Aston Villa 1-0 Birmingham City: result and report
Championship · Sunday 23 April 2017
Result
Aston Villa 1-0 Birmingham City
Championship · Sunday 23 April 2017, 11:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Aston Villa 1-0 Birmingham City: match report
Aston Villa defeated Birmingham City 1-0 in the Championship on Sunday 23 April 2017. It was 0-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from Gabriel Agbonlahor of Aston Villa in the 68th minute.
Discipline: Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards; Birmingham City received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 13th on 58 points from 43 and Birmingham City 21st on 47 points from 43. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 13th with 62 points, and Birmingham City 19th with 53.
Aston Villa lined up in a 4-3-3 and Birmingham City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Alan Hutton of Aston Villa (7.7), level with James Chester (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Aston Villa wins, 3 draws and 1 for Birmingham City.
Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read L-L-D-W-W and Birmingham City's L-D-L-L-D.
Key events
- 62'Yellow card · Gabriel Agbonlahor
- 62'Yellow card · Gabriel Agbonlahor
- 62'Yellow card · Ryan Shotton
- 68'Goal · Gabriel Agbonlahor
- 90+3'Yellow card · Paul Robinson
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa line-up (4-3-3)
Sam Johnstone, Alan Hutton, James Chester, Nathan Baker, Neil Taylor, Henri Lansbury, Mile Jedinak, Leandro Bacuna, Albert Adomah, Scott Hogan, Jack Grealish
Birmingham City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Tomasz Kuszczak, Emilio Nsue, Ryan Shotton, Paul Robinson, Jonathan Grounds, Maikel Kieftenbeld, Craig Gardner, Ché Adams, David Davis, Jacques Maghoma, Lukas Jutkiewicz