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Match report
English Footie
Championship: Round 9 (setup 4, season 34)
Aston Villa
v.
Brighton & HA
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
16
Overall form:
Home form:
Viljami SINISALO51Mat RYAN
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
15
Overall form:
Home form:
Matty CASH72Leon BALOGUN
Matt TARGETT63BERNARDO Fernandes da Silva Junior
John McGINN74Yves BISSOUMA
Björn ENGELS75Shane DUFFY
Kortney HAUSE6Cristian 'Tudor' BALUTA
Bertrand TRAORÉ777Pascal GROSS
Leon BAILEY87Leandro TROSSARD
WESLEY Moraes Ferreira da Silva97Aaron CONNOLLY
DOUGLAS LUIZ Soares de Paulo710Adam LALLANA
Indiana VASSILEV6116Neal MAUPAY
Manager
Frédéric GUILBERT12Dale STEPHENS
Anwar EL GHAZI13David BUTTON
Keinan DAVIS14Alireza JAHANBAKHSH
Aaron RAMSEY615Soufyan AHANNACH
Ben CHRISENE16Florin ANDONE

Aston Villa 2 Brighton & HA 4
(Half-time: 1-4, Attendance: 34,594, Stadium: Villa Park, Referee: Darren DEADMAN 6½)
5 Vassilev, 71 TargettScorers17 Lallana, 19 Trossard, 40 Lallana, 42 Maupay
75 Targett <=> RamseySubstitutions60 Bernardo <=> Jahanbakhsh
Sendings off
32 WesleyBookings
3Corners4
4Fouls16
3Offsides6
4Shots on5
9Shots off9
13Total shots14
1Shots saved1
48%Possession52%
Man of the match: Yves BISSOUMA
4TROSSARD snapped at a simple chance.
5GOAL!! Aston Villa's VASSILEV beat three defenders before firing just inside the Brighton & HA 'keeper's far post. (1-0 Aston Villa)
6The Brighton & HA 'keeper did well to hold onto a fierce strike from WESLEY.
10The hapless 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from TROSSARD dropped just over.
13A lovely effort from BAILEY scraped the outside of the post.
17GOAL!! A mishit GROSS shot fell to LALLANA who made no mistake from the edge of the box. (1-1)
19GOAL!! A long ball from BALUTA had the Aston Villa defence back-pedalling and TROSSARD made the most of the opportunity with a lovely goal. (2-1 Brighton & HA)
21A corner bobbled toward CASH who forced an effort just beyond the near post.
24A penalty box meleé resulted in BAILEY driving the ball wide.
25BAILEY headed just wide.
32WESLEY given a yellow card by the referee for a high challenge.
34Uncertainty in the Aston Villa defence enabled BERNARDO to hammer an effort just beyond the near post.
40GOAL!! As ENGELS was trying to hold back BALUTA the ball fell to LALLANA who slammed the ball in off the post. (3-1 Brighton & HA)
42GOAL!! The creative BISSOUMA neatly headed on a cross for MAUPAY to crack the ball in. (4-1 Brighton & HA)
 
47MAUPAY fired a looping shot inches over from close range.
53MAUPAY brought the ball round TRAORÉ and rattled a poor shot well wide.
57TROSSARD ran onto a wonderful ball from GROSS but toe-poked his shot wide of the righthand post.
59A pin-point pass found DUFFY and his right foot effort raced narrowly wide.
71GOAL!! A poor goal-kick was intercepted by BAILEY who setup TARGETT with an easy chance. (4-2 Brighton & HA)
76MCGINN made space on the left and pulled the ball to BAILEY who rasped the ball over.
78ENGELS beat two Brighton & HA players and fired a golden opportunity over.
88A header by HAUSE at the near post was easily collected by RYAN.