Game #5487
Wednesday, 13 March 2019
Attendance: 29,224
Won
Championship
8th (+1)
Nottingham Forest
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟩
City Ground
Villa make it three consecutive wins this season as Forest are dispatched with ease on their own patch.
Nottingham Forest
1-3
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | Ahmed Elmohamady | 7’ | Conor Hourihane | 61’ |
KEY MAN
King Kortney scores his first goal for Villa as John McGinn strikes a brace, 13 March 2019
PREVIOUS MATCH
NEXT MATCH
MATCH TIMELINE
🥅 | 3’ Goal, 0-1, (Nottingham Forest), Jack Colback
⚽ | 7’ Goal, 1-1, John McGinn, Assist by Ahmed Elmohamady
⚽ | 14’ Goal, 2-1, John McGinn
🟨 | 28’ Booking, Kortney Hause for a bad foul
🕒 | HT Nottingham Forest 1-2 Aston Villa
⚽ | 61’ Goal, 3-1, Kortney Hause, Assist by Conor Hourihane
🔁 | 64’ Sub off, Anwar El Ghazi, Sub on, Albert Adomah
🟨 | 65’ Booking, Neil Taylor
🔁 | 72’ Sub off, Tammy Abraham, Sub on, Jonathan Kodjia
🔁 | 86’ Sub off, Jack Grealish, Sub on, Glenn Whelan
🟨 | 90’+6 Booking, Jonathan Kodjia for a bad foul
🕒 | FT Nottingham Forest 1-3 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Villa make it three wins in three as Kortney Hause scores his first for the club and move up to 8th in the table and two points off the play off places.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Nottingham Forest
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆🏆
League Champions: 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1989-90
FIXTURE HISTORY
Nottingham Forest
Previous 5 vs. Forest: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟨
FIXTURE DETAILS
Seasons | 2018-19 |
Matchday | #40 |
League Game | #37 |
Manager Game | #26 |
Wednesday, 13 March 2019
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Dean Smith | 🏴 | West Bromwich, 2018-2021
Referee: Mike Dean | 🏴 | Wirral, 1997-2022
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟩 2-1
FT Score: 🟩 3-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟩
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Mike Dean | 🏴 | Wirral, 1997-2022
Previous 5: 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 15 May 18, Villa 0-0 Boro (h)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Darren Cann, Ian Hussin
CARDS
TEAM NEWS
John McGinn comes in for Glenn Whelan whilst André Green replaces Albert Adomah
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age: | 25.44 |
Oldest Player: RB Ahmed Elmohamady | 🇪🇬 | 31.53 |
Youngest Player: W André Green | 🏴 | 20.64 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
Dean Smith | 🏴 |
Martin O’Neill | 🇬🇧 |
Aston Villa
GK Jed Steer | 🏴 |
LB Neil Taylor | 🏴 | 🟨 |
RB Ahmed Elmohamady | 🇪🇬 | 🔥 |
CB Kortney Hause | 🏴 | ⚽ | 🟨 |
CB Tyrone Mings | 🏴 |
M John McGinn | 🏴 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 | 🔥 |
M Jack Grealish | 🏴 | 🔁 |
W Anwar El Ghazi | 🇳🇱 | 🔁 |
W André Green | 🏴 |
CF Tammy Abraham | 🏴 | 🔁 |
Nottingham Forest
GK Costel Pantillimon | 🇧🇪 |
RB Tendayi Darikwa | 🇿🇼 |
CB Alexander Milošević | 🇸🇪 | 🟨 |
CB Yohan Benalouane | 🇹🇳 |
M Jack Colback | 🏴 | ⚽ | 🟨 |
M João Carvalho | 🇵🇹 |
M Ben Osborn | 🏴 |
M Ryan Yates | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Pelé | 🇬🇼 | 🔁 |
W Joe Lolley | 🏴 |
CF Karim Ansarifard | 🇮🇷 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 | for W Anwar El Ghazi | 64’ |
🔁 CF Jonathan Kodjia | 🇨🇮 | for CF Tammy Abraham | 72’ |
🔁 M Glenn Whelan | 🇮🇪 | for M Jack Grealish | 86’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | CF Daryl Murphy | 🇮🇪 | for CF Karim Ansarifard | 🇮🇷 | 62’ |
🔁 | M Adlène Guédioura | 🇩🇿 | for M Pelé | 🇬🇼 | 71’ |
🔁 | RB Diogo Gonçalves | 🇵🇹 | for M Ryan Yates | 🏴 | 76’ |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Lovre Kalinić | 🇭🇷 |
M Tom Carroll | 🏴 |
M Mile Jedinak | 🇦🇺 |
M Birkir Bjarnason | 🇮🇸 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Luke Steele | 🏴 |
CB Molla Wagué | 🇲🇱 |
M Ben Watson | 🏴 |
CF Léo Bonatini | 🇧🇷 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £15.52m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/11
Homegrown: 2/11
Subs Cost: £16.29m
Team Cost: £31.81m
Squad Cost: £43.15m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/18
Homegrown: 2/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK Lovre Kalinić | 🇭🇷 | £5.40m |
GK Jed Steer | 🏴 | £0.49m |
RB Ahmed Elmohamady | 🇪🇬 | £0.99m |
LB Neil Taylor | 🏴 | Exchange |
CB Kortney Hause | 🏴 | Loan |
CB Tyrone Mings | 🏴 | Loan |
M Mile Jedinak | 🇦🇺 | £4.14m |
M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 | £3.15m |
M John McGinn | 🏴 | £2.79m |
M Birkir Bjarnason | 🇮🇸 | £1.80m |
M Glenn Whelan | 🇮🇪 | £1.53m |
M Jack Grealish | 🏴 | Youth |
M Tom Carroll | 🏴 | Loan |
W Anwar El Ghazi | 🇳🇱 | £8.10m |
W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 | £3.15m |
W André Green | 🏴 | Youth |
CF Jonathan Kodjia | 🇨🇮 | £11.61m |
CF Tammy Abraham | 🏴 | Loan |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £14.31m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 4/11
Homegrown: 2/11
Subs Cost: £1.97m
Team Cost: £16.28m
Squad Cost: £16.28m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/18
Homegrown: 2/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK Costel Pantillimon | 🇧🇪 | Free |
GK Luke Steele | 🏴 | Free |
RB Tendayi Darikwa | 🇿🇼 | £0.94m |
RB Diogo Gonçalves | 🇵🇹 | Loan |
CB Alexander Milošević | 🇸🇪 | Free |
CB Yohan Benalouane | 🇹🇳 | Free |
CB Molla Wagué | 🇲🇱 | Loan |
M João Carvalho | 🇵🇹 | £12.86m |
M Ben Osborn | 🏴 | Youth |
M Ryan Yates | 🏴 | Youth |
M Jack Colback | 🏴 | Free |
M Adlène Guédioura | 🇩🇿 | Free |
M Ben Watson | 🏴 | Free |
M Pelé | 🇬🇼 | Loan |
W Joe Lolley | 🏴 | £0.51m |
CF Daryl Murphy | 🇮🇪 | £1.97m |
CF Karim Ansarifard | 🇮🇷 | Free |
CF Léo Bonatini | 🇧🇷 | Loan |
UNAVAILABLE
Injury | 6 |
CB Axel Tuanzebe | 🏴 |
GK Ørjan Nyland | 🇳🇴 |
CB James Chester | 🏴 |
M Henri Lansbury | 🏴 |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 |
CB Tommy Elphick | 🏴 |
Out on Loan | 13 |
M Gary Gardner | 🏴 | Small Heath
RB Mitch Clark | 🏴 | Port Vale
M Aaron Tshibola | 🏴 | Kilmarnock
RB Ritchie De Laet | 🇧🇪 | Melbourne
CF Ross McCormack | 🏴 | Motherwell
F Rushian Hepburn-Murphy | 🏴 | Cambridge
F Callum O’Hare | 🏴 | Carlisle
W Corey Blackett-Taylor | 🏴 | Walsall
RB James Bree | 🏴 | Ipswich
M Jake Doyle-Hayes | 🇮🇪 | Cambridge
F Scott Hogan | 🇮🇪 | Sheffield United
F Harry McKirdy | 🏴 | Newport
RB Frédéric Guilbert | 🇫🇷 | Caen
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 | 11
Shots A | 14
Shots on Target F | 4
Shots on Target A | 2
Corners F | 6
Corners A | 8
Fouls F | 13
Fouls A | 17
TABLE
PROGRAMME



MATCHDAY QUOTES
*Villa boss Dean Smith*
“It was a very professional performance. They had a fortunate goal that looked like a cross but we responded really.
“I brought John McGinn back in which was a tough decision because the midfield three have been doing really well. He was brilliant and deserved his two goals.
“He epitomises what we’re about as he’s a very good player but works so hard - the lads in the dressing room love him.
“[On being two points off the play-offs] I don’t want another false dawn so all we will be doing is concentrating on the next game which is Middlesbrough at home.”
*BBC Sport*
Wednesday, 13 March 2019
*A first-half double from John McGinn boosted Aston Villa’s play-off hopes after an impressive away win which dented Nottingham Forest’s chances of reaching the top six.*
The hosts initially took the lead in a frantic opening 15 minutes, in which three goals were scored, as McGinn’s two goals put Dean Smith’s side ahead at the break.
Forest fought hard to get themselves back into the game in the second half, with a Yohan Benalouane goal ruled out for offside, before Kortney Hause’s first strike for Villa put the game out of reach.
The result sees Villa leapfrog Martin O’Neil’s side into eighth place in the Championship, two points behind sixth-placed Derby.
McGinn’s excellently-taken goals came just eight minutes apart - the first, a low driven shot from the left, was followed by a superb long-range effort from 25 yards that rebounded off the post, beyond Costel Pantilimon in the Forest net.
Jack Colback had given Forest an early lead after his cross-cum-shot looped over Jed Steer in the third minute of the game.
The first meeting this season at Villa park ended in a remarkable 5-5 draw, and after three goals were scored so early it appeared fans at the City Ground could be treated to another high-scoring thriller.
But in an entertaining and competitive game, the only other goal came when Hause deflected a whipped free-kick from Conor Hourihane into the net just after the hour mark to keep the visitors in the hunt for the play-offs.
*Aston Villa boss Dean Smith told BBC WM:*
“It was a very professional performance. They had a fortunate goal that looked like a cross but we responded really.
“I brought John McGinn back in which was a tough decision because the midfield three have been doing really well. He was brilliant and deserved his two goals.
“He epitomises what we’re about as he’s a very good player but works so hard - the lads in the dressing room love him.
“[On being two points off the play-offs] I don’t want another false dawn so all we will be doing is concentrating on the next game which is Middlesbrough at home.”