Game #5445
Aston Villa
Saturday, 12 May 2018
Won
Semi Final
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟩
Play Off Semi Final
Attendance: 29,233
Middlesbrough
Riverside Stadium
Middlesbrough
0-1
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | Jack Grealish | 15’ |
MATCH SUMMARY
Villa take a crucial first leg lead in their first ever appearance in the play offs.
KEY MAN
Mile Jedinak celebrates his first leg winner in the Play off semi final at the Riverside, 12 May 2018
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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 12 May 2018
🟨 | 13’ Booking, Conor Hourihane
⚽ | 15’ Goal, Mile Jedinak, Assist by Jack Grealish
🕒 | HT Middlesbrough 0-1 Aston Villa
🔁 | 71’ Sub off, Albert Adomah, Sub on, Jonathan Kodjia
🟨 | 75’ Booking, Robert Snodgrass
🔁 | 81’ Sub off, Lewis Grabban, Sub on, Birkir Bjarnason
🔁 | 88’ Sub off, Ahmed Elmohamady, Sub on, Glenn Whelan
🕒 | FT Middlesbrough 0-1 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
A masterclass from Jack Grealish earns Villa a slender lead ahead of the home leg with a Wembley play off date tantalisingly close.
Former Villa winger Adama Traoré manages to stay on the pitch for 90’ but can do nothing to stop his old club.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Middlesbrough
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 2003-04
FIXTURE HISTORY
Middlesbrough
Previous 5 vs. Middlesbrough: 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟩
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2017-18 |
Matchday | #51 |
Manager Game | #87 |
Saturday, 12 May 2018
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Steve Bruce | 🏴 | Northumberland, 2016-2018
Referee: Bobby Madley | 🏴 | Wakefield, 2010-
Kick off: 5.15pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟩
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Steve Bruce | 🏴 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 87 | 🟩 | 42 🟨 | 18 🟥 27 | 1.66
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Bobby Madley | 🏴 | Wakefield, 2010-
Previous 5: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 7 May 16, Villa 0-0 Newcastle (h)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Peter Kirkup, Harry Lennard
ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:
CARDS
Villa
🟨 🟨
Middlesbrough
🟨 🟨
TEAM NEWS
Sam Johnstone, Robert Snodgrass, Jack Grealish, John Terry, Ahmed Elmohamady and Lewis Grabban are recalled.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age: | 30.12 |
Oldest Player: CB John Terry | 🏴 | 37.45 |
Youngest Player: M Jack Grealish | 🏴 | 22.68 |
MANAGER
Steve Bruce | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Sam Johnstone | 🏴 |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 |
RB Ahmed Elmohamady | 🇪🇬 | 🔁 |
CB James Chester | 🏴 |
CB John Terry | 🏴 |
M Jack Grealish | 🏴 | 🔥 |
M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
M Mile Jedinak | 🇦🇺 | ⚽ |
W Robert Snodgrass | 🏴 | 🟨 |
W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 | 🔁 |
CF Lewis Grabban | 🇯🇲 | 🔁 |
MANAGER
Tony Pulis | 🏴 |
Middlesbrough
GK Darren Randolph | 🇮🇪 |
LB George Friend | 🏴 | 🟨 |
CB Daniel Ayala | 🇪🇸 | 🔁 |
CB Ryan Shotton | 🏴 |
CB Ben Gibson | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Adam Clayton | 🏴 |
M Jonny Howson | 🏴 |
M Muhamed Bešić | 🇧🇦 |
W Stewart Downing (ex) | 🏴 |
W Adama Traoré (ex) | 🇪🇸 |
CF Britt Assombalonga | 🇨🇩 | 🔁 |
Not necessarily indicative of the actual matchday formation
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 CF Jonathan Kodjia | 🇨🇮 | for W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 | 71’ |
🔁 M Birkir Bjarnason | 🇮🇸 | for CF Lewis Grabban | 🇯🇲 | 81’ |
🔁 M Glenn Whelan | 🇮🇪 | for RB Ahmed Elmohamady | 🇪🇬 | 88’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | RB Fábio | 🇧🇷 | for CB Daniel Ayala | 🇪🇸 | 64’ |
🔁 | CF Patrick Bamford | 🏴 | for CF Britt Assombalonga | 🇨🇩 | 76’ |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Mark Bunn | 🏴 |
CB Christopher Samba | 🇨🇬 |
M Josh Onomah | 🏴 |
F Scott Hogan | 🇮🇪 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Dimitrios Konstantopoulos | 🇬🇷 |
CB Dael Fry | 🏴 |
CB Martin Cranie | 🏴 |
M Grant Leadbitter | 🏴 |
W Jack Harrison | 🏴 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £23.85m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Subs Cost: £14.94m
Team Cost: £38.79m
Squad Cost: £48.24m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/18
Homegrown: 1/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK Mark Bunn | 🏴 | Free |
GK Sam Johnstone | 🏴 | Loan |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 | £4.05m |
RB Ahmed Elmohamady | 🇪🇬 | £0.99m |
CB James Chester | 🏴 | £8.37m |
CB John Terry | 🏴 | Free |
CB Christopher Samba | 🇨🇬 | Free |
M Mile Jedinak | 🇦🇺 | £4.14m |
M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 | £3.15 |
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 Jonathan Kodjia | 🇨🇮 | £11.61m |
F Scott Hogan | 🇮🇪 | £9.45m |
CF Lewis Grabban | 🇯🇲 | Loan |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £43.43m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Subs Cost: £7.20m
Team Cost: £50.63m
Squad Cost: £50.63m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/18
Homegrown: 2/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK Darren Randolph | 🇮🇪 | £4.80m |
GK Dimitrios Konstantopoulos | 🇬🇷 | Free |
RB Fábio | 🇧🇷 | £1.98m |
LB George Friend | 🏴 | £0.55m |
CB Ryan Shotton | 🏴 | £2.75m |
CB Daniel Ayala | 🇪🇸 | £0.36m |
CB Ben Gibson | 🏴 | Youth |
CB Dael Fry | 🏴 | Youth |
CB Martin Cranie | 🏴 | Free |
M Jonny Howson | 🏴 | £4.84m |
M Adam Clayton | 🏴 | £1.60m |
M Grant Leadbitter | 🏴 | Free |
M Muhamed Bešić | 🇧🇦 | Loan |
W Adama Traoré (ex) | 🇪🇸 | £7.10m |
W Stewart Downing (ex) | 🏴 | £6.77m |
W Jack Harrison | 🏴 | Free |
CF Britt Assombalonga | 🇨🇩 | £14.66m |
CF Patrick Bamford | 🏴 | £5.22m |
UNAVAILABLE
Injury | 1 |
CB Axel Tuanzebe | 🏴 |
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 Positions:
GK : Goalkeeper
CB, D, B : Centre Back, Defender, Back
FB, LB, RB, WH : Full Back, Left Back, Right Back, Wing Back, Wing Half
M, CH, LH, RH : Midfielder, Centre Half, Left Half, Right Half
W, OL, OR : Winger, Outside Left, Outside Right
F, IF, IL, IR : Forward, Inside Forward, Inside Left, Inside Right, Second Striker, False 9
CF : Centre Forward
Match Symbols:
⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution
🟨 | Booking
🟥 | Sending off
🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game
DEBUT APPEARANCES
FINAL APPEARANCES
MATCH STATS
Possession F | 37%
Possession A | 63%
Shots F | 6
Shots A | 17
Shots on Target F | 4
Shots on Target A | 4
Corners F | 2
Corners A | 10
Fouls F | 11
Fouls A | 9
LEAGUE TABLE
MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
*Villa boss Steve Bruce*
”We had to defend very well. We went too deep in the second half but you saw the resilience of the team. It was very difficult but we kept a clean sheet and we’ve got an advantage. It’s never easy but we’ll take that and we’ll look forward to Tuesday.
“It’s only half-time, they’ve got to come to our place but we all know the Championship and how ridiculous it is. We clung on a bit in the second half but we’ve got an advantage to take home.”
*Sky Sports*
Saturday, 12 May 2018
Mile Jedinak’s header handed Aston Villa the advantage in their play-off tie with Middlesbrough as they edged a 1-0 win at the Riverside Stadium.
The Australian international nodded home from a corner in the first half to give Steve Bruce’s side the lead in their Sky Bet Championship semi-final against a surprisingly flat Boro side on Saturday.
It had been nearly three months since Middlesbrough last failed to score, but they rarely threatened Sam Johnstone’s goal throughout 90 minutes, leaving Villa with the edge heading into the second leg on Tuesday night.
Middlesbrough have been set-piece specialists since Tony Pulis arrived in December, and he would have been dismayed to see his side come undone from a corner after 15 minutes. It didn’t even require a particularly spectacular corner from Jack Grealish to find Jedinak at the near post, although the Australian did impressively leap to flick home his first goal away from home since November 2014.
Were it not for Darren Randolph then Villa would have doubled their lead just before half-time. Robert Snodgrass’ curling effort looked destined for the bottom corner, but the Boro stopper somehow got across to tip the strike onto the post.
Boro continued to push for an equaliser but suffered a blow midway through the second half as Daniel Ayala was forced off with a leg injury, rendering him doubtful for the second leg.
Fabio was his replacement and he presented his side with a glorious opportunity to level with his first touch after coming on, but his inviting ball across the six-yard line was behind the run of Britt Assombalonga, who would have had a simple tap-in if the full-back had found him.
The home side continued to huff and puff in search of an equaliser with Pulis throwing on Patrick Bamford for the ineffective Assombalonga, but the Villa defence, led by John Terry, resisted anything that was thrown at them to take them one step closer to Wembley.
The only blow for Villa was the late injury to full-back Ahmed Elmohamady, who appeared to aggravate his hamstring and now looks doubtful for their mission to finish the job back at Villa Park in three days.
Man of the match: Jack Grealish
His corner created the only goal of the game for Jedinak to convert, but Grealish also ran the show for Villa in his attacking midfield role and there were occasions when the Boro players couldn’t get near him.
*Villa boss Steve Bruce*
”We had to defend very well. We went too deep in the second half but you saw the resilience of the team. It was very difficult but we kept a clean sheet and we’ve got an advantage. It’s never easy but we’ll take that and we’ll look forward to Tuesday.
“It’s only half-time, they’ve got to come to our place but we all know the Championship and how ridiculous it is. We clung on a bit in the second half but we’ve got an advantage to take home.”