Match Pack: West Ham

By Aston Villa FC

At A Glance

Aston Villa Women are in bouyant mood heading into Saturday's trip to West Ham United.

Carla Ward's side kicked off the 2021/22 season with a come-from-behind victory over Leicester City last weekend, and will be confident of doubling their points tally against the Hammers.

Villa fell behind in the first half against the Foxes, courtesy of a Natasha Flint strike, but turned the game on its head with a quickfire double from Sarah Mayling and Remi Allen.

Saturday's clash is set to start at 11:30 (UK time) on Saturday, with the game available to watch on Sky Sports.

West Ham go into the weekend's fixture having fell to a 2-0 defeat against Brighton & Hove Albion on opening day.

The game against Hope Powell's Seagulls was in the balance until Hawa Cissoko saw red on 30 minutes for a deliberate handball.

Albion then scored twice in an eight-minute span to put the game to bed and seal three points at the Amex Stadium.

While the sample size may be small, the Hammers did impress up until Cissoko's dismissal, and aren't to be overlooked having held Villa to a pair of 0-0 draws last season.

Two Villans that are in line for a quick return to the Chigwell Construction Stadium are Alisha Lehmann and Maz Pacheco.

The two plied their trade in East London last season, and will be hoping to mark Saturday's reunion with a win for Villa.

Standout Stats

Both WSL meetings between West Ham and Aston Villa finished 0-0 last season, the only top-flight fixture in 2020-21 that didn’t see a single goal scored (from 47 shots across the two games).
Aston Villa failed to win any of their four top-flight matches in London last season (D2 L2), only managing to score in one of those matches (1 goal total), though they did earn two 0-0 draws in their final two such trips at Arsenal and West Ham.
Last season, West Ham were one of two WSL sides who failed to win a single home league game (D4 L7), alongside Birmingham City. Indeed, only Doncaster in 2016-17, Yeovil in 2018-19 and Bristol City in 2020-21 (8 each) lost more matches on home soil in a single top-flight campaign than the Hammers last season.
Only Spurs (7) and Birmingham (9) scored fewer away goals in the WSL last season than Aston Villa (10), though they did post the lowest Expected Goals (xG) tally on the road of all 12 teams (5.9), whilst they also had fewer shots on target in away games than any other team (20).
West Ham have failed to score in any of their last six Barclays FA Women’s Super League matches, the competition’s longest such run since October 2020, when Birmingham City also went six games without a goal.
Aston Villa defeated newly-promoted Leicester City on MD1 to end their 10-game winless run (D5 L5). Having drawn their last five league games of 2020-21, they are now unbeaten in six games in the competition (W1 D5).
Each of West Ham’s last three wins in the Barclays FA Women’s Super League have come away from home – the Hammers have a home record of four draws and seven defeats from their last 11 games.
After winning two of their first three away games in the competition (L1), Aston Villa are currently winless in eight Barclays FA Women’s Super League games on the road (D3 L5), scoring three times while conceding 19 times across this run.
West Ham’s Hawa Cissoko was the only player sent off on MD1 in the Barclays FA Women’s Super League. Her red card was the third shown to West Ham players in the competition since the start of last season, with no other side being shown more than one red card in this time.
There was only 1 minute and 41 seconds between goals from Sarah Mayling and Remi Allen for Aston Villa on MD1 – the goals saw them overturn a one-goal deficit to beat Leicester City 2-1.

The Last Meeting

Villa recorded a fourth successive draw the last time these two sides met, as they played out a 0-0 stalemate with West Ham at Villa Park back in May.

The result, retrospectively, would go a long way to seeing Villa secure WSL survival as they would go on to draw one more game before the close of the season.

The visitors actually had the better chances on the day, in what was a cagey affair between the two sides.

Villa defended firmly, however, in thwarting the Hammers for the second time in as many weeks.

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