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Commentary

0¹ A header by DEPAY at the near post was comfortably collected by RAYA. 1¹ The ref books McARTHUR for a poor foul. 18¹ A delightful strike from ZANIOLO was dealt with by a fine block from the Leicester City 'keeper. 19¹ MARTÍNEZ ran onto a wonderful ball from NICO WILLIAMS but fumbled his shot wide. 25¹ A cynical challenge on MIKEL by PASALIC results in a booking. 35¹ GOAL!! A refined set-piece enabled DI MARÍA to hammer the ball into the back of the net. (1-0 Aston Villa) 36¹ GOAL!! A quick-witted DI MARÍA pounced on a loose ball on the right and made no mistake. (2-0 Aston Villa) 38¹ RABIOT beat PAU TORRES and placed the ball to DEPAY who dragged his shot wide. 39¹ GOAL!! After MANÉ was fouled the ref waved play-on and DEPAY went on to easily score. (3-0 Aston Villa) 43¹ GOAL!! A patient Leicester City side were rewarded with a lovely shot from SANÉ. (3-1 Aston Villa) 4² GOAL!! After some patient play on the left MARTÍNEZ came inside and flicked the ball into the net. (3-2 Aston Villa) 9² MARTÍNEZ rushed a simple chance. 13² GOAL!! A long shot from PAU TORRES deflected off the head of ZANIOLO and into his own net. (3-3) 17² Uncertainty in the Aston Villa defence enabled MARTÍNEZ to fire the ball just beyond the near post. 18² A lovely effort from MARTÍNEZ scraped the top of the crossbar. 19² GOAL!! As DI MARÍA was trying to hold back GRAVENBERCH the ball fell to MARTÍNEZ who blasted the ball in off the post. (4-3 Leicester City) 23² A corner found MARTÍNEZ who flicked the ball just wide. 30² A accurate pass was collected by LOCATELLI and his deadly effort raced narrowly over. 31² VLACHODIMOS cautioned for a clumsy tackle on GRAVENBERCH. 38² A poor shot from DI MARÍA trickled agonisingly wide. 43² MARTÍNEZ dribbled past McARTHUR and poked a weak shot into the crowd. 44² LOCATELLI booted the ball wide from just inside the area.

Aston Villa   League position: 11 Home league form: WLWW Overall league form: WWLLWOWW Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Odysseas VLACHODIMOS 5  1 5½ David RAYA Charlie McARTHUR 6  2 8  Alejandro BALDE Ferland MENDY 7½ 3 7  Federico DIMARCO Adrien RABIOT 5½ 4 7½ Manuel LOCATELLI(c) Benoît BADIASHILE 6½ 5 7  Leroy SANÉ Yannick CARRASCO 6½ 6 6½ PAU Francisco TORRES Nicoló ZANIOLO 6½ 7 7½ ARNAU MARTÍNEZ López (c)Ángel DI MARÍA 7½ 8 7  Ryan GRAVENBERCH (p)Memphis DEPAY 6  9 7  NICO WILLIAMS(p) (f)Mario PASALIC 6½ 10 6½ Lautaro MARTÍNEZ(f) Sadio MANÉ 5½ 11 6½ MIKEL Oyarzabal Manager Kevin Reynolds Marcelo BROZOVIC    12    FERMÍN López Ivan ILIC    13    Unai SIMÓN Quilindschy HARTMAN 7  14    William PACHO Federico CHIESA    15    Éric GARCÍA Jesper LINDSTRØM    16    GAVI

Leicester City   League position: 15 Away league form: LLLW Overall league form: LLOLLLWW Formation: 4-4-2

Statistics

Aston Villa 3 Leicester City 4 (Half-time: 3-1, Attendance: 42,559, Stadium: Villa Park, Referee: Scott Mathieson 6) di María 35¹, di María 36¹, Depay 39¹ Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Sané 43¹, Martínez 4², Zaniolo 13² (og), Martínez 19² RabiotóHartman 19²       McArthur 1¹, Pasalic 25¹, Vlachodimos 31²   4 1 12 10 1 12 5 8 4 10 9 18 2 4 51% 49% ¶ Man of the match: Alejandro Balde ¶