Villa Edge Rotherham To Take A Deserved Win But It Won’t Be Enough To Quell Unrest

What was more exciting on Tuesday evening, Dr Tony Xia breaking his silence or Aston Villa entertaining Rotherham United at Villa Park given relative form.

Or even simply two up front?

We had two up front…yippee!

We got off to a good start with both chances and possession in our favour and on-loan Chelsea striker Tammy Abraham made it third time lucky as he opened the scoring just ahead of the half-hour mark in the first period.

A 1-0 advantage at the halftime break left many wondering if that was our trademarked ‘good’ half and although the game was probably tighter in the second period, we did continue to edge it. Inside of the final ten minutes on-loan Everton winger, Yannick Bolasie, opened his club account following on from his cameo showing against Blackburn Rovers to double our advantage.

Not a great night, but far from a bad one for a change and we haven’t even had that in recent times.

2-0 was how it ended to get us back to winning ways, and we jump into sixth place in the table given results elsewhere this evening. A few sides are set to play tonight so it could all change but at least it was a step in the right direction

Aston Villa				Rotherham United
Abraham (27), Bolasie (82)
Nyland				Rodak
Elmohamady				Vyner
Chester				Ajayi
Jedinak				Wood
Hutton				Mattock
El Ghazi			73	Towell
McGinn				Vaulks
Hourihane				Manning			68
Grealish				Williams			76
Kodjia			81	Smith
Abraham			86	Vassell			59
Substitutes
Tuanzebe				Forde			76
Whelan				Palmer
Bolasie			73	Proctor			68
Bree			86	Taylor			59
Bjarnason				Price
Bunn				Wiles
Adomah			81	Jones

Game Statistics
14	Goal attempts	13
4	On Target	3
2	Corners	3
9	Fouls	16
2	Yellow Cards	2
0	Red Cards	0
60	%	40