Game #5361
Aston Villa
Saturday, 22 October 2016
Won
16th (+2)
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩
Championship
Attendance: 32,201
Fulham
Villa Park
Villa make it consecutive wins for the first time this season as Steve Bruce makes an excellent start to his Villa career.
Aston Villa
1-0
Fulham
Assist(s) | Albert Adomah | 80’ |
KEY MAN
Jonathan Kodjia shows his class with a third goal in three games to secure successive wins for Steve Bruce's Villa. 22 October 2016
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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 22 October 2016
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Fulham
🔁 | 55’ Sub off, Rudy Gestede, Sub on, Albert Adomah
🔁 | 73’ Sub off,Mile Jedinak, Sub on, Ross McCormack
⚽ | 80’ Goal, 1-0, Jonathan Kodjia, Assist by Albert Adomah
🔁 | 86’ Sub off, Jordan Ayew, Sub on, Ashley Westwood
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-0 Fulham
ON THIS DAY
Villa win consecutive games for the first time this season as Jonathan Kodjia hits his third goal in as many games.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Fulham
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌
FIXTURE HISTORY
Fulham
Previous 5 vs. Fulham: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟥
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2016-17 |
Matchday | #15 |
League Game | #14 |
Manager Game | #3 |
Saturday, 22 October 2016
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Steve Bruce | 🏴 | Northumberland, 2016-2018
Referee: Andy Madley | 🏴 | Huddersfield, 2011-
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Steve Bruce | 🏴 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 3 | 🟩 | 2 🟨 | 1 🟥 0 | 2.33
Career Form:
Champions
Steve Bruce | 🏴 |
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Andy Madley | 🏴 | Huddersfield, 2011-
Previous 5:
Last Match: None
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Mark Dwyer, Mark Russell
Andy Madley
CARDS
Villa
None
Fulham
🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
TEAM NEWS
Steve Bruce recalls Jordan Ayew and Jordan Amavi in place of Aly Cissokho and Albert Adomah.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age: | 26.49 |
Oldest Player: M Mile Jedinak | 🇦🇺 | 32.24 |
Youngest Player: GK Pierluigi Gollini | 🇮🇹 | 21.61 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
Steve Bruce | 🏴 |
Slaviša Jokanović | 🇷🇸 |
Aston Villa
GK Pierluigi Gollini | 🇮🇹 |
LB Jordan Amavi | 🇫🇷 |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴 |
CB James Chester | 🏴 |
M Mile Jedinak | 🇦🇺 | 🔁 |
M Gary Gardner | 🏴 |
M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 |
CF Jonathan Kodjia | 🇨🇮 | ⚽ |
CF Rudy Gestede | 🇧🇯 | 🔁 |
F Jordan Ayew | 🇬🇭 | 🔁 |
Fulham
GK David Button | 🏴 |
CB Michael Madl | 🇦🇹 | 🟨 |
CB Ragnar Sigurðsson | 🇮🇸 |
RB Denis Odoi | 🇬🇭 |
M Kevin McDonald | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Scott Parker | 🏴 |
M Stefan Johansen | 🇳🇴 | 🔁 |
W Ryan Sessegnon | 🏴 |
W Lucas Piazón | 🇧🇷 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
F Sone Aluko | 🇳🇬 | 🔁 |
CF Chris Martin | 🏴 | 🟨 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 | 🔥 | for CF Rudy Gestede | 🇧🇯 | 55’ |
🔁 F Ross McCormack | 🏴 | for M Mile Jedinak | 🇦🇺 | 73’ |
🔁 M Ashley Westwood | 🏴 | for F Jordan Ayew | 🇬🇭 | 86’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | M Tom Cairney | 🏴 | for F Sone Aluko | 🇳🇬 | 67’ |
🔁 | W Floyd Ayité | 🇹🇬 | for W Lucas Piazón | 🇧🇷 | 81’ |
🔁 | CF Matt Smith | 🏴 | for M Stefan Johansen | 🇳🇴 | 81’ |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Mark Bunn | 🏴 |
LB Aly Cissokho | 🇫🇷 |
M Aaron Tshibola | 🏴 |
W André Green | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Marcus Bettinelli | 🏴 |
RB Ryan Fredericks | 🏴 |
LB Scott Malone | 🏴 |
CB Tim Ream | 🇺🇸 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £62.28m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 4/11
Homegrown: 2/11
Subs Cost: £18.27m
Team Cost: £80.55m
Squad Cost: £88.11m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/18
Homegrown: 3/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
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 Nathan Baker | 🏴 | Youth |
M Aaron Tshibola | 🏴 | £5.31m |
M Mile Jedinak | 🇦🇺 | £4.14m |
M Ashley Westwood | 🏴 | £2.25m |
M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | £1.26m |
M Gary Gardner | 🏴 | Youth |
W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 | £3.15m |
W André Green | 🏴 | Youth |
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: £15.15m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Subs Cost: £5.87m
Team Cost: £21.02m
Squad Cost: £22.69m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 10/18
Homegrown: 2/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK David Button | 🏴 | £1.98m |
GK Marcus Bettinelli | 🏴 | Youth |
CB Ragnar Sigurdsson | 🇮🇸 | £4.05m |
CB Tim Ream | 🇺🇸 | £1.46m |
CB Michael Madl | 🇦🇹 | £1.29m |
RB Denis Odoi | 🇬🇭 | £0.86m |
RB Ryan Fredericks | 🏴 | £0.21m |
LB Scott Malone | 🏴 | Free |
M Scott Parker | 🏴 | £3.70m |
M Tom Cairney | 🏴 | £3.61m |
M Stefan Johansen | 🇳🇴 | £1.98m |
M Kevin McDonald | 🏴 | £1.29m |
M Lucas Piazón | 🇧🇷 | Loan |
W Floyd Ayité | 🇹🇬 | £1.72m |
W Ryan Sessegnon | 🏴 | Youth |
W Sone Aluko | 🇳🇬 | Free |
CF Matt Smith | 🏴 | £0.54m |
CF Chris Martin | 🏴 | Loan |
UNAVAILABLE
Injury | 3 |
LB Ritchie De Laet | 🇧🇪 |
CB Micah Richards | 🏴 |
CB Tommy Elphick | 🏴 |
Suspension | 1 |
M Jack Grealish | 🏴 |
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 Positions:
GK : Goalkeeper
CB, D, B : Centre Back, Defender, Back
FB, LB, RB, WH : Full Back, Left Back, Right Back, Wing Back, Wing Half
M, CH, LH, RH : Midfielder, Centre Half, Left Half, Right Half
W, OL, OR : Winger, Outside Left, Outside Right
F, IF, IL, IR : Forward, Inside Forward, Inside Left, Inside Right, Second Striker, False 9
CF : Centre Forward
Match Symbols:
⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution
🟨 | Booking
🟥 | Sending off
🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game
DEBUT APPEARANCES
FINAL APPEARANCES
MATCH STATS
Possession F | 43%
Possession A | 57%
Shots F | 12
Shots A | 3
Shots on Target F | 6
Shots on Target A | 1
Corners F | 6
Corners A | 8
Fouls F | 15
Fouls A | 13
TABLE
PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
*Villa boss Steve Bruce*
“We have made a decent start and I am delighted for the players. A week ago they were quiet. There have been huge changes throughout the club. We have tried to breathe a bit of life back into the players. Thankfully when they respond, and get a couple of good results, that does no harm.
“We have everything in place to try our best. It is going to be difficult but it is fair to say we can only get better.”
*Sky Sports*
Saturday, 22 October 2016
Jonathan Kodjia came to Aston Villa’s rescue with a vital 80th-minute goal to earn the midlands club a crucial 1-0 Sky Bet Championship home win over Fulham.
The mundane game had previously been drifting to a goalless draw but the win gives Villa a massive boost and means they have collected seven points from three games since the recent appointment of Steve Bruce.
Kodjia’s third goal in successive games also inflicted Fulham’s first away defeat of the season and gave Villa their first back-to-back wins for the since May 2015.
Villa, with three changes from their side which won at Reading, made their customary quick start but Fulham’s defence retreated to avoid any real trouble.
It was not until the 18th minute that Villa managed to carve out an opening when Alan Hutton’s high cross to the far post was headed wide of the post by Leandro Bacuna.
With Fulham content to lay back, some frustration began to creep into Villa’s play. Their lack of sharpness up front played into the hands of Fulham who were quite content to play a waiting game.
All of Fulham’s play continued to revolve around Parker who played with cool authority aided in no small way by Villa’s apparent casual attitude.
In a miserable first half neither side appeared capable of breaking the deadlock to the frustration in particular of the home fans.
The second half continued in the same vein and required a vital spark to bring it to life. Villa’s best chance of going ahead came in the 65th minute when David Button, under no real pressure, was able to fingertip Jordan Ayew’s free-kick over the bar.
In an attempt to inject more strike power Villa drafted in their expensive signing Ross McCormack in the 73rd minute and it worked for Villa with Kodjia notching his fourth goal of the season.
On one of the few occasions Fulham’s defence was caught wrong-footed substitute Albert Adomah produced a quick cross from the right which Kodjia hooked home from close range.
*Villa boss Steve Bruce*
“We have made a decent start and I am delighted for the players. A week ago they were quiet. There have been huge changes throughout the club. We have tried to breathe a bit of life back into the players. Thankfully when they respond, and get a couple of good results, that does no harm.
“We have everything in place to try our best. It is going to be difficult but it is fair to say we can only get better.”
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