Aston Villa 2-0 Crystal Palace: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 12 July 2020

Result

Aston Villa 2-0 Crystal Palace

Premier League · Sunday 12 July 2020, 13:15 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Aston Villa 2-0 Crystal Palace: match report

Aston Villa won against Crystal Palace 2-0 in the Premier League on Sunday 12 July 2020. The half-time score was 1-0.

Mahmoud Trezeguet opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Mahmoud Trezeguet (45+4') and Mahmoud Trezeguet (59'). Crystal Palace did not score.

Discipline: Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards; Crystal Palace received 4 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 19th on 27 points from 34 and Crystal Palace 14th on 42 points from 34. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 17th with 35 points, and Crystal Palace 14th with 43.

Aston Villa lined up in a 4-3-3 and Crystal Palace in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Pepe Reina of Aston Villa (8.2), level with Mahmoud Trezeguet (8.2).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Aston Villa wins, 2 draws and 5 for Crystal Palace.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 27'Yellow card · T. MingsAston Villa
  • 27'Yellow card · Mamadou SakhoCrystal Palace
  • 27'Yellow card · Wilfried ZahaCrystal Palace
  • 45+4'Goal · Mahmoud TrezeguetAston Villa · 1-0
  • 54'Yellow card · Cheikhou KouyatéCrystal Palace
  • 59'Goal · Mahmoud TrezeguetAston Villa · 2-0
  • 67'Yellow card · Luka MilivojevicCrystal Palace
  • 90+1'Yellow card · Douglas LuizAston Villa
  • 90+6'Red card · Christian BentekeCrystal Palace

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Aston Villa 2, draws 2, Crystal Palace 5.

Team news

Aston Villa line-up (4-3-3)

Pepe Reina, Ahmed Eissa El Mohamady Abdel Fattah, Ezri Konsa, Tyrone Mings, Neil Taylor, John McGinn, Douglas Luiz, C. Hourihane, Mahmoud Trezeguet, Ally Samatta, Jack Grealish

Crystal Palace line-up (4-1-4-1)

Vicente Guaita, Joel Ward, Scott Dann, Mamadou Sakho, Patrick van Aanholt, Luka Milivojevic, Wilfried Zaha, James McArthur, Cheikhou Kouyaté, Jordan Ayew, Christian Benteke