The yardstick: Aston Villa v Bournemouth preview and team news
Villa face AFC Bournemouth at Villa Park on Sunday
When the next Gregg Evans and Matt Maher come to write a book about the next chapter of Unai Emery’s time in the West Midlands, the first quarter of the 2025/26 will feature prominently.
Aston Villa hit the ten-game mark in the Premier League last weekend, quarter of the way through what I still call ‘the new season’ out of habit, and it’s been a bumpy ride.
After four wins in a row it was champions Liverpool who brought Villa’s form back to earth, ending their own winless run in the process.
There’s been some bad and some good for Unai Emery and his team but losing to Brentford and drawing with ten-man Sunderland was no more surprising than beating Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City.
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