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Commentary
DEPAY fired the ball through a ruck of players but the Port Vale 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
A shot from TROSSARD was smothered by VLACHODIMOS.
An inswinging corner was forced into the arms of VLACHODIMOS by TROSSARD.
FRATTESI made space on the right and pulled the ball to RYERSON who touched the ball over.
A penalty box meleé resulted in PASALIC cracking the ball wide.
GOAL!! A long ball from RABIOT had the Port Vale defence back-pedalling and DI MARÍA made the most of the opportunity with an exceptional goal. (1-0 Aston Villa)
15¹GOAL!! A deep corner left VLACHODIMOS struggling and KUDUS side-footed the ball over the line. (1-1)
24¹The stunned VLACHODIMOS could only watch as a backpass from DI MARÍA dropped just wide.
25¹A poor strike from HINCAPIÉ trickled agonisingly wide.
28¹A fine run was ended by a good save by the advancing 'keeper.
38¹LAPORTE booked.
41¹A twenty yard drive from TROSSARD caused the 'keeper no problem.
DEPAY's shot was well held by the 'keeper.
DEPAY headed just beyond the far post.
The ref books PASALIC for an off-the-ball incident against FRATTESI.
KUDUS brought the ball past LAPORTE and poked a tame shot past the post.
16²UDOGIE's shot was well saved by VLACHODIMOS.
19²A pin-point pass was collected by DI MARÍA and his right foot shot raced narrowly over.
21²GOAL!! A long range effort was deflected into the path of DEPAY who nudged the ball past the helpless BENÍTEZ. (2-1 Aston Villa)
23²A bad foul gets DI MARÍA a yellow card.
30²TROSSARD drilled a left foot shot over the bar from just outside the area.
31²A clumsy challenge on RYERSON by BOEY results in a booking.

 
Aston Villa
 
League position: 17
Home league form: XLWL
Overall league form: XLXLXWLW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Odysseas VLACHODIMOS1Walter BENÍTEZ
Sacha BOEY2Julian RYERSON
Ferland MENDY3Destiny UDOGIE
Adrien RABIOT4Piero HINCAPIÉ(c)
Aymeric LAPORTE5Gleison BREMER
Benoît BADIASHILE6Davide FRATTESI
Rayan CHERKI7Mohammed KUDUS
(c)Ángel DI MARÍA8Bradley BARCOLA
(p)Memphis DEPAY9Loïs OPENDA
(f)Mario PASALIC10Thomas MÜLLER
Sadio MANÉ11Leandro TROSSARD(p,f)
ManagerDean Murphy
Federico CHIESA  12  Justin OMOREGIE
RICHARLISON de Andrade  13  Marcel MOSWITZER
Yannick CARRASCO  14  Tommaso MARTINELLI
Ivan ILIC  15  Karim ADEYEMI
Nicoló ZANIOLO16  Tom ROTHE
 
Port Vale
 
League position: 5
Away league form: OWLX
Overall league form: WOWWWLWX
Formation: 4-1-3-2

Statistics
Aston Villa 2 Port Vale 1
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 40,307, Stadium: Villa Park, Referee: Rob Styles 8)

di María 7¹, Depay 21²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Kudus 15¹
DepayóZaniolo 26² 
  
Laporte 38¹, Pasalic 8², di María 23², Boey 31² 
26
138
516
46
35
711
24
45%55%
Man of the match: Adrien Rabiot