Aston Villa

Official BSC Young Boys vs Aston Villa starting lineups 2024 | Playing XI YB 0-3 AVFC UCL Group Stage

Here are the official starting lineups and substitutes used for YB vs Aston Villa in the latter’s first ever Champions League match of the modern UCL era. Unai Emery’s side qualified for the Champions League after a fine domestic campaign in 2023/24.

BSC YB 0-3 Aston Villa (Tielemans, Ramsey, Onana)

Aston Villa starting XI vs BSC Young Boys September 17, 2024

Emi Martinez, Bogarde (Diego Carlos 46′), Pau Torres, Konsa, Digne (Barkley 88′), Ramsey, Onana, Tielemans (Maatsen 87′), McGinn, Watkins (Duran 60′), Rogers (Buendia 88′)

AVFC first UCL lineup 2024

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List of Chelsea FC hat tricks in Premier League ( CFC hat trick scorers in EPL)

Gavin Peacock was the first Chelsea player to score a Premier League hat trick back in the 1995/96 season.

Cole Palmer has the most number of hat tricks for Chelsea in Premier League history (4). Among currently active players in the Premier League, only Man City’s Erling Haaland has scored more hat tricks than Palmer.

Hasselbaink, Drogba, Lampard, Hazard and Palmer have multiple EPL hat tricks in Chelsea colours.

Chelsea FC have 24 different players who have scored a hat trick in Premier League history as of the 2025/26 season.

Here’s the full list of CFC EPL hat trick scorers so far (PL era starting 1992)

1 Gavin Peacock (v Middlesbrough 1996)
2 Mark Hughes (v Leeds 1996)

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Two BIG Watkins misses, Morgan Rogers vs Partey & Rice, Calafiori league debut- Talking Points & Analysis from AVFC v Arsenal

Morgan Rogers vs Partey Rice 2024

Arsenal maintained their unbeaten start to the new Premier League season with a 2-0 win over Aston Villa on Saturday evening. The result was a crucial one for the Gunners, given that AVFC had beaten AFC both home and away in the PL in 2023-24.

Here are our talking points from the game

Two BIG Ollie Watkins misses for Aston Villa

This could’ve been a completely different game for Villa had Ollie Watkins converted two glorious chances for them before Arsenal scored. For the first one, he shot wide after some excellent Villa pressing had forced Gabriel Magalhaes into a mistake. For the second, Watkins’ header was brilliantly saved by David Raya from point blank range.

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