Game #5376
Aston Villa
Tuesday, 31 January 2017
Lost
14th (-1)
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥
Championship
Attendance: 10,016
Brentford
Griffin Park
Brentford
3-0
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | None
MATCH SUMMARY
Despite the result the signs are there that a good team lurks within but the outstanding footballing side of Dean Smith exposes a newly assembled Villa side to leave Steve Bruce without a win in four Championship games in 2017 and three losses.
KEY MAN
A patched up Henri Lansbury tries to spark Villa as Jota looks on but Villa fall to a third defeat in four winless Championship games under Steve Bruce, Tuesday, 31 January 2017.
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MATCH TIMELINE
Tuesday, 31 January 2017
🟢 | 1’ Debut, Birkir Bjarnason, Conor Hourihane
🥅 | 25’ Goal, 0-1, (Brentford), Lasse Vibe
🥅 | 38’ Goal, 0-1, (Brentford), Nico Yennaris
🕒 | HT Brentford 2-0 Aston Villa
🥅 | 65’ Goal, 0-3, (Brentford), Lasse Vibe
🟨 | 74 Booking, Conor Hourihane
🔁 | 75’ Sub off, Birkir Bjarnason, Sub on, Leandro Bacuna
🔁 | 76’ Sub off, Henri Lansbury, Sub on, Jack Grealish
🕒 | FT Brentford 3-0 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Steve Bruce’s Villa lose for the fourth time in five games in 2017 despite fielding what was arguably their strongest team in years.
Sadly a much changed line up didn’t immediately gel and Villa fell to defeat against an impressive and slick Brentford managed by Villa fan and future Villa boss Dean Smith.
Regardless the team was packed with quality and potential.
The excellent young ‘keeper Johnstone, the committed and talented left back Amavi, the dependable cult hero Hutton, the rejuvenated Baker, the leader Chester, the talented midfield trio of Lansbury, Bjarnason and Hourihane, the goal threat of Adomah and Kodjia and the exciting winger Green.
Given time this team could prove competitive at this level, the only real question was how long that would take and whether Villa could hold on to the core if it took too long.
Midfielder Conor Hourihane made his Villa debut aged 26 after joining from Barnsley for £3,150,000 earlier this month.
Midfielder Birkir Bjarnason made his Villa debut aged 28 after joining from FC Basel 1893 for £1,800,000 earlier this month.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Brentford
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌
FIXTURE HISTORY
Brentford
Previous 5 vs. Brentford: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟨
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2016-17 |
Matchday | #30 |
League Game | #28 |
Manager Game | #18 |
Tuesday, 31 January 2017
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Steve Bruce | 🏴 | Northumberland, 2016-2018
Referee: David Coote | 🏴 | Nottinghamshire, 2010-
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Score: 🟥 0-3
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Steve Bruce | 🏴 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 18 | 🟩 | 7 🟨 | 5 🟥 6 | 1.44
Villa Career Form:
Top 8
ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: David Coote | 🏴 | Nottinghamshire, 2010-
Previous 5: 🟥 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 15 Oct 16, Villa 1-1 Wolves (h)
Cards: 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Mark Russell, Geoff Russell
ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:
CARDS
Villa
🟨
Brentford
🟨
TEAM NEWS
Conor Hourihane (debut), Birkir Bjarnason (debut), and Jonathan Kodjia replace Gabriel Agbonlahor, Ashley Westwood and Jack Grealish.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age: | 26.26 |
Oldest Player: RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 | 32.19 |
Youngest Player: W André Green | 🏴 | 18.53 |
MANAGER
Steve Bruce | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Sam Johnstone | 🏴 |
LB Jordan Amavi | 🇫🇷 |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴 |
CB James Chester | 🏴 |
M Henri Lansbury | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Birkir Bjarnason | 🇮🇸 | 🟢 | 🔁 |
M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 | 🟢 | 🟨 |
W André Green | 🏴 |
W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 |
CF Jonathan Kodjia | 🇨🇮 |
MANAGER
Dean Smith | 🏴 |
Brentford
GK Daniel Bentley | 🏴 |
LB Tom Field | 🇮🇪 |
CB Andreas Bjelland | 🇩🇰 |
CB Harlee Dean | 🏴 |
RB Maxime Colin | 🇫🇷 |
M Nico Yennaris | 🇨🇳 | ⚽ | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Josh McEachran | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Ryan Woods | 🏴 |
W Jota Peleteiro | 🇪🇸 |
W Florian Jozefzoon | 🇸🇷 | 🔁 |
CF Lasse Vibe | 🇩🇰 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
Not necessarily indicative of the actual matchday formation
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | for M Birkir Bjarnason | 🇮🇸 | 75’ |
🔁 M Jack Grealish | 🏴 | for M Henri Lansbury | 🏴 | 76’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | RB Josh Clarke | 🏴 | for W Florian Jozefzoon | 🇸🇷 | 71’ |
🔁 | M Konstantin Kerschbaumer | 🇦🇹 | for M Nico Yennaris | 🇨🇳 | 76’ |
🔁 | M Alan McCormack | 🇮🇪 | for M Josh McEachran | 🏴 | 88’ |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Mark Bunn | 🏴 |
CB Tommy Elphick | 🏴 |
RB James Bree | 🏴 |
M Gary Gardner | 🏴 |
CF Keinan Davis | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Jack Bonham | 🇮🇪 |
CB Yoann Barbet | 🇫🇷 |
M Romaine Sawyers | 🇰🇳 |
CF Philipp Hofmann | 🇩🇪 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £45.09m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 2/11
Subs Cost: £1.26m
Team Cost: £46.35m
Squad Cost: £53.01m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 12/18
Homegrown: 4/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK Mark Bunn | 🏴 | Free |
GK Sam Johnstone | 🏴 | Loan |
LB Jordan Amavi | 🇫🇷 | £9.90m |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 | £4.05m |
RB James Bree | 🏴 | £3.15m |
CB James Chester | 🏴 | £8.37m |
CB Tommy Elphick | 🏴 | £3.51m |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴 | Youth |
M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 | £3.15m |
M Henri Lansbury | 🏴 | £3.06m |
M Birkir Bjarnason | 🇮🇸 | £1.80m |
M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | £1.26m |
M Jack Grealish | 🏴 | Youth |
M Gary Gardner | 🏴 | Youth |
W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 | £3.15m |
W André Green | 🏴 | Youth |
CF Jonathan Kodjia | 🇨🇮 | £11.61m |
CF Keinan Davis | 🏴 | Free |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £8.39m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 4/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Subs Cost: £0.00m
Team Cost: £8.39m
Squad Cost: £10.71m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/18
Homegrown: 2/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK Daniel Bentley | 🏴 | Free |
GK Jack Bonham | 🇮🇪 | Free |
RB Maxime Colin | 🇫🇷 | £1.29m |
LB Tom Field | 🇮🇪 | Youth |
RB Josh Clarke | 🏴 | Youth |
CB Andreas Bjelland | 🇩🇰 | £2.16m |
CB Yoann Barbet | 🇫🇷 | £0.60m |
CB Harlee Dean | 🏴 | Free |
M Ryan Woods | 🏴 | £1.16m |
M Josh McEachran | 🏴 | £0.89m |
M Nico Yennaris | 🇨🇳 | £0.09m |
M Konstantin Kerschbaumer | 🇦🇹 | Free |
M Alan McCormack | 🇮🇪 | Free |
M Romaine Sawyers | 🇰🇳 | Free |
W Jota Peleteiro | 🇪🇸 | £1.29m |
W Florian Jozefzoon | 🇸🇷 | £0.39m |
CF Philipp Hofmann | 🇩🇪 | £1.72m |
CF Lasse Vibe | 🇩🇰 | £1.12m |
UNAVAILABLE
Out on Loan | 9 |
W Carles Gil | 🇪🇸 | Deportivo
RB Niall Mason | 🏴 | Doncaster
M Carlos Sánchez | 🇨🇴 | Fiorentina
M Jordan Veretout | 🇫🇷 | Saint-Étienne
GK Pierluigi Gollini | 🇮🇹 | Atalanta
RB Aly Cissokho | 🇫🇷 | Olympiacos
M Aaron Tshibola | 🏴 | Forest
CB Kevin Toner | 🇮🇪 | Bradford
CF Ross McCormack | 🏴 | Forest
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
🟢 M Birkir Bjarnason | 🇮🇸 |
🟢 M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 |
FINAL APPEARANCES
MATCH STATS
Possession F | 38%
Possession A | 62%
Shots F | 6
Shots A | 7
Shots on Target F | 2
Shots on Target A | 2
Corners F | 5
Corners A | 8
Fouls F | 13
Fouls A | 8
LEAGUE TABLE
MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
“That was the worst so far here and arguably my worst game in years. As soon as they scored we collapsed, and that is unacceptable.
“We started brightly enough and had chances. Then we had to be better for the next 60 minutes but we were poor all over the pitch both offensively and defensively against a very good Brentford side.”
Steve Bruce, Tuesday, 31 January 2017.
*Sky Sports*
Tuesday, 31 January 2017
Brentford cruised to their first win over Aston Villa with a comprehensive 3-0 rout of Steve Bruce’s Sky Bet Championship big spenders.
Lasse Vibe scored twice, either side of a Nico Yennaris strike, to move the Bees up to 13th in the table.
Danish striker Vibe took just 25 minutes to break the deadlock when he latched onto a superb three-man move to round Villa goalkeeper Sam Johnstone and fire home.
Yennaris made it two just before the break when he ghosted in unmarked at the far post to bundle home Jota’s deep right-wing cross.
Vibe sealed the win just after the hour mark when he raced onto a slide-rule Josh McEachran through-ball to fire past the flat-footed Johnstone to make it three.
Villa’s new signings Conor Hourihane and Birkir Bjarnason started brightly enough but after squandering two or three clear chances early on the Villa threat waned.
Brentford’s Spanish winger Jota was at the heart of much of the hosts’ superb football, and might have scored just minutes before the break when he lashed a rising drive against the crossbar after a powerful diagonal run that cut out three visiting defenders.
Villa could have got their noses in front in the first 20 minutes, Jonathan Kodjia racing clear of the Bees’ high line only to slide his low effort past the far post.
Bjarnason tested Brentford goalkeeper Dan Bentley with a dipping drive as Bees skipper Harlee Dean headed wide from a corner at the other end.
Villa really should have had something to show for those clear-cut chances in the opening 20 minutes, but once again Andre Green headed a gilt-edged chance wide from Albert Adomah’s precision cross.
Brentford, who unveiled their new £2.5m signing Sergi Canos before the game, grew in confidence as the first half wore on and once they scored the result was never really in doubt.
After the break it was all Brentford as Villa seemed devoid of any fight or desire. The Londoners’ new signing Florian Jozefzoon from PSV Eindhoven teased the visitors’ back four with his pace and played in Vibe on the hour mark, but the Dane toe-poked the first-time effort wide.
McEachran and Yennaris pulled the strings from the heart of midfield with Ryan Woods the engine room, repeatedly passing balls through Villa’s static midfield which left the centre-back pairing of James Chester and Nathan Baker exposed.
Woods curled a free kick past the angle on 74 minutes as the Bees went for the jugular before Johnstone denied Vibe his hat-trick with a superb save low to his left.
Jota almost put the icing on the cake in injury time when Vibe unselfishly left Josh Clarke’s cross, only to side-foot his first-time effort past the upright.
Brentford boss Dean Smith:
“There was a freedom about the players tonight. We had pace down the flanks and that opened up the middle for us to pass through the lines really well.
“We had a debrief after the Chelsea game and talked about how quick and athletic Chelsea were and the quality they had and we said if you push yourselves there are no barriers to stop you getting to that level. They did tonight.”
Aston Villa boss Steve Bruce:
“That was the worst so far here and arguably my worst game in years. As soon as they scored we collapsed, and that is unacceptable.
“We started brightly enough and had chances. Then we had to be better for the next 60 minutes but we were poor all over the pitch both offensively and defensively against a very good Brentford side.”