Aston Villa made it through to the second round of the Carabao Cup thanks to a hard-fought 1-0 win over Yeovil at Huish Park.
The home side put in a valiant effort throughout and were unlucky not to go ahead just before the break when they had a goal disallowed for a soft foul on Whelan.
After the break, Yeovil were looking threatening, and they were rewarded a very soft penalty in the 60th minute when Elphick was adjudged to have been holding onto a player. This was probably, in reality, the referee’s attempt at making up for his earlier error.
The resulting penalty was a poor one and Moreira, who was making his Villa debut, saved it pretty comfortably. From then on, it was all Villa, and Grealish and Kodjia, who both came on a few minutes before the penalty, started to run the show.
The winner came in the 77th minute when Grealish played a fine ball through to Kodjia, who subsequently sent his defender for a hot dog courtesy of a neat turn, before he squared it across the goal for Hourihane to tap in.
Yeovil went searching for the equalizer, but it wasn’t to be.
Here are our player ratings for tonight’s match:
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