Aston Villa's Jaden Philogene-Bidace set new record vs Birmingham City

Aston Villa youngster Jaden Philogene-Bidace has made an impressive start to his loan spell at Stoke City in the Championship.

The 20-year-old joined the Potters on loan in January after Steven Gerrard couldn't promise him enough first-team minutes at Villa Park until the end of the 2021/22 season.

And the winger has been in scintillating form since arriving at the bet365 Stadium.

Philogene-Bidace has so far made six appearances under Michael O'Neill and has started in Stoke's last four against Huddersfield, Swansea, Nottingham Forest and Birmingham City.

In the 2-2 draw against Villa's rivals Birmingham, Philogene-Bidace set a new Championship high for this season in terms of both attempted and successful dribbles.

He went head to head against an opponent 20 times and got around them 10 times, according to figures collected by StatsBomb.

Stoke boss O'Neill has been excited by the winger's contributions and believes he is a player who can offer his team a lot.

He said last week: “That’s part of the game now. For any wide player it’s not enough to be a winger, you have to do both sides of the game and that’s the challenge we’ve set to the players that play there.

“If you look at Jaden, for example, his physical data against Huddersfield was over 12km, which is outstanding. He was surprised himself because he didn’t realise he had that capacity. Probably playing in under-23s games he’s not been pushed as much to have that.

“If you’re going to play wide you’ve got to be able to do both sides of the game, you’ve got to be able to press, you’ve got to be able to deal with the ball and make things happen in the final third and now, for a wide player, you’ve got to score.

“When you’re only playing with one single striker