Aston Villa fans have had their say on Sunday’s dismal Premier League loss against Crystal Palace and delivered another seething slate of negative player ratings.
Villa supporters submitted their player ratings via our AVF ratings form, which we’ll be inviting you to do via our social media throughout the 2025/26 season.
The process is simple. We’ll share a link at full time to ask fans to give every Villa player a score out of 10 – without a zero because we’re grown-ups and so are you – before adding in my own ratings from Aston Villa Review and taking an average.
These average scores will be used for Power Rankings each month and, ultimately, to crown a Player of the Season.
Marco Bizot – 5.0
It was an unplanned second appearance for Villa’s new goalkeeper. He gave away the penalty for the first goal, got caught under a cross for another, but in truth I don’t think he was anywhere near fully to blame for either.
Matty Cash – 4.4
Another week, another match in which Cash gets panned by all and sundry but shows up somewhere in the middle when it comes to actually putting a number on it. For me, this was his first actually poor performance of the new season.
Ezri Konsa – 4.8
Konsa was as culpable as Cash for Villa’s evident weak spot on the right side of their defence, a weakness exposed very easily to win Palace a penalty.
Tyrone Mings – 5.2
I don’t think Mings did much wrong in isolation. He’s been solid in all three games, in my view. But when you concede three goals at home, the defence didn’t do what it was there to do.
Ian Maatsen – 5.2
Maatsen got his first start of the season and, in the first, half demonstrated the in-possession areas in which he has the edge over Lucas Digne. But, in terms of impact on the game, that was basically it.
John McGinn – 6.4
Play McGinn in the right position and he’ll get on the ball, keep it moving, create forward momentum from midfield, and come out as the most improved player from the previous match. Easy.
Youri Tielemans – 5.2
In the brief periods in which Villa were on top – periods that didn’t really happen with any sort of intent against Brentford – Tielemans was at the heart of their possession. He’s a midfielder, Unai.
Donyell Malen – 5.4
Injuries to Boubacar Kamara and Amadou Onana forced the reshuffle in the middle and left a space off Ollie Watkins for Malen to get his highly anticipated first start of the season. He was, broadly, fine.
Morgan Rogers – 3.4
Rogers hasn’t had a great start to the season and he wasn’t loads better against Palace but I do think there’s a case to be made that he wasn’t Villa’s worst player on Sunday nor deserving of such a scathing rating.
Evann Guessand – 5.0
Guessand played 45 minutes in his first start and showed lots of the reasons Villa wanted to bring him in over the summer. He showed them in flashes, of course, because that’s all Villa managed to produce anywhere.
Ollie Watkins – 4.0
I remain unable to adequately gauge Watkins’ performances so far this season. Villa are giving him nothing.
Emi Buendía (on HT) – 6.6 – MOTM
Villa’s best player by far, for my money. Buendía replaced Guessand at the break and played with more intent, more graft and more quality than his teammates.
Bradley Burrowes (on 74) – 6.3
Pau Torres (on 74) – 4.8
Lucas Digne (on 83) – 5.0
Lamare Bogarde (on 84) – 5.0
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