A new dawn: Aston Villa v Newcastle United preview and team news
The Premier League season begins with a clash between last season's fifth- and sixth-placed teams at Villa Park
The Premier League is back and the season gets underway at Villa Park with a lunchtime kick-off against last season’s League Cup winners.
Aston Villa have an important season ahead of them and it’s vital that they hit the ground running. Among the multitude of objectives for 2025/26, one stands above the rest: Villa are targeting a Champions League place.
There are two ways to achieve that goal and neither of them are going to be easy. Finishing in the top four in the Premier League would do the job and ending up in fifth place would possibly be enough. Winning the Europa League is a big, big ask.
Villa start the new league campaign against Champions League opposition but Newcastle United supporters might not feel like that at the moment.
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