Aston Villa sets a new record... but a negative one! | OneFootball

Things are not going well for Spaniard Unai Emery.

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The Unai Emery era at Aston Villa has opened not with a bang, but with an unsettling silence. A club known for its vibrant history is now defined by an unprecedented and worrying drought. The Villans are mired in a profound scoring crisis, a struggle so deep it has etched a new and unwanted chapter into the club's long record books.

Following a stifling goalless draw at Goodison Park against Everton, the club finds itself staring up from near the foot of the Premier League table.

This stalemate sealed a dismal milestone: for the first time ever, Aston Villa has failed to score in its opening four league matches of a season. This barren run has set them apart for all the wrong reasons, making them the solitary team across all of England’s top seven divisions yet to register a single goal.

The story of their season so far is a tale of frustrated attacks and breached defenses: a pair of 0-0 draws with Everton and Newcastle bookended by dispiriting defeats to Crystal Palace (0-3) and Brentford (0-1). The roots of this affliction, however, stretch back into the previous campaign. The last time a Villa player celebrated a Premier League goal was on May 16th against Tottenham; a concerning run that was extended by a 0-2 season-finale loss to Manchester United, leaving the club and its supporters anxiously waiting for a goal that simply will not come.