Emyr Huws scored a late winning goal as Ipswich Town ended their five-match winless run in the Championship with a dramatic victory at Aston Villa.*

The on-loan Cardiff City midfielder turned home David McGoldrick’s cross for his first goal for Town, to leave Steve Bruce’s Villa winless in eight.

Huws’ effort came moments after McGoldrick had cleared a header from Villa forward Scott Hogan off the line.

Birkir Bjarnason had earlier gone even closer for Villa, hitting the bar.

On a day when Neil Taylor made his debut, and fellow January signings Conor Hourihane, Hogan and Bjarnason made their home debut, Villa’s first home defeat of the season sent them slipping to 16th in the table, seven points clear of safety.

Ipswich climbed above Villa to 13th after their first league victory over Villa since March 1994.

After Hourihane had tested Ipswich keeper Bartosz Bialkowski early on, Bjarnason then lashed his shot against the angle of bar and post.

But after a goalless first half, Ipswich improved, Jordan Spence going just wide from a set-piece before McGoldrick cut in from the left to slide a low ball into the middle which former Birmingham City loan man Huws finished off.

McGoldrick tried to double the away side’s lead, but his ambitious curling effort went just over the bar.