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Commentary
3¹ARCHER booked for a cynical challenge.
5¹A clever pass from JONES was knocked goalbound by ABRAHAM only for the Aston Villa 'keeper to block.
8¹A lovely effort from KAMARA scraped the upright.
10¹A delightful strike from ÁLEX MORENO was dealt with by a good parry from the 'keeper.
11¹A wonderful save prevented ARCHER from scoring an exceptional goal.
14¹The ref books BAILEY for a bad challenge.
16¹GOAL!! A wonderful dribble from VERETOUT gave PEDRO GONÇALVES space on the left and ABRAHAM rifled in his pin-point pass. (1-0 Manchester City)
26¹A cross from KAMARA left BUENDIA in lots of space but he scuffed his shot.
28¹PEDRO PORRO rushed an easy chance.
29¹A poor strike from VERETOUT bounced agonisingly wide.
33¹SÉRGIO GÓMEZ fired the ball through a crowd of players but OLSEN was a match for it as he dived to his right.
34¹A penalty box meleé resulted in KAMARA driving a low shot wide.
35¹The Manchester City 'keeper dived to his right to save an accurate drive from Aston Villa's BAILEY.
39¹A header from WATKINS was headed off the line by PEDRO PORRO.
1²WATKINS booted the ball wide of the righthand post from just outside the area.
14²BAILEY shot over.
15²A header by BAILEY at the near post was easily collected by the Manchester City 'keeper.
20²BAILEY ran onto a great ball from KAMARA but fumbled his shot wide of the goal.
26²A good ball from CASH on the right fell to ÁLEX MORENO who mishit his shot over.
42²BAILEY red carded for a clumsy foul his second bookable offence.
44²VERETOUT dribbled away from MURILLO and rattled a tame shot wide.
46²GOAL!! The Aston Villa 'keeper got into difficulty with a backpass from CASH and PEDRO PORRO was able to scramble the ball home. (2-0 Manchester City)

 
Manchester City
 
League position: 12
Home league form: WLWX
Overall league form: LWLLXWXX
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Senne LAMMENS8 16½Robin OLSEN
PEDRO Antonio PORRO7 26 Matty CASH
SÉRGIO GÓMEZ Martin7½36½ÁLEX MORENO
Curtis JONES7½46½John McGINN(c)
Lisandro MARTÍNEZ8½56½MURILLO Santiago
(c)DIEGO CARLOS Santos7 66 Modou CISSÉ
Miguel ALMIRON7½76½Emiliano BUENDIA
PEDRO António GONÇALVES7½86½Leon BAILEY
(p)Tammy ABRAHAM7 96 Ollie WATKINS(p)
(f)Jordan VERETOUT6½106 Boubacar KAMARA(f)
Danny INGS7½115½Cameron ARCHER
Manager
Layvin KURZAWA  12  Kaine KESLER-HAYDEN
Jamie SMITH  13  DOUGLAS LUIZ Soares
Benjamin MENDY  14  ALEIX García
Tommy DOYLE  15  Ludwig AUGUSTINSSON
Demarai GRAY  16  Matt TARGETT
 
Aston Villa
 
League position: 17
Away league form: WLWL
Overall league form: OWXLWWLW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Manchester City 2 Aston Villa 0
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 33,891, Stadium: Etihad Stadium, Referee: Richard Beeby 7½)

Abraham 16¹, Pedro Porro 46²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
 
  
 Bailey 42²
 Archer 3¹, Bailey 14¹
21
220
21
46
710
1116
25
60%40%
Man of the match: Lisandro Martínez