Postpublished at 16:53
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Summary
Villa starting XI: Guzan, Hutton, Richards, Lescott, Amavi, Crespo, Westwood, Gueye, Veretout, Gestede, Sinclair.
Stoke starting XI: Butland, Johnson, Cameron, Wollscheid, Pieters, Adam, Whelan, Walters, Krkic, Arnautovic, Diouf.
Villa 18th in table, Stoke 17th
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FULL-TIMEpublished at 16:52
Aston Villa 0-1 Stoke City
Boos inside Villa Park tell us that is the full-time whistle and another defeat for Aston Villa. Stoke claim a second successive win and move away from the relegation zone.
Postpublished at 93 mins
A Villa free-kick comes to nothing, a first home win of the season still missing. Fans are leaving Villa Park at quite a pace.
Get Involvedpublished at 16:49 British Summer Time 3 October 2015
#bbcfootball
Postpublished at 89 mins
Five minutes to be added on, five minutes between Stoke and a second win of the season.
Postpublished at 86 mins
I might have been bit hardh on Mame Biram Diouf, he's going on to a stretcher. He's sitting up, mind. Meanwhile, Jordan Ayew has hit the side-netting from a tight angle for Villa.
Postpublished at 83 mins
Image source, PAMame Biram Diouf has spent a lot of time of the turf today and he's down again. Joselu is preparing to come on as Villa fans in the stand look very disgruntled.
Postpublished at 78 mins
Has it been a bit muddled for Villa today? Tim Sherwood is looking a touch stressed on the touchline, perhaps because his tactics have not worked. His fist-half wing-back system left his forwards isolated, while a back four in the second half left a huge hole for the Stoke goal.
SUBSTITUTIONpublished at 75 mins
A final throw of the dice for Villa? Carles Gil is on for Ashley Westwood.
Postpublished at 73 mins
Very, very quiet inside Villa Park, the home team providing their fans little to cheer about. Stoke have plenty of men behind the ball, snuffing out an Alan Hutton cross.
SUBSTITUTIONpublished at 69 mins
Substitution for Stoke, with goalscorer Arnautovic making way for Marko van Ginkel. A defensive move.
Postpublished at 66 mins
No inspiration from Villa, no sign of searching for that equaliser. As I write that, Rudy Gestede gets free down the right and shoots from outside the box, but it's straight at Jack Butland.
How Stoke scoredpublished at 63 mins
Aston Villa 0-1 Stoke
Marko Arnautovic cuts through the Villa defence to give Tim Sherwood plenty to think about. You can't see the Villa defenders on this, and to be honest they weren't anywhere close to the Stoke forward.
Image source, OptaPostpublished at 16:18 British Summer Time 3 October 2015
Postpublished at 61 mins
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot rings out inside Villa Park, probably because of England's crunch Rugby World Cup game tonight. Villa could do with some meaty forward play right now.
Postpublished at 16:15 British Summer Time 3 October 2015
SUBSTITUTIONpublished at 57 mins
Goals mean changes. Stoke remove Bojan from Ibrahim Afellay, Villa bring on Jordan Ayew for Scott Sinclair.
Close!published at 56 mins
Immediately, Villa should be level, Micah Richards heading wide at the back post when completely unmarked. This game has sparked into life.
Aston Villa 0-1 Stoke Citypublished at 16:11 British Summer Time 3 October 2015
Marko Arnautovic (55 mins)
Image source, Rex FeaturesStoke have the lead, Aston Villa ripped apart through the simplest of moves. Marko Arnautovic has the freedom of Villa Park on the edge of the penalty area, in the gap between the two centre-halves. He's slid through, waltzes through and finishes off the post.
Postpublished at 53 mins
Are the Villa fans just starting to turn? The home side easily defend a corner, the fans urge them upfield, to no avail. Micah Richards almost gets himself into a tangle too. Second half currently without the urgency of the first.