Aston Villa Too Good For Ipswich Town Today

Myles Kenlock, Jordan Spence and Bersant Celina dropped to the bench for this one and with David McGoldrick expected to be out for a month due to that severe gash to his groin, McCarthy was forced into bringing Freddie Sears into the side. Town again lined up with their 4-2-3-1 system which is his prefered formation away from home.

Back into the Town team came Jonas Knudsen, who returned after his one-match ban; along with Dominic Iorfa and Grant Ward.

Aston Villa started on the front foot and were dominated proceedings in the early stages but slowly but surely, Ipswich came more and more into the game and began to attack with much more vigour and commitment.

In fact, the longer the game went on the more likely it seemed that Town might score and they had the ball in the back of the net through Joe Garner, after Martyn Waghorn had fired in a dangerous dipping corner only for it to be ruled out by referee Tony Harrington, after the Villa keeper had fumbled earlier.

But then, largely against the run of play, Villa got their noses in front. Albert Adomah hit a left footed shot into the centre of the goal, to the dismay of Bartosz Bialkowski in goal who was exposed by his defence again. Adomah was assisted by Glenn Whelan with a headed pass following a corner for the home side.

This was cruel on Town but they were not overawed by going a goal down and continued to play in much the same way as they had, before Aston Villa scored.

The second half was much like the first in that it was an open attacking game and once again Ipswich were playing the ball around with a fair degree of confidence.

That confidence was shattered however when Villa made it two after 66 minutes. And it was Albert Adomah again, who placed the ball right footed shot from the centre of the box into the bottom left corner.

He was assisted by Robert Snodgrass, after Dominic Iorfa – as the last line of defence lost possession and then slipped, which left the Villa striker in oceans of space and with only Bialkowski to beat he duly obliged.

This was a defeat that many of us probably expected but for large portions of this game, Town were playing pretty well but the second goal by Villa seemed to knock the stuffing out of Ipswich.

Even the late the introductions of Bersant Celina, Emyr Huws and Teddy Bishop, failed to inspire the Blues and Town did little in the closing stages to seriously threaten the Villa goal.

Derby County beat Middlesbrough 0-3 this afternoon and they are our next opponents on Tuesday and few will expect that we will get much from our travels there either.

Aston Villa: Johnstone, Taylor, Chester (captain), Whelan, Snodgrass, Hourihane, Jedinak (Samba 26), Onomah, Hutton, Adomah, Davis.


Substitutes: Steer, De Laet, Lansbury, Grealish, Elmohamady and O`Hare.

Ipswich Town: Iorfa, Chambers (c), Webster, Knudsen, Skuse, Connolly, Ward, Sears, Waghorn, Garner.


Substitutes: Gerken, Bishop, Celina, Spence, Bru and Kenlock

Referee: Tony Harrington

Frank Weston – Editor of Vital Ipswich


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