At A Glance
Yorkshire is the destination for Dean Smith’s Aston Villa on Saturday as they head to Elland Road to take on Leeds in the Premier League.
Ahead of kick-off, the sides are separated by just a single point after Villa lost to Leicester City and Leeds beat Southampton last time out.
The Villans do have two games in hand on their opponents, however, and will be looking to avenge a 3-0 defeat in the reverse fixture.

Smith’s team have been in fine form on their travels this term and have accumulated more points on the road (20) than at home (16).
Meanwhile, Leeds are enjoying their first season back in the top-flight, sitting two places below Villa in tenth.
Marcelo Bielsa’s men have been inconsistent on home turf, winning five, losing five and drawing two of their 12 league games at Elland Road.
Standout Stats

Leeds are looking to complete their first league double over Aston Villa since the 1975-76 campaign, following their 3-0 win at Villa Park earlier this season.
Aston Villa have won just two of their last 17 away league games against Leeds (D9 L6), with those victories coming in January and December 2000.
Leeds are looking to win consecutive league games against Aston Villa for the first time since April/August 1995. In the Premier League, the Whites have lost just one of their last eight meetings with the Villans (0-2 in February 2004).
Only Manchester United (17), Liverpool (14) and Newcastle (14) have won more Premier League away games in Yorkshire than Aston Villa (13). However, the Villans have failed to score in their last three top-flight visits to the county since beating Hull 2-0 in April 2010.
Leeds have lost five of their eight Premier League games played on Saturdays this season (W2 D1), while Aston Villa are unbeaten in their last six Saturday league games (W5 D1), keeping a clean sheet each time.
All three of Aston Villa’s Premier League games against promoted sides this season have finished 3-0, with the Villans beating Fulham and West Brom and losing to Leeds. Aston Villa are looking to win away against all three promoted teams in a single Premier League season for the first time.
When conceding at least once, Aston Villa have won just one of their last 22 Premier League games (D4 L17), losing nine of their last 10 since beating Liverpool 7-2 in October.
Leeds’ Patrick Bamford has scored five goals in his three starts in all competitions against Aston Villa, including the first Premier League hat-trick of his career in the reverse fixture earlier this season.
Aston Villa keeper Emiliano Martínez has a save percentage of 77.4% in the Premier League this season, the highest on record in a single top-flight campaign for the Villans (since 2003-04, min. 10 games). The Argentine has also kept 12 clean sheets this term, with Brad Friedel the last Villa goalkeeper to keep more than 12 in a top-flight season (15 in 2009-10).
The Last Meeting
Aston Villa’s perfect start to the Premier League season came crashing down with a 3-0 loss to Leeds at Villa Park.
After a cagey and goalless first half, Patrick Bamford was the architect of their downfall, firing in a 20-minute hat-trick.
Defeat ended Villa’s four-game winning run to start the campaign.
Team News

Matty Cash and Jack Grealish missed the last game against Leicester City through injury and both will once again be absent for the trip to Elland Road.
Bjorn Engels is fit after back spasms kept him out of the squad against the Foxes, while Kortney Hause and Wesley continue to progress in their comebacks.
For Leeds, Kalvin Phillips (calf), Rodrigo (groin), Robin Koch (knee), Gaetano Berardi (knee) and Adam Forshaw (hip) are all ruled out.
Mateusz Klich is a doubt after limping off in their last game against Southampton.
The Boss
“I think there are an awful lot of similarities between the two teams. We got to the Premier League a year earlier than Leeds and we had our struggles last season. We lost a few of our key players to injuries for the season – Wesley, John McGinn and Tom Heaton. We had our struggles and we managed to stay up. Leeds have hit the ground running and found that it’s a real tough league and you can be inconsistent. They’ve done fantastically well and there are similarities between how both teams play.”
Dean Smith