Championship

JACK PROVES TO BE ACE FOR VILLA

by
The LeaguePaper Team
15 April 2018

By Jeremy Bailey

SMASH AND GRAB: Lewis Grabban scores the winner for Villa
PICTURE: Action Images

IF Aston Villa are destined to bid for Premier League promotion in the play-offs, then so be it – but Steve Bruce hasn’t yet given up hope of clinching a top-two spot.
Bruce, who led both Birmingham and Hull to Championship play-off final glory, in 2002 and 2016 respectively, saw Lewis Grabban strike to mathematically confirm his Villa side’s place in the end-of-season shake-up.
The Bournemouth loanee nodded home his fifth goal in claret and blue to account for mid-ta...

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