Ollie Watkins’ penalty at Everton made him the first Aston Villa player to score in five consecutive Premier League matches.
The striker also became the first player to score in five successive top-flight appearances for Villa since Paul Rideout between December 1984 - January 1985.
If Watkins maintains his prolific form, he could potentially equal an even more impressive feat which was achieved almost a century ago.
Len Capewell currently holds the club record of scoring in EIGHT successive top-flight games.
Capewell set the record early in the 1925/26 season, when he scored against Manchester United, Newcastle United, Bolton Wanderers, Notts County, West Bromwich Albion, Sunderland, Leicester City and Birmingham City.
By then, he had already netted five in a 10-0 opening-day thrashing of Burnley, and he went on to score 34 goals in 32 First Division matches.
Two players came close to emulating Capewell during the 1930s. Tom ‘Pongo’ Waring scored in each of the first seven games of 1930/31, when he finished with a club-record 49 league goals in a single season, while Dai Astley also enjoyed a seven-match sequence in 1935/36.
Since then, Andy Gray in 1977/78 is the only player to score in six consecutive top-flight games, although Peter McParland (1959/60) and Brian Little (1974/75) both did it in the old Second Division.
In another season outside the top flight, George Edwards scored in 11 consecutive unofficial games in the Football League (South) in 1945/46 when football was played on a regional basis, with a mixture of First and Second Division clubs.
Comprehensive details of every Villa match, up until the end of the 2021/22 campaign, can be found in Aston Villa: The Complete Record.
The 600-page book is currently on offer at half price (£15 plus p/p) until midnight on Tuesday, February 28.
For full details, visit www.avfcthecompleterecord.co.uk
