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Commentary
Uncertainty in the Aston Villa defence enabled BONGONDA to crack an effort inches wide.
BONGONDA steamed through the Aston Villa defence but shot straight at the Aston Villa 'keeper.
A header by JOÃO FÉLIX at the far post was comfortably collected by LUNEV.
10¹ABRAHAM cautioned for a cynical foul.
11¹A cross from HASIC left BONGONDA in plenty of space but he scuffed his shot.
13¹A free-kick from HØJBJERG floated over the bar.
14¹A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the oncoming Aston Villa 'keeper.
20¹GOAL!! A quick-witted McKENNIE pounced on a loose ball on the edge of the area and made no mistake. (1-0 Aston Villa)
21¹A corner found SERGEYEV who touched the ball over.
24¹JOÃO FÉLIX ran onto a great ball from ABRAHAM but pulled his shot wide.
29¹GOAL!! A wonderful dummy from HASIC allowed DOUGLAS SANTOS to lay a low ball off to SERGEYEV who drilled the ball into the back of the net. (1-1)
33¹GOAL!! A long range effort was deflected into the path of FÁBIO SILVA who knocked the ball past the helpless Zenit 'keeper. (2-1 Aston Villa)
A fine ball from KUZYAEV on the left fell to BONGONDA who sliced his effort wide.
14²POPE did well to hold onto a fierce strike from BARISIC.
15²A lovely effort from ALIP scraped the top of the crossbar.
19²GOAL!! KOLO-MUANI waltzed forward, glanced up and thundered a shot into the Zenit net. (3-1 Aston Villa)
20²BARRIOS floated the ball to KUZYAEV who nodded it just wide.
22²JOÃO FÉLIX headed just beyond the far post.
28²BARRIOS was put clear by KARAVAEV and he pulled away from the Aston Villa 'keeper but thrust his shot over.
33²BARRIOS nodded the ball wide from the edge of the box.
35²ABRAHAM beat three Zenit players and blasted a shot just beyond the near post.
37²A poor shot from BONGONDA trickled agonisingly wide.

 
Aston Villa
 
League position: 16
Home league form: XWLW
Overall league form: WXLWLOLW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
(c)Nick POPE1Andrei LUNEV
Weston McKENNIE2Vyacheslav KARAVAEV
Matías VIÑA3DOUGLAS dos SANTOS Justino
Pierre-Emile HØJBJERG4Wilmar BARRIOS(c)
Tyrone MINGS5Nurali ALIP
Michael KEANE6Adrian BARISIC
Jeppe KJÆR7Ajdin HASIC
JOÃO FÉLIX Sequeira8Théo BONGONDA
(p)FÁBIO Daniel SILVA9Ivan SERGEYEV(p)
(f)Tammy ABRAHAM10Daler KUZYAEV(f)
Randal KOLO-MUANI11Sebastián DRIUSSI
Manager
Leo HJELDE  12  Magomed OZDOEV
Mat RYAN  13  Mikhail KERZHAKOV
Dwight McNEIL  14  Danil KRUGOVOY
James JUSTIN  15  Mikhail IGNATOV
Florian NEUHAUS  16  Giorgi GOCHOLEISHVILI
 
Zenit
 
League position: 19
Away league form: XXLW
Overall league form: LXWXLWLW
Formation: 4-3-3
Aston Villa go through to the next round
Statistics
Aston Villa 3 Zenit 1
(Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 39,861, Stadium: Villa Park, Referee: Barry Knight 7½)

McKennie 20¹, Fábio Silva 33¹, Kolo-Muani 19²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Sergeyev 29¹
  
  
Abraham 10¹ 
35
45
24
57
613
1120
26
50%50%
Man of the match: Pierre-Emile Højbjerg