Aston Villa 3

Chester 13', Dunkley (OG) 63', Bjarnason 90+3'

Wigan Athletic 2

Powell 41', Connolly 55'

11th August 2018 | 1500 | Championship | Villa Park

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Timeline

  • 13′ – GOAL: Chester (McGinn) [1-0]
  • 41′ – GOAL: Powell [1-1]
  • 50′ – YELLOW CARD: McManaman
  • 55′ – GOAL: Connolly (Powell) [1-2]
  • 58′ – YELLOW CARD: Morsy
  • 63′ – GOAL: Dunkley (OG) [2-2]
  • 65′ – SUB: Tuanzebe off, Adomah on
  • 66′ – YELLOW CARD: Dunkley
  • 68′ – SUB: Powell off, Windass on
  • 74′ – SUB: Green off, Hepburn-Murphy on
  • 81′ – SUB: Grigg off, Vaughan on
  • 86′ – YELLOW CARD: Grealish
  • 87′ – SUB: Kodjia off, Hourihane on
  • 90+2′ – YELLOW CARD: Evans
  • 90+3′ – GOAL: Bjarnason (Hourihane) [3-2]

Formations

Teamsheets

Starting

Aston Villa
1Ørjan Nyland
4Axel Tuanzebe (Adomah 65')
5James Chester
15Mile Jedinak
21Alan Hutton
20Birkir Bjarnason
7John McGinn
19Andre Green (Hepburn-Murphy 74')
27Ahmed Elmohamady
10Jack Grealish
26Jonathan Kodjia (Hourihane 87')
Wigan Athletic
1Christian Walton
3Antonee Robinson
5Sam Morsy
9Will Grigg (Vaughan 81')
12Reece James
15Callum McManaman
17Michael Jacobs
21Cédric Kipré
22Chey Dunkley
25Nick Powell (Windass 68')
26Callum Connolly

Subs

Aston Villa
23André Moreira
24Tommy Elphick
3Neil Taylor
6Glenn Whelan
14Conor Hourihane
37Albert Adomah
29Rushian Hepburn-Murphy
Wigan Athletic
23Jamie Jones
7Jamie Walker
8James Vaughan
10Josh Windass
14Alex Bruce
18Gary Roberts
36Lee Evans

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Injury Updates

Mile Jedinak is fit again, Keinan Davis and Scott Hogan are “battling to make the game“.

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