Aston Villa 1-0 Wigan Athletic: result and report
Championship · Saturday 10 December 2016
Result
Aston Villa 1-0 Wigan Athletic
Championship · Saturday 10 December 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Aston Villa 1-0 Wigan Athletic: match report
Aston Villa defeated Wigan Athletic 1-0 in the Championship on Saturday 10 December 2016. It was 0-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from Jack Grealish of Aston Villa in the 88th minute.
Discipline: Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards; Wigan Athletic received 5 yellow cards.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 14th on 25 points from 19 and Wigan Athletic 23rd on 18 points from 19. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 13th with 62 points, and Wigan Athletic 23rd with 42.
Aston Villa lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Wigan Athletic in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Jack Grealish of Aston Villa (8.3), ahead of J. Amavi (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Aston Villa wins, 4 draws and 2 for Wigan Athletic.
Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read L-W-D-W-D and Wigan Athletic's L-W-D-L-W.
Key events
- 12'Yellow card · Luke Garbutt
- 64'Yellow card · Jordi Gómez
- 64'Yellow card · Jordi Gómez
- 79'Yellow card · David Perkins
- 83'Yellow card · Alan Hutton
- 86'Yellow card · Jack Grealish
- 88'Goal · Jack Grealish
- 90+3'Yellow card · S. MacDonald
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa line-up (4-2-3-1)
Pierluigi Gollini, Alan Hutton, Tommy Elphick, James Chester, J. Amavi, Gary Gardner, Mile Jedinak, Albert Adomah, Jack Grealish, Jordan Ayew, Jonathan Kodjia
Wigan Athletic line-up (4-1-4-1)
Jussi Jaaskelainen, Reece Burke, Craig Morgan, Jake Buxton, Stephen Warnock, Shaun MacDonald, Luke Garbutt, Max Power, David Perkins, Michael Jacobs, Y. Wildschut