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:
7 min
A long spell of Chelsea possession ends with a ball up to Abraham, who holds it up and lays off for Kovacic to shoot. His effort flies over the bar, but Newcastle are already starting to sit off and invite pressure.
5 min
Newcastle deal with the Chelsea corner, even as it comes out to James on the edge of the box. His fierce shot is blocked and there’s no way through the sea of black and white shirts.
4 min
Chance! Chilwell makes a strong tackle in midfield, and the ball is slipped through to Werner. He takes a good first touch before driving a low, left-footed shot towards the far corner. Darlow is across to get a crucial touch on it, tipping it beyond the post.
3 min
This is a positive start from the hosts. They keep up the pressure with a couple of corners, the second of which is dropped by Mendy. Chelsea eventually hack clear, though.
2 min
Newcastle win another free kick, which they play out to Lewis. His ball into the box picks out Fernandez, whose downward header is put behind by Chilwell.
1 min
Joelinton looks determined and full of energy as he drives forward with the ball straight after kick-off. He’s brought down by the backtracking Zouma, but Chelsea deal with the set piece.
Kick-off
Chelsea, in their bright, eye-catching third kit, get us underway!
Chelsea boss Frank Lampard speaks about his defence: "Thiago travelled back from South America and with his age I have to look after him. Some people would say they’d like to have five centre-backs of our quality, but to deal with it week to week and get them the game time, probably one or two of them don’t like me very much.”
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