Aston Villa vs. Bayern Munich
Competition: Champions League – Round 2
Date: Wed 02 Oct 2024
Kickoff: 20:00
Venue: Villa Park
Referee: Radu Petrescu
Aston Villa Statistics (all competitions)
Form: WWWWD
Goals per match: 1.7
Average Possession: 54.7%
Goals conceded per match: 1.4
Pass Accuracy: 86.8%
Shots per game: 12.5
Tackles per game: 16.1
Dribbles per game: 8.3
Bayern Munich Statistics (all competitions)
Form: WWWWD
Goals per match: 4.2
Average Possession: 69.5%
Goals conceded per match: 0.8
Pass Accuracy: 90.5%
Shots per game: 20.3
Tackles per game: 14.3
Dribbles per game: 12.7
Aston Villa Team News
- Unai Emery will remain without the injured Boubacar Kamara, Tyrone Mings and John McGinn, while Matty Cash is also set to miss out.
Bayern Munich Team News
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Harry Kane was forced off in Saturday’s 1-1 draw with Bayer Leverkusen and is a doubt for the trip to Villa Park as he continues to receive treatment.
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Josip Stanisic, Hiroki Ito and Sacha Boey are confirmed absentees for the visitors.
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This will be the second ever meeting between Aston Villa and Bayern Munich, with Villa winning the 1982 European Cup final 1-0 against the German side to win their only ever major European title.
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Bayern Munich have only lost one of their last 10 UEFA Champions League meetings with English sides (W7 D2), a 0-3 defeat to Manchester City in the 2022-23 quarter-final first leg.
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Aston Villa won their first UEFA Champions League game on MD1 (3-0 v Young Boys), while the only other English side to win their first two matches in the competition (since 1992-93) is Leicester City – 3-0 v Club Brugge and 1-0 v FC Porto in 2016-17.
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Aston Villa boss Unai Emery has already beaten Bayern Munich in the UEFA Champions League on two previous occasions, winning 3-0 in September 2017 in charge of Paris SG and 1-0 in April 2022 with Villarreal. The only manager to beat Bayern Munich in the competition with as many as three different teams is José Mourinho (Chelsea, Internazionale and Real Madrid).
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Bayern Munich won 9-2 versus Dinamo Zagreb in their opening game of the 2024-25 UEFA Champions League, but are winless in their last three away matches in the competition (D1 L2). They last had a longer winless run on the road between February and September 2016 (D2 L2), spanning the spells of Pep Guardiola (3) and Carlo Ancelotti (1).
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Aston Villa manager Unai Emery has only lost three of his previous 20 non-knockout stage games in the UEFA Champions League (W13 D4), although one of those defeats did come against Bayern Munich in December 2017 (1-3 while in charge of Paris SG).
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Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane has been directly involved in seven goals in six career appearances against Aston Villa at Villa Park (five goals, two assists). Indeed, he’s scored the game-winning goal at Villa Park on two previous occasions, netting a 90th-minute winner in November 2014 (2-1) and both goals in a 2-0 victory there in March 2016 – both as a Tottenham Hotspur player.
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Aston Villa’s Morgan Rogers created four chances from open play on his UEFA Champions League debut last time out (v Young Boys on MD1); the most by an English player on their debut in the competition since an 18-year-old Danny Welbeck in November 2009 (5 for Manchester United v Besiktas).
Massive one and I cannot wait! Looking forward to an exciting match. How are you feeling? What's your starting XI? Predictions? UTV!
by just_boof_it