Aston Villa 3-2 Norwich City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 5 November 2011
Result
Aston Villa 3-2 Norwich City
Premier League · Saturday 5 November 2011, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Aston Villa 3-2 Norwich City: match report
Aston Villa beat Norwich City 3-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 5 November 2011. The half-time score was 1-1.
Alberto Suárez opened the scoring in the 25th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Darren Bent (30'), Gabriel Agbonlahor (48') and Darren Bent (62'). Norwich City scored through Alberto Suárez (25') and Steve Morison (77').
Discipline: Aston Villa received 1 yellow card; Norwich City received 5 yellow cards.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 9th on 12 points from 10 and Norwich City 8th on 13 points from 10. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 16th with 38 points, and Norwich City 12th with 47.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Aston Villa win, 1 draw and 0 for Norwich City.
Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read D-L-L-W-D and Norwich City's D-D-W-L-W.
Key events
- 25'Goal · Alberto Suárez
- 30'Goal · Darren Bent
- 34'Yellow card · Wesley Hoolahan
- 34'Yellow card · Charles N'Zogbia
- 45'Yellow card · A. Crofts
- 45+2'Yellow card · Leon Barnett
- 48'Goal · Gabriel Agbonlahor
- 62'Goal · Darren Bent
- 75'Yellow card · Alberto Suárez
- 77'Goal · Steve Morison
- 90'Yellow card · Grant Holt
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa line-up (4-3-3)
Shay Given, Alan Hutton, Stephen Warnock, Richard Dunne, James Collins, Charles N'Zogbia, Stiliyan Petrov, Chris Herd, Darren Bent, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Emile Heskey