Aston Villa vs Brighton LIVE: Result and reaction from Premier League fixture today
Villa will move into the top four in the Premier League if they can secure a win
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Your support makes all the difference.Aston Villa host Brighton in their first game back after the international break, with Dean Smith’s side looking to continue their excellent start to the campaign.
Over the break it was one of their stars in Jack Grealish who was making all the headlines, shining with England and quickly becoming a favourite of the national team’s fans.
Domestically, Villa have won five of their seven games so far and a win will take them level with Leicester City, who went into the break top of the table.
Brighton have struggled to find an end product to go with their at-times excellent build-up play and have just one win from eight games so far, 16th in the table at the start of play. Follow the end of Newcastle vs Chelsea and the build-up to the game at Villa Park below:
45+1 min
Lascelles earlier injury problem seems to have reared its head again. He might have to come off at half-time.
44 min
Newcastle have a couple of forays forward, neither of which come to anything. There might be a hint of complacency starting to creep into Chelsea’s game.
40 min
Ziyech is fouled around 30 yards out and tries to catch Newcastle out with a quick free kick. It doesn’t come off, and Darlow claims. But Chelsea are soon back on the attack, with Kovacic driving down the right flank. Hayden brings him down and goes into the book, but another Ziyech free kick is collected by Darlow.
38 min
Newcastle will be relieved to see that Lascelles can carry on.
37 min
Lascelles appears to have injured himself making that challenge. The physio is on to take a look.
36 min
Werner is suddenly racing forward on the left, making his way into the box before Lascelles makes an important tackle. Ziyech then drills a shot off target.
35 min
Chance! Abraham plays a terrible pass straight to the feet of Joelinton, who breaks forward and picks out Saint-Maximin, the only player who looks a threat for the hosts. He cuts inside, driving a shot at goal but seeing his effort blocked crucially by Kante.
34 min
It really feels like a matter of time until Chelsea double their lead. This has been an incredibly passive, inhibited performance from Newcastle, who look incapable of keeping the ball for longer than a few seconds. But they are only a goal behind and the idea will be to stay in the game for as long as possible.
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