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Game #5726

Aston Villa

1-0-0, 3 PTS

Saturday, 17 August 2024

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Won

4th

Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩

Premier League

West Ham United

0-0-1, 0 PTS

London Stadium

Attendance: 62,463

🟩 17 August 2024, Villa 2-1 West Ham, London Stadium

West Ham United

1-2

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s): Youri Tielemans | 4’ | Jacob Ramsey | 79' |

🟩 17 August 2024, Villa 2-1 West Ham, London Stadium

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 17 August 2024

🟢 | 1’ Debut, Amadou Onana
💥 | 2’ John McGinn tripped in the box, referee gives nothing
⚽ | 4’ Goal, 1-0, Amadou Onana, Assist by Youri Tielemans
🟨 | 8’ Booking, Leon Bailey, Bad Foul
💥 | 35’ Referee awards penalty to West Ham for a trip by Matty Cash on Soucek in a rare break from the home side
🎥 | 36’ VAR confirms penalty despite the replay clearly showing Matty Cash getting a touch to the ball before making contact with the player
🎥 | 36’ VAR applies the ‘new’ ‘referee’s call initiative’ to their penalty ‘decision’ in that they will only overturn a decision if the referee is clearly wrong
🎥 | 36’ VAR does not overturn a penalty they know to not be a penalty because they deem the on-field referee to have not made a significant enough error in incorrectly awarding the penalty
🥅 | 37’ Goal, 1-1, (West Ham United), Lucas Paquetá
🕒 | HT West Ham United 1-1 Aston Villa
💥 | 47’ Lucas Paquetá commits yet another foul but remains on the pitch despite his first half booking and repeated offences
❗| 56’ Chance! Morgan Rogers assisted by Youri Tielemans
🔁 | 62’ Sub off, Ollie Watkins, Sub on, Jhon Durán
🔁 | 62’ Sub off, John McGinn, Sub on, Jacob Ramsey
🔁 | 74’ Sub off, Lucas Digne, Sub on, Ian Maatsen 🟢
🔁 | 74’ Sub off, Leon Bailey, Sub on, Jaden Philogene-Bidace
⚽ | 79’ Goal, 2-1, Jhon Durán, Assist by Jacob Ramsey
🔁 | 82’ Sub off, Matty Cash, Sub on, Kosta Nedeljkovic 🟢
🟨 | 90’ Booking, Jaden Philogene-Bidace, Bad Foul
💥 | 90’ The referee signals 7’ of injury time
🕒 | 90’+9 FT West Ham United 1-2 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Villa Possession 47.9%
Opposition Possession 52.1%

Villa Shots 15
Opposition Shots 14

Villa Shots on Target 3
Opposition Shots on Target 3

Villa Shots off Target 6
Opposition Shots off Target 7

Villa Blocked Shots 6
Opposition Blocked Shots 4

Villa Touches in Box 23
Opposition Touches in Box 26

Villa Fouls 11
Opposition Fouls 18

Villa Corners 3
Opposition Corners 5

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 17 August 2024

  • Villa win on the opening day of a top flight season for the first time since 2020-21 and for the first time away from home since 2015-16.

  • Villa cap their 1.000th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Amadou Onana makes a goalscoring Villa debut aged 22 following his €59.35m / £50.02m signing from Everton to become the 998th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Amadou Onana is the third Belgian player to score on his Premier League debut for Villa, after Luc Nilis (1-1 draw versus Chelsea on 27 August 2000) and Christian Benteke (2-0 home win over Swansea on 15 September 2012).

  • Ian Maatsen makes his Villa debut aged 22 from the subs bench following his €44.50m / £37.71m move from Chelsea to become the 999th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Kosta Nedeljkovic makes his Villa debut aged 19 from the subs bench following his €7.60m / £6.44m move from Red Star Belgrade to become the 1,000th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Leon Bailey secures his 50th win in a Villa shirt on his 107th appearance (70 Starts) to make it W50 D16 L41, 20 Goals, 21 Assists and 16 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one every 1.89 starts so far in his Villa career.

  • Jhon Durán secures his 9th goal and 25th win in a Villa shirt on his 50th appearance (10 Starts) to make it W25 D10 L15, 9 Goals and 9 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one every 0.90 starts so far in his Villa career.

  • Jhon Durán had the best minutes to goal ratio, with a goal every 92 minutes (five goals in 462 minutes) of any Premier League player with at least five goals in 2023-24 and has now scored six Premier League goals from just 616 minutes played, an average of one every 103 minutes. Among players to have scored five or more Premier League goals, only Manchester City's Erling Haaland (85) has a better minutes-to-goals rate.

  • Pau Torres secures his 25th win in a Villa shirt on his 40th appearance (37 Starts) to make it W25 D7 L8, 2 Goals and 1 Booking so far in his Villa career.

  • Youri Tielemans makes his 30th start in a Villa shirt (47 Appearances) to make it W27 D9 L11, 3 Goals, 8 Assists and 6 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

  • Villa now have the most debut appearance scorers in Premier League history alongside Chelsea with 27.

  • Matty Cash has conceded more penalties than any other player since his Premier League debut in September 2020 - six.

🟩 17 August 2024, Villa 2-1 West Ham, London Stadium

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

🟢 M Amadou Onana | 🇧🇪 | #998 | €59.35m / £50.02m signing from Everton
🟢 LB Ian Maatsen | 🇳🇱 | #999 | €44.50m / £37.71m signing from Chelsea
🟢 RB Kosta Nedeljkovic | 🇷🇸 | #1000 | €7.60m / £6.44m signing from Red Star Belgrade

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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Aston Villa

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
UEFA Conference League: 🏆
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 2022-23

Aston Villa

💰 Total Squad Cost incl. Loans : €520.74m / £443.76m

🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏼 Squad Size incl. Loans : 36

8th Highest Squad Cost of 20 Premier League Clubs in 2024-25


🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏼 Squad Size excl. Loans : 28

* Goalkeepers : 3

* Defenders : 5 

* Full Backs : 5

* Midfielders : 10

* Wingers : 3

* Forwards : 2


➡️   Loaned Out : 8 Players : €29.80m / £25.08m


💸 Last Transfer Window :

* Players In : 8

* Players Out : 12

* Fees Spent : €176.20m / £150.83m

* Fees Raised : €167.80m / £142.96m

* Profit on Sales : +€62.83m / +£53.53m

* Net Spend : +€8.40m / +£7.16m

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💰 Total Squad Cost incl. Loans : €508.76m / £433.29m

🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏼 Squad Size incl. Loans : 28

9th Highest Squad Cost of 20 Premier League Clubs in 2024-25


🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏼 Squad Size excl. Loans : 28

* Goalkeepers : 3

* Defenders : 5 

* Full Backs : 4

* Midfielders : 8

* Wingers : 4

* Forwards : 4


➡️   Loaned Out : 0 Players : €0.00m / £0.00m


💸 Last Transfer Window :

* Players In : 8

* Players Out : 9

* Fees Spent : €144.40m / £122.98m

* Fees Raised : €48.30m / £40.57m

* Loss on Sales : -€8.45m / -£7.10m

* Net Spend : +€96.10m / +£81.84m

FIXTURE HISTORY

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West Ham United

Previous 5 vs. West Ham: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟨

🟩 17 August 2024, Villa 2-1 West Ham, London Stadium

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season: 2024-25
Matchday: #1
League Game: #1
Manager Game: #84
Date: Saturday, 17 August 2024
Attendance: 62,463

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MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 | Hondarribia, 2022-
Referee: Tony Harrington | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Cleveland, 2016-
Kick off: 5.30pm
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 2-1
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 | 2022-

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 84 | 🟩 | 45 🟨 | 15 🟥 24 | 1.79

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 | 2022-

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MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Tony Harrington | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Cleveland, 2016-
Matches Officiated: 12
🟩 : 5
🟨 : 2
🟥 : 5
🆘 : 1
🆘 : A poor on-field decision from the referee is backed up by a bizarre VAR decision that under the auspices of a new ‘initiative’ upholds a penalty because the incorrect decision was not incorrect enough.
Previous 5: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 26 September 2023, Villa 1-2 Everton, Villa Park
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Scott Ledger, Matthew Wilkes.
Fourth official: Andrew Kitchen.
VAR: John Brooks.
Assistant VAR: Nick Hopton.

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟨 Leon Bailey
🟨 Jaden Philogene-Bidace

🟨 Lucas Paquetá

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Amadou Onana makes his Villa debut following his move from Everton whilst it’s first squad appearances for new signings Ian Maatsen and Kosta Nedeljkovic. Ross Barkley and Jaden Philogene-Bidace return to the squad following their returns to Villa whilst Emiliano Buendía makes his first squad appearance having missed 56 games and the entirety of the 2023-24 season with an ACL injury. Meanwhile, want away stroppy teenager Jhon Durán is given a squad berth whilst Álex Moreno is absent with a potential loan move to Forest in the offing. There is also no place for new signings Samuel Iling-Junior and Enzo Barrenechea whilst Robin Olsen, Kortney Hause and Leander Dendoncker are absent.

Squad Average Age: 26.38
Starting XI Average Age: 27.50
Subs Average Age: 21.09
Bench Average Age: 24.83

Oldest Starter: GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 | 31.98 |
Youngest Starter: M Morgan Rogers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 22.08 |

Oldest Squad Player: GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 | 31.98 |
Youngest Squad Player: RB Kosta Nedeljkovic | 🇷🇸 | 18.68 |

Oldest Substitute: W Jaden Philogene-Bidace | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 22.54 |
Youngest Substitute: RB Kosta Nedeljkovic | 🇷🇸 | 18.68 |

Referee
Manager

🟩 17 August 2024, Villa 2-1 West Ham, London Stadium

MANAGER

Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 | 2022-

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Aston Villa

GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 |
RB Matty Cash | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇵🇱 | 🔁 |
CB Ezri Konsa | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Pau Torres | 🇪🇸 |
LB Lucas Digne | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
🆕 M Amadou Onana | 🇧🇪 | 🟢 | ⚽ |
M Youri Tielemans | 🇧🇪 | 🔥 |
M John McGinn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Morgan Rogers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Leon Bailey | 🇯🇲 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
CF Ollie Watkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Julen Lopetegui | 🇪🇸 |

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West Ham United

GK Alphonse Areola | 🇫🇷 |
LB Emerson | 🇮🇹 |
🆕 CB Max Kilman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Konstantinos Mavropanos | 🇬🇷 |
RB Vladimír Coufal | 🇨🇿 | 🔁 |
M Lucas Paquetá | 🇧🇷 | 🟨 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
🆕 M Guido Rodríguez | 🇦🇷 | 🔁 |
M Tomas Soucek | 🇨🇿 |
M Mohammed Kudus | 🇬🇭 |
CF Michail Antonio | 🇯🇲 | 🔁 |
W Jarrod Bowen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

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SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | CF Jhon Durán | 🇨🇴 | ⚽ | for CF Ollie Watkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 62’ |
🔁 | M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | for M John McGinn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 62’ |
🔁 | 🆕 LB Ian Maatsen | 🇳🇱 | for LB Lucas Digne | 🇫🇷 | 74’ |
🔁 | W Jaden Philogene-Bidace | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for W Leon Bailey | 🇯🇲 | 74’ |
🔁 | RB Kosta Nedeljkovic | 🇷🇸 | for Matty Cash | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇵🇱 | 82’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | 🆕 CF Niclas Füllkrug | 🇩🇪 | for CF Michail Antonio | 🇯🇲 | 73’ |
🔁 | 🆕 W Crysencio Summerville | 🇳🇱 | for W Jarrod Bowen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 73’ |
🔁 | M James Ward-Prowse | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Lucas Paquetá | 🇧🇷 | 74’ |
🔁 | 🆕 CB Jean-Clair Todibo | 🇫🇷 | for RB Vladimír Coufal | 🇨🇿 | 85’ |
🔁 | CF Danny Ings (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for 🆕 M Guido Rodríguez | 🇦🇷 | 85’ |

Substitutes

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Joe Gauci | 🇦🇺 |
CB Diego Carlos | 🇧🇷 |
🆕 M Ross Barkley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Emiliano Buendía | 🇦🇷 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Lukasz Fabianski | 🇵🇱 |
LB Aaron Cresswell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
🆕 RB Aaron Wan-Bissaka | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Andy Irving | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

Player Positions:

GK : Goalkeeper
CB, D, B : Centre Back, Defender, Back
FB, LB, RB, WH : Full Back, Left Back, Right Back, Wing Back, Wing Half


M, CH, LH, RH : Midfielder, Centre Half, Left Half, Right Half
W, OL, OR : Winger, Outside Left, Outside Right
F, IF, IL, IR : Forward, Inside Forward, Inside Left, Inside Right, Second Striker, False 9
CF : Centre Forward

Match Symbols:

⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution

🟨 | Booking

🟥 | Sending off

🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game

Squad Bios

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SQUAD STATS

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1st XI Cost : €247.30m / £210.70m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 5 / 11
Homegrown : ⭕ /11
Youth : ⭕ / 11

Subs Cost : €84.74m / £72.20m
Team Cost : €332.04m / £282.90m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7 / 16
Homegrown : 2 / 16
Youth : ⭕ / 16

Matchday Squad Cost : €408.84m / £348.33m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8 / 20
Homegrown : 2 / 20
Youth : ⭕ / 20

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI Cost : €221.85m / £189.00m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 2 / 11
Homegrown : ⭕ / 11
Youth : ⭕ / 11

Subs Cost : €103.10m / £87.84m
Team Cost : €324.95m / £276.86m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 4 / 16
Homegrown : ⭕ / 16
Youth : ⭕ / 16

Matchday Squad Cost : €357.06m / £304.19m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7 / 20
Homegrown : ⭕ / 20
Youth : ⭕ / 20

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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Goalkeepers
GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 | €17.40m / £14.75m
GK Joe Gauci | 🇦🇺 | €1.50m / £1.27m

#### Defenders
CB Pau Torres | 🇪🇸 | €33.00m / £27.97m
CB Diego Carlos | 🇧🇷 | €31.00m / £26.27m
CB Ezri Konsa | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | €13.30m / £11.27m

#### Full Backs
🆕 LB Ian Maatsen | 🇳🇱 | €44.50m / £37.71m
LB Lucas Digne | 🇫🇷 | €30.00m / £25.43m
RB Matty Cash | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇵🇱 | €15.75m / £13.35m
RB Kosta Nedeljkovic | 🇷🇸 | €7.60m / £6.44m

#### Midfielders
🆕 M Amadou Onana | 🇧🇪 | €59.35m / £50.02m
M Morgan Rogers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | €9.40m / £7.97m
🆕 M Ross Barkley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | €5.90m / £5.00m
M John McGinn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | €3.10m / £2.63m
M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth
M Youri Tielemans | 🇧🇪 | Free

#### Wingers
W Emiliano Buendía | 🇦🇷 | €38.40m / £32.54m
W Leon Bailey | 🇯🇲 | €32.00m / £27.12m
W Jaden Philogene-Bidace | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | €16.00m / £13.47m

#### Forwards
CF Ollie Watkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | €34.00m / £28.82m
CF Jhon Durán | 🇨🇴 | €16.64m / £14.10m

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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Goalkeepers
GK Alphonse Areola | 🇫🇷 | Free | 31 |
GK Lukasz Fabianski | 🇵🇱 | €8.00m / £6.78m | 39 |

#### Defenders
🆕 CB Max Kilman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | €47.50m / £40.19m | 27 |
CB Konstantinos Mavropanos | 🇬🇷 | €20.00m / £16.95m | 26 |
🆕 CB Jean-Clair Todibo | 🇫🇷 | Loan | 24 |

#### Full Backs
🆕 RB Aaron Wan-Bissaka | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | €17.60m / £15.10m | 26 |
LB Emerson | 🇮🇹 | €15.40m / £13.05m | 30 |
RB Vladimír Coufal | 🇨🇿 | €6.00m / £5.08m | 31 |
LB Aaron Cresswell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | €4.75m / £4.03m | 34 |

#### Midfielders
M Mohammed Kudus | 🇬🇭 | €43.00m / £36.44m | 23 |
M Lucas Paquetá | 🇧🇷 | €42.95m / £36.40m | 26 |
M James Ward-Prowse | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | €34.80m / £29.49m | 29 |
M Tomas Soucek | 🇨🇿 | €16.20m / £13.73m | 29 |
M Andy Irving | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | €1.76m / £1.49m | 24 |
🆕 M Guido Rodríguez | 🇦🇷 | Free | 30 |

#### Wingers
🆕 W Crysencio Summerville | 🇳🇱 | €29.30m / £25.15m | 22 |
W Jarrod Bowen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | €21.30m / £18.05m | 27 |

#### Forwards
🆕 CF Niclas Füllkrug | 🇩🇪 | €27.00m / £23.18m | 31 |
CF Danny Ings (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | €12.00m / £10.17m | 31 |
CF Michail Antonio | 🇯🇲 | €9.50m / £8.05m | 34 |

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UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 2 |
1. CB Tyrone Mings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ACL, 20 Aug 2023 [56]
2. M Boubacar Kamara | 🇫🇷 | ACL, 17 Feb 2024 [21]

Out on Loan | 8 |
1. M Philippe Coutinho | 🇧🇷 | €20.00m / £16.95m, 32, Vasco da Gama
2. M Tommi O'Reilly | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth, 20, Shrewsbury
3. GK Filip Marschall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth, 21, Crewe
4. W Lewis Dobbin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | €11.80m / £10.00m, 19, West Bromwich Albion
5. CB Josh Feeney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth, 19, Shrewsbury
6. F Louie Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | €1.00m / £850k, 21, Stockport
7. RB Kaine Kesler Hayden | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth, 21, Preston
8. LB Lino Sousa | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Free, 19, Bristol Rovers

Not Selected | 6 |
1. GK Robin Olsen | 🇸🇪 | €3.50m / £2.97m
2. CB Kortney Hause | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | €2.80m / £2.37m
3. LB Álex Moreno | 🇪🇸 | €13.50m / £11.44m
4. M Leander Dendoncker | 🇧🇪 | €15.00m / £12.71m
5. 🆕 M Samuel Iling-Junior | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | €14.00m / £11.89m
6. 🆕 M Enzo Barrenechea | 🇦🇷 | €8.00m / £6.80m

UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 1 |
1. M Edson Álvarez | 🇲🇽 | €38.00m / £32.20m | 26 |

Out on Loan | 0 |

Not Selected | 7 |
1. 🆕 GK Wes Foderingham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Free | 33 |
2. CB Kurt Zouma | 🇫🇷 | €35.00m / £29.66m | 29 |
3. CB Nayef Aguerd | 🇲🇦 | €35.00m / £29.66m | 28 |
4. M George Earthy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth | 19 |
5. 🆕 W Luis Guilherme | 🇧🇷 | €23.00m / £19.49m | 18 |
6. W Maxwell Cornet | 🇨🇮 | €20.70m / £17.54m | 27 |
7. CF Callum Marshall | 🇬🇧 | Free | 19 |

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🟩 17 August 2024, Villa 2-1 West Ham, London Stadium

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"We took some good chances and we deserved to win. "I think that is football and sometimes these chances go in and sometimes not. We kept creating chances and pushing. We are very happy. "The substitutes made a massive difference. I think we had a bit of a dip at that point and the manager made the changes at the right time. The three off them combined for that goal. We have some great players and we are ready to perform. "We will have to wait and see because it is only the first game. We have a lot of ambition and we want to build on that. We want to be the best we can be. "It was very tight in the second half, first half as well. West Ham are a good team. To come here and win is massive for us. It gets us off to a good start and now we can look forward to next week. We can enjoy this win because it was a tough battle today. "I think it was just about being clinical and we did that. We had a massive block at the end on the line for us. It was really important for us to get the win today. "It's just about the system. The players coming in have worked out. The manager has been working really hard on the training pitch and we've just done what the manager asked of us so we're really happy. "To play his game. [Onana]’s got loads of confidence, loads of qualities. He's just exposed all of that today. Hopefully he can carry on and become even better than he is. "There's loads of expectations around us now, we finished fourth last season. It's not by a miracle. We work really hard, we have a good system in place. Then it's all about winning games and we did that. "We have experience, a good team, young players, some new players. We work really hard on the training pitch, we've had a good pre-season, and we're ready to go." Youri Tielemans "Unbelievable feeling. We spoke about it yesterday and I was like 'watch me I'm going to score today'. I think if you manifest it, it kind of works so very happy with that today. "West Ham are a tough team to play but I think we could never have done it any better. Starting with three points away gives a massive confidence to the whole team so I'm happy tonight. “[On the penalty equaliser] Frustrated, yeah. I think we didn't lose our focus and I think you saw it in the first minutes of the second half. We kept doing what we did in the first half and we did fantastically well so I'm just happy with the overall team performance. "For sure. I think [Unai Emery] played a massive part in me coming to this football club. I think his football IQ, his knowledge, what he can bring to me is just phenomenal. I think I can learn a lot playing under him." Amadou Onana "I am really, really happy. It is the day one in the Premier League and we were speaking the dressing room before the match that we started losing to Newcastle and finished losing to Crystal Palace and that we must try to focus on the match and don’t waste time. Don’t waste each moment to get points. "We must be consistent across 38 matches and I think the players, they were focusing very well and they were trying to be consistent in our game plan. More or less, over the 90 minutes we deserved to win. "[This is] a very difficult place. Today we deserve it but it was a very tough match. Our game plan was progressively getting better in 90 minutes. I think now the first match after pre-season some players are not fit to play 90 minutes. I think today their attitude, commitment was fantastic. "I think the first 30 minutes were very good. We were in control of the game, with good positioning. We didn’t concede a corner until the 28th minute. We scored one and had a chance to get a second with Leon Bailey. "They got a goal too, and we started the second half a bit softly. But we started controlling the game more again and deserved to win. "It [Jhon Duran’s goal] was a very important goal. He’s completely involved with us after coming back from his holidays and after [representing] his national team. There will be more rumours about him after his goal, but I believe in him. I gave him 30 minutes today and he’s very important to us. "We believe in him and he has to play, he has to be ready to train every day like he was doing the last week and like he trained today. For me we need two strikers and both have to have good performances and good commitment to play like they both played today. "You know. We believe in him. We believe in his potential. Always, we are open to working with him. Today he helped the team, he was ready and available when we need him. Today was fantastic because he played 30 minutes after the first 60 minutes for Watkins as he was not really feeling fit 100 per cent. "He added us his capacity in 30 minutes. Those two players only joined us last week and we prepared the plan to use both players in 90 minutes and they did fantastic work. "Sometimes it is difficult to accept some mistakes, but we have to accept in cases like that, [Jhon Duran is a] very young player and impatient. He has a strong energy and has always wishes to do everything. "Sometimes he has to try to get balance in everything, but we are working with him for one-and-a-half years. Always, I am being very, very committed with him to try and get of him the best as a player and even as a person. Some mistakes, of course we are trying to correct, but sometimes we have to accept it and not repeating. "At the beginning I wanted him here and nothing changed after the match today. Before the match was the same and after the game is the same. "We were before, with every player, open in case a big offer comes in, and one of those players is him. But we know his potential and we know in case he is leaving, it is because the offer is good for the club. "But I don’t want him to leave. I want to see him here with us because I believe in his process, increasing his level more and more. We will need two strikers for the long season with lots of matches, with Watkins and Jhon Duran." "The idea is to try to have players in the bench as well with the qualities played in the starting 11. This year we are improving our level facing the Champions League. Of course we want to keep the same position competing the way we did last year and we have to be very demanding with our players. We are ready to play the next match at home against Arsenal on Saturday and we showed a little bit the different possibilities in the squad. The impact of Jhon Duran was very important because he still wasn't fit to play 90 minutes, Ollie Watkins. “[For Amadou Onana] There’s still a lot of adaptation ahead, in training and in matches. Today it was his first official match with us. He was very mature, responsible and intelligent. I think this is the first step we need. The adaptation is going to be long, because there are a lot of things we want to get out of him, but his potential is most important. "It is about identifying quickly how we want to play with him and how he dominated the position he is playing. He is very mature to get as soon as possible everything tactically. "We signed Ian Maatsen and were speaking with some different players in this position now we have difficulties to manage with three specific left full-backs. We were thinking to be strong in this position and Alex Moreno is a player who he is now close to leaving. "Today I am very happy for our victory because we played with our two strikers. All of pre-season we didn’t play with them. We were using Cameron Archer, but with the idea that he could leave with a good offer. "The idea I have is to keep those strikers and exploit their potential. Watkins has been consistent for a long time and Duran is being consistent as well, not like I think he could do, but today and before the match he was in the idea of everything we were preparing. He was ready and showing his wishes to play and score. "Young potential players we finished with. “With Jaden, with Duran, with Morgan, Ramsey and Maatsen too. "It is very important their wishes to play and to help get performing like they did. There are different circumstances with different players because Jacob Ramsey after a long time not being very fit to play 90 minutes, I chose to start him on the bench, but usually he is going to play a lot of minutes and in the starting XI. "I want us to be competitive in the squad with the players and try to be ready for the long season, in the Premier League, in the Champions League and in the other cups." Unai Emery “Nothing has changed. One more day in business. Happy to score again and bring three more points to the bag, the fans were amazing today.” Jhon Durán
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