There’s The Aston Villa We Don’t Like Very Much – Match Stats

Aston Villa welcomed Swansea City to Villa Park earlier this afternoon for our FA Cup third round tie.

Head coach Dean Smith selected a much changed side for the game, and January capture Lovre Kalinic made his debut between the sticks for us, and fans got another look at youngster Callum O’Hare who came into the starting eleven as one of the changes.

With Smith confirming that Tammy Abraham would be sitting this one out, it was over to Scott Hogan to impress at the top of the pitch.

With the right things being said ahead of the kickoff, sadly it seems the players themselves hadn’t got the message and we were behind after only two minutes. A few minutes after the halftime restart Swansea doubled their advantage and a bad day was quickly getting worse.

Swansea added a third with 12 minutes left to play and I think most fans lost the will to live in that moment.

I’m not sure Smith would’ve learned anything new after that, but it should have firmed up some ideas about players.

Aston Villa				Swansea City
				Baker-Richardson (2), Dyer (47), Fulton (78)
Kalinic				Mulder
Hutton				Naughton
Bree				van der Hoorn			87
Elphick				Rodon
Taylor				Roberts
Whelan			60	Fer
McGinn				Celina
El Ghazi				Grimes
O'Hare			55	Dyer			72
Adomah				Baker-Richardson			71
Hogan			72	Routledge
Substitutes
Lansbury			60	Nordfeldt
Steer				Narsingh
Davis			72	McKay
Bjarnason				James			72
Kodjia			55	Fulton			71
Elmohamady				Byers
Revan				Harries			87

Game Statistics
10	Goal attempts	14
2	On Target	7
9	Corners	5
9	Fouls	8
2	Yellow Cards	1
0	Red Cards	0
46	%	54