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Match report
English Footie
Championship: Round 33 (setup 1, season 32)
Aston Villa
v.
Rochdale
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
8
Overall form:
Home form:
Tomás VACLIK71Josh LILLIS
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
24
Overall form:
Home form:
Jérémy PIED2JOĂO Pedro da Silva PEREIRA
Johan Andrés MOJICA Palacio3Dennis AOGO
Julian BAUMGARTLINGER847Jérémy TOULALAN
Robin KNOCHE857Timo BAUMGARTL
John TERRY666Waldemar ANTON
Martin HARNIK777Wesley SNEIJDER
Jesús Manuel CORONA Ruíz786Levin ÖZTUNALI
Christian BENTEKE79Samuel ETO'O Fils
Rodrigo Javier DE PAUL106Clément GRENIER
Hachim MASTOUR11Gervais Yao Kouassi, GERVINHO
Scott SmillieManager
James CHESTER12ADRIANO Correia Claro
DIEGO LÓPEZ Rodríguez13Jonathan Diba MUSANGU
José Manuel JURADO Marín14Vurnon ANITA
Ádám SZALAI15Rafael VAN DER VAART
Ryad BOUDEBOUZ16DAVID COSTAS Cordal

Aston Villa 2 Rochdale 1
(Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 40,815, Stadium: Villa Park, Referee: Aris GALANOPOULOS 7½)
17 Benteke, 30 BentekeScorers8 Öztunali
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings4 Toulalan, 10 Aogo
5Corners10
7Fouls6
5Offsides4
2Shots on1
9Shots off11
11Total shots12
0Shots saved0
48%Possession52%
Man of the match: Robin KNOCHE
4TOULALAN booked by GALANOPOULOS.
5Uncertainty in the Rochdale defence enabled PIED to fire the ball over.
8GOAL!! An imaginative TOULALAN played a great ball down the right to ÖZTUNALI who seemingly in an offside position went on to easily score. (1-0 Rochdale)
10A late tackle on CORONA by AOGO results in a booking.
11A corner found HARNIK who nodded the ball wide.
16BENTEKE made space on the right and knocked the ball to MASTOUR who clipped the ball wide.
17GOAL!! A long range effort was deflected into the path of BENTEKE who tapped the ball past the helpless LILLIS. (1-1)
30GOAL!! After some neat play on the right BENTEKE came inside and flicked the ball into the top corner. (2-1 Aston Villa)
31ÖZTUNALI snapped at an easy chance.
38ETO'O blasted a left foot shot just wide from thirty yards out.
41GERVINHO chipped the ball to ANTON who forced it over.
43An exceptional effort from DE PAUL scraped the outside of the righthand post.
 
46ETO'O ran onto a wonderful ball from ÖZTUNALI but toe-poked his shot wide of the righthand post.
54GRENIER beat PIED and placed the ball to SNEIJDER who fumbled his shot wide.
58A accurate pass was collected by ÖZTUNALI and his left foot shot floated narrowly over.
65A good ball from ETO'O on the left fell to GRENIER who mishit his shot wide.
70The hapless VACLIK was a mere bystander as a backpass from CORONA fell just over.
72A penalty box meleé resulted in DE PAUL knocking a low shot wide.
73KNOCHE beat two Rochdale players and stroked an effort just wide.
74CORONA shot wide.
76MASTOUR was put clear by MOJICA and he dummied the 'keeper but glanced his shot wide.
77GERVINHO kicked the ball wide of the goal from just inside the area.
79ÖZTUNALI waltzed away from CORONA and poked a weak shot well wide.
84A free-kick from AOGO floated over the bar.
88A cross from HARNIK left PIED in lots of space but he scuffed his shot.