Aston Villa 1-0 Manchester City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 22 January 2011
Result
Aston Villa 1-0 Manchester City
Premier League · Saturday 22 January 2011, 17:30 UTC · half-time 1-0
Aston Villa 1-0 Manchester City: match report
Aston Villa beat Manchester City 1-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 22 January 2011. It was 1-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from Darren Bent of Aston Villa in the 18th minute.
Discipline: Aston Villa received 1 yellow card; Manchester City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 17th on 22 points from 22 and Manchester City 3rd on 45 points from 23. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 9th with 48 points, and Manchester City 3rd with 71.
Aston Villa lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Manchester City in a 4-5-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Aston Villa wins, 2 draws and 6 for Manchester City.
Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read D-L-D-L-L and Manchester City's W-D-W-W-W.
Key events
- 18'Goal · Darren Bent
- 25'Yellow card · Ciaran Clark
- 69'Yellow card · Aleksandar Kolarov
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa line-up (4-2-3-1)
Richard Dunne, Ashley Young, Ciaran Clark, James Collins, Stewart Downing, Marc Albrighton, Stiliyan Petrov, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Darren Bent, Brad Friedel, Carlos Cuéllar
Manchester City expected line-up (4-5-1)
Wayne Bridge, Nigel de Jong, Carlos Alberto Tevez, Gareth Barry, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Kolo Touré, Micah Richards