Championship · ENG · Round 25

Middlesbrough
0 - 1 Full time
Aston Villa

Riverside Stadium

Lineups

Middlesbrough4-4-2
DR25Randolph
RS5Shotton
DA4Ayala
BG6Gibson
GF3Friend
SD19Downing
JH16Howson
GL7Leadbitter
MB10↓57'Braithwaite
BA9↓79'Assombalonga
RG39↓69'Gestede
SJ1Johnstone
AE27El Mohamady
JC5Chester
TE24Elphick
AH21Hutton
MJ15Jedinak
RS7⚽Snodgrass
JO18↓37'Onomah
CH14Hourihane
AA37↓90'Adomah
SH9↓75'Hogan
Aston Villa4-1-4-1

Middlesbrough substitutes

37 Adama Traore 7.3 ↑57'
11 Patrick Bamford 5.7 ↑69'
18 Ashley Fletcher 6.0 ↑79'
17 Adlene Guédioura
22 Cyrus Christie
1 Dimitrios Konstantopoulos
30 Lewis Baker

Coach: Tony Pulis

Aston Villa substitutes

10 Jack Grealish 6.4 ↑37'
29 Rushian Hepburn-Murphy 6.1 ↑75'
20 Birkir Bjarnason ↑90'
36 Callum O'Hare
32 Jake Doyle-Hayes
16 James Bree
13 Jed Steer

Coach: Steve Bruce · Unavailable: Andre Green (injury), Christopher Samba (injury), Gabriel Agbonlahor (injury), Henri Lansbury (injury), John Terry (injury), Jonathan Kodjia (injury), Jordan Lyden (injury)

Match events

15'Grant Leadbitter
24'Conor Hourihane
30'Joshua Onomah
37'↑ Jack Grealish ↓ Joshua Onomah⇄
45'Tommy Elphick
Second half
57'↑ Adama Traore ↓ Martin Braithwaite⇄
62'James Chester
67'George Friend
69'↑ Patrick Bamford ↓ Rudy Gestede⇄
75'↑ Rushian Hepburn-Murphy ↓ Scott Hogan⇄
75'Robert Snodgrass assist: Albert Adomah 0 - 1⚽
79'↑ Ashley Fletcher ↓ Britt Assombalonga⇄
90'↑ Birkir Bjarnason ↓ Albert Adomah⇄
90'Stewart Downing

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Match details

CompetitionChampionship
Kick-off (UTC)Saturday, 30 December 2017, 15:00 UTC — shown in your local time at the top of this page
StatusFinished

Line-ups, match events and the head-to-head record for this fixture are shown on this page where the data feed publishes them.

Head to head

2Middlesbrough wins1Draws1Aston Villa wins

3 past meetings on record. Biggest Aston Villa win: Aston Villa 0–2 Middlesbrough (2017).

19 Sep 2017Aston Villa 0 - 2 MiddlesbroughEFL Cup
12 Sep 2017Aston Villa 0 - 0 MiddlesbroughChampionship
30 Jul 2016Aston Villa 1 - 3 MiddlesbroughClub Friendlies