Game #5388
Aston Villa
Tuesday, 4 April 2017
Won
11th (-)
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩
Championship
Attendance: 27,154
Queens Park Rangers
Villa Park
Villa's superb form continues under Steve Bruce as they record their seventh victory in eight Championship games.
Aston Villa
1-0
Queens Park Rangers
Assist(s) | Leandro Bacuna | 5’ |
KEY MAN
Jonathan Kodjia remarkable goalscoring streak under Steve Bruce continues as he celebrates his 5' winner to make it seven wins in eight Championship matches for Villa, Tuesday, 4 April 2017.
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MATCH TIMELINE
Tuesday, 4 April 2017
⚽ | 5’ Goal, 1-0, Jonathan Kodjia, Assist by Leandro Bacuna
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 Queens Park Rangers
🔁 | 77’ Sub off, Albert Adomah, Sub on, Scott Hogan
🔁 | 85’ Sub off, Jordan Amavi, Sub on, André Green
🟨 | 87’ Booking, Jonathan Kodjia
🔁 | 90’+1 Sub off, Jonathan Kodjia, Sub on, Tommy Elphick
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-0 Queens Park Rangers
ON THIS DAY
Steve Bruce's Villa win their seventh game in eight and their fourth consecutive game for the first time this season and the first time since Martin O'Neill in December 2009.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Queens Park Rangers
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1966-67
FIXTURE HISTORY
Queens Park Rangers
Previous 5 vs. QPR: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2016-17 |
Matchday | #42 |
League Game | #40 |
Manager Game | #30 |
Tuesday, 4 April 2017
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Steve Bruce | 🏴 | Northumberland, 2016-2018
Referee: Peter Bankes | 🏴 | Liverpool, 2014-
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Peter Bankes | 🏴 | Liverpool, 2014-
Previous 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 20 Feb 17, Villa 0-2 Newcastle (a)
Incidents: 🟨 🟨
CARDS
TEAM NEWS
Leandro Bacuna returns after his six game ban as Jordan Amavi comes in to replace Conor Hourihane and Scott Hogan.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age: | 27.59 |
Oldest Player: M Mile Jedinak | 🇦🇺 | 32.69 |
Youngest Player: LB Jordan Amavi | 🇫🇷 | 23.09 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
Steve Bruce | 🏴 |
Ian Holloway | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Sam Johnstone | 🏴 |
LB Neil Taylor | 🏴 |
LB Jordan Amavi | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴 |
CB James Chester | 🏴 |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 |
M Mile Jedinak | 🇦🇺 |
M Henri Lansbury | 🏴 |
W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 | 🔁 |
M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | 🔥 |
CF Jonathan Kodjia | 🇨🇮 | ⚽ | 🟨 | 🔁 |
Queens Park Rangers
GK Alex Smithies | 🏴 |
LB Jake Bidwell | 🏴 |
CB Grant Hall | 🏴 |
CB Nedum Onuoha | 🏴 |
RB Darnell Furlong | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Luke Freeman | 🏴 |
M Sean Goss | 🇬🇧 | 🔁 |
M Massimo Luongo | 🇦🇺 |
W Yeni N’Gbakoto | 🇨🇩 |
CF Jamie Mackie | 🏴 | 🟨 |
CF Idrissa Sylla | 🇬🇳 | 🔁 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 CF Scott Hogan | 🇮🇪 | for W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 | 77’ |
🔁 W André Green | 🏴 | for LB Jordan Amavi | 🇫🇷 | 85’ |
🔁 CB Tommy Elphick | 🏴 | for CF Jonathan Kodjia | 🇨🇮 | 90+1’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | CF Matt Smith | 🏴 | for CF Idrissa Sylla | 🇬🇳 | 64’ |
🔁 | CF Conor Washington | 🇬🇧 | for M Sean Goss | 🇬🇧 | 72’ |
🔁 | M Michael Petrasso | 🇨🇦 | for RB Darnell Furlong | 🏴 | 75’ |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Mark Bunn | 🏴 |
RB James Bree | 🏴 |
M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 |
M Jack Grealish | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Matt Ingram | 🏴 |
LB Ryan Manning | 🇨🇮 |
M James Perch | 🏴 |
W Paweł Wszołek | 🇵🇱 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £45.54m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Subs Cost: £12.96m
Team Cost: £58.50m
Squad Cost: £64.80m
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 |
RB James Bree | 🏴 | £3.15m |
LB Neil Taylor | 🏴 | Exchange |
CB James Chester | 🏴 | £8.37m |
CB Tommy Elphick | 🏴 | £3.51m |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴 | Youth |
M Mile Jedinak | 🇦🇺 | £4.14m |
M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 | £3.15m |
M Henri Lansbury | 🏴 | £3.06m |
M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | £1.26m |
M Jack Grealish | 🏴 | Youth |
W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 | £3.15m |
W André Green | 🏴 | Youth |
CF Jonathan Kodjia | 🇨🇮 | £11.61m |
F Scott Hogan | 🇮🇪 | £9.45m |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £14.30m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Subs Cost: £3.34m
Team Cost: £17.64m
Squad Cost: £21.08m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 12/18
Homegrown: 1/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK Alex Smithies | 🏴 | £1.81m |
GK Matt Ingram | 🏴 | £0.46m |
LB Jake Bidwell | 🏴 | £1.38m |
LB Ryan Manning | 🇨🇮 | £0.06m |
CB Nedum Onuoha | 🏴 | £4.04m |
CB Grant Hall | 🏴 | Free |
RB Darnell Furlong | 🏴 | Youth |
M Massimo Luongo | 🇦🇺 | £3.68m |
M James Perch | 🏴 | £1.20m |
M Sean Goss | 🇬🇧 | £0.51m |
M Luke Freeman | 🏴 | £0.30m |
M Michael Petrasso | 🇨🇦 | Free |
W Paweł Wszołek | 🇵🇱 | £1.72m |
W Yeni N’Gbakoto | 🇨🇩 | Free |
CF Conor Washington | 🇬🇧 | £2.84m |
CF Idrissa Sylla | 🇬🇳 | £2.58m |
CF Matt Smith | 🏴 | £0.50m |
CF Jamie Mackie | 🏴 | Free |
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 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
FINAL APPEARANCES
MATCH STATS
Possession F | 38%
Possession A | 62%
Shots F | 9
Shots A | 8
Shots on Target F | 3
Shots on Target A | 1
Corners F | 5
Corners A | 6
Fouls F | 10
Fouls A | 10
TABLE
PROGRAMME



MATCHDAY QUOTES
“I believe that we have given ourselves too much to do [to reach the play-offs]. We have got to improve with the ball particularly late in the game.
“But they have found the resilience which is required in the Championship. To concede only one goal in eight games is an incredible turn around. It is a shame we are not four or five points closer to the play-offs but that is where we are at the moment.
“With six games to go we have probably given ourselves too much to do but we are making a fist of it which is good.”
Steve Bruce, Tuesday, 4 April 2017.
*Sky Sports*
Tuesday, 4 April 2017
Jonathan Kodjia was the match-winner again as Aston Villa secured a 1-0 victory against QPR in the Sky Bet Championship.
The impressive Kodjia, who scored both of Villa’s goals against Norwich at the weekend, bagged his 18th strike of the campaign to move the hosts within nine points of the play-off places.
Villa’s seventh win in eight games was done the hard way as they failed to build upon Kodjia’s fifth-minute goal. Playing a side that had won just one of their last six games on the road, Steve Bruce’s side often lived dangerously before emerging with the points.
The hosts made a blistering start and posted an early indication of their danger when Albert Adomah smashed a 20-yard shot against the foot of a post in only the third minute with goalkeeper Alex Smithies well beaten.
Rangers obviously failed to heed the warning as it took Villa only another two minutes to surge into the lead.
Leandro Bacuna, drafted into the side in place of Irishman Conor Hourihane, picked out the unmarked Kodjia with a defence-splitting pass and the Ivory Coast international responded by drilling home a powerful low drive to record his seventh goal in as many games.
The visitors had obviously been caught napping as they made a sluggish start and it took them some time to regroup. They managed to build up a promising attack only for Yeni Ngbakoto’s effort to be deflected just wide of a post.
As against Norwich at the weekend, Villa struggled to build upon their slender lead and consequently enabled Rangers to get back into game.
The nippy Ngbakoto, in particular, was a persistent threat and he very nearly capitalised upon a risky back pass from Neil Taylor.
Villa were put under pressure as Rangers slowly gained control in midfield as they went in search of the equaliser, only to be thwarted by a somewhat anxious opposition.
With Grant Hall finally getting to grips with the Kodjia threat, Ian Holloway’s side built up several promising attacks. Substitute Conor Washington fired wide of goal while Jamie Mackie failed to hit the target when well placed in stoppage time. But Villa held out to seal their second successive 1-0 victory over the London club.