Aston Villa 1-0 Birmingham City: result and report

Championship · Sunday 23 April 2017

Result

Aston Villa 1-0 Birmingham City

Championship · Sunday 23 April 2017, 11:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

Aston Villa · Birmingham City · Championship predictions

Aston Villa 1-0 Birmingham City: match report

Aston Villa defeated Birmingham City 1-0 in the Championship on Sunday 23 April 2017. It was 0-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Gabriel Agbonlahor of Aston Villa in the 68th minute.

Discipline: Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards; Birmingham City received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 13th on 58 points from 43 and Birmingham City 21st on 47 points from 43. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 13th with 62 points, and Birmingham City 19th with 53.

Aston Villa lined up in a 4-3-3 and Birmingham City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Alan Hutton of Aston Villa (7.7), level with James Chester (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Aston Villa wins, 3 draws and 1 for Birmingham City.

Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read L-L-D-W-W and Birmingham City's L-D-L-L-D.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 62'Yellow card · Gabriel AgbonlahorAston Villa
  • 62'Yellow card · Gabriel AgbonlahorAston Villa
  • 62'Yellow card · Ryan ShottonBirmingham City
  • 68'Goal · Gabriel AgbonlahorAston Villa · 1-0
  • 90+3'Yellow card · Paul RobinsonBirmingham City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Aston Villa 6, draws 3, Birmingham City 1.

Team news

Aston Villa line-up (4-3-3)

Sam Johnstone, Alan Hutton, James Chester, Nathan Baker, Neil Taylor, Henri Lansbury, Mile Jedinak, Leandro Bacuna, Albert Adomah, Scott Hogan, Jack Grealish

Birmingham City line-up (4-2-3-1)

Tomasz Kuszczak, Emilio Nsue, Ryan Shotton, Paul Robinson, Jonathan Grounds, Maikel Kieftenbeld, Craig Gardner, Ché Adams, David Davis, Jacques Maghoma, Lukas Jutkiewicz