Game #5473
Aston Villa
Wednesday, 26 December 2018
Won
8th (+2)
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟩
Championship
Attendance: 20,775
Swansea City
Liberty Stadium
Swansea City
0-1
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | Alan Hutton | 65’ |
MATCH SUMMARY
Villa win for the first time in four but now have just one defeat in nine under Dean Smith.
KEY MAN
Conor Hourihane celebrates his second half winner, 26 December 2018
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MATCH TIMELINE
Wednesday, 26 December 2018
🟨 | 21’ Booking, Glenn Whelan for a bad foul
🕒 | HT Swansea City 0-0 Aston Villa
⚽ | 65’ Goal, 1-0, Conor Hourihane, Assist by Alan Hutton
🔁 | 76’ Sub off, Yannick Bolasie, Sub on, Albert Adomah
🟨 | 80’ Booking, John McGinn
🔁 | 88’ Sub off, Tammy Abraham, Sub on, Jonathan Kodija
💥 | 90’+ Missed Penalty, (Swansea City), Wilfried Bony
🔁 | 90’+3 Sub off, Conor Hourihane, Sub on, Birkir Bjarnason
🕒 | FT Swansea City 0-1 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Villa return to winning ways for the first time in 4 games (D2 L1) and climb back to 9th in the table still well short of the play offs.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Swansea City
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 2012-13
FIXTURE HISTORY
Swansea City
Previous 5 vs. Swansea: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩
FIXTURE DETAILS
Seasons | 2018-19 |
Matchday | #26 |
League Game | #24 |
Manager Game | #12 |
Wednesday, 26 December 2018
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Dean Smith | 🏴 | West Bromwich, 2018-2021
Referee: Roger East | 🏴 | Wiltshire, 2006-2019
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟩
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Dean Smith | 🏴 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 12 | 🟩 | 6 🟨 | 3 🟥 3 | 1.75
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
Dean Smith | 🏴 |
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Roger East | 🏴 | Wiltshire, 2006-2019
Previous 5: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 29 Dec 16, Villa 1-1 Leeds (h)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Matt Wilkes, Derek Eaton
Roger East
CARDS
Villa
🟨 🟨
Swansea City
🟨 🟨
TEAM NEWS
Anwar El Ghazi replaces Jonathan Kodjia in the only change from the team that lost to Leeds last time out.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age: | 27.85 |
Oldest Player: M Glenn Whelan | 🇮🇪 | 34.98 |
Youngest Player: RB James Bree | 🏴 | 21.05 |
MANAGER
Dean Smith | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Ørjan Nyland | 🇳🇴 |
RB Ahmed Elmohamady | 🇪🇬 |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 | 🔥 |
RB James Bree | 🏴 |
CB James Chester | 🏴 |
M John McGinn | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
M Glenn Whelan | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
W Yannick Bolasie | 🇨🇩 | 🔁 |
W Anwar El Ghazi | 🇳🇱 |
CF Tammy Abraham | 🏴 | 🔁 |
MANAGER
Graham Potter | 🏴 |
Swansea City
GK Erwin Mulder | 🇳🇱 |
CB Mike van der Hoorn | 🇳🇱 | 🟨 |
CB Cameron Carter-Vickers | 🇺🇸 |
RB Connor Roberts | 🏴 |
RB Kyle Naughton | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Leroy Fer | 🇳🇱 | 🔁 |
M Bersant Celina | 🇽🇰 |
M Matt Grimes | 🏴 |
M Jay Fulton | 🏴 | 🔁 |
W Daniel James | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CF Oliver McBurnie | 🏴 |
Not necessarily indicative of the actual matchday formation
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 | for W Yannick Bolasie | 🇨🇩 | 76’ |
🔁 CF Jonathan Kodija | 🇨🇮 | for CF Tammy Abraham | 🏴 | 88’ |
🔁 M Birkir Bjarnason | 🇮🇸 | for M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 | 90’+3 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | W Jefferson Montero | 🇪🇨 | for W Daniel James | 🏴 | 62’ |
🔁 | CF Wilfried Bony | 🇨🇮 | for M Leroy Fer | 🇳🇱 | 69’ |
🔁 | W Nathan Dyer | 🏴 | for M Jay Fulton | 🏴 | 70’ |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Mark Bunn | 🏴 |
CB Dominic Revan | 🏴 |
CF Keinan Davis | 🏴 |
F Scott Hogan | 🇮🇪 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Kristoffer Nordfeldt | 🇸🇪 |
CB Joe Rodon | 🏴 |
M George Byers | 🏴 |
W Barrie McKay | 🏴 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £34.83m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Homegrown: ⭕/11
Subs Cost: £16.56m
Team Cost: £51.39m
Squad Cost: £60.84m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/18
Homegrown: 1/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK Ørjan Nyland | 🇳🇴 | £2.70m |
GK Mark Bunn | 🏴 | Free |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 | £4.05m |
RB James Bree | 🏴 | £3.15m |
RB Ahmed Elmohamady | 🇪🇬 | £0.99m |
CB James Chester | 🏴 | £8.37m |
CB Dominic Revan | 🏴 | Youth |
M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 | £3.15m |
M John McGinn | 🏴 | £2.79m |
M Birkir Bjarnason | 🇮🇸 | £1.80m |
M Glenn Whelan | 🇮🇪 | £1.53m |
W Anwar El Ghazi | 🇳🇱 | £8.10m |
W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 | £3.15m |
W Yannick Bolasie | 🇨🇩 | Loan |
CF Jonathan Kodjia | 🇨🇮 | £11.61m |
F Scott Hogan | 🇮🇪 | £9.45m |
CF Keinan Davis | 🏴 | Free |
CF Tammy Abraham | 🏴 | Loan |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £17.81m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Subs Cost: £17.01m
Team Cost: £34.82m
Squad Cost: £36.03m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 10/18
Homegrown: 3/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK Kristoffer Nordfeldt | 🇸🇪 | £0.73m |
GK Erwin Mulder | 🇳🇱 | Free |
RB Kyle Naughton | 🏴 | £5.68m |
RB Connor Roberts | 🏴 | Youth |
CB Mike van der Hoorn | 🇳🇱 | £2.15m |
CB Joe Rodon | 🏴 | Youth |
CB Cameron Carter-Vickers | 🇺🇸 | Loan |
M Leroy Fer | 🇳🇱 | £4.82m |
M Bersant Celina | 🇽🇰 | £2.93m |
M Matt Grimes | 🏴 | £1.93m |
M Jay Fulton | 🏴 | Free |
M George Byers | 🏴 | Free |
W Jefferson Montero | 🇪🇨 | £4.30m |
W Nathan Dyer | 🏴 | £0.51m |
W Barrie McKay | 🏴 | £0.48m |
W Daniel James | 🏴 | Free |
CF Wilfried Bony | 🇨🇮 | £12.20m |
CF Oliver McBurnie | 🏴 | £0.30m |
UNAVAILABLE
Injury | 5 |
M Henri Lansbury | 🏴 |
M Mile Jedinak | 🇦🇺 |
LB Neil Taylor | 🏴 |
M Jack Grealish | 🏴 |
CB Axel Tuanzebe | 🏴 |
Out on Loan | 10 |
M Gary Gardner | 🏴 | Small Heath
GK Jed Steer | 🏴 | Charlton
CB Easah Suliman | 🏴 | Emmen
RB Mitch Clark | 🏴 | Port Vale
M Aaron Tshibola | 🏴 | Kilmarnock
W André Green | 🏴 | Portsmouth
CB Tommy Elphick | 🏴 | Hull
RB Ritchie De Laet | 🇧🇪 | Melbourne
CF Ross McCormack | 🏴 | Central Coast Mariners
GK Matija Šarkić | 🇲🇪 | Stratford Town
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 | 41%
Possession A | 59%
Shots F | 13
Shots A | 19
Shots on Target F | 5
Shots on Target A | 5
Corners F | 4
Corners A | 9
Fouls F | 11
Fouls A | 8
LEAGUE TABLE
MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
*Villa boss Dean Smith*
“I thought we showed another side to our game, which has been questioned at times - our grit and defensive resilience.
“He [Orjan Nyland] has been doing very well of late. Everyone knows we’ve signed another goalkeeper [Lovre Kalinic] to put competition in an area we want to strengthen, and that’s what it’s doing for Orjan.
“Credit to him and the goalkeeping department because they do a lot of work on penalties and they’d predicted he [Bony] would go that way. He’s ended up making a good save which has won us the game.”
*BBC Sport*
Wednesday, 26 December 2018
*Orjan Nyland saved a 90th-minute penalty from Wilfried Bony to earn Aston Villa victory at Swansea City.*
Although the hosts controlled things in a goalless first half, Villa improved after the break and, after cranking up the pressure with several chances, Conor Hourihane headed them in front.
However, Swansea were awarded a late penalty when Nathan Dyer was bundled over by Anwar El Ghazi.
But substitute Bony’s low spot-kick was superbly pushed away by Nyland.
The win lifts Villa up to 10th in the Championship, within three points of the play-off places.
For the Swans, meanwhile, a second successive defeat sees them drop down to 13th.
Both sides had succumbed to late comebacks in their previous outings, Villa squandering a 2-0 lead to lose 3-2 at home to Leeds and Swansea beaten by the same score at Hull having been 1-0 in front.
The Swans dominated that encounter but were undone by an inability to take their chances, and there was a similar theme to their first-half display against Villa.
Graham Potter’s players monopolised possession and worked their way into several promising positions but struggled to create many genuine scoring opportunities.
The visitors, by contrast, were without the ball for long periods but did fashion the best chance of the opening 45 minutes as former Swan Tammy Abraham nodded the ball down to John McGinn, whose powerful close-range effort was somehow saved by Erwin Mulder.
If that was a little against the run of play, it was a different story after the interval.
Villa played with far more attacking intent and at a much quicker tempo, with Hourihane twice testing Mulder with well-struck free-kicks.
Dean Smith’s side came at their opponents in waves and the pressure led to the winning goal after 65 minutes as Alan Hutton’s cross was headed in by Hourihane, via the crossbar and a touch from Mulder.
Villa deserved their lead, though they lived dangerously in the closing stages.
Mike van der Hoorn was close to equalising for Swansea when he headed against the post, and then the home side were handed a golden opportunity to level when El Ghazi clumsily felled Dyer as a cross came into Villa’s box.
However, it was Villa who were given the final reprieve as Bony’s firmly struck penalty was superbly pushed away by Nyland to prompt ecstatic celebrations among the travelling supporters.
*Swansea City manager Graham Potter said:*
“Obviously we are disappointed with the result, we really put a lot into the game.
“I thought we had enough, we may have lacked something in the final areas - a couple of times I’m waiting for the net to ripple, and it hasn’t.
“To get there though I thought we did well, the boys tried, they tried their best, they left everything on the pitch, and in the end we came up short. I feel for the players and I feel for the supporters.”
*Aston Villa manager Dean Smith said:*
“I thought we showed another side to our game, which has been questioned at times - our grit and defensive resilience.
“He [Orjan Nyland] has been doing very well of late. Everyone knows we’ve signed another goalkeeper [Lovre Kalinic] to put competition in an area we want to strengthen, and that’s what it’s doing for Orjan.
“Credit to him and the goalkeeping department because they do a lot of work on penalties and they’d predicted he [Bony] would go that way. He’s ended up making a good save which has won us the game.”
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