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Villa Cut Play-Off Gap To Two Points With Comfortable Victory Over O’Neill – Match Stats

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Aston Villa made the short trip to the City Ground earlier this evening as we faced off against a familiar foe – Martin O’Neill and his new Nottingham Forest side.

There’s no reason to go over history but for a whole variety of reasons, making it three wins on the spin for the Villa would be extra sweet tonight.

It was certainly a fast start and the hosts had the lead three minutes in, but two moments of class from John McGinn saw us level in the 7th minute and then ahead by minute 15. The game did lull a bit then, but chances went either way and Kortney Hause tied the match up just after the hour mark as he hit his first for the club following his arrival from Wolverhampton Wanderers and scored our third of the evening.

Forest didn’t really threaten and we could’ve extended our lead with good chances falling to Jonathan Kodjia and McGinn, but sadly he hit the woodwork.

On we roll, things are looking positive again. We leapfrog O’Neill’s side in the table and are now two points behind Derby County in sixth spot.

Nottingham Forest
1 – 3
Aston Villa

City Ground

Championship

13/03/2019 7:45 pm

Attendance: 29224

Referee: Dean

Nottingham Forest Aston Villa
Colback (3) McGinn (7, 15), Hause (61)
Pantilimon Steer
Darikwa Elmohamady
Milosevic
 
Hause
 
Benalouane Mings
Osborn Taylor
 
Yates 76 McGinn
Tuncara Gomes 71 Hourihane
Colback
 
Grealish 87
Antunes Carvalho Green
Lolley Abraham 72
Ansarifard
 
62 El Ghazi 64

Substitutes

Guedioura 71 Whelan 87
Watson Carroll
Murphy 62 Jedinak
Wague Bjarnason
Steele Kodjia
 
72
Cupido Goncalves 76 Kalinic
Bonatini Adomah 64

Game Statistics

13 Goal attempts 11
2 On Target 4
8 Corners 6
17 Fouls 13
3 Yellow Cards 3
0 Red Cards 0
52 % 48

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