Unai Emery will hope his first game as Villa boss goes better than his opposite number’s at Man Utd. A debut like Frank Lampard or David Moyes would be nice.
Here’s how we’ve ranked every manager’s first match in charge of their current club…
19) Erik ten Hag: Man Utd 1-2 Brighton
August 7, 2022
If Ten Hag needed an illustration of the size of task before him, this was it. A miserable home defeat, with Cristian Eriksen starting as a false nine, was followed by an even more wretched embarrassment at Brentford before United belatedly got their sh*t together.
18) Thomas Frank: Brentford 0-1 Bristol City
October 20, 2018
Frank’s first game as Bees head coach was an 89th-minute defeat to Bristol City after the hosts had played more than half an hour with 10 men after Chris Mepham was sent off.
17) Brendan Rodgers: Watford 2-1 Leicester
March 3, 2019
The Brendan era began with a 92nd-minute defeat at his former club Watford thanks to Andre Gray’s late show after Jamie Vardy had cancelled out Troy Deeney’s early opener.
16) Patrick Vieira: Chelsea 3-0 Crystal Palace
August 14, 2021
Vieira had a debut to forget as Palace boss when his side went to Stamford Bridge and were easily brushed aside by the then-European champions. He was the third consecutive manager, after Frank De Boer and Roy Hodgson, to lose his first match in charge of the Eagles.
15) Steve Davis: Chelsea 3-0 Wolves
October 8, 2022
The interim coach took over after Wolves had lost 2-0 at West Ham and they fared no better when Davis took them back to London a week later to be brushed aside by Graham Potter’s Chelsea.
14) Eddie Howe: Newcastle 3-3 Brentford
November 20, 2021
It wasn’t a terrible result, especially when 3-2 down with 15 minutes remaining, when Howe presided over his first game in charge, but Wor Eddie had to do so from his hotel room after catching a dose of the ‘rona.
13) Jesse Marsch: Leicester 1-0 Leeds
March 5, 2022
Jesse Marsch hates Leicester. Leeds were abject when losing there this season and his first game in charge there ended in defeat too, with Harvey Barnes’ strike heightening the Whites’ relegation fears.
12) Ralph Hasenhuttl: Cardiff 1-0 Southampton
December 8, 2018
Jannik Vestergaard gifted son of Sam Allardyce, Callum Paterson, a 73rd-minute winner, as Saints continued on their worst run of form in 20 years. Arsenal rolled over for Ralph in his first home game in charge to give him a 3-2 win the following week.
11) Graham…
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