Game #5367
Aston Villa
Saturday, 10 December 2016
Won
13th (+2)
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟩
Championship
Attendance: 29,392
Wigan Athletic
Villa Park
Villa bounce back from their first defeat under Steve Bruce to win for the fifth time in nine games.
Aston Villa
1-0
Wigan Athletic
Assist(s) | Not recorded
KEY MAN
Jack Grealish celebrates his late winner, Saturday, 10 December 2016.
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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 10 December 2016
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Wigan Athletic
🔁 | 60’ Sub off, Gary Gardner, Sub on, Ross McCormack
🔁 | 73’ Sub off, Albert Adomah, Sub on, Rudy Gestede
🟨 | 83’ Booking, Alan Hutton
🟨 | 86’ Booking, Jack Grealish
⚽ | 88’ Goal, 1-0, Jack Grealish
🔁 | 90’+4 Sub off, Jack Grealish, Sub on, Leandro Bacuna
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-0 Wigan Athletic
ON THIS DAY
Steve Bruce's Villa bounce back from defeat to Leeds courtesy of a late, late winner from Jack Grealish.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Wigan Athletic
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 2012-13
FIXTURE HISTORY
Wigan Athletic
Previous 5 vs. Wigan: 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟨
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2016-17 |
Matchday | #21 |
League Game | #20 |
Manager Game | #9 |
Saturday, 10 December 2016
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Steve Bruce | 🏴 | Northumberland, 2016-2018
Referee: James Linington | 🏴 | Isle of Wight, 2008-
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
🕒 9 | 🟩 | 5 🟨 | 3 🟥 1 | 2.00
Career Form:
Top 4
Steve Bruce | 🏴 |
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: James Linington | 🏴 | Isle of Wight, 2008-
Previous 5: 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 27 Aug 16, Villa 1-3 Bristol City (a)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: James Wilson, Mark Russell
James Linington
CARDS
Villa
🟨 🟨
Wigan Athletic
🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
TEAM NEWS
Jack Grealish and Jordan Ayew replace Gabriel Agbonlahor and Ashley Westwood.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age: | 26.66 |
Oldest Player: M Mile Jedinak | 🇦🇺 | 32.38 |
Youngest Player: M Jack Grealish | 🏴 | 21.27 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
Steve Bruce | 🏴 |
Warren Joyce | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Pierluigi Gollini | 🇮🇹 |
LB Jordan Amavi | 🇫🇷 |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 | 🟨 |
CB Tommy Elphick | 🏴 |
CB James Chester | 🏴 |
M Mile Jedinak | 🇦🇺 |
M Gary Gardner | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Jack Grealish | 🏴 | 🟨 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 | 🔁 |
CF Jonathan Kodjia | 🇨🇮 |
F Jordan Ayew | 🇬🇭 |
Wigan Athletic
GK Jussi Jääskeläinen | 🇫🇮 |
LB Luke Garbutt | 🏴 | 🟨 |
LB Stephen Warnock (ex) | 🏴 |
CB Jake Buxton | 🏴 |
CB Reece Burke | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CB Craig Morgan | 🏴 |
M David Perkins | 🏴 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Max Power | 🏴 |
M Shaun MacDonald | 🏴 | 🟨 |
W Michael Jacobs | 🏴 | 🔁 |
W Yanic Wildschut | 🇸🇷 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 F Ross McCormack | 🏴 | for M Gary Gardner | 🏴 | 60’ |
🔁 CF Rudy Gestede | 🇧🇯 | for W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 | 73’ |
🔁 M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | for M Jack Grealish | 🏴 | 90’+4 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | M Jordi Gómez | 🇪🇸 | 🟨 | for CB Reece Burke | 🏴 | 46’ |
🔁 | LB Dan Burn | 🏴 | for M David Perkins | 🏴 | 89’ |
🔁 | CF Will Grigg | 🇬🇧 | for W Michael Jacobs | 🏴 | 89’ |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Matija Šarkić | 🇲🇪 |
LB Aly Cissokho | 🇫🇷 |
M Aaron Tshibola | 🏴 |
M Ashley Westwood | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Dan Lavercombe | 🏴 |
LB Andrew Kellett | 🏴 |
CF Craig Davies | 🏴 |
CF Adam Le Fondre | 🏴 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £60.04m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Homegrown: 2/11
Subs Cost: £21.78m
Team Cost: £81.82m
Squad Cost: £91.63m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/18
Homegrown: 3/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK Pierluigi Gollini | 🇮🇹 | £4.50m |
GK Matija Šarkić | 🇲🇪 | Youth |
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 |
M Aaron Tshibola | 🏴 | £5.31m |
M Mile Jedinak | 🇦🇺 | £4.14m |
M Ashley Westwood | 🏴 | £2.25m |
M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | £1.26m |
M Gary Gardner | 🏴 | Youth |
M Jack Grealish | 🏴 | Youth |
W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 | £3.15m |
F Ross McCormack | 🏴 | £12.87m |
CF Jonathan Kodjia | 🇨🇮 | £11.61m |
F Jordan Ayew | 🇬🇭 | £10.81m |
CF Rudy Gestede | 🇧🇯 | £7.65m |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £0.94m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/11
Homegrown: ⭕/11
Subs Cost: £1.23m
Team Cost: £2.17m
Squad Cost: £2.17m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 15/18
Homegrown: ⭕/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK Jussi Jääskeläinen | 🇫🇮 | Free |
GK Dan Lavercombe | 🏴 | Loan |
LB Stephen Warnock (ex) | 🏴 | Free |
LB Dan Burn | 🏴 | Free |
LB Andrew Kellett | 🏴 | Free |
LB Luke Garbutt | 🏴 | Loan |
CB Craig Morgan | 🏴 | Free |
CB Jake Buxton | 🏴 | Free |
CB Reece Burke | 🏴 | Loan |
M Shaun MacDonald | 🏴 | £0.25m |
M David Perkins | 🏴 | Free |
M Max Power | 🏴 | Free |
M Jordi Gómez | 🇪🇸 | Free |
W Michael Jacobs | 🏴 | Free |
W Yanic Wildschut | 🇸🇷 | £0.69m |
CF Will Grigg | 🇬🇧 | £1.23m |
CF Craig Davies | 🏴 | Free |
CF Adam Le Fondre | 🏴 | Loan |
UNAVAILABLE
Injury | 1 |
CB Micah Richards | 🏴 |
Out on Loan | 8 |
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
F Harry McKirdy | 🏴 | Stevenage
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 | 58%
Possession A | 42%
Shots F | 18
Shots A | 9
Shots on Target F | 12
Shots on Target A | 5
Corners F | 4
Corners A | 5
Fouls F | 7
Fouls A | 16
TABLE
PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
“There is still a lot of improvement needed and we have to play better. It was a frustrating game for us masked by a great goal from Jack Grealish.
“He has now got me a goal and two or three penalties. In eight games, he has contributed massively.
“It was a difficult game for us. The more success we get teams are going to come and play like Wigan. But, if I’m honest, we gave away the ball too cheaply.
Steve Bruce, Saturday, 10 December 2016.
*Sky Sports*
Saturday, 10 December 2016
Jack Grealish scored in the 87th minute to give Steve Bruce’s side a hard-fought 1-0 Sky Bet Championship win over Wigan at Villa Park.
For a long period it looked like Villa were heading for their 11th draw in 20 games, but one instance of isolated brilliance by Grealish settled the game in the hosts’ favour.
Wigan, struggling to move out of the bottom reaches, played with great resolution before falling at the final hurdle.
Villa were keen to make amends for their defeat in the previous game at Leeds and showed intent to assert some authority over their bottom-three opposition, but in the first half, their efforts reaped little reward.
Jordan Amavi was the first to threaten with a speculative long-range drive, and he again powered in another goalbound effort only for the over-worked Jussi Jaaskelainen to make a smart low save, diving to his left.
Jaaskelainen was the last line of defence after skipper Stephen Warnock made a bad mistake to allow Albert Adomah to gain possession and send Jonathan Kodjia racing clear.
The striker’s shot on the run was effectively blocked by Jaaskelainen when it appeared as if Villa were about to steam ahead.
Under such intense pressure, Wigan were restricted to sporadic attacks which usually involved attempts by Luke Garbutt or Yanic Wildschut.
A surprising feature of Villa’s play was the failure of Grealish - until his decisive late intervention - to impose his individual skill on proceedings, which allowed the Latics to move forward with more confidence.
Villa’s fortunes have picked up since the appointment of Steve Bruce as manager, but in a mundane first half they appeared to be drifting into some of their early-season indifferent form.
The persistent drizzle only compounded a miserable game, with the visitors seemingly content to contain their expensively assembled opponents.
Bruce introduced Ross McCormack from the bench on the hour mark in a bid to find the breakthrough.
The danger to Villa was the occasional counter-attack from Wigan, as demonstrated when Wildschut broke clear and fired over the bar.
Seven minutes from time, Alan Hutton collected a yellow card and he was quickly followed into the book by Grealish.
But the 21-year-old midfielder swiftly made amends in the 87th minute when he collected a loose ball and hammered a rising shot into the top-left corner of the net, well out of the reach of the helpless Jaaskelainen.
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