By Opta Analyst | Created at 2026-08-31 19:08:35 | Updated at 2026-09-06 01:49:34
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Follow along and keep up to date with the latest facts and figures from this Monday night Premier League clash with our Aston Villa vs Arsenal stats page
Our Opta match centre delivers you all the Aston Villa vs Arsenal stats from their Premier League meeting at Villa Park on Monday 31 August.
The match centre below includes team and player stats, expected goals data, passing networks, an Opta chalkboard and more. It gives you everything you need to do your own match analysis.
Underneath the match centre, you can find the official Opta stats on the game as well.
Aston Villa vs Arsenal: Pre-Match Opta Facts
- Zion Suzuki is the very first Asian player to make a Premier League appearance for Aston Villa.
- This is only the second time in the last 22 seasons that Arsenal have named the same starting XI in their first two games of a Premier League season, also doing so in 2022-23.
- Mikel Arteta will tonight become the second person to have 250+ Premier League games as both a player and a manager, after Mark Hughes.
- Nicolas Jackson has scored against 15 of the 21 sides he’s faced in the Premier League, but one of the six he hasn’t scored against is Arsenal (3 games, 0 goals).
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