Spurs vs Aston Villa (WSL) | Key stats | Continuing our strong defensive record
Sat 06 December 2025, 09:00|
Tottenham Hotspur
Lize Kop and our backline will be looking to continue our strong defensive record in Sunday’s lunchtime kick-off against Aston Villa at Brisbane Road.
Prior to the final international break of the calendar year, we recorded back-to-back clean sheets across two different competitions – against Arsenal in the Barclays Women’s Super League and Bristol City in the Women’s League Cup – taking our tally to seven shutouts this term, with four of those coming in the WSL.
In fact, three of our four clean sheets in the league have come at home and we’re just two away from matching our record for the most clean sheets on home turf in a single WSL campaign – previously five in the 2021/22 season.
We also head into this weekend’s clash boasting a strong record at Brisbane Road so far this term, losing just once in our seven games across all competitions and could go four games unbeaten at home for the first time since February, 2022.
However, we will come up against one of the strongest teams in the WSL away from home this season.
Villa, alongside Chelsea, are the only two sides in England’s top flight that remain unbeaten on the road, while they’ve conceded the least amount of goals away from Villa Park (one).
And Natalia Arroyo’s side are unbeaten in their last four trips to E10 in the WSL, although we did come out on top in a penalty shootout in the Subway Women’s League Cup earlier in this campaign after a goalless draw in the 90 minutes.
Here are some other headline pre-match facts, courtesy of Opta, ahead of the WSL clash:
- Aston Villa recorded 22 shots on MD9 against London City Lionesses, their most ever in a WSL game they lost (1-3) – only West Ham (5.8%) have a worse shot conversion rate than the Villans (8.1%) this term.
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Three of the seven lowest expected goals from open play tallies in WSL games this season belong to Tottenham Hotspur (0.13 vs Arsenal, 0.14 vs Man City, 0.16 vs Chelsea) – only Leicester (0.40) and Everton (0.61) average less xG from open play per game than Spurs this season (0.65).
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Martin Ho has led his team to four clean sheets in nine league games this season; the only English managers to keep more through their first 10 games as a manager in the Women’s Super League are Laura Harvey (seven in 2011), David Parker (six in 2011), Mo Marley (five in 2011) and Scott Rogers (five in 2016).
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Aston Villa’s Rachel Daly has only been directly involved in more WSL goals against Reading (eight – six goals, two assists) than us (seven – five goals, two assists), scoring or assisting in each of her five starts for the Villans versus Spurs in the competition.
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Only Aston Villa’s Anna Patten and West Ham United’s Shelina Zadorsky (both 56) have recorded more clearances than Clare Hunt in the WSL this season (51), while only Patten (16) has made more blocks than the Australian’s 15.
