2017/2018
| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aston Villa | 15 | W1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 9/15 | 9-5 |
| Barnsley | 15 | D1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6/15 | 3-5 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
Aggregated from 3 finished meetings (2016-09-27 – 2017-09-16) in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-16 | Barnsley | 0-3 | Aston Villa |
| 2017-02-14 | Aston Villa | 1-3 | Barnsley |
| 2016-09-27 | Barnsley | 1-1 | Aston Villa |
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aston Villa | 4 | 46 | 83 | 30 | WWWDL | 2 | +2 |
| Barnsley | 22 | 46 | 41 | -24 | DLLWL | 22 | 0 |
Form rank = league-wide rank by points from the last 5 league games; "Form vs pos" > 0 means over-performing the table.
Figures computed from the GioScore results database · data cutoff: kickoff 2018-01-20
On paper the standings were lopsided — Aston Villa 4th with 83 points, Barnsley 22nd with 41, 42 apart. Per game in the league, Aston Villa were scoring 1.57 and conceding 0.91, Barnsley 1.04 and 1.57, against a competition average of 1.28 goals per team per game.
The match was played at Villa Park in Birmingham (capacity 42,640). On the scoreboard, Aston Villa led 3-1 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 3-1 the final score.
