Match Stats

Stats: Aston Villa v Leeds

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Hosting Leeds United at Villa Park for this evening’s Championship clash, Aston Villa went into the game knowing victory would close the gap to Fulham to only two points and put us only one point behind third-placed Cardiff City.

That wouldn’t ease the pressure on Steve Bruce’s side as they gun for promotion this year as Fulham would have a game in hand, and Cardiff two, but it would put the pressure on them – so clearly a second home win in four days was the aim.

Jack Grealish was also trying to score for three successive matches.

So how did Friday the 13th treat us?

Well apart from some moments of decent play and the knowledge the margin of victory should’ve been greater, we can ignore the performance. It was three points and we closed the gap. Jack sadly didn’t get three in three but he’ll be happy with the number of points he played his part in helping to win.

Steve Bruce also continues a record of never having lost to Leeds whilst as the home gaffer and that now stands at eight having seen off Terry Venables, Eddie Gray, Kevin Blackwell, Dennis Wise, Neil ‘the Colin’ Warnock, Steve Evans, Garry Monk and now Paul Heckingbottom if the stattos are correct.

Three points though – who cares about anything else tonight?

Oh other than our Play-Off spot is now mathematically guaranteed of course and we should get home advantage for the second leg of the Semi-Finals.

Aston Villa
1 – 0
Leeds United

Villa Park

Championship

13/04/2018 7:45 pm

Attendance: 33374

Referee: Harrington

Aston Villa Leeds United
Grabban (29)
Johnstone Peacock-Farrell
Elmohamady Dallas
Chester O'Connor
Jedinak Pennington
Taylor Pearce
Whelan Alioski 66
Snodgrass Phillips
Grealish Vieira
Onomah 85 Hernandez
Grabban 78 Roofe 78
Kodjia 67 Ekuban 45

Substitutes

Samba 85 Lonergan
Lansbury Anita
Hogan 78 Lasogga 78
Hourihane Grot 66
Bree O'Kane
Bunn Saiz 45
Adomah 67 Struijk

Game Statistics

17 Goal attempts 9
5 On Target 2
5 Corners 4
7 Fouls 10
0 Yellow Cards 0
0 Red Cards 0
53 % 47

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