Follow live coverage as Ipswich Town face Aston Villa today in the Premier League. Another top-flight season will be covered in full right here with The Independent, as reigning champions Manchester City look to make it an unprecedented five titles in a row come the end of 2024/25.
The likes of Arsenal and Liverpool will be chasing Pep Guardiola’s side, but just as fascinating will be the race for Champions League places, with more teams than ever before having designs on top-four finishes. Chelsea remain big-spending, Manchester United’s latest rebuild continues and both Tottenham and Newcastle will expect improvements this year – yet it was Aston Villa who snared fourth last term.
Meanwhile, it’s Southampton, Leicester City and Ipswich Town who made it back to the elite after promotion last year and each will have hope they can make it more than a one-year stay. Follow the latest live action from the Premier League below:
Ipswich Town vs Aston Villa LIVE: Premier League updates
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Ipswich host Aston Villa in Premier League
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Ipswich: Muric, Tuanzebe, O’Shea, Greaves, Davis, Morsy, Phillips, Ogbene, Giraud-Hutchinson, Clarke, Delap
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Aston Villa: Martinez, Konsa, Diego Carlos, Torres, Digne, Onana, Tielemans, Bailey, Rogers, Ramsey, Watkins
Ipswich Town FC 0 – 0 Aston Villa FC
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Tielemans with a bit of space, and he fancies his chances from 30 yards – his powerful attempt flies over Muric but Ipswich can’t afford to give the Belgian that much room with his striking prowess.
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Without their captain McGinn today, the midfielder may prove to be a bigger loss than expected. Under Unai Emery, his side average 1.6 pts/game and have a 43% win rate in the league without McGinn – this is compared to 1.9 pts/game and 59% win rate in the competition with the Scot. Can Ipswich make the most of his absence?
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Ipswich Town get us underway!
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The players are getting ready to step out onto the Portman Road pitch here in Ipswich…
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Aston Villa only make one, presumably forced, change from their win against Wolves in the league, as injured John McGinn is replaced by Bailey today. Since Unai Emery’s first Aston Villa game in November 2022, only Erling Haaland (66) and Mohamed Salah (59) have been involved in more Premier League goals than Ollie Watkins (53 – 35 goals, 18 assists). The Englishman will be looking to build on his strong start to the league season so far, having already bagged three goals in five games.
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Kieran McKenna makes a few changes to his side from their last league outing against Southampton, with Phillips, Clarke and Ogbene coming in for Szmodics, Burns and Jens-Lys Cajuste. Putting a focus on Hutchinson starting again today, Ipswich will be looking for him to stop Aston Villa building play from deep – only Bournemouth’s Marcus Tavernier (197) has applied more pressures to opponents in the Premier League this season than him (196).
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SUBS: Joe Gauci, Ian Maatsen, Kosta Nedeljkovic, Lamare Bogarde, Sil Swinkels, Emiliano Buendia, Ross Barkley, Jaden Philogene-Bidace, Jhon Duran
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ASTON VILLA (4-2-3-1): Emiliano Martinez; Lucas Digne, Pau Torres, Diego Carlos, Ezri Konsa; Youri Tielemans, Amadou Onana; Jacob Ramsey, Morgan Rogers, Leon Bailey; Ollie Watkins
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SUBS: Christian Walton, Ben Johnson, Conor Townsend, Conor Chaplin, Jack Taylor, Massimo Luongo, Sammie Szmodics, George Hirst, Wes Burns
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IPSWICH TOWN (4-2-3-1): Arijanet Muric; Leif Davis, Jacob Greaves, Dara O’Shea, Axel Tuanzebe; Kalvin Phillips, Sam Morsy; Jack Clarke, Omari Hutchinson, Chiedozie Ogbene; Liam Delap
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Hello and welcome to today’s coverage of matchday six of the 2024-25 Premier League season. In the first match of Sunday’s action, Ipswich Town face Aston Villa. Stay tuned for all the action as it happens.
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On the flipside, the away team are in hot form right now and a win today would propel The Villans to joint-top with Liverpool on 15 points. Aston Villa manager, Unai Emery, also bodes a pretty impressive record when facing newly promoted sides. In 18 Premier League matches, he has a win percentage of 78% (W14 D2 L2), winning nine out of 10 as Villa boss including victory in all four away games. And being on the road won’t phase his current team either as they’ve won their first two away Premier League matches this season – only once in their league history have they opened a season with three away wins, doing so in 2020-21. Can they match that today?
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This fixture introduces two teams in pretty contrasting form looking at their opening five games in the league. Ipswich Town come into the clash having drawn their last three games and are yet to record three points to their tally, leaving them sitting in the relegation zone at 18th place. The Tractor Boys last had a longer winless start to a top-flight season in 1982-83, in which it was their opening six games. They’ll be keen to rectify their recent form today, but history tells us that Villa may not be the ideal opponent to get their first win – Ipswich have won just one of their 10 Premier League games against Aston Villa (D2 L7), and that was back in 1994!
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