Aston Villa 3-1 Manchester City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 28 September 2013
Result
Aston Villa 3-1 Manchester City
Premier League · Saturday 28 September 2013, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Aston Villa 3-1 Manchester City: match report
Aston Villa defeated Manchester City 3-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 28 September 2013. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Yaya Touré opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Karim El Ahmadi (51'), L. Bacuna (73') and Andreas Weimann (75'). Manchester City scored through Yaya Touré (45') and Edin Dzeko (56').
Discipline: Aston Villa received 1 yellow card; Manchester City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 9th on 7 points from 5 and Manchester City 4th on 10 points from 5. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 16th with 37 points, and Manchester City 1st with 84.
Aston Villa lined up in a 3-5-2 and Manchester City in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Aston Villa wins, 1 draw and 7 for Manchester City.
Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read W-D-L-L-W and Manchester City's W-D-W-L-W.
Key events
- 45'Goal · Yaya Touré
- 51'Goal · Karim El Ahmadi
- 54'Yellow card · Samir Nasri
- 56'Goal · Edin Dzeko
- 60'Yellow card · Yacouba Sylla
- 73'Goal · L. Bacuna
- 75'Goal · Andreas Weimann
Head-to-head
Team news
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Aston Villa line-up (3-5-2)
Brad Guzan, Ron Vlaar, Nathan Baker, Ciaran Clark, Leandro Bacuna, Fabian Delph, Yacouba Sylla, Karim El Ahmadi, Antonio Luna, Andreas Weimann, Libor Kozák
Manchester City line-up (4-4-2)
Joe Hart, Pablo Zabaleta, Vincent Kompany, Matija Nastasić, Aleksandar Kolarov, James Milner, Fernandinho, Yaya Touré, Samir Nasri, Edin Džeko, Álvaro Negredo