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Match report
English Footie
League Cup: Round 3 (setup 1, season 28)
Burton Albion
v.
Aston Villa
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
9
Overall form:
Home form:
António Alberto Bastos Pimparel, BETO71DIEGO LÓPEZ Rodríguez
Formation:
4-1-3-2
League position:
6
Overall form:
Home form:
Brandon MECHELE628DANILO Luiz da Silva
Rasim TAGIRBEKOV73Luca ANTONELLI
Matías Ariel FERNÁNDEZ Fernández47Andrea PIRLO
Timm KLOSE5MÁRIO Figueira FERNANDES
Steven de Sousa VITÓRIA667Marcos Alberto ROJO
Walter Alejandro GARGANO Guevara677Jesús NAVAS González
Stefano MAURI788JORDI ALBA Ramos
Germán Gustavo DENIS9BURAK Yilmaz
Vedad IBISEVIC6107Olivier GIROUD
Robbie KRUSE711Sergei IGNASHEVICH
ManagerHarvey Dana
Nikola AKSENTIJEVIC12Pierluigi CAPPELLUZZO
Bartosz SALAMON13José Manuel REINA Páez
Martin BRAITHWAITE14DIEGO CAPEL Trinidad
Danny HOESEN15Kingsley BOATENG
Bruno PETKOVIC616Ante REBIC

Burton Albion 0 Aston Villa 1
(Half-time: 0-0, Attendance: 23,300, Stadium: Pirelli Stadium, Referee: Lee MASON 6½)
Scorers49 Navas
49 Kruse <=> PetkovicSubstitutions
Sendings off
62 IbisevicBookings
7Corners6
6Fouls6
2Offsides5
2Shots on7
4Shots off12
6Total shots19
2Shots saved6
39%Possession61%
Man of the match: JORDI ALBA Ramos
4A free-kick from BURAK went inches wide.
5The bemused DIEGO LÓPEZ was all agog as a backpass from JORDI ALBA fell just over.
8BETO parried a neatly crafted strike from JORDI ALBA.
12A corner was collected by KLOSE who touched an effort over.
16IBISEVIC beat ANTONELLI and placed the ball to MAURI who fired his shot wide.
22A penalty box meleé resulted in PIRLO knocking the ball over.
24The Burton Albion 'keeper did well to hold onto an amazing strike from DANILO.
29JORDI ALBA waltzed round GARGANO and rattled a poor shot over.
30The 'keeper dived to his right to stop a fierce drive from Aston Villa's GIROUD.
33A pin-point pass was collected by BURAK and his right foot effort floated narrowly over.
38A refined cross from IBISEVIC, was blasted goalbound by MAURI only for DIEGO LÓPEZ to block.
40The 'keeper managed to claw away a powerful effort.
 
49GOAL!! A deep cross from MÁRIO FERNANDES on the left was headed home by NAVAS at the near post. (1-0 Aston Villa)
59PIRLO shot over.
61DENIS snapped at an easy chance.
62IBISEVIC cautioned for a clumsy tackle.
64PIRLO was put clear by NAVAS and he beat the 'keeper but rammed his shot over.
65A lovely effort from ANTONELLI scraped the outside of the righthand post.
75JORDI ALBA's shot beat the Burton Albion 'keeper but rebounded off the Burton Albion upright.
75GIROUD made space on the left and pulled the ball to NAVAS who touched the ball over.
76GIROUD played the ball to BURAK who headed it over.
79A mix up in the Burton Albion defence enabled GIROUD to hammer the ball inches over.
80DENIS's shot was well saved by DIEGO LÓPEZ.
83ANTONELLI poked a simple chance past the far post.
84A brilliant strike from JORDI ALBA was dealt with by a useful parry from the 'keeper.
89A good ball from IGNASHEVICH on the right found JORDI ALBA who mishit his shot over the bar.