Aston Villa 1-2 Swansea City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 24 October 2015
Result
Aston Villa 1-2 Swansea City
Premier League · Saturday 24 October 2015, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Aston Villa 1-2 Swansea City: match report
Aston Villa were beaten by Swansea City 1-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 24 October 2015. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Jordan Ayew opened the scoring in the 62nd minute. Aston Villa's goal came from Jordan Ayew (62'). Swansea City scored through Dejan Joksimovic (68') and André Ayew (87').
Discipline: Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards; Swansea City received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 19th on 5 points from 9 and Swansea City 13th on 10 points from 9. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 20th with 19 points, and Swansea City 11th with 50.
Aston Villa lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Swansea City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Idrissa Gueye of Aston Villa (7.8), ahead of Jonjo Shelvey (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Aston Villa win, 3 draws and 4 for Swansea City.
Key events
- 29'Yellow card · Kyle Naughton
- 31'Yellow card · Micah Richards
- 31'Yellow card · Ashley Williams
- 62'Goal · Jordan Ayew
- 68'Goal · Dejan Joksimovic
- 73'Yellow card · Dejan Joksimovic
- 77'Yellow card · Kieran Richardson
- 87'Goal · André Ayew
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa line-up (4-2-3-1)
Brad Guzan, Alan Hutton, Micah Richards, Joleon Lescott, Kieran Richardson, Leandro Bacuna, Idrissa Gueye, Jordan Ayew, Jack Grealish, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Rudy Gestede
Swansea City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Lukasz Fabianski, Kyle Naughton, Federico Fernández, Ashley Williams, Neil Taylor, Sung-yueng Ki, Jonjo Shelvey, André Ayew, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Jefferson Montero, Bafétimbi Gomis