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Match report
English Footie
Premier League: Round 33 (setup 1, season 28)
Aston Villa
v.
Arsenal
Formation:
4-1-3-2
League position:
6
Overall form:
Home form:
DIEGO LÓPEZ Rodríguez1Gianluigi BUFFON
Formation:
4-1-4-1
League position:
3
Overall form:
Home form:
DANILO Luiz da Silva72Darijo SRNA
JORDI ALBA Ramos83Aleksandar KOLAROV
Andrea PIRLO47SERGIO RAMOS García
MÁRIO Figueira FERNANDES58Gerard PIQUÉ Bernabeu
José María GIMÉNEZ de Vargas766Sergio BUSQUETS Burgos
Jesús NAVAS González77Anwar EL GHAZI
DIEGO CAPEL Trinidad787Xabier Alonso Olano, XABI ALONSO
BURAK Yilmaz97DIEGO da Silva COSTA
Olivier GIROUD7107NEYMAR da Silva Santos Júnior
Sergei IGNASHEVICH117Iker MUNIAIN Goñi
Harvey DanaManagerHayden Dando
José Manuel JURADO Marín12José 'Ramiro' FUNES MORI
Luca ANTONELLI13Francisco Casilla Cortés, KIKO CASILLA
Ante REBIC14BERNARD Anício Caldeira Duarte
Arnaldo 'Antonio' SANABRIA Ayala156ROBERTO FIRMINO Barbosa de Oliveira
Kingsley BOATENG16Riccardo SAPONARA

Aston Villa 3 Arsenal 1
(Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 41,195, Stadium: Villa Park, Referee: Mark HAYWOOD 8)
2 Burak, 12 Pirlo, 65 GiroudScorers53 Neymar
Substitutions66 El Ghazi <=> Roberto Firmino
Sendings off
Bookings86 Diego Costa
7Corners4
9Fouls5
2Offsides4
7Shots on2
9Shots off5
16Total shots7
3Shots saved1
52%Possession48%
Man of the match: Gerard PIQUÉ Bernabeu
2GOAL!! A terrible clearance dropped to GIMÉNEZ who mishit a shot goalward, luckily BURAK was on hand to fire the ball into the roof of the net. (1-0 Aston Villa)
4A penalty box scramble resulted in BURAK tapping the ball over.
8JORDI ALBA shot wide.
9BURAK headed wide.
10PIRLO rattled an easy chance past the lefthand post.
12GOAL!! . (2-0 Aston Villa)
14GIROUD rushed a simple chance.
14A shot from SRNA was kicked off the line by JORDI ALBA.
16DIEGO COSTA waltzed away from JORDI ALBA and poked a poor shot over.
16GIROUD's shot was well saved by the 'keeper.
27NEYMAR drove a right foot shot over from just outside the area.
42GIROUD ran onto a delightful ball from DIEGO CAPEL but hit his shot wide of the goal.
45A lovely cross from PIRLO, was nudged goalbound by BURAK only for the 'keeper to claw away.
 
51A cross from XABI ALONSO left NEYMAR in lots of space but he rushed his shot.
53GOAL!! A great solo effort from NEYMAR who beat a number of defenders before firing the ball into the net. (2-1 Aston Villa)
58A drive from DIEGO CAPEL seemed a certain goal but BUFFON managed to force the ball clear.
61A pin-point pass was collected by DIEGO CAPEL and his deadly shot went narrowly wide.
65GOAL!! A delightful shot from BURAK was palmed away by the Arsenal 'keeper only as far as GIROUD who nudged the ball past the stranded BUFFON. (3-1 Aston Villa)
67The bemused DIEGO LÓPEZ stared in disbelief as a backpass from DANILO dropped just over.
70DIEGO COSTA made space on the left and touched the ball to KOLAROV who touched the ball over.
77A tame strike from BURAK bounced agonisingly wide.
85A mix up in the Arsenal defence enabled DIEGO CAPEL to fire the ball wide.
86DIEGO COSTA booked.
88A thirty yard shot from GIROUD caused the 'keeper no problem.