Aston Villa 0-2 Swansea City: result and report
Premier League · Monday 2 January 2012
Result
Aston Villa 0-2 Swansea City
Premier League · Monday 2 January 2012, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Aston Villa 0-2 Swansea City: match report
Aston Villa were beaten by Swansea City 0-2 in the Premier League on Monday 2 January 2012. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Nathan Dyer opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Aston Villa did not score. Swansea City scored through Nathan Dyer (5') and Wayne Routledge (47').
Discipline: Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards; Swansea City received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 10th on 23 points from 19 and Swansea City 15th on 20 points from 19. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 16th with 38 points, and Swansea City 11th with 47.
Aston Villa lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Swansea City in a 4-3-3.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Aston Villa wins, 1 draw and 0 for Swansea City.
Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read W-D-L-L-W and Swansea City's D-D-L-D-W.
Key events
- 5'Goal · Nathan Dyer
- 18'Yellow card · Steven Caulker
- 34'Yellow card · K. Agustien
- 40'Yellow card · James Collins
- 47'Goal · Wayne Routledge
- 58'Yellow card · Andrea Orlandi
- 59'Yellow card · Richard Dunne
- 90+1'Yellow card · Michel Vorm
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa line-up (4-4-1-1)
Brad Guzan, Stephen Warnock, Richard Dunne, James Collins, Ciaran Clark, Stephen Ireland, Charles N'Zogbia, Stiliyan Petrov, Darren Bent, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Carlos Cuéllar
Swansea City line-up (4-3-3)
Michel Vorm, Ashley Williams, Steven Caulker, Àngel Rangel, Andrea Orlandi, Nathan Dyer, Wayne Routledge, Kemy Agustien, Danny Graham, Neil Taylor, Leon Britton