
At A Glance
Aston Villa return to B6 on Sunday as the club’s Premier League campaign continues against Brentford.
First-team coach Aaron Danks will be in charge of the hosts after Head Coach Steven Gerrard departed following a 3-0 loss against Fulham in midweek.
Villa will be looking to end a run of four games without a win and secure a third top flight victory of the campaign.

Brentford have five more points on the board than Villa heading into the weekend's game on the back of a 0-0 draw against Chelsea on Wednesday.
The Bees strength has been their home form while they are yet to win on the road this term, drawing three games and losing twice.
Ivan Toney has been the standout performer for Thomas Frank’s team, netting six more goals than any of his teammates to lead the club’s scoring charts with eight.
Standout Stats

Villa are winless in eight league matches against Brentford since a 2-0 top-flight away victory in February 1947.
Brentford have never won a competitive game away at Villa, but the five most recent encounters all ended in a draw.
Villa have won only four of their last 22 Premier League fixtures.
Their past nine Premier League goals were scored by nine different players.

Brentford are winless in all five Premier League away games this season (D3, L2).
They can equal the club top-flight record of three successive clean sheets, set in April 1938.
Ivan Toney has scored six of Brentford's past eight goals.
This match is Brentford's 50th game in the Premier League. They have won 16 times so far and lost 21.
The Last Meeting
Brentford came from behind to beat Aston Villa in the club’s first game of 2022.
Danny Ings’ goal put the visitors in charge in London before Yoane Wissa netted from the penalty spot.
Mads Roerslev bagged the winner for the Bees after 83 minutes.
Team News

Villa will be without Lucas Digne, Diego Carlos, Boubacar Kamara and Ludwig Augustinsson.
The Bees are missing Pontus Jansson, Thomas Strakosha, Aaron Hickey, Christian Nørgaard and Charlie Goode through injury.
View From The Dugout
“I think that’s the one thing everybody’s feeling at the moment; we want to do this for the fans, we want to do this for the crowd. I’m a local lad, I know the area well, I’ll have friends and family in all four corners of the stadium. They (the fans) will be huge for us, absolutely massive for us, and hopefully we can put something on the pitch they can be proud of and they can get behind on Sunday.”
Aaron Danks