Game #5437
Saturday, 31 March 2018
Attendance: 16,133
Drew
Championship
4th (-)
Hull City
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨
KCOM Stadium
Villa stop a run of two defeats but are winless in three in their promotion challenge as they are held by Hull.
Hull City
0-0
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | None
KEY MAN
Albert Adomah tries to find a way through, 31 March 2018
RELATED MATCHES
MATCH TIMELINE
🟨 | 32’ Booking, Robert Snodgrass
🕒 | HT Hull City 0-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 62’ Sub off, Mile Jedinak, Sub on, Jonathan Kodjia
🔁 | 76’ Sub off, Axel Tuanzebe, Sub on, Ahmed Elmohamady
🟨 | 81’ Booking, Lewis Grabban
🔁 | 83’ Sub off, Albert Adomah, Sub on, Scott Hogan
🕒 | FT Hull City 0-0 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Villa stop the rot after two defeats but are held by Hull.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Hull City
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌
FIXTURE HISTORY
Previous 5 vs. Hull: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2017-18 |
Matchday | #43 |
League Game | #39 |
Manager Game | #79 |
Saturday, 31 March 2018
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Steve Bruce | 🏴 | Northumberland, 2016-2018
Referee: Andy Davies | 🏴 | Hampshire, 2012-
Kick off: 5.30pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Andy Davies | 🏴 | Hampshire, 2012-
Previous 5: 🟥 🟨 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 1 Jan 18, Villa 5-0 Bristol City (h)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Geoff Russell, Tim Wood
CARDS
Villa
🟨 🟨
Hull City
🟨
TEAM NEWS
After successive defeats Steve Bruce rings the changes.
In come Henri Lansbury, Mile Jedinak, Alan Hutton and Axel Tuanzebe as out go Ahmed Elmohamady, Birkir Bjarnason, James Bree and Conor Hourihane.
Jonathan Kodjia returns for his first squad appearance since October 2017 following his long term injury.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age: | 29.11 |
Oldest Player: CB John Terry | 🏴 | 37.33 |
Youngest Player: CB Axel Tuanzebe | 🏴 | 20.39 |
MANAGER
Steve Bruce | 🏴 |
MANAGER
Nigel Adkins | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Sam Johnstone | 🏴 |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 |
CB Axel Tuanzebe | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CB James Chester | 🏴 |
CB John Terry | 🏴 |
M Jack Grealish | 🏴 |
M Mile Jedinak | 🇦🇺 | 🔁 |
M Henri Lansbury | 🏴 |
W Robert Snodgrass | 🏴 | 🟨 |
W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 | 🔁 |
CF Lewis Grabban | 🇯🇲 | 🟨 |
Hull City
GK Allan McGregor | 🏴 |
LB Max Clark | 🏴 |
LB Ola Aina | 🇳🇬 |
CB Michael Dawson | 🏴 |
CB Markus Henriksen | 🇳🇴 |
CB Angus MacDonald | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Jackson Irvine | 🇦🇺 | 🔁 |
M Sebastian Larsson | 🇸🇪 | 🟨 |
W Jarrod Bowen | 🏴 |
W Harry Wilson | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CF Abel Hernández | 🇺🇾 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 CF Jonathan Kodjia | 🇨🇮 | for M Mile Jedinak | 🇦🇺 | 62’ |
🔁 RB Ahmed Elmohamady | 🇪🇬 | for CB Axel Tuanzebe | 🏴 | 76’ |
🔁 F Scott Hogan | 🇮🇪 | for W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 | 83’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | M Jon Toral | 🇪🇸 | for M Jackson Irvine | 🇦🇺 | 59’ |
🔁 | CB Michael Hector | 🇯🇲 | for CB Angus MacDonald | 🏴 | 66’ |
🔁 | W Kamil Grosicki | 🇵🇱 | for W Harry Wilson | 🏴 | 77’ |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Mark Bunn | 🏴 |
RB James Bree | 🏴 |
M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 |
M Josh Onomah | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK David Marshall | 🏴 |
CB Fikayo Tomori | 🏴 |
M David Meyler | 🇮🇪 |
CF Fraizer Campbell | 🏴 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £22.77m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Subs Cost: £9.45m
Team Cost: £32.22m
Squad Cost: £38.52m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/18
Homegrown: 1/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK Mark Bunn | 🏴 | Free |
GK Sam Johnstone | 🏴 | Loan |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 | £4.05m |
RB James Bree | 🏴 | £3.15m |
RB Ahmed Elmohamady | 🇪🇬 | 0.99m |
CB James Chester | 🏴 | £8.37m |
CB John Terry | 🏴 | Free |
CB Axel Tuanzebe | 🏴 | Loan |
M Mile Jedinak | 🇦🇺 | £4.14m |
M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 | £3.15m |
M Henri Lansbury | 🏴 | £3.06m |
M Jack Grealish | 🏴 | Youth |
M Josh Onomah | 🏴 | Loan |
W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 | £3.15m |
W Robert Snodgrass | 🏴 | Loan |
CF Jonathan Kodjia | 🇨🇮 | £11.61m |
F Scott Hogan | 🇮🇪 | £9.45m |
CF Lewis Grabban | 🇯🇲 | Loan |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £22.50m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Subs Cost: £10.24m
Team Cost: £32.74m
Squad Cost: £37.82m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/18
Homegrown: 1/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK David Marshall | 🏴 | £3.53m |
GK Allan McGregor | 🏴 | £1.51m |
LB Max Clark | 🏴 | Youth |
LB Ola Aina | 🇳🇬 | Loan |
CB Michael Dawson | 🏴 | £3.79m |
CB Markus Henriksen | 🇳🇴 | £4.56m |
CB Angus MacDonald | 🏴 | £0.68m |
CB Fikayo Tomori | 🏴 | Loan |
CB Michael Hector | 🇯🇲 | Loan |
M Jon Toral | 🇪🇸 | £2.84m |
M Jackson Irvine | 🇦🇺 | £1.63m |
M David Meyler | 🇮🇪 | £1.55m |
M Sebastian Larsson | 🇸🇪 | Free |
W Kamil Grosicki | 🇵🇱 | £7.40m |
W Jarrod Bowen | 🏴 | Free |
W Harry Wilson | 🏴 | Loan |
CF Abel Hernández | 🇺🇾 | £10.33m |
CF Fraizer Campbell | 🏴 | Free |
UNAVAILABLE
Out on Loan | 7 |
W Carles Gil | 🇪🇸 | Deportivo
GK Pierluigi Gollini | 🇮🇹 | Atalanta
LB Jordan Amavi | 🇫🇷 | Marseille
M Gary Gardner | 🏴 | Barnsley
CB Tommy Elphick | 🏴 | Reading
RB Ritchie De Laet | 🇧🇪 | Antwerp
CB Easah Suliman | 🏴 | Grimsby
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 | 49%
Possession A | 51%
Shots F | 9
Shots A | 10
Shots on Target F | 5
Shots on Target A | 2
Corners F | 8
Corners A | 4
Fouls F | 9
Fouls A | 11
TABLE
PROGRAMME



MATCHDAY QUOTES
*Villa boss Steve Bruce*
“In the first half, I thought we had control of it and all that was really missing for myself was the goal. We’ve had a glorious couple of chances but didn’t take them and the longer the game went on, the more frustrating it got for us.
“In the second half, we really haven’t got out of the traps at all and whether you can put that down to Hull, we gave the ball away cheaply, became disjointed very, very quickly and in the end it was a frustrating night for us.”
*Sky Sports*
Saturday, 31 March 2018
Aston Villa lost ground in their search for automatic promotion as they were held to a 0-0 draw by Hull in the Sky Bet Championship on Saturday evening.
Albert Adomah missed two chances to open up an early lead at the KCOM, firstly poking Robert Snodgrass’ teasing cross over from close range, before being dispossessed just yards from the goal line by Ola Aina.
Hull, battling for their lives at the bottom half of the table, defended well and were denied what looked like a clear penalty early in the second half when Jack Grealish raised his hands to Seb Larsson’s free-kick.
Neither side could apply the killer blow in the end as Nigel Adkins’ men moved six points clear of the relegation zone, with Villa now nine points behind second-placed Cardiff, who have a game in hand.
As the first of Adomah’s chances presented itself, there was little more Snodgrass could have done to deliver a better ball into the six-yard box from the right flank, but the Ghana international somehow missed the target from just a few yards out.
The Tigers looked good value in terms of possession in the first half as they patiently built in midfield, but it was the killer final ball that was lacking as Villa stopper Sam Johnstone went untested for the entire first 45 minutes.
John Terry headed Snodgrass’ inviting corner over, but on the cusp of half-time, Adomah was set free on the left by Grealish; he opted to square for Lewis Grabban, but the pass had minimal pace and was subsequently cleared by Aina.
Seemingly re-invigorated by Adkins’ half-time team-talk, the hosts sped out of the blocks and were denied the chance to score the opener when Grealish failed to lower his arms as Larsson swung a free-kick in from the right-hand side; the Swede’s animated appeals were swiftly waved away.
For all of their first-half opportunities, Villa’s attacking potency was absent after the break and though Steve Bruce opted to finish the game with three strikers on the pitch, it was Hull goalkeeper Allan McGregor who was perhaps the least active player on the pitch.
Hull should have done better when both substitute Jon Toral and Max Clark fired strikes over the bar, but in the end, it was their defence that held firm to secure a valuable point in their survival quest.
*Villa boss Steve Bruce*
“In the first half, I thought we had control of it and all that was really missing for myself was the goal. We’ve had a glorious couple of chances but didn’t take them and the longer the game went on, the more frustrating it got for us.
“In the second half, we really haven’t got out of the traps at all and whether you can put that down to Hull, we gave the ball away cheaply, became disjointed very, very quickly and in the end it was a frustrating night for us.”