Game #5417
Friday, 1 December 2017
Attendance: 30,547
Drew
Championship
5th (-1)
Leeds United
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟨
Elland Road
Villa are held by Leeds but now have just two defeats in their last seventeen Championship games, winning ten.
Leeds United
1-1
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | Jack Grealish | 71’ |
KEY MAN
Henri Lansbury celebrates his first goal for the club, 1 December 2017
PREVIOUS MATCH
NEXT MATCH
MATCH TIMELINE
🥅 | 19’ Goal, 0-1, (Leeds United), Pontus Jansson
🟨 | 28’ Booking, Conor Hourihane
🟨 | 45’ Booking, Robert Snodgrass
🕒 | HT Leeds United 1-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 65’ Sub off, Josh Onomah, Sub on, Henri Lansbury
🔁 | 65’ Sub off, Conor Hourihane, Sub on, Jack Grealish
⚽ | 71’ Goal, 1-1, Henri Lansbury, Assist by Jack Grealish
🔁 | 90’ Sub off, Albert Adomah, Sub on, Ahmed Elmohamady
🟨 | 90’ Booking, Alan Hutton
🕒 | FT Leeds United 1-1 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Henri Lansbury scores his first goal for Villa as Jack Grealish contributes his first assist of the season following injury to rescue a draw for Villa.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Leeds United
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1991–92
FIXTURE HISTORY
Leeds United
Previous 5 vs. Leeds: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟨
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2017-18 |
Matchday | #23 |
League Game | #20 |
Manager Game | #59 |
Friday, 1 December 2017
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Steve Bruce | 🏴 | Northumberland, 2016-2018
Referee: Peter Bankes | 🏴 | Liverpool, 2014-
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟨
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Peter Bankes | 🏴 | Liverpool, 2014-
Previous 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 1 Nov 17, Villa 2-0 Preston (a)
Incidents: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Tim Wood, Paul Hodskinson
CARDS
TEAM NEWS
Christopher Samba returns in place of the injured Mile Jedinak.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age: | 28.23 |
Oldest Player: M Glenn Whelan | 🇮🇪 | 33.91 |
Youngest Player: CF Keinan Davis | 🏴 | 19.81 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
Steve Bruce | 🏴 |
Thomas Christiansen | 🇪🇸 |
Aston Villa
GK Sam Johnstone | 🏴 |
LB Neil Taylor | 🏴 |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 | 🟨 |
CB Christopher Samba | 🇨🇬 |
CB James Chester | 🏴 |
M Glenn Whelan | 🇮🇪 |
M Josh Onomah | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
W Robert Snodgrass | 🏴 | 🟨 |
W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 | 🔁 |
CF Keinan Davis | 🏴 |
Leeds United
GK Felix Wiedwald | 🇩🇪 |
LB Ezgjan Alioski | 🇲🇰 | 🔁 |
CB Liam Cooper | 🏴 |
CB Pontus Jansson | 🇸🇪 | ⚽ | 🟨 |
RB Gaetano Beradi | 🇨🇭 |
RB Luke Ayling | 🏴 |
M Pablo Hernández | 🇪🇸 | 🔁 |
M Kalvin Phillips | 🏴 |
M Ronaldo Viera | 🇬🇼 |
W Samu Sáiz | 🇪🇸 | 🟨 |
F Caleb Ekuban | 🇬🇭 | 🔁 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 M Henri Lansbury | 🏴 | for M Josh Onomah | 🏴 | 65’ |
🔁 M Jack Grealish | 🏴 | for M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 | 65’ |
🔁 RB Ahmed Elmohamady | 🇪🇬 | for W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 | 90’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | CF Kemar Roofe | 🇯🇲 | for M Pablo Hernández | 🇪🇸 | 42’ |
🔁 | W Hadi Sacko | 🇲🇱 | for F Caleb Ekuban | 🇬🇭 | 83’ |
🔁 | CF Jay-Roy Grot | 🇳🇱 | for LB Ezgjan Alioski | 🇲🇰 | 89’ |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Jed Steer | 🏴 |
CB Tommy Elphick | 🏴 |
RB Ritchie De Laet | 🇧🇪 |
M Birkir Bjarnason | 🇮🇸 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Andy Lonergan | 🏴 |
CB Conor Shaughnessy | 🇮🇪 |
CB Matthew Pennington | 🏴 |
M Vurnon Anita | 🇨🇼 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £20.25m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 7/11
Homegrown: ⭕/11
Subs Cost: £4.05m
Team Cost: £24.30m
Squad Cost: £32.17m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/18
Homegrown: 1/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK Jed Steer | 🏴 | £0.49m |
GK Sam Johnstone | 🏴 | Loan |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 | £4.05m |
RB Ritchie De Laet | 🇧🇪 | £2.07m |
RB Ahmed Elmohamady | 🇪🇬 | £0.99m |
LB Neil Taylor | 🏴 | Exchange |
CB James Chester | 🏴 | £8.37m |
CB Tommy Elphick | 🏴 | £3.51m |
CB Christopher Samba | 🇨🇬 | Free |
M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 | £3.15m |
M Henri Lansbury | 🏴 | £3.06m |
M Birkir Bjarnason | 🇮🇸 | £1.80m |
M Glenn Whelan | 🇮🇪 | £1.53m |
M Jack Grealish | 🏴 | Youth |
M Josh Onomah | 🏴 | Loan |
W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 | £3.15m |
W Robert Snodgrass | 🏴 | Loan |
CF Keinan Davis | 🏴 | Free |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £11.00m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 4/11
Homegrown: 2/11
Subs Cost: £5.84m
Team Cost: £16.84m
Squad Cost: £16.84m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/18
Homegrown: 2/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK Felix Wiedwald | 🇩🇪 | £0.43m |
GK Andy Lonergan | 🏴 | Free |
LB Ezgjan Alioski | 🇲🇰 | £2.15m |
RB Luke Ayling | 🏴 | £0.78m |
RB Gaetano Beradi | 🇨🇭 | £0.08m |
CB Pontus Jansson | 🇸🇪 | £3.43m |
CB Liam Cooper | 🏴 | £0.64m |
CB Conor Shaughnessy | 🇮🇪 | Free |
CB Matthew Pennington | 🏴 | Loan |
M Kalvin Phillips | 🏴 | Youth |
M Ronaldo Viera | 🏴 | Youth |
M Vurnon Anita | 🇨🇼 | Free |
M Pablo Hernández | 🇪🇸 | Free |
W Samu Sáiz | 🇪🇸 | £3.01m |
W Hadi Sacko | 🇲🇱 | £1.46m |
CF Kemar Roofe | 🇯🇲 | £3.00m |
CF Jay-Roy Grot | 🇳🇱 | £1.38m |
F Caleb Ekuban | 🇬🇭 | £0.48m |
UNAVAILABLE
Injury | 3 |
CF Jonathan Kodjia | 🇨🇮 |
M Mile Jedinak | 🇦🇺 |
CB John Terry | 🏴 |
Out on Loan | 6 |
W Carles Gil | 🇪🇸 | Deportivo
GK Pierluigi Gollini | 🇮🇹 | Atalanta
LB Jordan Amavi | 🇫🇷 | Marseille
M Gary Gardner | 🏴 | Barnsley
GK Matija Šarkić | 🇲🇪 | Wigan
CF Ross McCormack | 🏴 | Melbourne
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 | 48%
Possession A | 52%
Shots F | 4
Shots A | 4
Shots on Target F | 0
Shots on Target A | 3
Corners F | 1
Corners A | 5
Fouls F | 15
Fouls A | 14
TABLE
PROGRAMME



MATCHDAY QUOTES
*Villa boss Steve Bruce*
“I was delighted with the response in the second half in particular. I thought the two lads who came on gave us the spark - credit to them.
”There was more purpose and more intensity [in the second half] and we looked after the ball better. We had good opportunities in the first half without damaging or hurting them. All in all we’ll take a point after a decent second half.”
*Sky Sports*
Friday, 1 December 2017
Henri Lansbury came off the bench to score his first goal in an Aston Villa shirt and earn a 1-1 draw against Leeds in the Sky Bet Championship on Friday night.
Steve Bruce’s Villa came into the game off the back of a better run of form, but it was their opponents who took the lead inside 20 minutes when Pontus Jansson fought off Chris Samba to nod home Pablo Hernandez’s corner (19).
The pendulum swung in the opposite direction after the break and though Villa put Leeds on the backfoot, it took them until the 71st minute to restore parity when Lansbury drove a low shot past Felix Wiedwald that crossed the line via the far post (71).
The draw lifts Thomas Christiansen’s men to seventh, while Villa remain in fourth spot, just a point behind Sheffield United, who play on Saturday.
Leeds started the game with a high-intensity approach and though they edged the first 15 minutes or so, they had nothing to show for their well-worked build-up play despite Caleb Ekuban and Ergjan Alioksi’s energetic displays.
Johnstone had lived a relatively charmed life for much of the game’s opening exchanges, but he could do nothing to keep out Jansson’s header with 19 minutes on the clock.
Reportedly carrying a groin injury, Samba was made to look inexperienced when his opposite number Jansson managed to divert Hernandez’s corner home despite being hauled to the deck by the veteran Congolese defender.
They do say football is a game of two halves, though and that certainly proved to be the case at Elland Road; Villa found themselves comfortably in possession as the second half began, with Leeds unable to penetrate their backline.
And their improved showing was rewarded when substitute Lansbury drove home his first Villa goal with less than 20 minutes remaining.
Neil Taylor’s foray forward was curtailed by a nasty looking 50/50 with Jansson, but the ball found its way to the feet of fellow substitute Jack Grealish, who left the ball for Lansbury to hit a low shot off the far post and over the line.
The final stages were played at a rapid pace as Samu Saiz and Keinan Davis both looked to force a late winner for their respective sides, but deep into an extended spell of stoppage time Peter Bankes blew his whistle to bring the game to a close.
*Villa boss Steve Bruce*
“I was delighted with the response in the second half in particular. I thought the two lads who came on gave us the spark - credit to them.
”There was more purpose and more intensity [in the second half] and we looked after the ball better. We had good opportunities in the first half without damaging or hurting them. All in all we’ll take a point after a decent second half.”