Newcastle United 0–2 Aston Villa — Premier League 2025/26 Match Stats

Premier League · 2025Sun, 25 Jan 2026, 14:00 UTCSt. James' Park

Newcastle United

LWWWD

0–2Historical match

Aston Villa

WLWDL

A completed match from a finished season. This page is the record of what happened.

Match at a glance

Aston Villa won 0–2.

Shots: 1514
Shots on target: 48
Possession: 61%39%

Full time

What the match recorded

Aston Villa beat Newcastle 2–0. Recorded in this match (Newcastle – Aston Villa): shots 15–14, shots on target 4–8, possession 61%–39%, corners 6–5. This is what was recorded. It is not a claim that the result was foreseeable.

Pre-match record

What the data showed before kick-off. Kept for reference; it did not know the result.

Newcastle's recent record differs from the season

moderate

Newcastle's last-five goals scored average is above their season average.

1.8 goals/match ▲Goals forLast 5 · Season1.39 goals/match

Evidence and caveat

Comparison: An unweighted last-five average is compared with the unweighted season average.

Window: last_5 versus season

Metric	Last 5	Season	Baseline
Goals for	1.8 goals/match	1.39 goals/match	1.41 goals/match

Caveat: Five matches are sensitive to opponent mix and isolated match states.

This match

Match statistics

Shots15 shots14 shotsNewcastle United 15 shots, Aston Villa 14 shots
Shots on target4 shots8 shotsNewcastle United 4 shots, Aston Villa 8 shots
Possession61%39%Newcastle United 61%, Aston Villa 39%
Corners6 corners5 cornersNewcastle United 6 corners, Aston Villa 5 corners
Fouls7 fouls12 foulsNewcastle United 7 fouls, Aston Villa 12 fouls
Yellow cards1 card2 cardsNewcastle United 1 card, Aston Villa 2 cards

History

Head-to-head

Recent meetings between these teams.

Last 5 meetings

3Newcastle United

1Draws

1Aston Villa

16 Aug 2025Aston Villa — Newcastle United · Premier League0–0

19 Apr 2025Aston Villa — Newcastle United · Premier League4–1

26 Dec 2024Newcastle United — Aston Villa · Premier League3–0

30 Jan 2024Aston Villa — Newcastle United · Premier League1–3

12 Aug 2023Newcastle United — Aston Villa · Premier League5–1

Head-to-Head & Recent Meetings

Metric comparison

Team comparison

Season averages, with the sample size beside each metric.

Where the edge is

Season: Newcastle United favored in 3 of 9 directional metrics · Aston Villa in 3 · 3 too close

led this metric higher value (descriptive) too close

Window

Season

Newcastle United23 matchesAston Villa23 matches

1.39 goals/matchGoals scored23/23▲ 1.52 goals/match

1.26 goals/matchGoals allowed23/23▲ 1.09 goals/match

13 shots/match ▲Shots23/2312 shots/match

4.65 shots/matchShots on target23/234.48 shots/match

53.9% ●Possession23/2352.8%

6.43 corners/match ●Corners23/235.04 corners/match

1.52 cards/matchCards23/231.57 cards/match

9.22 fouls/matchFouls23/239.87 fouls/match

Evidence quality

How much supports this analysis

Grade A · Strong evidenceStrong evidence — ready

Season samples23 / 23home / away teams

Recent samples5 / 5last-five windows

FreshnessLess than one dayfrom nearest prior match

Recorded xG is incomplete, so xG context is omitted where unavailable.

Known unknowns

Lineups, injuries, suspensions and tactical changes are not available in the retained dataset.
Some metrics are unavailable or below their observation minimum: xg_for, xg_against.

Analysis cutoff: Sun, 25 Jan 2026, 18:00 UTC · analysis-v4