Aston Villa 2-3 Leeds United: result and report
Championship · Sunday 23 December 2018
Result
Aston Villa 2-3 Leeds United
Championship · Sunday 23 December 2018, 13:30 UTC · half-time 2-0
Aston Villa 2-3 Leeds United: match report
Aston Villa were beaten by Leeds United 2-3 in the Championship on Sunday 23 December 2018. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Tammy Abraham opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Tammy Abraham (5') and Conor Hourihane (17'). Leeds United scored through Jack Clarke (56'), Pontus Jansson (61') and Kemar Roofe (90+5').
Discipline: Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards; Leeds United received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 11th on 33 points from 22 and Leeds United 2nd on 45 points from 22. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 5th with 82 points, and Leeds United 3rd with 86.
Aston Villa lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Leeds United in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Pontus Jansson of Leeds United (8.5), ahead of Pablo Hernández (8.3).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Aston Villa wins, 5 draws and 3 for Leeds United.
Key events
- 5'Goal · Tammy Abraham
- 7'Yellow card · Yannick Bolasie
- 17'Goal · Conor Hourihane
- 56'Goal · Jack Clarke
- 61'Goal · Pontus Jansson
- 69'Yellow card · M. Klich
- 81'Yellow card · John McGinn
- 87'Yellow card · Ezgjan Alioski
- 90+5'Goal · Kemar Roofe
- 90+6'Yellow card · Kemar Roofe
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa line-up (4-1-4-1)
Ørjan Nyland, Ahmed Eissa El Mohamady Abdel Fattah, James Bree, James Chester, Alan Hutton, Glenn Whelan, Jonathan Kodjia, John McGinn, C. Hourihane, Yannick Bolasie, Tammy Abraham
Leeds United line-up (4-2-3-1)
Bailey Peacock-Farrell, Luke Ayling, Pontus Jansson, Kalvin Phillips, Leif Davis, Mateusz Klich, Adam Forshaw, Ezgjan Alioski, Pablo Hernández, Jack Harrison, Kemar Roofe