Ipswich Town vs Aston Villa LIVE: Premier League result and reaction as Liam Delap scores twice to save point

Kieran McKenna makes a few changes to his side from their last league outing against Southampton, with Phillips, Clarke and Ogbene coming in for Szmodics, Burns and Jens-Lys Cajuste. Putting a focus on Hutchinson starting again today, Ipswich will be looking for him to stop Aston Villa building play from deep – only Bournemouth’s Marcus Tavernier (197) has applied more pressures to opponents in the Premier League this season than him (196).

SUBS: Joe Gauci, Ian Maatsen, Kosta Nedeljkovic, Lamare Bogarde, Sil Swinkels, Emiliano Buendia, Ross Barkley, Jaden Philogene-Bidace, Jhon Duran

ASTON VILLA (4-2-3-1): Emiliano Martinez; Lucas Digne, Pau Torres, Diego Carlos, Ezri Konsa; Youri Tielemans, Amadou Onana; Jacob Ramsey, Morgan Rogers, Leon Bailey; Ollie Watkins

SUBS: Christian Walton, Ben Johnson, Conor Townsend, Conor Chaplin, Jack Taylor, Massimo Luongo, Sammie Szmodics, George Hirst, Wes Burns

IPSWICH TOWN (4-2-3-1): Arijanet Muric; Leif Davis, Jacob Greaves, Dara O'Shea, Axel Tuanzebe; Kalvin Phillips, Sam Morsy; Jack Clarke, Omari Hutchinson, Chiedozie Ogbene; Liam Delap

Hello and welcome to today’s coverage of matchday six of the 2024-25 Premier League season. In the first match of Sunday's action, Ipswich Town face Aston Villa. Stay tuned for all the action as it happens.

On the flipside, the away team are in hot form right now and a win today would propel The Villans to joint-top with Liverpool on 15 points. Aston Villa manager, Unai Emery, also bodes a pretty impressive record when facing newly promoted sides. In 18 Premier League matches, he has a win percentage of 78% (W14 D2 L2), winning nine out of 10 as Villa boss including victory in all four away games. And being on the road won’t phase his current team either as they’ve won their first two away Premier League matches this season – only once in their league history have they opened a season with three away wins, doing so in 2020-21. Can they match that today?

This fixture introduces two teams in pretty contrasting form looking at their opening five games in the league. Ipswich Town come into the clash having drawn their last three games and are yet to record three points to their tally, leaving them sitting in the relegation zone at 18th place. The Tractor Boys last had a longer winless start to a top-flight season in 1982-83, in which it was their opening six games. They’ll be keen to rectify their recent form today, but history tells us that Villa may not be the ideal opponent to get their first win – Ipswich have won just one of their 10 Premier League games against Aston Villa (D2 L7), and that was back in 1994!

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