Aston Villa 3-1 Fulham: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 28 September 2025

Result

Aston Villa 3-1 Fulham

Premier League · Sunday 28 September 2025, 13:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Aston Villa 3-1 Fulham: match report

Aston Villa beat Fulham 3-1 in the Premier League on Sunday 28 September 2025. The half-time score was 1-1.

Raúl Jiménez opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Ollie Watkins (37'), John McGinn (49') and Emiliano Buendía (51'). Fulham scored through Raúl Jiménez (3').

Discipline: Aston Villa received 1 yellow card; Fulham received 5 yellow cards.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 18th on 3 points from 5 and Fulham 9th on 8 points from 5. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 4th with 65 points, and Fulham 11th with 52.

Aston Villa lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Fulham in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Emiliano Buendía of Aston Villa (7.8), ahead of Lucas Digne (7.5).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 7 Aston Villa wins, 0 draws and 3 for Fulham.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Goal · Raúl JiménezFulham · 0-1
  • 22'Yellow card · Josh KingFulham
  • 34'Yellow card · Saša LukićFulham
  • 37'Goal · Ollie WatkinsAston Villa · 1-1
  • 45+1'Yellow card · Harry WilsonFulham
  • 45+2'Yellow card · Marco SilvaFulham
  • 45+5'Yellow card · John McGinnAston Villa
  • 49'Goal · John McGinnAston Villa · 2-1
  • 51'Goal · Emiliano BuendíaAston Villa · 3-1
  • 55'Yellow card · Calvin BasseyFulham

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Aston Villa 7, draws 0, Fulham 3.

Team news

Aston Villa line-up (4-2-3-1)

Emiliano Martínez, Matty Cash, Ezri Konsa, Tyrone Mings, Lucas Digne, John McGinn, Lamare Bogarde, Evann Guessand, Harvey Elliott, Morgan Rogers, Ollie Watkins

Fulham line-up (4-2-3-1)

Bernd Leno, Timothy Castagne, Joachim Andersen, Calvin Bassey, Ryan Sessegnon, Saša Lukić, Sander Berge, Harry Wilson, Josh King, Alex Iwobi, Raúl Jiménez