Aston Villa 2-2 Sunderland: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 29 August 2015

Result

Aston Villa 2-2 Sunderland

Premier League · Saturday 29 August 2015, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Aston Villa 2-2 Sunderland: match report

Aston Villa drew with Sunderland 2-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 29 August 2015. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Yann M'Vila opened the scoring in the 8th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Scott Sinclair (11', penalty) and Scott Sinclair (41'). Sunderland scored through Yann M'Vila (8') and J. Lens (52').

Discipline: Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards; Sunderland received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 12th on 3 points from 3 and Sunderland 18th on 1 point from 3. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 20th with 19 points, and Sunderland 17th with 37.

Aston Villa lined up in a 4-3-1-2 and Sunderland in a 4-2-3-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Aston Villa wins, 4 draws and 2 for Sunderland.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 8'Goal · Yann M'VilaSunderland · 0-1
  • 11'Penalty goal · Scott SinclairAston Villa · 1-1
  • 37'Yellow card · Ciaran ClarkAston Villa
  • 41'Goal · Scott SinclairAston Villa · 2-1
  • 52'Goal · J. LensSunderland · 2-2
  • 79'Yellow card · Carles GilAston Villa
  • 90'Yellow card · Costel PantilimonSunderland

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Aston Villa 4, draws 4, Sunderland 2.

Team news

Aston Villa expected line-up (4-3-1-2)

Brad Guzan, Leandro Bacuna, Ciaran Clark, Jores Okore, J. Amavi, Carlos Sánchez, Ashley Westwood, Idrissa Gueye, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Christian Benteke, Fabian Delph

Sunderland expected line-up (4-2-3-1)

Costel Pantilimon, Patrick van Aanholt, John O'Shea, Billy Jones, Sebastián Coates, Jermain Defoe, Connor Wickham, Sebastian Larsson, Lee Cattermole, Jordi Gómez, Danny Graham