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Championship | Gameweek 38
Mar 16, 2019 at 3pm UK
 
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3-0

El-Ghazi (28'), McGinn (44'), Adomah (88')
FT(HT: 2-0)

Grealish inspires Villa to fourth successive victory as McGinn strikes again

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Middlesbrough have now lost their last three matches.

Jack Grealish was again the central figure in Aston Villa's comfortable 3-0 home victory over Middlesbrough to lift Dean Smith's side back into the Championship's play-off places.

Since his return from a lengthy lay-off through injury, Grealish has inspired a Villa revival of four straight wins, which has lifted the club into sixth place, a point behind Boro who have now lost three successive games.

Villa's latest victory came on the back of first-half goals from Anwar El Ghazi and the confident John McGinn, who has prospered from playing alongside Grealish, with substitute Albert Adomah notching Villa's third two minutes from time.

Boro's failure to score against Villa was hardly a surprise as they have now failed to find the net in any of their last six games against the Midlands club.

Villa made their intentions known in the first minute when McGinn, twice on
target in the midweek 3-1 win at Nottingham Forest, headed over the bar from
a swirling left-wing cross from El Ghazi.

But it proved to be a rare goal threat early on as the visitors defended solidly, notably through Daniel Ayala and Ryan Shotton.

It was a piece of sublime skill that eventually opened up the Boro rearguard in the 28th-minute as an astute pass from the industrious McGinn picked out El Ghazi who finished with a low left-foot shot past Darren Randolph.

Seven minutes before the break Boro should have been on level terms, only for George Friend to rifle a shot straight at Jed Steer.

It proved to be an expensive miss as in the 44th minute Villa doubled their lead, sparked by Grealish being flattened by John Obi Mikel.

The loose ball then ran into the path of McGinn to fire home a raking left-foot shot for his third goal in two games.

Although Middlesbrough managed to conjure more attacks in the second half the dominance of Tyrone Mings and Kortney Hause at the centre of the Villa rearguard effectively kept them at bay.

In the closing stages, Adomah was on hand to tap home an easy third goal in the 88th minute after Darren Randolph had parried a Neil Taylor shot, with Boro's latest defeat raising questions as to whether they can maintain a top-six spot.

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