 2.3 points-per-game.
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Bruno Fernandes’ goals and assists have been worth 23 points to Manchester United this season. In Premier League history, only three players’ goal involvements have been worth more to the Red Devils in a campaign – Robin van Persie in 2012-13 (38), Eric Cantona in 1993-94 (26) and Cristiano Ronaldo in 2007-08 (25).
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Of the 150 players to have had 1000+ touches in the Premier League this season (coming into this weekend’s games), Aston Villa’s Morgan Rogers has had the highest percentage of them come while under pressure (83.7% – 1190/1422).
How are you feeling? What's your starting XI? Predictions? UTV!
by just_boof_it
11 Comments
Eurgh. No chance we’re winning this. They always bloody beat us.
Prediction: United win and Bruno scores a penalty.
With Super John McGinn, anything is possible. UTV!
In hindsight getting a ticket for this was a terrible idea.
I wonder how both the referee and our very own players will find a way to sabotage it this time.
I’d do anything for a positive result tomorrow. Chelsea have newcastle as well. This has to be the week we move forward surely
At least it’s not the last game of the season (we get the other Manchester this time). Ugh.
Probably the match that I’ve dreaded the most so far this season. Just put the 3 or 4 nil Man United win in the bag.
just need to make sure our goal difference doesn’t get tanked here, it’s already low enough as it is
hopefully thursdays win and mcginn back in the team will be a big needed morale boost for us. i dont think we’ll win but im fairly confident we could at least come away with a point
Feeling positive for this one UTV!
if there’s a time to break the old trafford curse, it’s now. though we all said that last time. and the time before.
I’m not optimistic going into this match, but I guess it means I’m not going to get too worked up if we’re poor or struggle with the same issues we’ve been seeing for a while.
All things considered, I’d be happy if we come away with no injuries or suspensions and don’t get battered. I’d like to see Tammy start either together with Watkins or as the main striker in this game. Hope sjm can get some more minutes in his legs and that the back line can continue to improve their form from midweek.