Southampton vs Aston Villa

12 April 2025 · Premier League · 2024/25 · Referee Thomas Bramall

Full time 0 – 3

Half-time: 0–0

Ollie Watkins 73’
Donyell Malen 79’
John McGinn 90+4’

Match summary

Aston Villa won comfortably, 3-0 away at Southampton. It was goalless at half-time.

Ollie Watkins put Aston Villa ahead in the 73rd minute, set up by Youri Tielemans, Donyell Malen made it 0-2 in the 79th minute, set up by Morgan Rogers, and John McGinn made it 0-3 in stoppage time.

The chances backed that up: Aston Villa created 3.35 expected goals (xG) from 25 shots to Southampton's 0.41 from 7. Marco Asensio had a penalty saved for Aston Villa. Marco Asensio had a penalty saved for Aston Villa.

Match stats

7 Shots 25

2 Shots on Target 10

2 Corners 14

3 Yellow Cards 1

0 Red Cards 0

0.41 xG 3.00

0.41 Non-penalty xG 1.37

1 Deep Completions 13

Key events

Southampton Aston Villa

Kick-off

Half-time0-0

73’

Ollie Watkins
Assist: Youri Tielemans

0-1

79’

Donyell Malen
Assist: Morgan Rogers

0-2

90+4’

John McGinn

0-3

Full-time0-3

Bookings

Card times are not on file for this game, so they are listed without a minute.

Southampton

Jan Bednarek
Taylor Harwood-Bellis
Mateus Fernandes

Aston Villa

John McGinn

How the chances added up

Running total of expected goals (xG) for each side through the match. xG rates each chance by how often similar shots are scored. A goal is marked where it was scored.

Southampton 0.41 xGAston Villa 3.35 xG Goal

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Shot map

Every shot and where it was taken from.

Aston Villa attacking Southampton attacking

Size shows xG Goal On target Off target or blocked

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Player stats

Player	Pos	Min	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Aaron Ramsdale	GK	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Jan Bednarek	DEF	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Taylor Harwood-Bellis	DEF	90	1	0.02	0.00	0
Jack Stephens	DEF	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Kyle Walker-Peters	MID	90	0	0.00	0.27	2
Ryan Manning	MID	83	0	0.00	0.02	1
Chimuanya Ugochukwu	MID	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Mateus Fernandes	MID	90	1	0.01	0.00	0
Cameron Archer	FWD	62	1	0.26	0.03	1
Paul Onuachu	FWD	47	1	0.02	0.00	0
Kamaldeen Sulemana	FWD	62	2	0.08	0.00	0
Tyler Dibling	Sub	43	0	0.00	0.00	0
William Smallbone	Sub	28	1	0.02	0.00	0
Ross Stewart	Sub	28	0	0.00	0.00	0
Yukinari Sugawara	Sub	7	0	0.00	0.00	0
Jay Robinson	Sub	1	0	0.00	0.02	1

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Emiliano Martinez	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Matthew Cash	DEF	86			2	0.05	0.00	0
Tyrone Mings	DEF	90			2	0.02	0.02	1
Ezri Konsa Ngoyo	DEF	90			1	0.11	0.13	2
Ian Maatsen	DEF	90			3	0.12	0.00	0
Youri Tielemans	MID	90		1	4	0.21	0.40	3
Amadou Onana	MID	90			1	0.01	0.08	2
Morgan Rogers	MID	86		1	0	0.00	0.27	1
Marco Asensio	MID	90			4	1.59	0.14	2
Jacob Ramsey	MID	67			1	0.05	0.04	2
Marcus Rashford	FWD	67			4	0.13	0.10	3
Donyell Malen	Sub	23	1		1	0.27	0.04	1
Ollie Watkins	Sub	23	1		1	0.35	0.00	0
Andrés García	Sub	4			0	0.00	0.00	0
John McGinn	Sub	4	1		1	0.45	0.00	0
Boubacar Kamara	Sub	1			0	0.00	0.00	0

Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.

Before kick-off

Southampton win 16% Avg odds 6.10

Draw 21% Avg odds 4.55

Aston Villa win 63% Avg odds 1.52

Chances implied by the average closing odds, with the bookmaker margin removed.

Form going into the game

Southampton L L L D L

Aston Villa W L W W W

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Previous and next meeting

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Shots, expected goals and player data from Understat. Results and odds from football-data.co.uk. Referee data before 2025/26 from the Transfermarkt datasets project.