Game #5333
Saturday, 6 February 2016
Attendance: 32,472
Won
Premier League
20th (-)
Norwich City
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟩
Villa Park
Villa win for the second time in five Premier League games with two draws and a defeat - their best run of the season.
Aston Villa
2-0
Norwich City
Assist(s) | Jordan Veretout | 51’ |
KEY MAN
Gabby Agbonlahor scores for the eleventh consecutive Premier League season, Saturday, 6 February 2016.
RELATED MATCHES
MATCH TIMELINE
⚽ | 45’ Goal, 1-0, Own Goal, Timm Klose
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 Norwich City
⚽ | 51’ Goal, 2-0, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Assist by Jordan Veretout
🔁 | 90’+1 Sub off, Micah Richards, Sub on, Ciaran Clark
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 2-0 Norwich City
ON THIS DAY
Rémi Garde’s Villa win for the second time under his leadership in the Premier League and only the third time in twenty five games this season.
As a result Villa remained bottom but closed the gap to safety to eight points.
Meanwhile, Gabby Agbonlahor’s strike - his first in twenty one games - meant he had now scored in eleven consecutive Premier League seasons for Villa.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Norwich City
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1984–85
FIXTURE HISTORY
Previous 5 vs. Norwich: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2015-16 |
Matchday | #31 |
League Game | #25 |
Manager Game | #17 |
Saturday, 6 February 2016
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Rémi Garde | 🇫🇷 | L'Arbresle, 2015-2016
Referee: Martin Atkinson | 🏴 | West Riding, 2003-2022
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Score: 🟩 2-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟩
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Martin Atkinson | 🏴 | West Riding, 2003-2022
Previous 5: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 19 Dec 15, Villa 1-1 Newcastle (a)
Cards: 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Mike Mullarkey, Stephen Child
CARDS
Villa
None
Norwich City
🟨 🟨
TEAM NEWS
Ashley Westwood replaces Jordan Ayew (suspension).
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age: | 26.96 |
Oldest Player: CB Joleon Lescott | 🏴 | 33.50 |
Youngest Player: M Jordan Veretout | 🇫🇷 | 22.95 |
MANAGER
Rémi Garde | 🇫🇷 |
MANAGER
Alex Neil | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Mark Bunn | 🏴 |
RB Aly Cissokho | 🇫🇷 |
CB Micah Richards | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CB Jores Okore | 🇩🇰 |
CB Joleon Lescott | 🏴 |
M Jordan Veretout | 🇫🇷 | 🔥 |
M Ashley Westwood | 🏴 |
M Idrissa Gueye | 🇸🇳 |
M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 |
W Carles Gil | 🇪🇸 |
CF Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 | ⚽ |
Norwich City
GK Declan Rudd | 🏴 |
CB Russell Martin | 🏴 |
CB Sébastien Bassong | 🇨🇲 |
CB Timm Klose |🇨🇭| 🟨 |
M Robbie Brady | 🇮🇪 |
M Jonny Howson | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Wes Hoolahan | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
M Youssuf Mulumbu | 🇨🇩 | 🔁 |
M Gary O’Neil | 🏴 |
F Steven Naismith | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CF Dieumerci Mbokani | 🇨🇩 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 | for CB Micah Richards | 🏴 | 90’+1 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | W Nathan Redmond | 🏴 | for M Youssuf Mulumbu | 🇨🇩 | 56’ |
🔁 | CF Patrick Bamford | 🏴 | for M Wes Hoolahan | 🇮🇪 | 56’ |
🔁 | W Matt Jarvis | 🏴 | for F Steven Naismith | 🏴 | 80’ |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
LB Kieran Richardson | 🏴 |
M Jordan Lyden | 🇦🇺 |
M Jack Grealish | 🏴 |
CF Keinan Davis | 🏴 |
W Scott Sinclair | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK John Ruddy | 🏴 |
RB Ivo Pinto | 🇵🇹 |
LB Martin Olsson | 🇸🇪 |
CF Cameron Jerome | 🏴 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £32.14m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Subs Cost: £0.00m
Team Cost: £32.14m
Squad Cost: £36.87m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/18
Homegrown: 4/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 | £0.90m |
GK Mark Bunn | 🏴 | Free |
RB Aly Cissokho | 🇫🇷 | £2.26m |
LB Kieran Richardson | 🏴 | £0.68m |
CB Jores Okore | 🇩🇰 | £4.23m |
CB Joleon Lescott | 🏴 | £1.26m |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 | Youth |
CB Micah Richards | 🏴 | Free |
M Jordan Veretout | 🇫🇷 | £9.00m |
M Idrissa Gueye | 🇸🇳 | £8.10m |
M Ashley Westwood | 🏴 | £2.25m |
M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | £1.26m |
M Jordan Lyden | 🇦🇺 | Youth |
M Jack Grealish | 🏴 | Youth |
W Carles Gil | 🇪🇸 | £3.78m |
W Scott Sinclair | 🏴 | £3.15m |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 | Youth |
CF Keinan Davis | 🏴 | Free |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £31.10m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Subs Cost: £4.86m
Team Cost: £35.96m
Squad Cost: £43.73m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 10/18
Homegrown: 1/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK John Ruddy | 🏴 | £0.51m |
GK Declan Rudd | 🏴 | Youth |
RB Ivo Pinto | 🇵🇹 | £3.16m |
LB Martin Olsson | 🇸🇪 | £2.48m |
CB Timm Klose |🇨🇭| £9.41m |
CB Sébastien Bassong | 🇨🇲 | £2.57m |
CB Russell Martin | 🏴 | Free |
M Robbie Brady | 🇮🇪 | £8.47m |
M Jonny Howson | 🏴 | £0.94m |
M Wes Hoolahan | 🇮🇪 | £0.32m |
M Youssuf Mulumbu | 🇨🇩 | Free |
M Gary O’Neil | 🏴 | Free |
W Matt Jarvis | 🏴 | £2.90m |
W Nathan Redmond | 🏴 | £1.96m |
F Steven Naismith | 🏴 | £9.39m |
CF Cameron Jerome | 🏴 | £1.62m |
CF Dieumerci Mbokani | 🇨🇩 | Loan |
CF Patrick Bamford | 🏴 | Loan |
UNAVAILABLE
Injury | 6 |
LB Jordan Amavi | 🇫🇷 |
W Adama Traoré | 🇪🇸 |
M Carlos Sánchez | 🇨🇴 |
CF Libor Kozák | 🇨🇿 |
CF Rudy Gestede | 🇧🇯 |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 |
Suspension | 1 |
F Jordan Ayew | 🇬🇭 |
Out on Loan | 7 |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴 | Bristol City
GK Jed Steer | 🏴 | Huddersfield
RB Janoi Donacien | 🇱🇨 | Newport
F Callum Robinson | 🇮🇪 | Preston
M Gary Gardner | 🏴 | Forest
LB Joe Bennett | 🏴 | Wednesday
FB José Ángel Crespo | 🇪🇸 | Vallecano
UNAVAILABLE
Not Recorded
Player Abbreviations:
GK : Goalkeeper
LB, RB, FB : Left Back, Right Back, Full Back
CB, D : Centre Back, Defender
M, W : Midfielder. Winger
F, CF : Forward, Centre Forward
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game
Symbols:
⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution
🟨 | Booking
🟥 | Sending off
🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
DEBUT APPEARANCES
FINAL APPEARANCES
MATCH STATS
Possession F | 48%
Possession A | 52%
Shots F | 10
Shots A | 13
Shots on Target F | 2
Shots on Target A | 5
Corners F | 2
Corners A | 11
Fouls F | 10
Fouls A | 11
TABLE

PROGRAMME



MATCHDAY QUOTES
”Football is strange. Today we didn’t play as well as in some games that we lost. Our football is improving, not only today but for a while now, but we haven’t been getting what we deserve.
“We are still a way away from where we would like to be but we still believe. The way the players fought on the field today means a lot to me.
“Everyone was very committed, and behaving in that way we still have a chance.”
Rémi Garde, Saturday, 6 February 2016.
*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 6 February 2016
*Aston Villa moved to within eight points of Premier League safety with their third win of the season as Norwich slipped into the bottom three.*
Joleon Lescott’s headed goal at the end of a dire first half was Villa’s first attempt on target.
Gabriel Agbonlahor doubled the lead after the break, stroking home after Declan Rudd misjudged Jordan Veretout’s through ball.
Norwich, for whom this was a fifth defeat in a row, are now 18th.
Newcastle’s 1-0 home victory over West Brom saw them leapfrog Alex Neil’s side, who haven’t won since 2 January.
*So are Villa staying up?*
With 13 matches left to play, the distance between Villa and safety is eight points.
The Premier League’s bottom club face an almost impossible task to haul themselves out of the relegation zone, but who knows what could happen with a bit of confidence?
That was in short supply in the first half. Lescott’s downward header from Carles Gil’s free-kick went in via two deflections - a scruffy goal typical of a poor opening 45 minutes.
After Agbonlahor’s second there was much greater fluency though, and few of the nerves you might expect of a side with just two wins from 24 games.
Norwich made three attacking substitutions as the game wore on, but Villa defended soundly and could have added a third had Leandro Bacuna not blazed wildly over.
*Norwich lose… again*
Two weeks ago in the early kick-off, Norwich saw a 3-1 lead over Liverpool transformed into a 5-4 loss when seeking a much-needed win following defeats by Stoke and Bournemouth.
The Canaries were resoundingly beaten by Tottenham in midweek, and now find themselves in serious trouble despite a positive start to the campaign.
Their defending was their undoing at Villa Park. The shape of the back line and Rudd’s decision to come off his line for Agbonlahor’s second goal was particularly poor, but nor did they offer much of an attacking threat.
Sebastien Bassong saw a downward header bounce over the bar, Dieumerci Mbokani’s tame efforts were easy to deal with, and Steven Naismith was bright without creating too much danger.
Patrick Bamford - who came on for his Norwich debut - was denied by Jores Okore’s brilliant saving challenge, but had the Chelsea loanee turned in with just minutes to play it surely would only have been a consolation.
Man of the match - Carles Gil
The Spaniard - Villa’s top scorer on the pitch with just two league goals - was inventive throughout, and provided the killer ball for Lescott’s goal at the end of the first half