Aston Villa 2-1 Sunderland: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 27 September 2008

Result

Aston Villa 2-1 Sunderland

Premier League · Saturday 27 September 2008, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

Aston Villa · Sunderland · Premier League predictions

Aston Villa 2-1 Sunderland: match report

Aston Villa beat Sunderland 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 27 September 2008. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Djibril Cissé opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Ashley Young (17') and John Carew (33'). Sunderland scored through Djibril Cissé (10').

Discipline: Aston Villa received 1 yellow card; Sunderland received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 4th on 10 points from 5 and Sunderland 8th on 7 points from 5. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 6th with 62 points, and Sunderland 16th with 36.

Aston Villa lined up in a 4-4-2 and Sunderland in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Aston Villa wins, 5 draws and 2 for Sunderland.

Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read W-W-D-L-W and Sunderland's W-D-L-W-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Goal · Djibril CisséSunderland · 0-1
  • 17'Goal · Ashley YoungAston Villa · 1-1
  • 33'Goal · John CarewAston Villa · 2-1
  • 86'Yellow card · Stiliyan PetrovAston Villa
  • 90'Yellow card · George McCartneySunderland

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Aston Villa 3, draws 5, Sunderland 2.

Team news

Aston Villa line-up (4-4-2)

Luke Young, Martin Laursen, Ashley Young, Curtis Davies, Nicky Shorey, Gareth Barry, Stiliyan Petrov, Nigel Reo-Coker, John Carew, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Brad Friedel

Sunderland line-up (4-4-2)

Craig Gordon, George McCartney, Kieran Richardson, Danny Collins, Pascal Chimbonda, Anton Ferdinand, Dean Whitehead, Steed Malbranque, Liam Miller, Djibril Cissé, El-Hadji Diouf