Aston Villa 3-1 Cardiff City: result and report

Aston Villa 3-1 Cardiff City

Championship · Saturday 26 November 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Aston Villa beat Cardiff City 3-1 in the Championship on Saturday 26 November 2016. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Albert Adomah opened the scoring in the 24th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Albert Adomah (24'), J. Kodjia (39') and Rudy Gestede (90', penalty). Cardiff City scored through Rickie Lambert (28').

Discipline: Aston Villa received 5 yellow cards; Cardiff City received 5 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 15th on 22 points from 17 and Cardiff City 19th on 20 points from 17. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 13th with 62 points, and Cardiff City 11th with 64.

Aston Villa lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Cardiff City in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Jack Grealish of Aston Villa (8.5), ahead of James Chester (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Aston Villa win, 1 draw and 0 for Cardiff City.