Aston Villa 4-2 Norwich City: result and report
Championship · Saturday 19 August 2017
Result
Aston Villa 4-2 Norwich City
Championship · Saturday 19 August 2017, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Aston Villa 4-2 Norwich City: match report
Aston Villa won against Norwich City 4-2 in the Championship on Saturday 19 August 2017. The half-time score was 2-0.
Conor Hourihane opened the scoring in the 22nd minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Conor Hourihane (22'), Andre Green (42'), Conor Hourihane (68') and Conor Hourihane (85'). Norwich City scored through Josh Murphy (60') and Nélson Oliveira (79').
Discipline: Aston Villa received 1 yellow card; Norwich City received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 24th on 1 point from 3 and Norwich City 11th on 4 points from 3. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 3rd with 90 points, and Norwich City 14th with 60.
Aston Villa lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Norwich City in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to C. Hourihane of Aston Villa (9.9), ahead of Josh Murphy (8.6).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Aston Villa wins, 1 draw and 3 for Norwich City.
Key events
- 22'Goal · Conor Hourihane
- 36'Yellow card · Josh Murphy
- 42'Goal · Andre Green
- 58'Yellow card · Alan Hutton
- 60'Goal · Josh Murphy
- 68'Goal · Conor Hourihane
- 78'Yellow card · James Husband
- 79'Goal · Nélson Oliveira
- 85'Goal · Conor Hourihane
- 86'Yellow card · Nélson Oliveira
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa line-up (4-4-1-1)
Sam Johnstone, Neil Taylor, James Chester, Alan Hutton, John Terry, Glenn Whelan, C. Hourihane, Andre Green, Ahmed Eissa El Mohamady Abdel Fattah, Joshua Onomah, Keinan Davis
Norwich City line-up (4-1-4-1)
Angus Gunn, James Husband, Russell Martin, Christoph Zimmermann, Marcel Franke, Harrison Reed, Steven Naismith, Mario Vrančić, Josh Murphy, Marco Stiepermann, Cameron Jerome