Norwich City 1-0 Aston Villa: result and report
Championship · Tuesday 13 December 2016
Result
Norwich City 1-0 Aston Villa
Championship · Tuesday 13 December 2016, 19:45 UTC · half-time 0-0
Norwich City 1-0 Aston Villa: match report
Norwich City beat Aston Villa 1-0 in the Championship on Tuesday 13 December 2016. It was 0-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from Nélson Oliveira of Norwich City in the 62nd minute.
Discipline: Norwich City received 1 yellow card; Aston Villa received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Norwich City were 8th on 30 points from 20 and Aston Villa 11th on 28 points from 20. Norwich City went on to finish that season 8th with 70 points, and Aston Villa 13th with 62.
Norwich City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Aston Villa in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Ivo Pinto of Norwich City (8.1), ahead of J. Amavi (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Norwich City wins, 2 draws and 6 for Aston Villa.
Going into the match Norwich City's last five read L-W-L-L-L and Aston Villa's W-L-W-D-W.
Key events
- 26'Yellow card · Robbie Brady
- 62'Goal · Nélson Oliveira
Head-to-head
Team news
Norwich City line-up (4-2-3-1)
John Ruddy, Ivo Pinto, Ryan Bennett, Sebastien Bassong, Martin Olsson, Youssouf Chafiq Mulumbu Ngangu, Graham Dorrans, Jacob Murphy, Jonathan Howson, Robbie Brady, Nélson Oliveira
Aston Villa line-up (4-3-3)
Pierluigi Gollini, Alan Hutton, Tommy Elphick, James Chester, J. Amavi, Ashley Westwood, Mile Jedinak, Jack Grealish, Jordan Ayew, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Jonathan Kodjia