Norwich City 2-1 Aston Villa: result and report
Championship · Tuesday 23 October 2018
Result
Norwich City 2-1 Aston Villa
Championship · Tuesday 23 October 2018, 18:45 UTC · half-time 0-1
Norwich City 2-1 Aston Villa: match report
Norwich City beat Aston Villa 2-1 in the Championship on Tuesday 23 October 2018. It was 0-1 at half-time.
James Chester opened the scoring in the 19th minute. Norwich City's goals came from Jordan Rhodes (54') and Jordan Rhodes (73'). Aston Villa scored through James Chester (19').
Discipline: Norwich City received 2 yellow cards; Aston Villa received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Norwich City were 6th on 21 points from 13 and Aston Villa 13th on 18 points from 13. Norwich City went on to finish that season 1st with 94 points, and Aston Villa 5th with 82.
Norwich City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Aston Villa in a 4-4-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to J. Rhodes of Norwich City (8.4), ahead of Moritz Leitner (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Norwich City wins, 1 draw and 6 for Aston Villa.
Key events
- 5'Yellow card · Christoph Zimmermann
- 19'Goal · James Chester
- 45'Yellow card · Neil Taylor
- 54'Goal · Jordan Rhodes
- 73'Goal · Jordan Rhodes
- 87'Yellow card · Tom Trybull
Head-to-head
Team news
Norwich City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Tim Krul, Max Aarons, Christoph Zimmermann, Timm Klose, Jamal Lewis, Tom Trybull, Moritz Leitner, Emiliano Buendía, Marco Stiepermann, Todd Cantwell, J. Rhodes
Aston Villa line-up (4-4-1-1)
Ørjan Nyland, Alan Hutton, Axel Tuanzebe, James Chester, Neil Taylor, Ahmed Eissa El Mohamady Abdel Fattah, C. Hourihane, Glenn Whelan, Albert Adomah, Jack Grealish, Tammy Abraham