Aston Villa 3-2 Wigan Athletic: result and report

Aston Villa 3-2 Wigan Athletic

Championship · Saturday 11 August 2018, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Aston Villa defeated Wigan Athletic 3-2 in the Championship on Saturday 11 August 2018. It was 1-1 at half-time.

James Chester opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from James Chester (13'), an own goal by Chey Dunkley (63') and Birkir Bjarnason (90+4'). Wigan Athletic scored through N. Powell (41') and Callum Connolly (55').

Discipline: Aston Villa received 1 yellow card; Wigan Athletic received 4 yellow cards.

Aston Villa went on to finish that season 5th with 82 points, and Wigan Athletic 18th with 52.

Aston Villa lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Wigan Athletic in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to John McGinn of Aston Villa (8.0), level with Nick Powell (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Aston Villa wins, 3 draws and 2 for Wigan Athletic.