With Aston Villa winless in seven matches in all competitions, football writer Alex Keble looks at how Unai Emery could respond ahead of Sunday's trip to Chelsea. Aston Villa are one of several Premier League clubs who are probably relieved to find the table so unusually compressed at the one-third stage of the season.

Nil-Nil in Birmingham between Aston Villa and Juventus, but the result does not tell the whole story of what was an exciting match involving an injury-hit Juve, who came to England with just 14 fit

Emiliano Martinez produced a wonder save and Aston Villa were controversially denied a last-gasp winner in a 0-0 Champions League draw with Juventus on Wednesday.