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Commentary
A great effort from LAMELA scraped the outside of the post.
COMAN whacked a right foot shot just beyond the far post from just outside the area.
A cross from MEZA left LAMELA in lots of space but he scuffed his shot.
12¹ABRAHAM shot wide.
14¹The 'keeper was able to claw away an amazing shot.
14¹GOAL!! A goalmouth scramble culminated with HØJBJERG blasting the ball into the back of the net. (1-0 Aston Villa)
17¹BUENDIA ran onto a great ball from MEZA but blasted his shot wide of the goal.
18¹A header by DAVID at the far post was easily collected by the 'keeper.
20¹GOAL!! The creative PEZZELLA neatly nodded on a cross for MEZA to hit the ball in. (1-1)
22¹ØVREBØ books PEREYRA.
27¹The motionless Independiente 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from KANNEMANN fell just wide.
30¹DAVID beat ALEIX and whacked the ball to MINGS who dragged his shot wide.
41¹A penalty box meleé resulted in KANNEMANN driving the ball wide.
42¹ABRAHAM fluffed a simple chance.
45¹A mix up in the Aston Villa defence enabled KANNEMANN to volley an effort inches wide.
MERCADO booked for a high challenge on KONSA.
POPE dived to his right to stop an accurate shot from Independiente's MEZA.
COMAN headed wide.
17²An inswinging corner was flicked into the arms of ARMANI by TOMORI.
20²GOAL!! After HØJBJERG was pulled to the ground the referee waved play-on and ABRAHAM went on to easily score. (2-1 Aston Villa)
23²TOMORI headed the ball wide of the goal from just inside the area.
24²An exceptional strike from CASÉRES was dealt with by a good parry from the 'keeper.
25²KJÆR brought the ball round MERCADO and rattled a tame shot over the bar.
30²A strike from KJÆR held no problem for the 'keeper.
34²JOÃO FÉLIX made space on the left and pulled the ball to MÆHLE who touched the ball wide.
44²HØJBJERG was put clear by KJÆR and he pulled away from the Independiente 'keeper but thrust his shot just beyond the far post.

 
Aston Villa
 
League position: 12
Home league form: XWLW
Overall league form: XLXLWLWX
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
(c)Nick POPE1Franco ARMANI
Ezri KONSA2Gabriel MERCADO
Joakim MÆHLE3Walter KANNEMANN
Pierre-Emile HØJBJERG4Santiago CASÉRES(c)
Fikayo TOMORI5ALEIX García
Tyrone MINGS6Germán PEZZELLA
Jeppe KJÆR7Emiliano BUENDIA
Kingsley COMAN8Maximiliano MEZA
(p)Tammy ABRAHAM9Giovanni SIMEONE(p)
(f)JOÃO FÉLIX Sequeira10Roberto PEREYRA(f)
Jonathan DAVID11Erik LAMELA
ManagerDavid Blair
Lukas NMECHA  12  Emmanuel MAMMANA
Mat RYAN  13  Eduardo SALVIO
FÁBIO Daniel SILVA  14  Leandro PAREDES
Weston McKENNIE  15  Harvey WHITE
Dwight McNEIL  16  Marco HÖGER
 
Independiente
 
League position: 9
Away league form: LLWX
Overall league form: LLLWLWWX
Formation: 4-1-3-2

Statistics
Aston Villa 2 Independiente 1
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 40,453, Stadium: Villa Park, Referee: Tom Øvrebø 7½)

Højbjerg 14¹, Abraham 20²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Meza 20¹
  
  
 Pereyra 22¹, Mercado 0²
24
59
01
54
105
159
23
59%41%
Man of the match: Ezri Konsa