❗| 5’ Chance! Last ditch tackle to stop Jacob Ramsey in the box
⚽ | 7’ Goal! Jacob Ramsey, Assist by Ollie Watkins
❗| 9’ Chance! Morgan Rogers nets but Ollie Watkins runs too early before passing, offside
🆘 | 15’ Embarrassing penalty shout from WHU rightly dismissed
❗❗| 26’ Huge Chance! Youri Tielemans just wide from range
🚑 | 28’ Player injured on field of play, Tyrone Mings
🆘 | 28’ Mohammed Kudus barges into Mings to leave him prostrate with a knee injury, referee Bankes halts play
🗒️ | 33’ Play restarts, Mings continues
❗❗| 35’ Huge Chance! Ollie Watkins header just wide
🚑 | 37’ Player injured on field of play, Tyrone Mings
🔁 | 38’ Sub off, Tyrone Mings, Sub on, Ian Maatsen
🚑 | 40’ Player injured on field of play, Youri Tielemans
🆘 | 40’ Mohammed Kudus barges into Tielemans to leave him prostrate with a knee injury, referee Bankes waves play on
🗒️ | 45’ 6’ injury time signalled
🗒️ | 45’+4 Strange atmosphere, real devastation about Tyrone mixed with anger at the terrible performance of referee Bankes and unpunished thuggery of Kudus
🟨 | 45’+5 Booking, Youri Tielemans, Bad foul
🆘 | Amazingly Tielemans is booked for a foul that pales with what has gone before, the victim is the serial diver that is Paqueta. Cresswell astonishingly then asks for greater punishment and is shown the 🟨 yellow.
🆘 | 45’+7 Matty Cash is shoved the floor by Soucek, referee Bankes takes no action
🕒 | 45’+11 HT Aston Villa 1-0 West Ham United
🆘 | 46’ Luis Paqueta barges into Digne to leave him prostrate, referee Bankes stops play but takes no action
🆘 | 47’ Max Kilman barges into Digne to leave him prostrate, referee Bankes stops play but takes no action
💥 | 52’ West Ham wide
❗| 57’ Lucas Digne sends free kick over
💥 | 60’ West Ham shot cleared off line
🆘 | Finally a West Ham player is booked for a terrible challenge, 🟨 Soucek
🟨 | 63’ Booking, Morgan Rogers, Bad foul
🆘 | Referee Bankes immediately balances things up, poor
🔁 | 65’ Sub off, Leon Bailey, Sub on, Donyell Malen 🟢
🔁 | 66’ Sub off, Ollie Watkins, Sub on, Jhon Durán
❗| 68’ Chance! Donyell Malen first touch, shot, saved
🥅 | 70’ Goal, 0-1, (West Ham United), Emerson
💥 | 77’ West Ham over
❗| 81’ Chance! Jhon Durán wide
💥 | 83’ West Ham long range shot
🆘 | Referee Bankes refuses to book already carded Edson Alvarez for another terrible challenge, should have been 🟥, Alvarez immediately subbed
🗒️ | 90’ 7’ injury time signalled
❗| 90’+2 Chance! Last ditch tackle from West Ham
🕒 | 90’+10 FT Aston Villa 1-1 West Ham United
🆘 | Referee Bankes plays 21’ of injury time, 8’ more than signalled having failed to send off both Kudus & Alvarez

🟢 | 1’ Debut, Andrés García
❗| 2’ Foul! Jacob Ramsey fouled by a mass of Wolves players
❗| 3’ Tielemans free kick on target but doesn’t test ‘keeper
❗| 8’ Foul! Ezri Konsa barged to the ground
❗| 10’ Chance! Ollie Watkins can’t reach a ball from debutant Andrés García
🥅 | 12’ Goal, 0-1, (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Jean-Ricner Bellegarde
🗒️ | First attack
❗| 14’ Chance! John McGinn shot deflected over
🟨 | 16’ Booking, John McGinn, Bad foul
❗| 16’ Foul! John McGinn fouled, no booking
💥 | 22’ Wolves mount a second attack, put behind
🟨 | 28’ Booking, Morgan Rogers, Bad foul
💥| 36’ Martínez save, rebound wide
🆘 | Play allowed to carry on by referee Madley despite a clear foul in the build up
🚑 | 38’ Foul! Ollie Watkins fouled, down injured
🚑 | 39’ Ollie Watkins back on feet but struggling
💥| 44’ Wolves wide
🟨 | 45’+3 Booking, Lamare Bogarde, Bad foul
💥| 45’+5 Martínez saves
🕒 | 45’+6 HT Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Ollie Watkins 🚑, Sub on Leon Bailey
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Andrés García, Sub on Donyell Malan
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Lucas Digne, Sub on Ian Maatsen
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Jacob Ramsey, Sub on Amadou Onana
❗| 53’ Foul! Morgan Rogers bundled over
⚽ | 54’ Goal! Donyell Malan, Assist by John McGinn
❌ | 54’ Referee Madley disallows goal for Malan offside
🎥 | 56’ VAR confirms no Malan offside but disallows goal for Rogers offside despite not being involved in play, VAR claims his offside caused an obstruction
🆘 | Absolute shocker from referee Madley and VAR, replays show no obstruction occurred
❗| 59’ Chance! Tielemans shot saved
❗| 64’ Chance! Leon Bailey shot blocked by own player
🆘 | 76’ 50/50 tackle outside the Villa box, referee Madley awards free kick to Wolves
🆘 | 77’ Easy save for Martínez and a foul in the build up, but what is this? Referee Madley orders a retake, what on earth
💥 | 78’ Wolves over the bar from the free kick that shouldn’t have been, twice
🔁 | 85’ Sub off, Lamare Bogarde, Sub on Kosta Nedeljkovic
❗| 87’ Chance! Donyell Malan shot saved
❗❗| 90’+1 Huge Chance! Donyell Malan shot saved
❗| 90’+3 Chance! Leon Bailey cuts inside, shot diverted for a corner
🆘 | 90’+3 Bottle thrown at Leon Bailey, interrupting his delivery, ‘keeper punches clear, referee does not order a retake, simply incredibel
❗| 90’+5 Chance! Tielemans over
❗| 90’+7 Foul! Morgan Rogers fouled but referee Madley allows play to continue
🥅 | 90’+7 Goal, 0-2, (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Matheus Cunha
🆘 | Goal conceded directly from a foul
🕒 | 90’+7 FT Wolverhampton Wanderers 2-0 Aston Villa

⚽ | 1’ Goal, 1-0, Jacob Ramsey, Assist by Morgan Rogers (57 Seconds)
❗ | 14’ Chance! Andrés García charges forwards before shooting over
❗ | 14’ Chance! Donyell Malen shoots over from a Leon Bailey pass
❗❗ | 16’ Huge Chance!! Leon Bailey’s shot is saved at full stretch by Antonín Kinský
❗ | 19’ Chance! Youri Tielemans on the charge shoots over from Boubacar Kamara’s ball
❗ | 22’ Chance! Jacob Ramsey shoots wide from Donyell Malen’s pass
💥 | 25’ Emi Martínez thwarts Tottenham’s first attack as he saves from Son
🚑 | 25’ Ezri Konsa down with injury
🔁 | 27’ Sub off, Ezri Konsa, Sub on, Lamare Bogarde
🗒️ | The 11th time this season Villa have lost a player to first half injury and the 7th time in the last 10 games. And all the media can drivel on about is Spurs’ reserve injuries.
❗ | 31’ Chance! Leon Bailey’s shot from Morgan Rogers’ ball is parried by Kinský
❗ | 31’ Chance! Jacob Ramsey hits the post
🗒️ | Villa should be 2 up and wouldn’t look misrepresentative being 4 ahead. So easy.
❗ | 35’ Chance! Morgan Rogers charges through again following a Youri Tielemans pass but his shot is saved by Kinský
❗ | 35’ Chance! Donyell Malen shoots wide after another hot butter through knife break
❗ | 45’+2 Chance! Donyell Malen shoots fractionally wide from Leon Bailey’s throughball
🕒 | 45’+3 Aston Villa 1-0 Tottenham Hotspur
🗒️ | One way traffic from the first second to the last, Villa though should have a commanding lead to show for it
🚑 | 51’ Lucas Digne down with injury
🚑 | 53’ Lucas Digne returns to field of play
❗ | 58’ Chance! Jacob Ramsey shot saved by Kinský
🆘 | 60’ Perennial fouler Rodrigo Bentancur booked for his latest foul on Morgan Rogers
⚽ | 64’ Goal, 2-0, Morgan Rogers
🗒️ | Villa finally add a second
🔁 | 66’ Sub off, Donyell Malen, Sub on, Marcus Rashford 🟢
🔁 | 66’ Sub off, Leon Bailey, Sub on Marco Asensio 🟢
🔁 | 81’ Sub off, Lucas Digne, Sub on, Ian Maatsen
❗ | 70’ Chance! Youri Tielemans shot is blocked
❗ | 72’ Chance! Morgan Rogers just wide from Marco Asensio’s ball in
🗒️ | 74’ Sublime skills already from Marco Asensio, what a player
🆘 | 75’ Shocking, shocking refereeing from Taylor as Villa see Rashford clattered on the edge of the area in one of the most blatant fouls imaginable and the fool from Wythenshaw waves play on to the utter disbelief of everyone present.
❗ | 76’ Chance! Jacob Ramsey’s shot from Morgan Rogers pass saved by Kinský
❗❗ | 77’ Huge Chance! Jacob Ramsey’s shot from Marcus Rashford’s ball saved by Kinský
🥅 | 90’+1 Goal, 2-1, (Tottenham Hotspur), Mathys Tel
🗒️ | A totally undeserved, unmerited and simply misleading goal for Tottenham, really annoying to lose a clean sheet and not have at least 5 goals on the board.
🕒 | 90’+5 Aston Villa 2-1 Tottenham Hotspur
🗒️ | An easy easy win for Villa that could and probably should have been 7-0 on the balance of play however the game was notable for two things, the debuts, and the appalling refereeing on 75’. At some point the PGMOL needs to be investigated. Thankfully unlike his last dodgy performance, Taylor couldn’t influence the result.

🟢 | 1’ Debut, Axel Disasi
💥 | 3’ Morgan Rogers brought down by the ‘keeper after a John McGinn ball over the top
🎥 | 3’ VAR Check says no foul but keeper rushed out, Rogers down, no booking for a dive, so what was it then?
❗ | 8’ Chance! Ollie Watkins shot blocked
🗒️ | 10’ Villa all over Ipswich with last ditch clearances all across the box from the away side, it still seems really odd that there wasn’t an early 🟥 red card for the ‘keeper or 🟨 for Rogers if he dived but no replay shown
❗ | 14’ Chance! Donyell Malen shot blocked from a Morgan Rogers pass
🚑 | 16’ Player injured on field of play, Boubacar Kamara
🔁 | 16’ Sub off, Boubacar Kamara, Sub on, Tyrone Mings
🗒️ | Yet again Villa lose a player to injury in the first half - that’s the eight time in the last 11 games
❗ | 26’ Chance! Donyell Malen shot from an Ollie Watkins cut back
❗ | 26’ Chance! Lucas Digne over
❗❗ | 34’ Huge Chance!! Ollie Watkins can’t beat the ‘keeper from Axel Disasi’s pass
❗ | 38’ Chance! Youri Tielemans wide from Morgan Rogers’ ball
🗒️ | 40’ Ipswich are not in this game but Villa cannot yet take a chance
💥 | 40’ Jacob Ramsey pulled down on edge of the area by Tuanzebe
🟥 | 40’ Second 🟨 yellow for Tuanzebe, off! Ipswich down to 10
❗ | 42’ Chance! John McGinn shot blocked from Youri Tielemans’ ball in
❗ | 43’ Chance! Andrés García shot blocked
❗ | 44’ Chance! Morgan Rogers’ shot from Ollie Watkins’ pass saved
🕒 | 45’+5 HT Aston Villa 0-0 Ipswich Town
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Lucas Digne, Sub on, Ian Maatsen
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Jacob Ramsey, Sub on, Marcus Rashford
❗ | 49’ Chance! Marcus Rashford shot saved from John McGinn ball in
❗ | 50’ Chance! Ian Maatsen wide
❗ | 53’ Chance! Morgan Rogers wide from Marcus Rashford’s ball
🥅 | 56’ Goal, (Ipswich Town), Liam Delap
🗒️ | Unbelievable, not in the game and the 10-men defensive wall take the lead after woeful defending from the Villa backline, this will probably be very difficult to turn around now
❗ | 58’ Chance! Ian Maatsen shot from a Youri Tielemans pass is saved
🔁 | 63’ Sub off, Donyell Malen, Sub on, Marco Asensio
❗ | 65’ Chance! Youri Tielemans free kick blocked
💥 | 67’ Marcus Rashford barged off the ball in the box
🎥 | 67’ VAR Check deems no penalty
❗❗ | 69’ Huge Chance!! Marcus Rashford hits the woodwork and the ball rebounds back into play
⚽ | 69’ Goal!, 1-1, Ollie Watkins snaps up the rebound
❗❗ | 71’ Huge Chance!! Morgan Rogers header from Marco Asensio’s ball in is saved
❗ | 71’ Chance! Andrés García shot over from Marcus Rashford corner
❗❗ | 75’ Huge Chance!! Marco Asensio over from Youri Tielemans pass
❗| 78’ Chance! Marco Asensio shot saved
❗| 81’ Chance! Ollie Watkins shot from Marcus Rashford’s ball blocked
❗| 82’ Chance! Marco Asensio shot from Morgan Rogers’ ball blocked
❗❗ | 84’ Huge Chance!! Marcus Rashford wide
❗| 87’ Chance! Morgan Rogers shot from Ian Maatsen’s ball blocked
🗒️ | 4’ Injury time shown despite subs and injury breaks… strange
❗| 90’+1 Chance! Marco Asensio shot blocked
❗| 90’+3 Chance! Morgan Rogers wide from Marcus Rashford’s ball
🕒 | 90’+6 FT Aston Villa 1-1 Ipswich Town

💥 | 5’ van Dijk fires well over
💥 | 5’ John McGinn concedes a sloppy corner
💥 | 6’ Tyrone Mings blocks Jota’s shot
💥 | 7’ John McGinn plays Liverpool in, Jota wide
🗒️ | 10’ Axel Disasi maraudes forward, Morgan Rogers’ cross blocked
🗒️ | 12’ Marcus Rashford seeing the ball a lot but can’t get the final pass as Liverpool throw bodies at the ball
🆘 | 13’ Szoboszlai fouls Tielemans, referee Pawson awards the free kick
❗| 14’ Chance! Marco Asensio desperately defended by Konate before Alisson punches behind
🗒️ | 14’ Villa pressurising runaway leaders Liverpool
🆘 | 16’ Szoboszlai fouls Tielemans, referee Pawson does nothing, poor
⚽ | 18’ Goal, 1-0, Marcus Rashford, Assist by Marco Asensio
🆘 | 18’ Linesman flags for offside, referee Pawson disallows goal
🗒️ | 19’ Emi Martínez comes off his line to clear
🗒️ | 20’ Emi Martínez comes off his line to block
🗒️ | 23’ Andrés García maraudes forwards and wins a corner
🗒️ | 23’ Corner taken but referee Pawson stops game
🟨 | 23’ Booking, Axel Disasi
🗒️ | 23’ Disasi booked for appearing to push professional irritant and serial diver Alexis Mac Allister in the face. Silly if understandable.
🗒️ | 28’ Andrés García maraudes forwards again before Mac Allister’s dark arts wins Liverpool a saving free kick
🥅 | 30’ Goal, 0-1, (Liverpool), Mohamed Salah
🗒️ | Ridiculous goal, undeserved and emanating from a terrible ball from Andrés García into the penalty area allowing Liverpool to score with ease. To be fair he knew immediately he’d messed up.
🆘 | 35’ Liverpool continue time wasting, this time Trent Alexander-Arnold
🗒️ | 37’ Mac Allister’s dark arts wins another free kick, horrible player, typically Liverpool
🗒️ | 37’ Free kick for Villa after Rashford’s charge, comes to nothing
⚽ | 39’ Goal!, 1-0, Youri Tielemans
🗒️ | Villa deservedly get back parity as Liverpool can’t luck in to more desperate defending again and Tielemans hits a snap shot into the ground and net.
💥 | 40’ Jota shoots so wide it’s almost a throw in
🗒️ | That’s Liverpool’s first real chance of their own making since the 6’. Villa are more than a match for these.
💥 | 40’ Jones wide, much much closer
🗒️ | 42’ Morgan Rogers and Marcus Rashford combine but cannot connect
🆘 | 44’ Liverpool hoof it embarrassingly before Jota fouls Disasi, referee Pawson gives nothing
🆘 | 45’ Gravenberch fouls Morgan Rogers stopping his forward charge, referee Pawson gives nothing
🗒️ | 45’+1 Liverpool not coping with Villa at all well, Konate the latest to resort to desperate defending
⚽ | 45’+3 Goal!, 2-1, Ollie Watkins, Assist by Lucas Digne
🗒️ | Villa deservedly lead, wonderful cross from Lucas Digne for a cushioned Watkins header
🎥 | 45’+3 VAR Check… handball by John McGinn, although that was at least 3 passages of play before the goal, this is PGMOL & Liverpool though so….
🎥 | VAR confirms goal, phew, at last some commonsense, firstly it was not in the same phase and secondly Jota had kicked the ball at McGinn’s hand, not even close to being justification for a free kick let alone disallowing a goal 30 seconds later
🗒️ | Liverpool players surrounding the officials to complain, really really poor from the scousers, exactly how they were in the 70’s and 80’s, entitled fools who clearly do not understand the game. Still it is pleasantly surprising that the officials didn’t bow to the Liverpool mafia.
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 2-1 Liverpool
❗❗| 51’ Huge Chance!! Lucas Digne with another fine ball puts in Marcus Rashford who charges at goal and gets his shot in with Alisson nowhere but Konate clears off the line
🗒️ | Liverpool have huffed and puffed in the last few minutes, a few corners come to nothing before a weak shot from Szoboszlai and an easy save for Emi
💥 | 60’ Jota’s shot lands on top of the bar
🥅 | 61’ Goal, 2-2, (Liverpool), Trent Alexander-Arnold
🗒️ | More ridiculous good fortune for Liverpool as a lucky bounce and deflection off Ollie Watkins allows a meandering Salah to get possession before passing to Alexander-Arnold who shoots wildly but it’s deflected past Emi Martínez off Tyrone Mings. Unbelieveably lucky.
🔁 | 67’ Sub off, Andrés García, Sub on, Matty Cash
🔁 | 67’ Sub off, Marcus Rashford, Sub on, Jacob Ramsey
🔁 | 67’ Sub off, Marco Asensio, Sub on, Donyell Malen
💥 | 69’ Nunez misses an open goal
🗒️ | If Villa had a season like 2023-24 then I seriously doubt they’d be behind Liverpool in the table, the visitors are a really overrated side, sitting atop the table due to a lack of competition and not their own endeavours
❗❗| 71’ Huge Chance!! Alisson needs a lucky save off his chest to prevent Donyell Malen restoring Villa’s lead.
🆘 | 71’ Bizarrely the linesman had put up his flag despite no Villa player being even close to being offside, very strange
🗒️ | 75’ Outstanding reading of the game from Emi Martínez who rushes from goal with incredible acceleration and simply picks the ball off the feet of Nunez. Villa really should win this.
🔁 | 78’ Sub off, Lucas Digne, Sub on, Ian Maatsen
🗒️ | 78’ Morgan Rogers on a charge finds Donyell Malen and Liverpool kick it out in panic for a corner
🗒️ | 79’ Corner cleared, another corner won, Villa pushing and pushing
🗒️ | 81’ Villa’s latest corner cleared by Alisson who aimlessly hoofs the ball up the park to relieve the pressure
⚽ | 82’ Goal!, 3-2, Jacob Ramsey
🆘 | 82’ Linesman flags for offside, very very close, that’ll need VAR
🎥 | 82’ VAR Checks and confirms offside but that was hairline, Liverpool have dodged one there
🗒️ | 84’ The Vile Arne Slot is booked for complaining his side are being given a game, literally living off the back of Klopp, no-one believes this is your team Slot.
🔁 | 86’ Sub off, John McGinn, Sub on, Lamare Bogarde
🗒️ | 88’ Liverpool have a corner… so so easy for Villa and Emi Martínez
🗒️ | 90’+2 All Villa as Matty Cash’s delivery is hacked behind for a corner
❗❗| 90’+3 Huge Chance!! Tyrone Mings plays in Morgan Rogers who hits it over, should have been the winner
❗| 90’+4 Chance! Alisson desperate save from Matty Cash’s shot
❗❗| 90’+5 Huge Chance!! Donyell Malen should deliver a fully deserved win for Villa but his shot, excellent though it is, is just milimetres past the post with Alisson beaten
🗒️ | Villa so unlucky not to get the three points against the leaders
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 2-2 Liverpool

💥 | 4’ Quick break and Neto shot blocked
🥅 | 9’ Goal, 0-1, (Chelsea), Enzo Fernández
🗒️ | Chelsea score from another quick break
🆘 | 10’ Fernández foul
💥 | 18’ Fernández heads wide
❗❗| 19’ Huge Chance!! Ollie Watkins shot from Marco Asensio ball saved by Jørgensen
🆘 | 20’ Fernández foul
❗❗| 21’ Huge Chance!! Ollie Watkins shot from Morgan Rogers ball blocked by Cucurella
🆘 | 22’ Neto foul
🆘 | 23’ Neto foul
🆘 | 23’ Persistent fouler Neto is spoken to by referee Oliver but no card produced
🆘 | 25’ Caicedo fouls Morgan Rogers before remonstrating with referee Oliver for no apparent reason
💥 | 27’ Fernández over
❗❗| 29’ Huge Chance!! Ollie Watkins shot from Youri Tielemans ball saved by Jørgensen
💥 | 31’ Emiliano Martínez gathers long range shot
❗| 32’ Ollie Watkins fouled in promising position, referee Oliver gives nothing
❗| 34’ Chance! Ollie Watkins side netting with Morgan Rogers free
❗| 36’ Chance! Jørgensen flaps Ollie Watkins can’t capitalise
❗| 41’ Chance! Ollie Watkins wide
🆘 | 43’ Matty Cash fouled by Cucurella, referee Oliver gives nothing
🚑 | 43’ Matty Cash down with injury
🗒️ | Ridiculous tackle from Cucurella
🚑 | 45’ Matty Cash returns to field of play
❗| 45’+2 Chance! Jørgensen saves
🆘 | 45’+5 Caicedo foul
❗| 45’+6 Chance! Morgan Rogers and Ian Maatsen breakaway but Chelsea’s mass defence holds
❗| 45’+7 Chance! John McGinn shot over
🕒 | 45’+7 HT Aston Villa 0-1 Chelsea
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Jacob Ramsey, Sub on, Marcus Rashford
🆘 | 47’ Fernández foul
🚑 | 47’ Tyrone Mings down with injury
🚑 | 49’ Tyrone Mings returns to field of play
🆘 | 51’ Marcus Rashford wins a corner but referee Oliver & his assistant award a goal kick, so poor
💥 | 53’ Neto shoots very very wide
🗒️ | Villa playing lovely football but not making the breakthrough with Chelsea nothing like they were in the first 15’
🆘 | 56’ Fernández foul
🆘 | 56’ Enzo Fernández finally booked by referee Oliver for his latest foul
⚽ | 57’ Goal, 1-1, Marco Asensio, Assist by Marcus Rashford
🆘 | Referee Oliver disallows the goal for offside…. didn’t look it at all… can it go to VAR, who knows these days as they make it up as they go along
🎥 | 57’ VAR checking
🎥 | 59’ VAR finally awards the goal, as it looked not even close to offside
🆘 | Terrible officiating from referee Oliver to disallow the goal, they seem to just surrender to VAR and don’t care about the accuracy of their initial decision, PGMOL have a lot to answer for
🔁 | 59’ Sub off, Tyrone Mings 🚑, Sub on, Lamare Bogarde
💥 | 64’ Cole Palmer like Neto earlier shoots very very wide
🆘 | 66’ Caicedo foul
🟨 | 69’ Booking, John McGinn, Bad Foul
🗒️ | John McGinn’s 61st booking and his first offence, Chelsea meanwhile are becoming the dictionary definition of persistent fouling
💥 | 70’ Cole Palmer shoots over and wide
🚑 | 70’ Matty Cash down with cramp
🔁 | 70’ Sub off, Matty Cash 🚑, Sub on, Andrés García
🆘 | 71’ Fernández foul
🗒️ | Nkunku the latest in the book for Chelsea for you guessed it… persistent fouling
🚑 | 72’ Morgan Rogers struggling after another poor Chelsea challenge
❗| 75’ Chance! Marcus Rashford shot from Youri Tielemans pass blocked
💥 | 76’ Palmer shot off the line by Ezri Konsa
🗒️ | Chelsea game plan is literally fouling and playing on the counter with pretty hopeless over optimistic shooting on sight, this game is Villa’s to win and deservedly so
🔁 | 77’ Sub off, Ollie Watkins, Sub on, Leon Bailey
🔁 | 78’ Sub off, Morgan Rogers, Sub on, Donyell Malan
❗| 82’ Chance! Marcus Rashford free kick cleared by desperate last ditch defending
🆘 | 83’ Cucurella assaults Lamare Bogarde in the area, surely a penalty, no reaction from referee Oliver
🎥 | 83’ VAR checking, that has to be a pen
🎥 | 83’ VAR says no foul, no penalty, so how did Bogarde end up on the floor? Why not booked for diving if he wasn’t fouled. So so poor again from the officials.
🗒️ | Chelsea really flatter to deceive, for all their millions they have very little true quality, this is all Villa pass and move
❗| 88’ Chance! Marco Asensio shot from Andrés García ball wide
❗❗| 88’ Huge Chance!! Donyell Malen shot from Marcus Rashford pass saved by Jørgensen
⚽ | 90’ Goal, 2-1, Marco Asensio, Assist by Marcus Rashford
🆘 | 90’+1 Fernández foul
❗| 90’+3 Chance! Marcus Rashford shot from Marco Asensio ball blocked
❗| 90’+7 Chance! Leon Bailey shot saved by Jørgensen
🕒 | 90’+8 FT Aston Villa 2-1 Chelsea

🗒️ | 5’ Villa on top but Olsen’s long ball is conspicuous, he really doesn’t fit this team bless him
💥 | 7’ John McGinn’s error necessitates a Youri Tielemans clearance before Brentford are ruled offside
❗| 11’ Chance! Jacob Ramsey cuts in and shoots but it’s deflected out for a corner that comes to nothing
🆘 | 13’ Brentford foul, Yoane Wissa
🆘 | 15’ Brentford foul, Mikkel Damsgaard
❗❗| 16’ Huge Chance! !Tyrone Mings can’t make clean contact with Youri Tielemans' free-kick, Flekken saves
🆘 | 20’ Brentford player runs into Axel Disasi but VAR check for a sending off…. really
🆘 | 21’ Brentford foul, Yoane Wissa
🆘 | 23’ Referee Gillett completely misses a blatant foul on Ramsey on the edge of the area
❗| 24’ Chance! Ollie Watkins can’t meet Jacob Ramsey’s delivery
💥 | 26’ Lucas Digne stops a Brentford forward raid with ease
🚑 | 31’ Player injured on field of play, Robin Olsen
❗| 34’ Chance! Youri Tielemans on a charge, Flekken saves
❗❗| 35’ Huge Chance!! Youri Tielemans causes chaos and the Brentford man nearly puts it into his own net
🆘 | 40’ Morgan Rogers fouled by successive Brentford players
❗| 42’ Chance! Leon Bailey’s free kick hits the wall
🆘 | 43’ Yoane Wissa throws himself to the floor clutching his face after a challenge from John McGinn
🟨 | 43’ Booking, John McGinn, Bad Foul
🆘 | 43’ Shocking refereeing to book McGinn there, not a foul in sight
🕒 | 45’+2 HT Brentford 0-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Leon Bailey, Sub on, Matty Cash
🗒️ | Bit of a mess this formation now, 3 centre backs, 2 full backs or is Cash a direct replacement for Bailey, if so what about the wingers on the bench?
⚽ | 49’ Goal, 1-0, Ollie Watkins, Assist by Jacob Ramsey
⚽ | 50’ Goal, 2-0, Morgan Rogers, Assist by Ollie Watkins
🗒️ | What on earth, 2 in 2 minutes, oh of course here comes VAR
🎥 | 53’ VAR manages to find a reason to disallow Villa’s second, i mean at this point who is really surprised?
🗒️ | What are the odds on a greater offside goal being awarded to Brentford in the next 40’ …. probably pretty high after the Palace experience
🆘 | 55’ Brentford foul, Vitaly Janelt
🆘 | 57’ Brentford foul, Kevin Schade
🗒️ | 59’ Axel Disasi does it again, roaring like a true lion after a good piece of defending, a character that lad
🚑 | 60’ Player injured on field of play, Robin Olsen
🔁 | 61’ Sub off, John McGinn, Sub on, Boubacar Kamara
🎥 | 64’ VAR desperately searches for a penalty that is not there as Matty Cash and Axel Disasi have a purely accidental collision with the Brentford player on the touchline with the ball nowhere to be seen… i mean really, this is truly embarrassing levels of nonsense
🆘 | 67’ Horrible challenge from Kristoffer Ajer on Jacob Ramsey and he’s rightly booked
🔁 | 68’ Sub off, Jacob Ramsey, Sub on, Marcus Rashford
🗒️ | Interesting, not really Unai Emery’s style to make piecemeal subs
🗒️ | 70’ And Axel Disasi does it again, roaring again as he blocks a Brentford shot
💥 | 71’ Brentford hit the post with a speculative shot, not that close in all honesty
💥 | 71’ Brentford wide
🗒️ | They’re building here, that VAR decision may prove very costly
🆘 | 75’ Brentford foul, Yoane Wissa - his 5th or 6th of the game plus a terrible bit of play acting for McGinn’s undeserved booking
🎥 | 79’ Again VAR desperately searches for a penalty that is not there as Axel Disasi collides with Schade, contact yes, foul no, penalty behave. But this sort of nonsense starts to legitimise claims. So silly.
🟨 | 82’ Booking, Matty Cash, Timewasting
🗒️ | Another ridiculous decision from referee Gillett as Matty Cash searches out an opportunity for a long throw and is booked for timewasting
❗| 82’ Chance! Ollie Watkins shot from Lucas Digne’s ball in is just wide
💥 | 82’ Brentford shot saved by Olsen
💥 | 83’ Brentford shot blocked
💥 | 84’ Brentford shot blocked
💥 | 84’ Brentford shot wide after a mess up between Olsen and Watkins
🆘 | 85’ Brentford foul, Mathias Jensen
❗❗| 87’ Huge Chance!! Ollie Watkins shot from Morgan Rogers’ pass saved
🗒️ | 90’ 5 minutes added time signalled, no doubt that means 10’
🗒️ | 90’+2 Brentford bring on a sub to try and eke out some more added time
🆘 | 90’+4 Yet another Brentford foul, at least this one brings a booking
🔁 | 90’+4 Sub off, Morgan Rogers, Sub on, Donyell Malen
🗒️ | 90’+5 Gone past 5’ already
🗒️ | 90’+7 Now 7’, I mean really what is the point, they just make everything up
🕒 | 90’+7 FT Brentford 0-1 Aston Villa

🆘 | 1’ The pitch is covered in balloons, referee Kavanagh surprisingly allows play to start and continue without removing them
🆘 | 3’ Preston player dives in the box to win a penalty under a non-challenge from Youri Tielemans, referee Kavanagh takes no action
❗| 9’ Chance! Jacob Ramsey fouled, Marcus Rashford free kick beats the wall but it’s gathered
🆘 | Still balloons are smattered around the pitch
❗| 12’ Chance! Corner comes in an Marco Asension is free but Preston’s desperate defending just gets the ball away from danger
❗❗| 14’ Huge Chance!! Villa’s corner is cleared before the ball is returned by Marco Asensio but Ezri Konsa can’t get his head to it
🆘 | 20’ Still balloons are smattered around the pitch, really poor from referee Kavanagh, it just highlights the total lack of commonsense amongst the current breed of PGMOL officials
❗| 22’ Chance! De ja vu from 9’ as Jacob Ramsey fouled and a free kick given, Lucas Digne puts it over
🗒️ | All Villa, the football going in one direction, a matter of time for the first goal…. to Preston
🗒️ | 29’ Another foul, another free kick, this one attracts a booking for Preston
❗| 30’ Chance! Marcus Rashford takes the free kick but it smashes off a team-mates back and cannons out for a goal-kick, unlucky
💥 | 31’ Preston have an attack, a comfortable clearance by Emi Martínez before a follow up header sails harmlessly wide
🗒️ | 33’ It’s corner after corner for Villa, they need to make one count before half time to stop Preston getting giddy
💥 | 34’ A second Preston attack, easy defensive header for Tyrone Mings to clear any danger
❗| 36’ Chance! Morgan Rogers on a charge, Preston concede another corner
❗| 40’ Chance! Tyrone Mings plays in Marco Asensio but his cross is cleared
❗| 40’ Chance! Ezri Konsa header from Marcus Rashford’s corner is over
💥 | 45’ The tedious long throw routine from lower League footballers makes its appearance and is cleared
🕒 | 45’ HT Preston North End 0-0 Aston Villa
🗒️ | Preston make it to the break unscathed in a typical minnow performance, Villa’s usual patient build up game is confusing the new onlookers, Unai won’t mind a bit
❗| 48’ Chance! Another corner
🆘 | 50’ Morgan Rogers brought down in the box by Robbie Brady, penalty? Kavanagh gives nothing
💥 | How pleasant, the typical lower league attitude rears its ugly head again as Villa players are bombarded with paper missiles as the come up for yet another corner. quaint?
❗❗| 54’ Huge Chance!! Morgan Rogers releases Marcus Rashford free in the box but can’t beat the ‘keeper in a one on one
⚽ | 58’ Goal!, 1-0, Marcus Rashford, Assist by Lucas Digne
🗒️ | It’s been coming, Preston totally contained, Villa patient, Rashford been at the centre of most things albeit without any of them coming off, it only takes one though and there it is Villa one up away from home in an FA Cup Quarter Final thanks to Marcus Rashford’s first goal in a Villa shirt.
❗❗| 60’ Huge Chance!! Morgan Rogers denied by a point blank save
🗒️ | 61’ Penalty to Villa as the Preston player treads on Morgan Rogers’ foot in the area
🎥 | 62’ Obligatory VAR check, no way can this be overturned
⚽ | 64’ Goal!, 2-0, Marcus Rashford, pen
⚽ | 71’ Goal!, 3-0, Jacob Ramsey, Assist by Lucas Digne
🔁 | 73’ Sub off, Youri Tielemans, Sub on, John McGinn
🔁 | 73’ Sub off, Marco Asensio, Sub on, Amadou Onana
🔁 | 73’ Sub off, Morgan Rogers, Sub on, Donyell Malen
🔁 | 81’ Sub off, Matty Cash, Sub on, Andrés García
🔁 | 81’ Sub off, Marcus Rashford, Sub on, Ollie Watkins
❗❗| 82’ Huge Chance!! Ollie Watkins can’t capitalise on a ball in to the far post
❗❗| 83’ Huge Chance!! Ollie Watkins in the clear, shoots wide
❗| 89’ Chance! Lucas Digne, with two assists already today, sends a good free kick into the box but it’s hacked away
❗❗| 90’+1 Huge Chance!! Jacob Ramsey’s shot is goalbound before being deflected wide
🕒 | 90’+2 FT Preston North End 0-3 Aston Villa
🗒️ | Professional job by Villa, never in doubt, Preston huffed and puffed in the first half but Villa always in control, easy for Villa in the second as Preston got ahead of themselves, pushed up, and gave Villa all the motivation in the world to pick them off with ease, scoring three and realistically could have had another five from huge opportunities created in the second 45’. Villa off to Wembley for the semi final - although it’s still sacrilege that Semis are played there.

🆘 | 3’ Foul, Brajan Gruda
🆘 | 3’ Foul, Yasin Ayari
🆘 | 4’ Foul, Yasin Ayari
🗒️ | Such a physical side Brighton, they do this every time
❗| 5’ Chance! Verbruggen saves Ezri Konsa’s header from Matty Cash’s delivery
❗| 9’ Chance! John McGinn heads wide from Lucas Digne’s cross
🆘 | 11’ Foul, Yasin Ayari
🗒️ | That’s three fouls already from Ayari, not sure what referee Attwell is missing
❗| 12’ Chance! Marcus Rashford shoots wide from Boubacar Kamara’s ball in
⛔ | 16’ Emiliano Martínez saves
🆘 | 20’ Foul, Jack Hinshelwood, finally a Brighton player is booked 🟨
❗| 21’ Chance! Matty Cash just over from the free kick
🆘 | 23’ Foul, Diego Gómez
🗒️ | Losing count of the number of cynical fouls already
↔️ | 25’ Brighton shoot wide
🆘 | 31’ Foul, Brajan Gruda
🆘 | 32’ Foul, Kaoru Mitoma
⛔ | 36’ Emiliano Martínez saves from Mitoma
💥 | 42’ Yasin Ayari hits the woodwork with a free kick, close
🆘 | 42’ Foul, Lewis Dunk
🕒 | 45’+2 HT Brighton & Hove Albion 0-0 Aston Villa
🗒️ | 10, 15, 20? How many Brighton fouls, how do referees not prepare for these matches, surely they know the gameplan
🆘 | 48’ João Pedro… here we go again, i think every player on the pitch has committed a foul bar the ‘keeper
⛔ | 51’ Emiliano Martínez saves
⚽ | 51’ Goal, 1-0, Marcus Rashford, Assist by Morgan Rogers
🗒️ | Magnificent, Villa do as they’re so often done to and make a quick incisive break to score. If this game follows the usual pattern vs. Brighton then the tackles are going to get even more testy now they are behind.
🎥 | 57’ VAR disallows an equalising goal that was clearly handball in real time
⛔ | 63’ Emiliano Martínez saves from João Pedro
🔁 | 65’ Sub off, Marcus Rashford, Sub on, Ollie Watkins
🔁 | 65’ Sub off, Jacob Ramsey, Sub on, Marco Asensio
🔁 | 65’ Sub off, Youri Tielemans, Sub on, Amadou Onana
🆘 | 73’ Foul, Yasin Ayari… 10th of the game?
🆘 | 76’ Foul, Carlos Baleba
❗❗| 77’ Huge Chance!! Verbruggen saves Marco Asensio’s shot
⚽ | 78’ Goal, 2-0, Marco Asensio, Assist by Morgan Rogers
🗒️ | No chance for Verbruggen this time
🔁 | 81’ Sub off, Matty Cash, Sub on, Axel Disasi
🆘 | 85’ Foul, Matt O'Riley
🆘 | 87’ Foul, Matt O'Riley
🗒️ | It’s like a tagteam of foulers playing this lot
🔁 | 88’ Sub off, Morgan Rogers, Sub on, Donyell Malen
🟨 | 90’ Booking, Emiliano Martínez… ermmm
🟨 | 90’+1 Booking, Axel Disasi… double ermmm
🟨 | 90’+2 Booking, Ollie Watkins…
🗒️ | oh this is ridiculous, kicked from pillar to post for 90’ the ref does nothing then books three Villa player in three minutes for lesser offences
🗒️ | 10’ of injury time signalled
⛔ | 90’+4 Nothing shot blocked
↔️ | 90’+4 Brighton shoot over
🆘 | 90’+5 Foul, Matt O'Riley… no booking of course
↔️ | 90’+7 Brighton wide
⚽ | 90’+10 Goal, 3-0, Donyell Malen, Assist by Marco Asensio
🕒 | 90’+11 HT Brighton & Hove Albion 0-3 Aston Villa
🗒️ | Class won out in the end but boy are this lot a dirty, cynical side, West Ham, Wolves, Everton, Forest, Brighton… it’s infecting the game.

🗒️ | Villa chasing a 5th successive clean sheet, a 7th consecutive win, a 17th successive unbeaten home game and a top 6 position as the dirtiest team in the Premier League visit Villa Park
❗| 6’ Chance! Ian Maatsen shot saved by Sels
🆘 | 6’ Foul! Ryan Yates
🗒️ | There’s the first one given
❗❗| 8’ Huge Chance!! Marco Asensio’s shot from Andrés García’s ball just wide
❗| 9’ Chance! Youri Tielemans wide
🆘 | 11’ Foul! Nicolás Domínguez
⚽ | 13’ Goal, 1-0, Morgan Rogers, Assist by Youri Tielemans
🗒️ | Been coming, everything from Villa, nothing from Forest but their usual hoof and foul
⚽ | 15’ Goal, 2-0, Donyell Malen, Assist by Ian Maatsen
🗒️ | Two in two for Malen as Villa cut Forest to shreds again
↔️ | 23’ Forest’s first attack, well wide
↔️ | 24’ Forest’s second attack, wide but a bit closer
🆘 | 26’ Foul! Eliott Anderson
🆘 | 32’ Pathetic attempt to con a penalty from Forest, to be fair the rest of the players don’t appeal
🆘 | 34’ Foul! Morato
🆘 | 35’ Foul! Eliott Anderson
🗒️ | How does this lad stay on the pitch? Terrible challenge from the Forest player, physical side this lot, but they get away with it again, a free kick but should have been a yellow too
❗| 36’ Chance! Sels saves Asensio’s free kick
🆘 | 38’ Foul! Murillo
❗| 39’ Chance! Axel Disasi shoots over
❗| 40’ Chance! Desperate defending from Forest as Rogers crosses into the box
⛔ | 45’+2 Powderpudd header from Forest is catching practice for Emi Martínez
🕒 | 45’+1 HT Aston Villa 2-0 Nottingham Forest
🗒️ | Half way to a 5th successive clean sheet, a 7th consecutive win, a 17th successive unbeaten home game and a top 6 position
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Andrés García, Sub on, Ezri Konsa
🆘 | 49’ Foul! Morato… booked 🟨
🆘 | 50’ Foul! Morgan Gibbs-White
🟨 | 51’ Marco Asensio, Bad Foul
🗒️ | Except it wasn’t, first challenge, booked, Forest 20 fouls 1 yellow, joke officiating again
↔️ | 53’ Forest wide
↔️ | 53’ Forest wide again
🆘 | 54’ Foul! Ryan Yates
🆘 | 55’ Foul! Jota Silva
🗒️ | Just ridiculous
🥅 | 57’ Goal, 2-1, (Nottingham Forest), Jota Silva
↔️ | 60’ Forest wide
🔁 | 62’ Sub off, Ollie Watkins, Sub on, Marcus Rashford
🔁 | 62’ Sub off, Donyell Malen, Sub on, Jacob Ramsey
🔁 | 62’ Sub off, Amadou Onana, Sub on, Boubacar Kamara
🆘 | 63’ Foul! Jota Silva
🗒️ | Yet again
❗❗| 66’ Huge Chance!! Morgan set free by Emi Martínez, well saved by Sels
↔️ | 67’ Forest wide
↔️ | 68’ Forest wide… hoof…. hit… wide….
❗❗| 69’ Huge Chance!! Sels saves Forest yet again, this time from Marco Asensio
❗❗| 69’ Huge Chance!! Rashford shoots wide from Kamara’s ball
🗒️ | Villa should have put these to bed
❗❗| 72’ Huge Chance!! Sels again, Tielemans shot
🆘 | 73’ Foul! Jota Silva
🗒️ | How, like many of his teammates, has this tool not been booked…. 🟨 He is! At last!
🔁 | 73’ Sub off, Marco Asensio, Sub on, John McGinn
🆘 | 74’ Foul! Jota Silva… this is insane
↔️ | 77’ Forest wide, flatter to deceive this lot, very rudimentary unsophisticated football. If they do make Europe next season they will be embarrassed to hell playing like this.
🆘 | 77’ Foul! Ryan Yates… what a shock
↔️ | 78’ Forest high & wide
🆘 | 78’ Foul! Ryan Yates… madness
❗| 79’ Chance! Boubacar Kamara shoots over
↔️ | 80’ Forest wide
❗| 84’ Chance! Ian Maatsen shoots wide from a corner
🟨 | 86’ Emiliano Martínez
🗒️ | Just embarrassing
❗| 87’ Chance! Tyrone Mings’ shot blocked
🗒️ | Villa should be out of sight
❗| 88’ Chance! Marcus Rashford’s shot blocked
💥 | 90’+1 Forest hit the woodwork, that would have been a travesty of justice akin to Manchester United last season
❗❗| 90’+2 Huge Chance!! Sels saves Forest yet again, this time from Marcus Rashford
🗒️ | Normal service is resumed
↔️ | 90’+4 Forest wide
🕒 | 90’+5 HT Aston Villa 2-1 Nottingham Forest
🗒️ | There’s nothing romantic about this lot, some decent players wasted in a hatchet team, how they have sustained it over the season says more about the ineffective tippy tap nonsense that stops teams taking the Wimbledon of the 2020s to the cleaners week in week out. Quite why the officials are blinded by the hype and don’t referee them objectively is damning. The only plus side is how funny 2025-26 will be. The first side playing in the Champions League to be relegated, genuinely wouldn’t bet against it.

⚽ | 1’ Goal, 1-0, Ollie Watkins, Assist by Youri Tielemans
🗒️ | So simple, so easy
↔️ | 4’ Newcastle shoot wide through defender Burn
❗❗ | 5’ Huge Chance!! Ollie Watkins hits the bar from John McGinn’s pass
🆘 | 12’ Foul! Joelinton
🗒️ | This fella and his midfield partner have got away with murder the last few times we’ve played them, hopefully referee Gillett’s done his homework
🆘 | 13’ Foul! Fabian Schär…. really not good, deserved booking 🟨
❗ | 16’ Chance! Boubacar Kamara has his shot blocked
❗ | 16’ Chance! Ian Maatsen shoots over from the corner
🥅 | 18’ Goal, 1-1, (Newcastle United) Fabian Schär
🗒️ | Wow, not even in the game a set piece header gifts them an undeserved equaliser
❗ | 19’ Chance! Marco Asensio wide from Ian Maatsen’s ball
🆘 | 24’ Foul! Bruno Guimarães
🆘 | 26’ Foul! Bruno Guimarães
🗒️ | Yep, same old Newcastle midfield
❗❗ | 27’ Huge Chance!! Now Ollie Watkins hits the post from Marco Asensio’s cross
❗❗ | 27’ Huge Chance!! Ollie Watkins shot is blocked
❗ | 28’ Chance! Marco Asensio’s shot is blocked
🗒️ | These lot are being absolutely mullered here
⛔ | 34’ Martínez’s first save
↔️ | 35’ Newcastle shoot wide through defender Burn
❗ | 37’ Chance! Morgan Rogers shot is saved by Pope
🆘 | 41’ Foul! Joelinton…. booked 🟨
❗ | 43’ Chance! Ollie Watkins shoots wide from Martínez’s ball
🕒 | 45’+4 HT Aston Villa 1-1 Newcastle United
🗒️ | Another game where Villa really should be out of sight already
❗ | 50’ Chance! John McGinn’s shot saved by Pope
❗ | 53’ Chance! Youri Tielemans heads wide from Marco Asensio’s ball in
❗ | 53’ Chance! Ian Maatsen shoots wide from a corner again
❗ | 56’ Chance! Now it’s Morgan Rogers’ turn to have his shot blocked
🆘 | 56’ Foul! Bruno Guimarães
❗ | 57’ Chance! Tyrone Mings heads over from Marco Asensio’s free kick
🗒️ | How is this 1-1?
🆘 | 58’ Foul! Bruno Guimarães…. how many fouls and no card
❗❗ | 61’ Huge Chance!! Pope saves Newcastle yet again, this time from John McGinn
❗❗ | 61’ Huge Chance!! And Pope saves Newcastle yet again, this time from Morgan Rogers
⛔ | 63’ Martínez makes a save!!
🆘 | 63’ Foul! Bruno Guimarães, he’s just so protected this fella…. but yes! Booked 🟨 could’ve / should’ve happened three or four fouls previously
⚽ | 64’ Goal, 2-1, Ian Maatsen, Assist by Ollie Watkins
🗒️ | Superb, as overdue as it was deserved
🔁 | 72’ Sub off, Marco Asensio, Sub on, Amadou Onana
🔁 | 72’ Sub off, John McGinn, Sub on, Jacob Ramsey
⚽ | 73’ Goal, 3-1, Dan Burn og
🗒️ | Now it’s starting to look a true reflection
❗ | 75’ Chance! Pope saves Newcastle from four after Morgan Rogers shoots from Youri Tielemans’ pass
⚽ | 75’ Goal, 4-1, Amadou Onana, Assist by Morgan Rogers
🗒️ | Ha ha not for long…. this could end up double figures at this rate
❗❗ | 79’ Huge Chance!! The woodwork is hit for the third time today as Jacob Ramsey gets in on the act
🔁 | 82’ Sub off, Boubacar Kamara, Sub on, Ross Barkley
🔁 | 82’ Sub off, Morgan Rogers, Sub on, Donyell Malen
🔁 | 83’ Sub off, Ollie Watkins, Sub on, Marcus Rashford
🆘 | 84’ Foul! Joelinton… been a while
🟨 | 88’ Booking, Jacob Ramsey, Bad Foul….. first offence
❗ | 90’+2 Chance! Donyell Malen shoots wide
❗ | 90’+3 Chance! Pope saves again, this time from Ross Barkley
🕒 | 90’+7 HT Aston Villa 4-1 Newcastle United
🗒️ | Have to say Newcastle haven’t just been beaten they’ve been outclassed, battered, packed up and sent home, it could easily have been a record score. Although Villa have suffered at St James’ Park and been on the end of some heavy defeats, none have seen a team in such ascendancy 11 v 11.

🥅 | 7’ Goal, 0-1, (Manchester City), Bernardo Silva
⚽ | 18’ Goal!, 1-1, Marcus Rashford, pen
🟨 | 35’ Booking, Lucas Digne
🕒 | HT Manchester City 1-1 Aston Villa
🟨 | 50’ Booking, Morgan Rogers
🔁 | 61’ Sub off, Matty Cash, Sub on, Axel Disasi
🔁 | 61’ Sub off, Jacob Ramsey, Sub on, John McGinn
🔁 | 76’ Sub off, Amadou Onana, Sub on, Marco Asensio
🔁 | 76’ Sub off, Marcus Rashford, Sub on, Ollie Watkins
🔁 | 86’ Sub off, Morgan Rogers, Sub on, Donyell Malen
🥅 | 90’+4 Goal, 1-2, (Manchester City), Matheus Nunes
🕒 | FT Manchester City 2-1 Aston Villa

🟨 | 17’ Booking, Boubacar Kamara
❌ | 29’ Goal Disallowed, (Crystal Palace), Jean-Philippe Mateta
🗒️ | Anthony Taylor deems Mateta fouled Ezri Konsa in the build up to his strike, Villa lucky there
🥅 | 31’ Goal, 0-1, (Crystal Palace), Eberechi Eze
🗒️ | An error from Pau Torres gives the ball away cheaply and Palace do what they always do against Villa.
🗒️ | Villa concede from the first shot on target for the 22nd time this season.
🗒️ | Given Villa’s difficulties against Palace’s style that is almost certainly that for our FA Cup run, it was essential to get the first goal.
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-1 Crystal Palace
🗒️ | Villa pressed after the goal but created nothing of real note, Palace however could, and probably should be three up, their full back missing a sitter kicking the air rather than the ball in the final knockings of the first half.
🗒️ | In truth Villa have been very poor and Palace deserve their lead but it was their only shot on target.
❌ | 53’ Missed penalty, Jean-Philippe Mateta
🗒️ | Mateta hits the post with Martínez beaten, incredibly lucky for Villa, but still Palace have just the one shot on target for their goal
🥅 | 58’ Goal, 0-2, (Crystal Palace), Ismaïla Sarr
🗒️ | Make that two shots on target and two goals…. plus a disallowed goal and a missed pen.
🔁 | 60’ Sub off, John McGinn, Sub on, Leon Bailey
🗒️ | Now that is a seriously odd substitution
🔁 | 60’ Sub off, Lucas Digne, Sub on, Ian Maatsen
🔁 | 69’ Sub off, Marco Asensio, Sub on, Jacob Ramsey
🔁 | 70’ Sub off, Boubacar Kamara, Sub on, Ross Barkley
🔁 | 79’ Sub off, Morgan Rogers, Sub on, Donyell Malen
🥅 | 90’+4 Goal, 0-3, (Crystal Palace), Ismaïla Sarr
🕒 | 90’+ 8 FT Aston Villa 0-1 Crystal Palace
🗒️ | An appalling performance on and off the pitch, not a single player turned up, a totally deserved defeat to a mid table side that looks for safety as a priority every season. The lowest point under Unai Emery by a distance. A stupidly wasted opportunity.
Feels like the end for some of these players.

❗❗ | 7’ Huge Chance!! Ollie Watkins heads wide from Marco Asensio’s cross
⚽ | 12’ Goal!, 1-0, Youri Tielemans, Assist by John McGinn
❗ | 20’ Chance! Ollie Watkins can’t get to Youri Tielemans pass before Leno clears
🎥 | 35’ Ollie Watkins brought down in the box, VAR rules no foul
❗ ❗ | 45’ Huge Chance!! Leno with a strong save of Youri Tielemans effort from John McGinn’s ball in
🕒 | 45’+2 HT Aston Villa 1-0 Fulham
🗒️ | Despite leading some really sloppy play in that first half, Villa inviting pressure on themselves as Pau Torres struggles again
❗❗ | 47’ Huge Chance!! Ollie Watkins cannot connect with Matty Cash’s excellent ball in.
❗ | 49’ Chance! Morgan Rogers’ shot blocked
🎥 | 50’ VAR Rules out Sessengon’s hand ball effort
⛔ | 55’ Emi Martínez saves easily from Wilson but Villa not heeding the warnings
🗒️ | More sloppy play, this time from Ezri Konsa, not playing to the whistle, schoolboy stuff, Emery is raging
🔁 | 60’ Sub off, Marco Asensio, Sub on, Jacob Ramsey
🔁 | 61’ Sub off, John McGinn, Sub on, Amadou Onana
❗❗ | 61’ Huge Chance!! Ollie Watkins shot from Morgan Rogers’ pass excellently saved by Leno once again
🗒️ | Another game, another outstanding goalkeeping performance from the opposition ‘keeper
❗ | 63’ Chance! Ian Maatsen wide
🆘 | 67’ Kenny Tete, already on a yellow, should probably be off but referee Jones thinks a lecture will suffice for his latest foul
🔁 | 71’ Sub off, Ollie Watkins, Sub on, Donyell Malen
🔁 | 71’ Sub off, Ian Maatsen, Sub on, Lucas Digne
❗ | 72’ Chance! Jacob Ramsey’s shot blocked after Amadou Onana’s pass
❗ | 72’ Chance! Pau Torres can’t reach the ball to poke it home for 2-0
⛔ | 77’ Certain equaliser but for Matty Cash’s brave block
🗒️ | Villa just do not learn, profligate finishing, shaky defending, the inevitable is coming
❗ | 79’ Chance! Donyell Malen point blank shot saved by Leno
🔁 | 83’ Sub off, Youri Tielemans, Sub on, Ross Barkley
🚑 | 84’ Player retires from field of play with injury, (Fulham), Harrison Reed
🚑 | 84’ Fulham reduced to 10-men
↔️ | 87’ Adama Traoré shoots over
🗒️ | 8’ added time announced by the fourth official, gulp
🚑 | 90’+1 Amadou Onana down with injury
❗❗ | 90’+4 Huge Chance!! Donyell Malen hits the bar
🕒 | 90’+9 FT Aston Villa 1-0 Fulham
🗒️ | 3 Points but a tired, dazed and confused performance from Villa, literally limping home to the end of the season.