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Match report
English Footie
Championship: Round 37 (setup 4, season 27)
Blackburn Rovers
v.
Aston Villa
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
22
Overall form:
Home form:
Mamadou SAMASSA17Brad JONES
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
23
Overall form:
Home form:
JORGE Filipe Avelino TEIXEIRA62Javier Manquillo Gaitán, JAVI MANQUILLO
Patrick VAN AANHOLT3Easah SULIMAN
Rhys WILLIAMS4Gelson FERNANDES
Vegard FORREN757Tommy ELPHICK
Joost VAN AKEN66Micah RICHARDS
Felipe TEIXEIRA87Henri LANSBURY
Bryan OVIEDO Jiménez8Birkir BJARNASON
Sjoerd ARS797Jonathan KODJIA
Danny GRAHAM10Jordon MUTCH
Gaizka SAIZAR Lekuona611Eric CHOUPO-MOTING
Manager
Peter WHITTINGHAM12Sam BYRAM
David RAYA Martin13Anders LINDEGAARD
Stefan MOORE14Joshua ONOMAH
MIKEL ALONSO Olano15Alan HUTTON
Keith TREACY16Ritchie DE LAET

Blackburn Rovers 0 Aston Villa 1
(Half-time: 0-0, Attendance: 22,124, Stadium: Ewood Park, Referee: Patrick MILLER 7)
Scorers86 Kodjia
Substitutions
Sendings off
3 Van AkenBookings47 Bjarnason, 90+1 Lansbury
3Corners4
11Fouls7
1Offsides2
7Shots on3
7Shots off10
14Total shots13
7Shots saved0
51%Possession49%
Man of the match: Felipe TEIXEIRA
2ARS's shot beat JONES but rebounded off the Aston Villa woodwork.
3MILLER books VAN AKEN for dangerous play against RICHARDS.
3OVIEDO headed over the bar.
4BJARNASON shot over.
9OVIEDO knocked the ball to ARS who headed it inches over.
14A lovely effort from BJARNASON scraped the woodwork.
20JORGE TEIXEIRA stabbed an easy chance past the far post.
29The stunned SAMASSA was a mere bystander as a backpass from TEIXEIRA dropped just over.
32A thirty yard shot from TEIXEIRA caused JONES little difficulty.
40A shot from ARS was nodded off the line by ELPHICK.
 
46A penalty box meleé resulted in BJARNASON driving a low shot over.
47A clinical tackle on WILLIAMS by BJARNASON results in a booking.
51The Aston Villa 'keeper parried a clever shot from OVIEDO.
57ARS waltzed away from RICHARDS and rifled a poor shot past the post.
70A refined cross from CHOUPO-MOTING, was placed goalbound by MUTCH only for the Blackburn Rovers 'keeper to block.
73BJARNASON headed the ball wide of the lefthand post from the edge of the box.
77LANSBURY flicked a deadly shot inches over from just outside the area.
81A corner found FERNANDES who flicked the ball just beyond the far post.
84A shot from VAN AANHOLT seemed a certain goal but the 'keeper managed to parry the ball clear.
86GOAL!! An outswinging corner was hoofed clear only for KODJIA to thump the ball into the back of the net. (1-0 Aston Villa)
87A tame shot from ARS bounced agonisingly wide.
90+1LANSBURY given a yellow card for a high challenge on FORREN.