Game #5496
Aston Villa
Sunday, 5 May 2019
Lost
5th (-)
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟥
Championship
Attendance: 41,696
Norwich City
Villa Park
Aston Villa
1-2
Norwich City
Assist(s) | Conor Hourihane | 14’ |
MATCH SUMMARY
Villa take the lead but Champions Norwich hit back and Villa end the regular season in fifth place after a record breaking ten game winning run.
KEY MAN
Jonathan Kodjia opened the scoring on 14', 5 May 2019
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MATCH TIMELINE
Sunday, 5 May 2019
🥅 | 7’ Goal, 0-1, (Norwich City), Teemu Pukki
⚽ | 14’ Goal, 1-1, Jonathan Kodjia, Assist by Conor Hourihane
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-1 Norwich City
🟨 | 62’ Booking, Henri Lansbury
🔁 | 72’ Sub off, Jonathan Kodija, Sub on, Keinan Davis
🔁 | 80’ Sub off, Henri Lansbury, Sub on, Birkir Bjarnason 🔴
🥅 | 86’ Goal, 1-2, (Norwich City), Mario Vrančić
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-2 Norwich City
ON THIS DAY
Villa lose for the first time in 13 games but with a play off spot booked take the opportunity to rest their key players ahead of the ties with West Bromwich Albion.
Right back Alan Hutton made his final appearance for Villa aged 34 before retiring from football at the expiry of his contract in July 2019. Villa cult hero Hutton made 202 appearances for Villa and scored 3 goals since joining from Tottenham Hotspur in August 2011 for a fee of £4,050,000.
Midfielder Birkir Bjarnasson made his final appearance for Villa aged 30 before being released by the club in August 2019. Villa had signed Bjarnasson from FC Basel 1893 in January 2017 for a fee of £1,800,000 and he went on to make 54 appearances, scoring 6 goals.
Future Villa midfielder Emiliano Buendía lined up for Norwich.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Norwich City
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1984–85
FIXTURE HISTORY
Norwich City
Previous 5 vs. Norwich: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥
FIXTURE DETAILS
Seasons | 2018-19 |
Matchday | #49 |
League Game | #46 |
Manager Game | #35 |
Sunday, 5 May 2019
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Dean Smith | 🏴 | West Bromwich, 2018-2021
Referee: Peter Bankes | 🏴 | Liverpool, 2014-
Kick off: 12.30pm
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Score: 🟥 1-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟥
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Dean Smith | 🏴 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 35 | 🟩 | 17 🟨 | 10 🟥 8 | 1.74
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
Dean Smith | 🏴 |
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Peter Bankes | 🏴 | Liverpool, 2014-
Previous 5: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 15 Dec 18, Villa 2-2 Stoke (h)
Incidents: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Paul Hodskinson, Graham Kane
Peter Bankes
CARDS
Villa
🟨
Norwich City
🟨 🟨 🟨
TEAM NEWS
John McGinn, Jack Grealish, Anwar El Ghazi, Ahmed Elmohamady and Tyrone Mings are all rested ahead of the Play offs whilst the fit-again Tammy Abraham isn't risked. Kortney Hause returns from injury for his first start in 6 games whilst Albert Adomah, Henri Lansbury (first league start of the season), Alan Hutton and Glenn Whelan come in.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age: | 28.23 |
Oldest Player: M Glenn Whelan | 🇮🇪 | 35.33 |
Youngest Player: W André Green | 🏴 | 20.79 |
MANAGER
Dean Smith | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Jed Steer | 🏴 |
LB Neil Taylor | 🏴 |
CB Kortney Hause | 🏴 |
CB Axel Tuanzebe | 🏴 |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 | 🔴 |
M Henri Lansbury | 🏴 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Glenn Whelan | 🇮🇪 |
M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 | 🔥 |
W André Green | 🏴 |
W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 |
CF Jonathan Kodija | 🇨🇮 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
MANAGER
Daniel Farke | 🇩🇪 |
Norwich City
GK Tim Krul | 🇳🇱 |
LB Jamal Lewis | 🇬🇧 | 🟨 |
CB Ben Godfrey | 🏴 |
CB Christoph Zimmermann | 🇩🇪 | 🟨 |
RB Max Aarons | 🏴 |
M Marco Stiepermann | 🇩🇪 | 🔁 |
M Mario Vrančić | 🇧🇦 | ⚽ |
M Kenny McLean | 🏴 | 🔁 |
W Onel Hernández | 🇨🇺 | 🔁 |
W Emiliano Buendía | 🇦🇷 | 🟨 |
CF Teemu Pukki | 🇫🇮 | ⚽ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 CF Keinan Davis | 🏴 | for CF Jonathan Kodija | 🇨🇮 | 72’ |
🔁 M Birkir Bjarnason | 🇮🇸 | 🔴 | for M Henri Lansbury | 🏴 | 80’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | M Alexander Tettey | 🇳🇴 | for M Kenny McLean | 🏴 | 42’ |
🔁 | M Moritz Leitner | 🇩🇪 | for M Marco Stiepermann | 🇩🇪 | 73’ |
🔁 | CB Grant Hanley | 🏴 | for W Onel Hernández | 🇨🇺 | 89’ |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Lovre Kalinić | 🇭🇷 |
CB Tommy Elphick | 🏴 |
RB Ahmed Elmohamady | 🇪🇬 |
M Mile Jedinak | 🇦🇺 |
W Anwar El Ghazi | 🇳🇱 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Michael McGovern | 🇬🇧 |
CB Timm Klose | 🇨🇭 |
M Todd Cantwell | 🏴 |
CF Jordan Rhodes | 🏴 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £27.04m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 7/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Subs Cost: £1.80m
Team Cost: £28.84m
Squad Cost: £50.98m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/18
Homegrown: 1/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK Lovre Kalinić | 🇭🇷 | £5.40m |
GK Jed Steer | 🏴 | £0.49m |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 | £4.05m |
RB Ahmed Elmohamady | 🇪🇬 | £0.99m |
LB Neil Taylor | 🏴 | Exchange |
CB Tommy Elphick | 🏴 | £3.51m |
CB Axel Tuanzebe | 🏴 | Loan |
CB Kortney Hause | 🏴 | Loan |
M Mile Jedinak | 🇦🇺 | £4.14m |
M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 | £3.15m |
M Henri Lansbury | 🏴 | £3.06m |
M Birkir Bjarnason | 🇮🇸 | £1.80m |
M Glenn Whelan | 🇮🇪 | £1.53m |
W Anwar El Ghazi | 🇳🇱 | £8.10m |
W Albert Adomah | 🇬🇭 | £3.15m |
W André Green | 🏴 | Youth |
CF Jonathan Kodjia | 🇨🇮 | £11.61m |
CF Keinan Davis | 🏴 | Free |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £9.52m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 4/11
Homegrown: 2/11
Subs Cost: £5.84m
Team Cost: £15.36m
Squad Cost: £24.79m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/18
Homegrown: 3/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK Tim Krul | 🇳🇱 | Free |
GK Michael McGovern | 🇬🇧 | Free |
LB Jamal Lewis | 🇬🇧 | Youth |
RB Max Aarons | 🏴 | Youth |
CB Timm Klose | 🇨🇭 | £9.43m |
CB Grant Hanley | 🏴 | £3.26m |
CB Ben Godfrey | 🏴 | £2.53m |
CB Christoph Zimmermann | 🇩🇪 | Free |
M Marco Stiepermann | 🇩🇪 | £1.46m |
M Moritz Leitner | 🇩🇪 | £1.29m |
M Alexander Tettey | 🇳🇴 | £1.29m |
M Kenny McLean | 🏴 | £0.94m |
M Mario Vrančić | 🇧🇦 | £0.64m |
M Todd Cantwell | 🏴 | Youth |
W Onel Hernández | 🇨🇺 | £2.66m |
W Emiliano Buendia | 🇦🇷 | £1.29m |
CF Teemi Pukki | 🇫🇮 | Free |
CF Jordan Rhodes | 🏴 | Loan |
UNAVAILABLE
Injury | 2 |
GK Ørjan Nyland | 🇳🇴 |
CB James Chester | 🏴 |
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 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
🔴 M Birkir Bjarnason | 🇮🇸 |
MATCH STATS
Possession F | 46%
Possession A | 54%
Shots F | 14
Shots A | 23
Shots on Target F | 4
Shots on Target A | 5
Corners F | 9
Corners A | 9
Fouls F | 12
Fouls A | 13
LEAGUE TABLE
MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
*Villa boss Dean Smith*
“It was a good performance and I don’t think we deserved to get beaten. I thought it was two even teams going at it, both good teams with the ball.
“Norwich started better than us, we couldn’t get close to them and it took us 15 minutes to get going. After the equaliser I thought we were the better team for the rest of the first half but didn’t make the most of our opportunities.
“The second half went a bit end-to-end but I thought a draw would have been a fair result. I’m disappointed the unbeaten run has come to and end but it was a good performance.”
*BBC Sport*
Sunday, 5 May 2019
Norwich City goalkeeper Tim Krul said wrapping up the Championship title with victory at play-off bound Aston Villa “means so much” to the club.*
The promoted Canaries only needed a point to be crowned champions but their result was essentially meaningless as second-placed Sheffield United - who required a win for any chance of leapfrogging them - were held at Stoke.
The league’s golden boot winner Teemu Pukki prodded in his 29th goal of the season to put Norwich ahead before Villa replied when Jonathan Kodjia flicked home Conor Hourihane’s low free-kick.
Both sides threatened a winner in a free-flowing game before Jamal Lewis burst forward to find Mario Vrancic, who slotted into the bottom corner for Daniel Farke’s side.
“Promotion is the most important thing but to actually win it and to have a gold medal, we’ll look back at this in 20-30 years,” Krul told BBC Radio Norfolk.
“I was fortunate enough to do it nine years ago with Newcastle and to sit here now and to lift the trophy, I just said [to team-mates] ‘take it, because it doesn’t happen very often.”
The Netherlands keeper, 31, who played every minute in the league this season, said: “There were a lot of people who wrote me off and said ‘he can’t play more than 20 games any more’, and I was so eager to show people that was utter rubbish.”
Norwich finish the season with 94 points, five clear at the top, while fifth-placed Villa - who suffered their first defeat since mid-February - will now face West Midlands rivals West Bromwich Albion in the play-offs, hosting the first leg next Saturday (11 May).
Dean Smith’s hosts made five changes - leaving out top scorer Tammy Abraham, playmaker Jack Grealish and key midfielder John McGinn - as Villa turned their attention to a second successive play-off campaign.
An excellent through ball from Kenny McLean - who later went off injured - was the catalyst for Norwich’s opener, Onel Hernandez cutting back for Finland striker Pukki to convert.
Villa’s Kodjia showed good movement to escape his marker for a third goal in his last four games, then Hernandez struck the bar for the visitors.
Norwich had the better of the second half, Jamal Lewis curling wide and Marco Stiepermann forcing a low save from Jed Steer, before Vrancic’s goal secured their fourth second-tier title.
It was also the first time the Canaries have completed a league double over Villa since 1992-93, when both clubs finished in the Premier League top three.
*Aston Villa head coach Dean Smith told BBC WM:*
“It was a good performance and I don’t think we deserved to get beaten. I thought it was two even teams going at it, both good teams with the ball.
“Norwich started better than us, we couldn’t get close to them and it took us 15 minutes to get going. After the equaliser I thought we were the better team for the rest of the first half but didn’t make the most of our opportunities.
“The second half went a bit end-to-end but I thought a draw would have been a fair result. I’m disappointed the unbeaten run has come to and end but it was a good performance.”
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