Aston Villa host Manchester City in matchweek eight of the Premier League

Aston Villa host Manchester City on 24 October 2026 at 14:30 Saudi Arabia time (the same as Damascus time), in a match in matchweek eight of the 2026/27 Premier League season, with the game broadcast on beIN Sports.

Aston Villa go into the match following a mixed run of results in their last five games, having beaten Viking 3-1, Newcastle United 1-0, and Fenerbahce by a wide margin of 6-0, drawn 2-2 with Brentford, and beaten Tottenham Hotspur 3-2.

Manchester City, on the other hand, arrive full of confidence after winning four of their last five matches, beating AEK Athens 5-1, Ipswich Town 3-2, winning 3-0 away at Liverpool, and beating Sunderland 5-3, with their only defeat coming against Paris Saint-Germain 2-4.

In the head-to-head record between the two sides, the last five meetings have seen results go back and forth, with Aston Villa beating Manchester City 2-1 on 24 May 2026, Villa beating City 1-0 on 26 October 2025, Manchester City beating Villa 2-1 on 22 April 2025, Villa beating City 2-1 on 21 December 2024, and Manchester City winning 4-1 on 3 April 2024.

Aston Villa will be without Matty Cash, A. Onana, Johan Bakayoko and Aaron Wan-Bissaka through injury. Manchester City, meanwhile, will be missing Antoine Semenyo, Mateo Kovacic, Matheus Nunes and Nico O'Reilly for the same reason.

In the league table, Manchester City top the standings with 21 points from 7 matches, having won all of them, scoring 19 goals and conceding 7. Aston Villa sit in twelfth place with 8 points from 7 matches, having won two, drawn two and lost three, scoring 7 goals and conceding 11.