MATCH FACTS

■■Aston Villa have picked up back-to-back victories in the Premier League for the first time since November in Steven Gerrard’s first two games in charge.

■■Aston Villa registered their biggest Premier League win since winning 7-2 against Liverpool in October 2020. It was the Villans’ biggest league win over Southampton since a 4-0 victory in the second tier back in September 1936.

■■Since the start of last season, only Harry Kane (31) and Jamie Vardy (25) have more Premier League goals among Englishmen than Aston Villa’s Ollie Watkins (21).

■■Philippe Coutinho has been directly involved in six goals in four home Premier League appearances for Aston Villa (3 goals, 3 assists). Coutinho has now both scored and assisted in three of his last six home Premier League appearances (for Liverpool vs Swansea in 2017, Villa vs Leeds in February and in today’s game).

■■Aston Villa striker Danny Ings has been directly involved in nine goals in his last eight Premier League appearances against sides he’s previous played for in the competition (6 goals, 3 assists). Ings today became the third player to assist twice in a Premier League game against Southampton after playing for them in the competition, after Jim Magilton (2000 for Ipswich Town) and Luke Shaw (2021 for Man Utd). ■■Aston Villa’s Danny Ings registered his 16th and 17th Premier League assists, with 14 of those coming in home games (82%) – among the 384 players with more than 15 assists in the competition, only José Antonio Reyes (90%, 19/21) and Juninho Paulista (89%, 16/18) have a higher ratio of their assists in home matches.