*Two goals from Jonathan Kodjia saw Aston Villa beat 10-man Norwich City at Villa Park.*

Kodjia put the hosts ahead midway through the first half when Scott Hogan played him in and the Ivory Coast striker found the roof of the net.

The game was all but settled when Ivo Pinto was shown a second yellow card for a foul on Jordan Amavi.
Kodjia made sure of a home win in the 87th minute when he capitalised on a mistake in the Norwich defence.

A third successive victory for Villa lifted them to 11th, just three points behind Norwich, who slipped to ninth and seven points outside the play-off places.

Nelson Oliveira had the visitors’ best chance, just before Kodjia’s second, when he was played in on goal by Cameron Jerome, but the Portuguese could not get a shot away after a poor first touch.

Jerome also went close to scoring in the opening 10 minutes, but his effort went inches wide as Norwich’s poor return on the road continued.

The Canaries have won just one of their past 14 away league games and remain without a manager following the sacking of Alex Neil last month.

Villa were denied a second before Kodjia’s late goal when Nathan Baker saw his header cleared off the line by Ryan Bennett and Conor Hourihane’s follow-up skimmed the crossbar.