The Premier League is set to restart on June 17 when Aston Villa and Sheffield United square off behind closed doors at Villa Park. As far as pivotal opening matches go, the league could certainly do worse: Villa currently occupies the 19th position in the table and desperately needs every point it can pick up […]
Aston Villa is in danger of being relegated from the Premier League to the second division of the English soccer pyramid for the second time in five years. The Villans have amassed just 25 points from a possible 75 and sit in 17th place, just 1 point clear of the relegation zone. FiveThirtyEight’s model doesn’t […]
History tells us that at least one and maybe two of the Premier League’s most recently promoted clubs — Aston Villa, Norwich City and Sheffield United — will be relegated at the end of the season and forced again to ply their trades a division down the English soccer pyramid. It’s rare that all three […]