Game #5357
Tuesday, 27 September 2016
Attendance: 15,830
Drew
Championship
17th (-)
Barnsley
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Oakwell
Villa's poor start to life in the second tier under Roberto Di Matteo continues as they draw for a fifth successive game and are without a win in eight Championship games to leave them with one win in eleven in all competitions.
Barnsley
1-1
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | Not recorded
KEY MAN
Jordan Ayew - one of the cornerstones of Villa's relegation - scores his first Championship goal as Villa extend their winless run to eight under the hapless Roberto Di Matteo, 27 September 2016
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MATCH TIMELINE
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Barnsley
🟨 | 53’ Booking, Leandro Bacuna
⚽ | 61’ Goal, 1-0, Jordan Ayew
🟨 | 63’ Booking, Mile Jedinak
🟨 | 68’ Booking, Aaron Tshibola
🔁 | 75’ Sub off, Aaron Tshibola, Sub on, Ashley Westwood
🔁 | 75’ Sub off, Albert Adomah, Sub on, Rudy Gestede
🥅 | 90’ Goal, 1-1, (Barnsley), Sam Winnall
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-1 Barnsley
ON THIS DAY
One win in ten league games and a seventh draw in eight leave Roberto Di Matteo's side floundering in 17th with little sign that the spark needed to kick start the season will be coming any time soon.
Despite a raft of new signings - Pierluigi Gollini, Tommy Elphick, Aaron Tshibola, James Chester, Mile Jedinak, Jonathan Kodjia, Ritchie De Laet and Albert Adomah - the culture of under achievement that had become so ingrained in the club over successive seasons was preventing a fresh start.
Ironically, although a failure to hold onto a lead was not a rare occurrence under Roberto Di Matteo, it was the substitutions of the old guard for the new guard that saw Villa concede a late equaliser once again.
Without significant further culling of the relegation infected squad inherited from 2015-16 there was little sign or expectation that Villa could turn a corner and look up the Championship table.
Future Villa midfielder Conor Hourihane lined up for Barnsley with future Villa right back James Bree on the bench for the Tykes.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Barnsley
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1911-12
FIXTURE HISTORY
Barnsley
Previous 5 vs. Barnsley: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2016-17 |
Matchday | #11 |
League Game | #10 |
Manager Game | #11 |
Tuesday, 27 September 2016
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Roberto Di Matteo | 🇮🇹 | Schaffhausen, Switzerland, 2016
Referee: James Adcock | 🏴 | Nottinghamshire, 2011-
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: James Adcock | 🏴 | Nottinghamshire, 2011-
Previous 5: 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 28 Aug 12, Villa 3-0 Tranmere (h)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Nicholas Hopton, Mark Jones
CARDS
TEAM NEWS
Jack Grealish returns after serving his Roberto Di Matteo suspension, whilst Aaron Tshibola’s late equaliser in the previous game earns him a starting spot.
The injured Nathan Baker drops out along with Ashley Westwood and Jordan Amavi (injury) with Aly Cissokho returning.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age: | 26.21 |
Oldest Player: M Mile Jedinak | 🇦🇺 | 32.17 |
Youngest Player: M Jack Grealish | 🏴 | 21.06 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
Roberto Di Matteo | 🇮🇹 |
Paul Heckingbottom | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Pierluigi Gollini | 🇮🇹 |
LB Aly Cissokho | 🇫🇷 |
CB Tommy Elphick | 🏴 |
CB James Chester | 🏴 |
M Mile Jedinak | 🇦🇺 | 🟨 |
M Aaron Tshibola | 🏴 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Jack Grealish | 🏴 |
W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 | 🔁 |
M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | 🟨 |
F Jordan Ayew | 🇬🇭 | ⚽ |
CF Jonathan Kodjia | 🇨🇮 |
Barnsley
GK Adam Davies | 🏴 |
CB Marc Roberts | 🏴 |
CB Angus MacDonald | 🏴 | 🟨 |
CB Cole Kpekawa | 🏴 | 🟨 |
RB Andy Yiadom | 🇬🇭 | 🟨 |
M Josh Scowen | 🏴 |
M Samy Morsy | 🇪🇬 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 |
W Marley Watkins | 🏴 | 🔁 |
W Ryan Kent | 🏴 |
CF Tom Bradshaw | 🏴 | 🔁 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 M Ashley Westwood | 🏴 | for M Aaron Tshibola | 75’ |
🔁 CF Rudy Gestede | 🇧🇯 | for W Albert Adomah | 87’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | CF Sam Winnall | 🏴 | ⚽ | for M Samy Morsy | 🇪🇬 | 67’ |
🔁 | CF Adam Armstrong | 🏴 | for CF Tom Bradshaw | 🏴 | 67’ |
🔁 | W Adam Hammill | 🏴 | for W Marley Watkins | 🏴 | 72’ |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Mark Bunn | 🏴 |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴 |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 |
LB Jordan Amavi | 🇫🇷 |
F Ross McCormack | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Nick Townsend | 🏴 |
RB James Bree | 🏴 |
CB Adam Jackson | 🏴 |
M Elliot Lee | 🏴 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £62.55m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 4/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Subs Cost: £9.90m
Team Cost: £72.45m
Squad Cost: £99.27m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/18
Homegrown: 2/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
Roberto Di Matteo fields a squad costing a barely believable £91m but still cannot improve on one win in ten.
GK Pierluigi Gollini | 🇮🇹 | £4.50m |
GK Mark Bunn | 🏴 | Free |
LB Jordan Amavi | 🇫🇷 | £9.90m |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 | £4.05m |
LB Aly Cissokho | 🇫🇷 | £2.25m |
CB James Chester | 🏴 | £8.37m |
CB Tommy Elphick | 🏴 | £3.51m |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴 | Youth |
M Aaron Tshibola | 🏴 | £5.31m |
M Mile Jedinak | 🇦🇺 | £4.14m |
M Ashley Westwood | 🏴 | £2.25m |
M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | £1.26m |
M Jack Grealish | 🏴 | Youth |
W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 | £3.15m |
F Ross McCormack | 🏴 | £12.87m |
CF Jonathan Kodjia | 🇨🇮 | £11.61m |
F Jordan Ayew | 🇬🇭 | £10.80m |
CF Rudy Gestede | 🇧🇯 | £7.65m |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £1.34m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/11
Homegrown: ⭕/11
Subs Cost: £0.00m
Team Cost: £1.34m
Squad Cost: £1.34m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 15/18
Homegrown: 1/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK Adam Davies | 🏴 | Free |
GK Nick Townsend | 🏴 | Free |
RB James Bree | 🏴 | Youth |
RB Andy Yiadom | 🇬🇭 | Free |
CB Cole Kpekawa | 🏴 | £0.46m |
CB Marc Roberts | 🏴 | Free |
CB Angus MacDonald | 🏴 | Free |
CB Adam Jackson | 🏴 | Free |
M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 | £0.21m |
M Josh Scowen | 🏴 | Free |
M Elliot Lee | 🏴 | Free |
M Samy Morsy | 🇪🇬 | Loan |
W Adam Hammill | 🏴 | Free |
W Marley Watkins | 🏴 | Free |
W Ryan Kent | 🏴 | Loan |
CF Tom Bradshaw | 🏴 | £0.67m |
CF Sam Winnall | 🏴 | Free |
CF Adam Armstrong | 🏴 | Loan |
UNAVAILABLE
Injury | 1 |
LB Ritchie De Laet | 🇧🇪 |
Out on Loan | 7 |
LB Riccardo Calder | 🏴 | Doncaster
W Carles Gil | 🇪🇸 | Deportivo
CB Easah Suliman | 🏴 | Cheltenham
RB Niall Mason | 🏴 | Doncaster
M Carlos Sánchez | 🇨🇴 | Fiorentina
M Jordan Veretout | 🇫🇷 | Saint-Étienne
CB Kevin Toner | 🇮🇪 | Walsall
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 | 45%
Possession A | 55%
Shots F | 7
Shots A | 7
Shots on Target F | 5
Shots on Target A | 1
Corners F | 5
Corners A | 9
Fouls F | 15
Fouls A | 14
TABLE
PROGRAMME



MATCHDAY QUOTES
"Villa have now drawn their last five league games while the Tykes ended a run of two successive defeats."
*Sky Sports*
Tuesday, 27 September 2016
Sam Winnall scored a dramatic late equaliser to earn Barnsley a 1-1 draw against Aston Villa at Oakwell in the Sky Bet Championship.
Villa’s Jordan Ayew opened the scoring with his first goal of the campaign in the 61st minute before Winnall, a second-half substitute, headed home in the 89th minute.
It means Villa have now drawn their last five league games while the Tykes ended a run of two successive defeats.
Barnsley had the first chance to go ahead but Marc Roberts headed over Conor Hourihane’s corner from inside the six-yard box.
Jonathan Kodjia was the first Villa player to get a shot on target when his powerful drive from range was parried away by Barnsley keeper Adam Davies.
Mile Jedinak then gifted the home side a chance when he lost the ball to Hourihane. The Barnsley captain reacted quickly to release Tom Bradshaw on the edge of the box but the striker fell over at the pivotal moment and scuffed his shot high and wide.
Villa keeper Pierluigi Gollini then had to be at full-stretch to stop Hourihane’s free-kick, which was driven low and into the bottom corner.
Kodjia had a moment to forget after Jack Grealish rolled him in down the side of the Barnsley defence but to the home crowd’s delight, he slipped before he could get a shot away.
Aly Cissokho sent in a teasing low cross just after the break but Kodjia failed to get a touch and Davies came out to smother any danger.
The visitors continued to press and when Kodjia broke into the penalty area, he selflessly laid the ball to Grealish but his touch let him down and Barnsley cleared.
Leandro Bacuna then received his fifth booking of the season and will miss Villa’s trip to Preston on Saturday.
Villa went ahead when Kodjia forced a good save from Davies but Ayew was alert to pick up the rebound and ran at the near post before smashing the ball in between the keeper and his left post.
Barnsley boss Paul Heckingbottom made three changes in the next 10 minutes and one of those, Adam Hammill, nearly made the perfect entrance but he sent a low shot just wide of a post.
But after Villa failed to clear a corner, Winnall leapt the highest to head home the equaliser in front of the home supporters.
Kodjia tested Davies moments later with a powerful effort sent across goal but he stood firm and held on to the shot to keep the scores even.
Villa remain 17th in the table with 10 points from 10 games, with Barnsley six points better off in 10th.