Game #5378
Aston Villa
Saturday, 11 February 2017
Lost
16th (-2)
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥
Championship
Attendance: 30,796
Ipswich Town
Villa Park
Villa lose for the fifth time in six Championship games but for the first time at home this season as Steve Bruce begins to struggle after such a good start to his time in charge. Meanwhile, Bruce continues the much needed clear-out of below par players that should have been completed pre-season.
Aston Villa
0-1
Ipswich Town
Assist(s) | None
KEY MAN
Jonathan Kodjia can't recover his goalscoring tough as Villa lose again, Saturday, 11 February 2017.
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Saturday, 11 February 2017
🟢 | 1’ Debut, Neil Taylor
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Ipswich Town
🔁 | 67’ Sub off, Alan Hutton, Sub on, Albert Adomah
🔁 | 77’ Sub off, Neil Taylor, Sub on, André Green
🥅 | 83’ Goal, 0-1, (Ipswich Town), Emyr Huws
🔁 | 89’ Sub off, Tommy Elphick, Sub on, Leandro Bacuna
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 0-1 Ipswich Town
ON THIS DAY
Steve Bruce’s Villa lose for the sixth time in seven games in 2017 and in so doing extend their worst run of the season. As a result Villa drop to 16th and a second successive relegation is not impossible to imagine, neither is a third manager of the season as Bruce clearly begins to struggle with the scale of the job. In truth it already looks like it will require a very quick gelling of the recently and expensively recruited players, rather than anything from the bench, that will stop the rot. Meanwhile, left back Neil Taylor made his Villa debut aged 28 after joining from Swansea City in exchange for Jordan Ayew in January 2017.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
UEFA Cup / Europa League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Ipswich Town
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup / Europa League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1980-81
FIXTURE HISTORY
Ipswich Town
Previous 5 vs. Ipswich: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟨
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2016-17 |
Matchday | #32 |
League Game | #30 |
Manager Game | #20 |
Saturday, 11 February 2017
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Steve Bruce | 🏴 | Northumberland, 2016-2018
Referee: Tim Robinson | 🏴 | Sussex, 2012-
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Tim Robinson | 🏴 | Sussex, 2012-
Previous 5: 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 13 Dec 16, Villa 0-1 Norwich (a)
Cards: 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Jonathan Hunt, Mark Jones
CARDS
TEAM NEWS
Neil Taylor (debut) and Alan Hutton replace James Bree and Jack Grealish (suspension).
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age: | 27.35 |
Oldest Player: RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 | 32.22 |
Youngest Player: GK Sam Johnstone | 🏴 | 23.90 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
Steve Bruce | 🏴 |
Mick McCarthy | 🇮🇪 |
Aston Villa
GK Sam Johnstone | 🏴 |
LB Neil Taylor | 🏴 | 🟢 | 🔁 |
CB Tommy Elphick | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴 |
CB James Chester | 🏴 |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Henri Lansbury | 🏴 |
M Birkir Bjarnason | 🇮🇸 |
M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 |
CF Jonathan Kodjia | 🇨🇮 |
F Scott Hogan | 🇮🇪 |
Ipswich Town
GK Bartosz Białkowski | 🇵🇱 |
LB Jonas Knudsen | 🇩🇰 | 🟨 |
CB Steven Taylor | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CB Luke Chambers | 🏴 |
CB Christophe Berra | 🏴 | 🔁 |
RB Josh Emmanuel | 🏴 |
M Emyr Huws | 🏴 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
M Tuomanu Diagouraga | 🇫🇷 | 🟨 |
M Grant Ward | 🏴 |
W Tom Lawrence | 🏴 |
CF David McGoldrick | 🇮🇪 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 | for RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 | 67’ |
🔁 W André Green | 🏴 | for LB Neil Taylor | 🏴 | 77’ |
🔁 M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | for CB Tommy Elphick | 🏴 | 89’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | LB Myles Kenlock | 🏴 | for CB Steven Taylor | 🏴 | 26’ |
🔁 | RB Jordan Spence | 🏴 | for CB Christophe Berra | 🏴 | 48’ |
🔁 | M Kévin Bru | 🇲🇺 | for M Emyr Huws | 🏴 | 88’ |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Mark Bunn | 🏴 |
LB Jordan Amavi | 🇫🇷 |
M Gary Gardner | 🏴 |
CF Keinan Davis | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Dean Gerken | 🏴 |
F Freddie Sears | 🏴 |
CF Kieffer Moore | 🏴 |
CF Brett Pitman | 🇯🇪 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £45.00m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 7/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Subs Cost: £4.41m
Team Cost: £49.41m
Squad Cost: £59.31m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/18
Homegrown: 3/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK Mark Bunn | 🏴 | Free |
GK Sam Johnstone | 🏴 | Loan |
LB Jordan Amavi | 🇫🇷 | £9.90m |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 | £4.05m |
LB Neil Taylor | 🏴 | Exchange |
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 Gary Gardner | 🏴 | Youth |
W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 | £3.15m |
W André Green | 🏴 | Youth |
CF Jonathan Kodjia | 🇨🇮 | £11.61m |
F Scott Hogan | 🇮🇪 | £9.45m |
CF Keinan Davis | 🏴 | Free |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £1.04m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 7/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Subs Cost: £0.00m
Team Cost: £1.04m
Squad Cost: £1.16m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 12/18
Homegrown: 2/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK Bartosz Białkowski | 🇵🇱 | Free |
GK Dean Gerken | 🏴 | Free |
LB Jonas Knudsen | 🇩🇰 | £0.43m |
RB Josh Emmanuel | 🏴 | Youth |
LB Myles Kenlock | 🏴 | Youth |
RB Jordan Spence | 🏴 | Free |
CB Steven Taylor | 🏴 | Free |
CB Luke Chambers | 🏴 | Free |
CB Christophe Berra | 🏴 | Free |
M Grant Ward | 🏴 | £0.61m |
M Kévin Bru | 🇲🇺 | Free |
M Emyr Huws | 🏴 | Loan |
M Tuomanu Diagouraga | 🇫🇷 | Loan |
W Tom Lawrence | 🏴 | Loan |
F Freddie Sears | 🏴 | £0.11m |
CF Kieffer Moore | 🏴 | £0.01m |
CF Brett Pitman | 🇯🇪 | Free |
CF David McGoldrick | 🇮🇪 | Free |
UNAVAILABLE
Suspension | 1 |
M Jack Grealish | 🏴 |
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 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
LB Neil Taylor | 🏴 |
FINAL APPEARANCES
MATCH STATS
Possession F | 52%
Possession A | 48%
Shots F | 22
Shots A | 11
Shots on Target F | 9
Shots on Target A | 1
Corners F | 9
Corners A | 4
Fouls F | 10
Fouls A | 13
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PROGRAMME



MATCHDAY QUOTES
“It’s tough at the minute. We certainly didn’t deserve to lose. We had some really good opportunities and didn’t take them.
“Once again we made one mistake and we were punished. Hopefully we have fallen as far as we can because the next few games are going to be important.
“It is time to batten down the hatches and face the flak. But we need to take some of the chances we are creating.
“The Ipswich goal was an individual mistake. Unfortunately every time we make a mistake we are punished. We now have to find some form to get a win to restore the confidence in the team.”
Steve Bruce, Saturday, 11 February 2017.
*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 11 February 2017
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.