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Matt Slater discusses the big talking points from the Premier League games, where Villa snuck into the title race - and own goals were king
Manchester United legend Rio Ferdinand says Aston Villa ‘have to be’ considered genuine title challengers after their strong start to the season. Villa have bounced back from a wretched start to the campaign to establish themselves as the form team in the Premier League heading into the Christmas period.
Khadija Shaw scores four goals as Manchester City beat Aston Villa to ensure they will take a six-point lead in the Women's Super League into 2026.
Aston Villa can be title challengers believes former striker. Watch Premier League live with Fubo Sports on DAZN
The Villa forward then went on to make it 3-2 with a spanking long-ranger drive that ensured Villa kept pace with Arsenal and Manchester City but also maintained their lead over fourth-placed Chelsea at five points.
Bunny Shaw's Manchester City Women career has been elevated to a new level.The Jamaica international continues to go from strength to strength with her ninth goal in 14 appearance during Sunday's WSL
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Four Star Bunny Helps Manchester City Women Thrash Villa
Bunny Shaw helped herself to four goals as Manchester City ended their 2025 WSL campaign in style by hitting six past Aston Villa. Jamaican striker Bunny Shaw was on fire, hitting four of the six with goals from Aoba Fujino and Viveanne Miedema sandwiched in between.
Aston Villa surged back to beat West Ham 3-2 at the London Stadium on Sunday as Unai Emery's side have won six in a row to put themselves in the Premier League title race. Mateus Fernandes and Jarrod Bowen gave West Ham the lead twice in the first half after a Konstantinos Mavropanos own goal had made it 1-1.
Manchester City thumped Crystal Palace 3-0 on Sunday to climb back to within two points of Premier League leaders Arsenal as Aston Villa twice came from behind to beat West Ham.Elsewhere, Nottingham Forest demolished Tottenham 3-0 while Sunderland saw off local rivals Newcastle 1-0 thanks to a Nick Woltemade own goal.