About Match
5 points and 14 places separate them: Chelsea 4th with 6, Aston Villa 18th with 1. Against a league average of 1.42 goals per team per game, Chelsea run at 2.67 scored and 2.33 conceded, Aston Villa at 0 and 1.67. Chelsea would climb to 9 points with a win and up to 1st (other results held equal).
Aston Villa are winless in 6. Over the last five, Chelsea have taken 12 of 15 points to Aston Villa's 1.
The sides have met 40 times in the GioScore results database: 21 wins for Chelsea, 8 draws and 11 for Aston Villa, at 3.05 goals per meeting. Goals tend to flow: 65% of the meetings produced three or more, and both sides scored in 57%.
The match takes place at Stamford Bridge in London (capacity 34,915).