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Commentary
8¹A shot from HINCAPIÉ was kicked off the line by MAATSEN.
9¹A clever cross from WERNER was fired goalbound by BAILEY only for the 'keeper to palm clear.
11¹A good effort from FÜLLKRUG scraped the top of the crossbar.
18¹A fine dribble was ended by a good save by the advancing SAMBA.
23¹GOAL!! A goalmouth scramble culminated with BAKU rocketing the ball into the net. (1-0 SC Heerenveen)
29¹BENTANCUR booked for an off-the-ball incident.
36¹BAILEY headed the ball wide of the goal from just outside the area.
38¹The ref books SIMONS for dangerous play against MAATSEN.
40¹TER STEGEN saved a beautiful shot from KRAFTH.
41¹RAFAEL LEÃO was put clear by MIKEL MERINO and he pulled away from SAMBA but struck his shot inches over.
42¹A poor strike from FÜLLKRUG rolled agonisingly wide.
43¹GOAL!! A quick free-kick allowed FÜLLKRUG to nudge the ball to BENTANCUR who hit a right foot shot into the net. (1-1)
2²SIMONS beat BAILEY and flicked the ball to REIJNDERS who hit his shot wide.
4²GOAL!! A long goal-kick from RRAHMANI caught the Aston Villa defence napping and RAFAEL LEÃO nipped in to easily score. (2-1 SC Heerenveen)
6²FÜLLKRUG poked a simple chance past the lefthand post.
13²BUENDIA nutmegged BAKAYOKO but fired the ball into the arms of the SC Heerenveen 'keeper.
14²GOAL!! A twenty-five yard free-kick was skillfully blasted into the net by RAFAEL LEÃO. (3-1 SC Heerenveen)
21²GOAL!! A long ball from BAILEY had the SC Heerenveen defence back-pedalling and FÜLLKRUG made the most of the opportunity with a good goal. (3-2 SC Heerenveen)
32²BENTANCUR sent off for a late tackle he had already received a yellow card earlier in the match.
38²FÜLLKRUG receives a yellow card by the referee for a cynical tackle.
39²GOAL!! A shot from RAFAEL LEÃO was kicked off the line only for MIKEL MERINO to hammer the ball in. (4-2 SC Heerenveen)
39²MIKEL MERINO touched the ball through a crowd of players but SAMBA was a match for it as he dived to his left.

 
Aston Villa
 
League position: 4
Home league form: XWOW
Overall league form: WXWXWWOW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Brice SAMBA5½15½Marc-André TER STEGEN
Emil KRAFTH6½27 Ridle BAKU
Ian MAATSEN6 37 Piero HINCAPIÉ
John McGINN8 47 MIKEL MERINO Zazon
(c)Willi ORBAN7½57½Virgil VAN DIJK(c)
Clément LENGLET6 66 Amir RRAHMANI
Emiliano BUENDIA7 76½Johan BAKAYOKO
Leon BAILEY7 86½RAFAEL Alexandre LEÃO
(p)Niclas FÜLLKRUG7 97 Romelu LUKAKU(p)
(f)Rodrigo BENTANCUR6½106 Tijjani REIJNDERS(f)
Timo WERNER6 116 Xavi SIMONS
Manager
PEDRO António GONÇALVES  12  Gleison BREMER
DJordje PETROVIC  13  BENTO Matheus
RODRIGO MUNIZ Carvalho  14  Samuel CHUKWUEZE
Caleb CHUKWUEMEKA  15  Orri ÓSKARSSON
Daniel JAMES  16  Malick THIAW
 
SC Heerenveen
 
League position: 2
Away league form: LWWW
Overall league form: WWLWWWWW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Aston Villa 2 SC Heerenveen 4
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 52,403, Stadium: Villa Park, Referee: Salvatore Racalbuto 6)

Bentancur 43¹, Füllkrug 21²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Baku 23¹, Rafael Leão 4², Rafael Leão 14², Mikel Merino 39²
  
Bentancur 32² 
Bentancur 29¹, Füllkrug 38²Simons 38¹
31
184
78
98
154
2412
53
54%46%
Man of the match: John McGinn