Who’d Have Thought Nine In A Row Could Be So Easy For Villa As We Break Bolton’s Heart- Match Stats

Fresh from the back of eight wins on the spin and victory without Jack Grealish, Aston Villa made the trip to the University of Bolton Stadium to face struggling Bolton Wanderers.

Given the season they have had, stuck in 23rd place in the Championship table on 32 points, on paper this was an easy victory given the form we are in and plenty are optimistic the full-time whistle will give us our ninth win on the spin after we matched our April 1975 record.

This is the Villa though, we haven’t done the easy thing for a few years now and victory would confirm their relegation to League One.

Despite largely dominating the first half, we went in goalless but Jack Grealish quickly improved in the second period and gave us the advantage two minutes after the restart. Jack had a hand in the second goal as well and repaid Tammy Abraham for his earlier assist to make it 2-0, putting his head in where it hurts, in the 57th minute.

Dare Villa fans dream of nine in a row for the first time since 1910 I believe? 30 mins to find out but sadly we’d have to do it without Tammy who damaged his shoulder is now an obvious concern.

Time for Keinan Davis to step up?

Well, he should’ve scored really but Bolton has little to offer and we saw the remaining time out with ease.

Nine on the spin, can we make it ten and Bolton are down.

Bolton Wanderers				Aston Villa
				Grealish (47), Abraham (57)
Alnwick				Steer
Brockbank				Elmohamady
Wheater			36	Tuanzebe			74
Hobbs				Mings
Taylor				Taylor
O'Neil			45	Whelan
Williams				El Ghazi
Connelly				Grealish
Buckley				McGinn			72
Connolly				Adomah
Donaldson			80	Abraham			60
Substitutes
Beevers			36	Lansbury
Vela				Hourihane			72
Oztumer			80	Jedinak			74
Olkowski				Davis			60
Williams				Green
Magennis			45	Bjarnason
Wildschut				Sarkic

Game Statistics
6	Goal attempts	21
1	On Target	9
2	Corners	16
16	Fouls	8
2	Yellow Cards	1
0	Red Cards	0
34	%	66