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Commentary
10¹GOAL!! A great drive from KJÆR was punched clear by the Sporting 'keeper only as far as ABRAHAM who hit the ball past the stranded Sporting 'keeper. (1-0 Aston Villa)
11¹RAMSEY booked.
14¹The hapless Aston Villa 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from VIÑA dropped just wide.
19¹A mix up in the Sporting defence enabled ABRAHAM to hit an effort over.
23¹ABRAHAM headed just wide.
28¹JOSÉ MARSÀ ran onto a wonderful ball from ANDERSON TALISCA but fumbled his shot wide.
36¹GOAL!! Some steady work by KJÆR on the left, left JOÃO FÉLIX yards clear, and he nutmegged RUI SILVA and fired the ball over the line. (2-0 Aston Villa)
41¹ABRAHAM rushed an easy chance.
44¹A poor strike from TONI rolled agonisingly wide.
46¹A bad tackle gets POPE a yellow card.
3²A delightful save prevented BETO from scoring an exceptional goal.
5²JOÃO FÉLIX blasted a looping shot over the bar from twenty yards out.
10²HANSSON yellow cards TOMÁS ARAÚJO for a bad challenge.
14²GOAL!! ABRAHAM hit a curling twenty-five yard shot past the hapless RUI SILVA. (3-0 Aston Villa)
17²GOAL!! A shot from RAFA which the Aston Villa 'keeper was able to block seemed to have crossed the line and the ref gave the goal. (3-1 Aston Villa)
26²JOÃO FÉLIX was put clear by VIÑA and he raced past RUI SILVA but thrust his shot over the bar.
27²GOAL!! A foul on RAMSEY inside the area gave Aston Villa a penalty which ABRAHAM buried. (4-1 Aston Villa)
29²A penalty box scramble resulted in KOLO-MUANI knocking the ball over.
33²The 'keeper did well to hold onto a powerful shot from RAFA.
38²A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the advancing Aston Villa 'keeper.
40²KOLO-MUANI poked a simple chance past the righthand post.
41²JOÃO FÉLIX floated the ball to ABRAHAM who headed it just beyond the near post.

 
Aston Villa
 
League position: 10
Home league form: WXW-
Overall league form: LWLXLW--
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
(c)Nick POPE6½17 RUI Tiago SILVA
Weston McKENNIE5 27½GENY Cipriano CATAMO
Matías VIÑA8 36 JOSÉ Martínez MARSÀ
Pierre-Emile HØJBJERG7 47½DANIEL Santos BRAGANÇA
Michael KEANE7 57 TOMÁS Lemos ARAÚJO
Tyrone MINGS6½66 Sebastián COATES(c)
Jeppe KJÆR6½77 RAFA
JOÃO FÉLIX Sequeira7 86½Kaoru MITOMA
(p)Tammy ABRAHAM6½96 BETO(p)
(f)Jacob RAMSEY7 107 ANDERSON TALISCA(f)
Randal KOLO-MUANI6½116 TONI
Manager
Dwight McNEIL  12  Idrissa DOUMBIA
Mat RYAN  13  Franco ISRAEL
FÁBIO Daniel SILVA  146 Moussa MAREGA
Kian FITZ-JIM7½15  Botond BALOGH
Lukas NMECHA  16  Roman EREMENKO
 
Sporting
 
League position: 4
Away league form: WX--
Overall league form: WWWWXL--
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Aston Villa 4 Sporting 1
(Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 43,971, Stadium: Villa Park, Referee: Martin Hansson 6)

Abraham 10¹, João Félix 36¹, Abraham 14², Abraham 27² (pen)
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Rafa 17²
McKennieóFitz-Jim 19²Anderson TaliscaóMarega 24²
  
Ramsey 11¹, Pope 46¹Tomás Araújo 10²
44
815
75
54
136
1810
12
57%43%
Man of the match: Matías Viña