Super-sub Watkins scores twice as Villa beat Chelsea to win 11th in a row!
Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Sky Sports
4.0 • 760 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The next sale. |
| 0:01.7 | At least 50% off all next sale items. |
| 0:05.3 | Now on in store and online. |
| 0:07.7 | Check stores for opening times while stocks last. |
| 0:17.3 | This is the Sky Sports Premier League podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | Thanks for joining us. The festive football continued at |
| 0:22.6 | Stamford Bridge with Chelsea against Aston Villa on Saturday night football. This is how we saw |
| 0:28.0 | things at full time. |
| 0:36.5 | Well, if they've gone under the radar before, not anymore. |
| 0:40.3 | Aston Villa very much in this three-way battle for the title and it's Olly Watkins |
| 0:46.3 | who's rescued them in their Christmas program coming off the bench to hit two and turn around this game against Chelsea of whom they now move 10 points clear |
| 0:58.6 | they are up there on the shoulders of Manchester City and the leaders Arsenal who |
| 1:03.6 | they play next on Ollie Watkins 30th birthday but the celebrations for him today are clear and present because in a game that |
| 1:13.6 | Favila didn't promise much in the first half when they conceded to a Reese James Corner |
| 1:18.6 | turned in by Xiao Pedro. It was transformed by a triple substitution from Unaimri and Cole Palmer dejected when he was taken off pretty much |
| 1:31.4 | sums up the mood here at Chelsea at the moment because Villa have moved further clear of them |
| 1:38.2 | and restated their own credentials to stay up there this season with Arsenal and with City. It has finished |
| 1:46.3 | here at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea won, Aston Villa 2. And it's a win that is equaled the |
| 1:54.2 | all-time club record of 11 successive wins for Aston Villa. From a goal down, Steve, to winning it to1. Did you expect it? Well, no, not at all, not a half time. When we've done the analysis and the way we see Aston Villa play in the first half, they was very, very poor, couldn't get out there our own half. You know, with their four, four complete passes in the final third. But you know in football when the scores 1-0 and |
| 2:18.3 | me and Joe you've been on a team that we've experienced this, you're just waiting for that |
| 2:22.3 | one moment, just a half chance, just a bit of play to give yourself a bit of confidence and |
| 2:27.3 | that's all this Asson Villa team needs and we see that and they just built on that and grew |
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