Newcastle United vs Aston Villa Preview

Aston Villa arrive at St. James’ Park on Saturday evening off the back of a 6-0 home win over Fenerbahçe in the Champions League on Wednesday, while Newcastle are coming off a 4-1 defeat away at Coventry on Monday. The gap in recent results is wide, with Villa unbeaten in five and Newcastle having conceded eight goals across their two league defeats in that time. In the Premier League table, Newcastle sit 11th on eight points and Villa are 16th on five, so the hosts hold a three-point cushion but have lost two of their last three league games. A Villa win would level them with Newcastle on eight points, while a home win would take Newcastle to 11. Kick-off in Newcastle is at 5:30pm UK time.

Newcastle’s last five read W2 D1 L2, with seven goals scored and 11 conceded. The latest was Monday’s 4-1 defeat away at Coventry in the Premier League, the heaviest of the five and a game in which they scored once. Before that, Hull were beaten 2-1 at home on 19 September, and Leeds won 4-1 against Newcastle on 14 September, a second four-goal concession in the run. Further back, Newcastle won 1-0 away at Millwall in the EFL Cup on 8 September and drew 2-2 at home with Bournemouth on 5 September. Their two home games in the sample at St. James’ Park brought a win and a draw, four points from a possible six. Newcastle scored in every game but kept just one clean sheet, the 1-0 at Millwall.

Aston Villa are unbeaten in five, with four wins and a draw, scoring 17 goals and conceding six. Wednesday’s 6-0 home win over Fenerbahçe in the Champions League is the latest and the biggest margin of the five, a thumping by any measure. Before that, Brentford held Villa to a 2-2 draw at home in the Premier League on 10 October. Further back, Sevilla were beaten 3-1 away in a friendly on 2 October, Tottenham 3-2 away in the league on 19 September, and Coventry 3-1 away in the EFL Cup on 16 September. Three of the five were played away from home and Villa won all three, scoring nine. They have scored at least twice in every game of the run, though they have conceded in four of the five.

The five most recent meetings are level, with two wins apiece for Aston Villa and Newcastle and one draw, and the goals are level too at 7-7. The latest was Newcastle’s 3-1 win away at Aston Villa in the FA Cup on 14 February 2026, and before that Villa won 2-0 at St. James’ Park in the league on 25 January 2026. None of the five was decided by a single goal, with the margins running from a 0-0 draw to Villa’s 4-1 win at Villa Park on 19 April 2025. Newcastle also won 3-0 at home on 26 December 2024, so the Villa win in January 2026 is the only defeat the hosts have suffered at St. James’ Park in the sample.

Newcastle are 11th in the Premier League table on eight points with a goal difference of -3, and Villa are 16th on five points with -5. A win would take Villa to eight points, level with Newcastle’s current total.

In the UK, the match is live on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League, with Sky Go UK, NOW and SKY GO Extra streaming. Viewers in the USA can watch on NBC, with fuboTV and UNIVERSO NOW streaming, while in Canada it’s on DAZN Canada, fuboTV Canada and Fubo Sports Network 7 Canada. In Ireland, Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League carry the game.

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