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Spending 10% of our rivals over a three year period and still competing with them is wild. #AVFC

Most goal involvements for Aston Villa players against Bournemouth in the Premier League era ⤵️ #AVFC | #AFCB

122 games under Unai Emery is still a purple patch apparently. Feels like the norm to me now. Brighton and Brentford have more points than you lot over that time. #AVFC

Kenan Yıldız is the only player across all leagues and all ages on the @Stathead database to record 20+ Progressive Carries, 10+ Shot-Creating Actions and 10+ Successful Take-Ons in a single game. If you make that search a Triple-Double, only four different players have recorded 10+ in all three stats in a single Big Five European league game: ✪ Neymar ✪ Lionel Messi ✪ Ousmane Dembélé ✪ Kenan Yıldız And this stat doesn't even capture the 470 yards of Progressive Carrying Distance, 15 Touches in the Attacking Penalty Area, 8 Passes into the Penalty Area, 7 Carries into the Penalty Area, 6 Shots or 4 Key Passes. Statistically speaking, this is one of the best individual displays we've ever come across. Read more about the record-breaking display: bit.ly/3L3LAzD

Since the start of December, no player has scored more Premier League goals than Ollie Watkins. Watkins is looking to score in 4+ consecutive appearances in the competition for just the third time, and first since April 2023. #AVFC

🚨❗ Aston Villa remain the most in form team in Europe's top five leagues since the end of September 😍 #AVFC

Morgan Rogers is the 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 English player to reach 𝐓𝐄𝐍 goal involvements in the Premier League this season 📊⤵️ #AVFC

Most goal involvements this season for Aston Villa in all competitions ⤵️ #AVFC

If anyone can explain why former Arsenal left-back Nuno Tavares is the most-viewed player in the great state of Maine, we're listening 🤯

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Our soccer maps go global. Here are the most viewed players pages across @fbref. ⚽️ See all of the maps here: info.fbref.com/25_fbref_seaso…

OHIO IS 🔶 & 🔷 😤 #AllForCincy #FCCincinnati | @fbref

Guys. I saw this chart while also having FBRef open. Good chance I’m skewing the numbers here.

Nuno Tavares as the most viewed player in Main is the funniest and most confusing thing I've seen today. Does he have cousins there? Amazing stuff from @fbref.

I enjoy @fbref's annual year in review maps. Second year in a row that the Spirit is the most viewed soccer team page in DC! I would also love to know more about the diehard *checks notes* Paris FC fan holding it down in *checks notes* Arkansas.

Since Rayan Cherki made his debut as a 15-year-old during the 2019/20 season, only eight players with at least 900 minutes across Europe’s Big Five Leagues in that time have averaged 2.5+ Key Passes and 2.5+ Passes into the Penalty Area per 90. Pep Guardiola: "Crosses are fine, right or left or which part of your feet, it doesn't matter. If it is effective it is fine but I like the simplicity because I learned from Messi that he never makes a mistake with the simple things." Cherki is one of the most effective players of his generation, rabonas and all: bit.ly/4pVcWXc

Of all goalkeepers to play in 𝐓𝐄𝐍+ Premier League games this season, Aston Villa's Emiliano Martinez has the best save percentage (78.6%) 😍 #AVFC

Since matchweek 6 of the Premier League, Aston Villa have more wins (7) and have earned more points than any other team in the competition (21). #AVFC

Since the start of 2017/18, only five players have recorded the following in a Premier League game: ✪ 3+ shots on target ✪ 3+ key passes ✪ 3+ passes into penalty area ✪ 3+ carries into penalty area ✪ 3+ successful take-ons ✪ 3+ fouls won Jérémy Doku is the youngest.

Mike Penders did a Manuel Neuer impression against Olympique Lyonnais. The Belgian became the first goalkeeper across Europe’s Big Five Leagues to complete 45+ Passes and record 5+ Defensive Actions Outside of the Penalty Area in a single game in 2025/26. But the stat doesn't stop there... Since the start of of the 2017/18 season, there are 51 records of that statline across Europe’s Big Five Leagues on the @fbref database: Penders is the only goalkeeper under the age of 24 on that list. The goalkeeper that features the most? Manuel Neuer. He's recorded that statline in nine different games, at least six more than any other goalkeeper. Let's see how many Penders picks up in his career.