Brentford 2-1 Aston Villa: result and report

Brentford 2-1 Aston Villa

Championship · Tuesday 26 December 2017, 19:30 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Brentford beat Aston Villa 2-1 in the Championship on Tuesday 26 December 2017. It was 1-1 at half-time.

R. Sawyers opened the scoring in the 22nd minute. Brentford's goals came from R. Sawyers (22') and Lasse Vibe (52'). Aston Villa scored through Josh Onomah (30').

Discipline: Brentford received 2 yellow cards; Aston Villa received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Brentford were 12th on 31 points from 23 and Aston Villa 8th on 38 points from 23. Brentford went on to finish that season 9th with 69 points, and Aston Villa 3rd with 90.

Brentford lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Aston Villa in a 4-4-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to R. Sawyers of Brentford (7.8), level with Tommy Elphick (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Brentford win, 2 draws and 0 for Aston Villa.

Going into the match Brentford's last five read W-D-L-W-D and Aston Villa's D-L-D-D-W.