Aston Villa 1-1 Manchester City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 22 December 2007
Result
Aston Villa 1-1 Manchester City
Premier League · Saturday 22 December 2007, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Aston Villa 1-1 Manchester City: match report
Aston Villa drew with Manchester City 1-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 22 December 2007. The half-time score was 1-1.
Rolando Bianchi opened the scoring in the 11th minute. Aston Villa's goal came from John Carew (14'). Manchester City scored through Rolando Bianchi (11').
Discipline: Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards; Manchester City received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 8th on 28 points from 17 and Manchester City 4th on 33 points from 17. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 6th with 60 points, and Manchester City 9th with 55.
Aston Villa lined up in a 4-4-2 and Manchester City in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Aston Villa win, 1 draw and 8 for Manchester City.
Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read D-L-L-W-W and Manchester City's W-L-D-W-D.
Key events
- 11'Goal · Rolando Bianchi
- 14'Goal · John Carew
- 39'Yellow card · Dietmar Hamann
- 55'Yellow card · Gareth Barry
- 56'Yellow card · Gelson Fernandes
- 63'Yellow card · Michael Ball
- 69'Yellow card · Darius Vassell
- 80'Yellow card · Nigel Reo-Coker
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa line-up (4-4-2)
Scott Carson, Wilfred Bouma, Martin Laursen, Ashley Young, Zat Knight, Gareth Barry, Nigel Reo-Coker, John Carew, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Olof Mellberg, Shaun Maloney
Manchester City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Joe Hart, Micah Richards, Michael Ball, Nedum Onuoha, Richard Dunne, Martin Petrov, Dietmar Hamann, Gelson Fernandes, Rolando Bianchi, Darius Vassell, Elano