How Villa are actually playing.

The season measured rather than described — 6 matches so far. Where a figure is ours rather than the record’s, it says so.

In the league

19th · 1 point from 4

0W 1D 3L · 1 scored, 7 conceded. Currently in the relegation places.

The competition’s own expected goals across those 4 matches: 3.2 for, 7.2 against.

We began recording the table today, so there is no trajectory to show yet.

Results against performances

2.7RESULTS3.7PERFORMANCE

Both out of ten, over the last 5 matches in all competitions. The performances have been better than the results — the kind of gap that usually closes.

A UTV metric. How it is calculated

Goals, and the chances behind them

5SCORED11CONCEDED

Across the 5 of 6 matches where expected goals were measured rather than modelled, Villa created 6.2 and allowed 8.7, and scored 4 in those games. Fewer goals than the chances behind them suggest.

Home and away

  • Home2 played · 0W 0D 2L · 1–3
  • Away4 played · 1W 1D 2L · 4–8

Too few matches to compare the two yet — 2 at home and 4 away. These are records, not a pattern.

Every match, scored

UTV Performance Score, out of 100, not adjusted for the strength of the opposition. How it is calculated

Who has carried the season

Ordered by minutes played in competitive matches — not by a rating of who has been best.

Squad health

93/100 · Largely intact

3 players are listed as unavailable or doubtful, weighted by the share of the season's minutes each has played.

A UTV metric counting absences, not a medical judgement. The injury list

Matchday

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