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CF Borja Bastón | 🇪🇸 | #945 |

Centre Forward

2020 🕒 2 | 0 (2) | ⚽ 0 | 🔥 0 | 🇺 3 | #945 |

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CF Borja Bastón | 🇪🇸 |
Aston Villa 2020 | Free |
Premier League |
🕒 2 | 0 (2) | ⚽ 0 | 🔥 0 | 🇺 3 | #945 |
🟩 0 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 2 |
Cards 🟨 0 | 🟥 0 |

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Seasons Active | In Fee
Active in League
🕒 Games | Starts (Subs) | ⚽ Goals | 🔥 Assists | 🇺 Unused | Player Number |
🟩 Won | 🟨 Drew | 🟥 Lost |
Cards 🟨 Booking | 🟥 Sending Off |
Goalkeepers Only 🥅 Goals Conceded | ⛔ Clean Sheets |

CF Borja Bastón | 🇪🇸 | #945 |

Borja González Tomás

Personal Profile

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Birth Date
Birthplace
Birth Country
Citizenship
Height
Foot
25 August 1992
Madrid 🇪🇸
Spain 🇪🇸
Spain 🇪🇸
(6 ft 1 in) 1.86 m
Right
Personal

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Villa Youth Record

Youth Record

n/a

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Previous Clubs

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Previous Clubs

2010-16 Atlético Madrid 🇪🇸
La Liga, 🕒 1 | 0 (1) | ⚽ 0 |

2011-12 Real Murcia CF 🇪🇸 (L)
Primera Federación - Grupo II, 🕒 21 | 6 (15) | ⚽ 4 |

2012-13 SD Huesca 🇪🇸 (L)
Segunda División, 🕒 30 | 19 (11) | ⚽ 9 |

2013-14 Deportivo de La Coruña 🇪🇸 (L)
Segunda División, 🕒 34 | 21 (13) | ⚽ 9 |

2014-15 Real Zaragoza 🇪🇸 (L)
Segunda División, 🕒 38 | 38 (0) | ⚽ 23 |

2015-16 SD Eibar 🇪🇸 (L)
La Liga, 🕒 39 | 31 (8) | ⚽ 19 |

2016-20 Swansea City 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 £16.20m
Premier League, 🕒 41 | 21 (20) | ⚽ 7 |

2017-18 Málaga CF 🇪🇸 (L)
La Liga, 🕒 22 | 10 (12) | ⚽ 2 |

2018-19 Deportivo Alavés 🇪🇸 (L)
La Liga, 🕒 29 | 20 (9) | ⚽ 5 |

Transfer In

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Transfer In

  • January 2020: Aged 27, Signed from Swansea under Dean Smith on a free after Villa agreed to take on the remaining months of his contract

  • September 2020: Aged 28, Left Villa on a free transfer under Dean Smith after two substitute appearances in 2019-20

Season
Joined Date
Aged
Fee
From
From
Signed Under
2019-20
31 January 2020
27
Free
Swansea City 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Dean Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Career

CF Borja Bastón | 🇪🇸 | #945 |

Played Under

Managers

Dean Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 2020 🕒 2 | 0 (2) | ⚽ 0 | 🔥 0 | 🟩 0 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 2 |

Games 🕒, Starts ✅, Substitute 🔁, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Goals ⚽, Assists 🔥

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Career Summary

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🗓️
🕒
🔁
🇺
PPG
🟩
🟨
🟥
🟩 %
🟨 %
🟥 %
🔥
Yellow
Red
GI
GPG
GPGi
1
2
0
2
3
0.00
0
0
2
0%
0%
100%
0
0
0
0
0
0.00
0.00

Seasons 🗓️, Games 🕒, Starts ✅, Substitute 🔁, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Unused 🇺, Goals ⚽, Assists 🔥, Goals per Game GPG, Points per Game PPG, Goal Involvements GI, Games per Goal GPG, Games per Goal Involvement GPGi

CF Borja Bastón | 🇪🇸 | #945 |

Competition Record

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🕒 League
🕒 FA Cup
🕒 League Cup
🕒 Europe
🕒 European Cup
2
0
0
0
0
⚽ League
⚽ FA Cup
⚽ League Cup
⚽ Europe
⚽ European Cup
0
0
0
0
0
🔥 League
🔥 FA Cup
🔥 League Cup
🔥 Europe
🔥 European Cup
0
0
0
0
0
League Gi
FA Cup Gi
League Cup Gi
Europe Gi
European Cup Gi
0
0
0
0
0
League GPG
FA Cup GPG
League Cup GPG
Europe GPG
European Cup GPG
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
League GPGi
FA Cup GPGi
League Cup GPGi
Europe GPGi
European Cup GPGi
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00

Games 🕒, Goals ⚽, Assists 🔥, Goals per Game GPG, Goal Involvements GI, Games per Goal GPG, Games per Goal Involvement GPGi

Seasons

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Season by Season Record

Seasons 🗓️, Age 🎂, League 〽️, Position 🏆, Games 🕒, Starts ✅, Substitute 🔁, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Unused 🇺, Goals Scored ⚽, Goals Conceded 🥅, Goals per Game GPG, Conceded per Game CPG, Goal Difference GD, Clean Sheets ⛔, Points per Game PPG, Goal Involvements GI, Games per Goal GPG, Games per Goal Involvement GPGi

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🎂
〽️
🏆
🕒
🔁
🇺
PPG
🟩
🟩 %
🟨
🟨 %
🟥
🟥 %
🔥
Yellow
Red
GI
GPG
GPGi
2019-20
26
PL
17th
2
0
2
3
0.00
0
0%
0
0%
2
100%
0
0
0
0
0
0.00
0.00

CF Borja Bastón | 🇪🇸 | #945 |

Goalkeeping Record

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GK #
🕒
🥅
CPG
⛔ %
Season
🕒
🥅
CPG
⛔ %

Seasons 🗓️, Games 🕒, Goals Conceded 🥅, Goals per Game GPG, Conceded per Game CPG, Clean Sheets ⛔

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Honours

Villa Honours
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Played for the Villa

CF Borja Bastón | 🇪🇸 | #945 |

Debuts & Dates

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Season
First Squad
Manager
2019-20
🟥 16 Feb 2020, Villa 2-3 Spurs, Villa Park
Dean Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Season
Debut
Manager
Aged
2019-20
🟥 16 Feb 2020, Villa 2-3 Spurs, Villa Park
Dean Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
27
Game #
First Goal
Scorer(s)
Did not Score
Game #
First Assist
Game #
First Clean Sheet
Season
Final Game
Aged
Manager
2019-20
🟥 22 Feb 2020, Villa 0-2 Southampton, St Mary's.
27
Dean Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Season
Final Squad
Manager
2019-20
🟨 24 Jun 2020, Villa 1-1 Newcastle, St James' Park.
Dean Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Debut
Loans

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Loans Out

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Loans

None

Transfer Out

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Transfer Out

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Season
Date
Aged
Fee
To
To
Left Under
2020-21
6 September 2020
27
Free
CD Leganés 🇪🇸
Dean Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
  • January 2020: Aged 27, Signed from Swansea under Dean Smith on a free after Villa agreed to take on the remaining months of his contract

  • September 2020: Aged 28, Left Villa on a free transfer under Dean Smith after two substitute appearances in 2019-20

CF Borja Bastón | 🇪🇸 | #945 |

Subsequent Clubs

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Subsequent Clubs

2020-21 CD Leganés 🇪🇸 Free
Segunda División, 🕒 38 | ✅ 24 | 🔁 (14) | ⚽ 5 |

2021-24 Real Oviedo 🇪🇸 Free
Segunda División, 🕒 115 | ✅ 95 | 🔁 (20) | ⚽ 42 |

2024-25 CF Pachuca 🇲🇽
Liga MX Apertura, 🕒 7 | ✅ 5 | 🔁 (2) | ⚽ 0 |

2025 Without Club

2025- Granada CF 🇪🇸
LaLiga 2, 🕒 10 | ✅ 1 | 🔁 (9) | ⚽ 0 |

Quotes

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Quotes

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Biography

CF Borja Bastón | 🇪🇸 | #945 |

Biography

Player #945 for Aston Villa, Borja González Tomás, known as Borja Bastón played as a centre forward for the club during the 2019-20 season.

Bastón was born in Madrid, Spain on 25 August 1992.

Villa signed Bastón on a free transfer from Swansea City on 31 January 2020 at the age of 27 taking over his contract for the remainder of the 2019-20 Premier League season.

Bastón made his Villa debut as a substitute in the Premier League defeat to Tottenham Hotspur at Villa Park on Sunday, 16 February 2020 and made his final appearance 6 days later on Saturday, 22 February 2020 as Villa lost away to Southampton.

Bastón made a further 3 squad appearances as an unused substitute before being released by the club on 30 June 2020.

Bastón had played under Villa boss Dean Smith.

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Appearances

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Starts

0

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Game
Matchday Summary
Line Up
Starts
Subs
Unused
Goals

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Goals Scored

0

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Game
Matchday Summary
Scorer(s)
Assists

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Assists Made

0

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Game
Matchday Summary
Assist(s)
Cards

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Cards Received

🟨

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0

🟥

0

Game
Matchday Summary
Villa Cards
International

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International Record

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International Career
Caps with Villa
Matches

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Matches

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🟥 16 Feb 2020, Villa 2-3 Spurs, Villa Park

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Game #5532

Premier League

Manager: Dean Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | West Bromwich, 2018-2021
Referee: Martin Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | West Riding, 2006-2021
Kick off: 2.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 1-2
FT Score: 🟥 2-3
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥

Season | 2019-20 |
Matchday | #33 |
League Match | #26 |
Manager Game | #71 |
Sunday, 16 February 2020

Scorer(s) | Own Goal | 9' | Björn Engels | 54' |

Assist(s) | Jack Grealish | 54' |

Teams
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GK Pepe Reina | 🇪🇸 |
RB Frédéric Guilbert | 🇫🇷 | 🟨 |
CB Ezri Konsa | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Kortney Hause | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Björn Engels | 🇧🇪 | ⚽ |
LB Matt Targett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Douglas Luiz | 🇧🇷 |
M Danny Drinkwater | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 | 🔴 |
M Jack Grealish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
W Anwar El Ghazi | 🇳🇱 | 🔁 |
CF Mbwana Samatta | 🇹🇿 | 🔁 |

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GK Hugo Lloris | 🇫🇷 |
RB Serge Aurier | 🇨🇮 |
CB Toby Alderweireld | 🇧🇪 | ⚽ |
CB Davinson Sánchez | 🇨🇴 |
CB Eric Dier | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
LB Ben Davies | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Harry Winks | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Dele Alli | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
W Lucas Moura | 🇧🇷 |
W Heung-min Son | 🇰🇷 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
W Steven Bergwijn | 🇳🇱 | 🔁 |

Starting XI
Substitutes

🔁 M Marvelous Nakamba | 🇿🇼 | 🟨 | for M Danny Drinkwater | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 60' |
🔁 W Trézéguet | 🇪🇬 | for W Anwar El Ghazi | 🇳🇱 | 70' |
🔁 CF Borja Bastón | 🇪🇸 | 🟢 | for CF Mbwana Samatta | 🇹🇿 | 83' |

Unused Substitutes

GK Ørjan Nyland | 🇳🇴 |
RB Ahmed Elmohamady | 🇪🇬 |
LB Neil Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 |

Substitutes

🔁 | M Giovani Lo Celso | 🇦🇷 | for CB Eric Dier | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 60’ |
🔁 | M Gedson Fernandes | 🇵🇹 | for M Dele Alli | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 83’ |
🔁 | CB Jan Vertonghen | 🇧🇪 | for W Steven Bergwijn | 🇳🇱 | 89’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Paulo Gazzaniga | 🇦🇷 |
CB Japhet Tanganga | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Oliver Skipp | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Tanguy Ndombèlé | 🇫🇷 |

Match Timeline

⚽ | 9’ Goal, 1-0, Own Goal, Toby Alderweireld
🥅 | 27’ Goal, 1-1, (Tottenham Hotspur), Toby Alderweireld
🥅 | 45’ Goal, 1-2, (Tottenham Hotspur, pen), Heung-min Son
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-2 Tottenham Hotspur
⚽ | 54’ Goal, 2-2, Björn Engels, Assist by Jack Grealish
🔁 | 60’ Sub off, Danny Drinkwater, Sub on, Marvelous Nakamba
🔁 | 70’ Sub off, Anwar El Ghazi, Sub on, Trézéguet
🔁 | 83’ Sub off, Mbwana Samatta, Sub on, Borja Bastón 🟢
🟨 | 86’ Booking, Frédéric Guilbert, Bad foul
🟨 | 90’+2 Booking, Marvelous Nakamba, Bad foul
🥅 | 90’+4 Goal, 2-3, (Tottenham Hotspur), Heung-min Son
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 2-3 Tottenham Hotspur

On This Day
  • Villa recover from their poor showing last time out to take the game to Tottenham but see their luck desert them as a late mistake loses the game and effectively ends a career.

  • VAR and a slip by the recalled Björn Engels contribute to plunge luckless Villa to defeat. 

  • Björn Engels scores his only goal in a Villa shirt on his 17th appearance (15 Starts) to make it W3 D2 L12, 1 Goal and 1 Booking so far in his Villa career.

  • Centre forward Borja Bastón makes his Villa debut aged 27 after joining from Swansea City on a free transfer in January 2020 to become the 945th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Midfielder Danny Drinkwater makes his fourth and final appearance for Villa before returning to parent club Chelsea. 

  • Frédéric Guilbert collects his fifth booking on his 24th appearance for the club (21 Starts) to make it W8 D5 L11, 2 Goals, 2 Assists and 5 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

  • Marvelous Nakamba collects his fifth booking on his 23rd appearance for the club (20 Starts) to make it W7 D4 L12, 0 Goals, 0 Assists and 5 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

CF Borja Bastón | 🇪🇸 | #945 |

🟥 22 Feb 2020, Villa 0-2 Southampton, St Mary's

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Game #5533

Premier League

Manager: Dean Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | West Bromwich, 2018-2021
Referee: Craig Pawson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sheffield & Hallam, 2013-
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥

Season | 2019-20 |
Matchday | #34 |
League Match | #27 |
Manager Game | #72 |
Saturday, 22 February 2020

Scorer(s) | None

Assist(s) | None

Teams
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GK Pepe Reina | 🇪🇸 | 🟨 |
RB Frédéric Guilbert | 🇫🇷 | 🟨 |
CB Ezri Konsa | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
CB Kortney Hause | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Tyrone Mings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Matt Targett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Douglas Luiz | 🇧🇷 |
M Marvelous Nakamba | 🇿🇼 |
M Jack Grealish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
W Anwar El Ghazi | 🇳🇱 | 🔁 |
CF Mbwana Samatta | 🇹🇿 | 🔁 |

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GK Alex McCarthy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Ryan Bertrand | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Jack Stephens | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Jan Bednarek | 🇵🇱 |
M James Ward-Prowse | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Stuart Armstrong | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ | 🟨 |
M Pierre-Emile Højbjerg | 🇩🇰 |
M Will Smallbone | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
W Moussa Djénépo | 🇲🇱 |
CF Shane Long | 🇮🇪 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CF Danny Ings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Starting XI
Substitutes

🔁 W Trézéguet | 🇪🇬 | for W Anwar El Ghazi | 🇳🇱 | 28' |
🔁 M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 | for CB Ezri Konsa | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 59' |
🔁 CF Borja Bastón | 🇪🇸 | 🔴 | for CF Mbwana Samatta | 🇹🇿 | 81' |

Unused Substitutes

GK Ørjan Nyland | 🇳🇴 |
CB Björn Engels | 🇧🇪 |
RB Ahmed Elmohamady | 🇪🇬 |
M Danny Drinkwater | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Substitutes

🔁 | CF Che Adams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | for CF Danny Ings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 73’ |
🔁 | CF Michael Obafemi | 🇮🇪 | for CF Shane Long | 🇮🇪 | 73’ |
🔁 | M Oriol Romeu | 🇪🇸 | for M Will Smallbone | 🇮🇪 | 80’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Angus Gunn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Jannik Vestergaard | 🇩🇰 |
RB Yan Valery | 🇫🇷 |
W Sofiane Boufal | 🇲🇦 |

Match Timeline

🥅 | 8’ Goal, 1-0, (Southampton), Shane Long
🔁 | 28’ Sub off, Anwar El Ghazi, Sub on, Trézéguet
🟨 | 45’+4 Booking, Ezri Konsa for a bad foul
🕒 | HT Southampton 1-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 59’ Sub off, Ezri Konsa, Sub on, Conor Hourihane
🟨 | 72’ Booking, Pepe Reina for a bad foul
🔁 | 81’ Sub off, Mbwana Samatta, Sub on, Borja Bastón 🔴
🟨 | 90’ Booking, Frédéric Guilbert for a bad foul
🥅 | 90’+5 Goal, 2-0, (Southampton), Stuart Armstrong
🟨 | 90’+6 Booking, Jack Grealish
🕒 | FT Southampton 2-0 Aston Villa

On This Day
  • Villa follow up unlucky with awful as another woeful performance sees them beaten,

  • Villa lose a third successive league game to leave them teetering on the edge of the relegation zone. 

  • Centre forward Borja Bastón makes his second and final appearance for Villa as an 81’ substitute.

  • Frédéric Guilbert makes his 25th appearance for Villa (22 Starts) to make it W8 D5 L12, 2 Goals, 2 Assists and 6 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

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