CHERRIES fell to defeat at Aston Villa on Saturday, losing 3-0 to Unai Emery’s Villans.

After the high of victory over European heavyweights Liverpool in the preceding fixture, the result sees Cherries left licking their wounds as they head into the international break.

A win at Villa Park would have been Cherries’ first back-to-back wins in the Premier League this season, and their first in the top-flight since February 2020.

But rather than dwell on stats that could have been, here are numbers and figures that are indeed a fact:

1 - The Cherries have kept just one clean sheet in their last 24 Premier League away matches, conceding 61 goals. It is a run that spans two seasons and three managers – the 2019/20 and 2022/23 campaigns, with Eddie Howe, Scott Parker, and Gary O’Neil in the dugout. The clean sheet was Cherries’ last away win, the 1-0 victory over Wolves under O’Neil back in February.

10 - Dominic Solanke has gone 10 league appearances in a row without scoring. It is his longest drought in the Premier League since he went without a goal in 38 top-flight fixtures after first joining Cherries in January 2019.

536 – David Brooks made his first appearance in 536 days when he replaced Adam Smith with 11 minutes to go. He last appeared in Cherries’ 0-0 draw with Peterborough United in the Championship back in September 2021.

14 - Villa are the only team to have scored in all of their Premier League fixtures since Unai Emery was appointed boss, a run of 14 games.

100 – Emery has a 100 per cent record as Cherries as a manager, previously taking former side Arsenal to three victories against the Dorset club.

1 – Victory for the Villans is their first win against newly promoted opposition this season. They fell to an opening day 2-0 defeat to Cherries at the Vitality, also losing away to Fulham and drawing at Nottingham Forest’s County Ground. (P4 W1 D1 L2). It is also the first occasion in the Premier League Villa have defeated Cherries at home (P3 W1 D0 L2).

4 - Aston Villa’s win ends a run of four straight defeats against Cherries. The last time Villa came out on top in the fixture was in Cherries’ first ever Premier League game, Rudy Gestede separating the two sides at the Vitality Stadium in August 2015.

169 - Adam Smith has become Cherries’ highest appearance maker in the Premier League with 169 games. He eclipses former teammate Steve Cook, who managed 168 whilst on the south coast.

16 – Cherries have conceded 16 times from set-pieces this campaign, the highest in the Premier League. That is not including the six penalties also converted by the opposition, giving a total of 22 goals from dead-ball situations.