Liverpool 2-2 Aston Villa: result and report
Premier League · Monday 21 January 2008
Result
Liverpool 2-2 Aston Villa
Premier League · Monday 21 January 2008, 20:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Liverpool 2-2 Aston Villa: match report
Liverpool drew with Aston Villa 2-2 in the Premier League on Monday 21 January 2008. The half-time score was 1-0.
Yossi Benayoun opened the scoring in the 18th minute. Liverpool's goals came from Yossi Benayoun (18') and Peter Crouch (88'). Aston Villa scored through Marlon Harewood (69') and an own goal by Fábio Aurélio (71').
Discipline: Liverpool received 2 yellow cards; Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Liverpool were 6th on 39 points from 21 and Aston Villa 7th on 39 points from 22. Liverpool went on to finish that season 4th with 76 points, and Aston Villa 6th with 60.
Liverpool lined up in a 4-4-2 and Aston Villa in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Liverpool wins, 4 draws and 0 for Aston Villa.
Going into the match Liverpool's last five read D-D-D-W-W and Aston Villa's W-W-W-D-D.
Key events
- 18'Goal · Yossi Benayoun
- 68'Yellow card · Arbeloa
- 69'Goal · Marlon Harewood
- 70'Yellow card · J. Mascherano
- 71'Own goal · Fábio Aurélio
- 73'Yellow card · Martin Laursen
- 87'Yellow card · A. Young
- 88'Goal · Peter Crouch
Head-to-head
Team news
Liverpool line-up (4-4-2)
Pepe Reina, Fábio Aurélio, Álvaro Arbeloa, Javier Mascherano, Jamie Carragher, Yossi Benayoun, Fernando Torres, Dirk Kuyt, Sami Hyypia, Harry Kewell, Steven Gerrard
Aston Villa line-up (4-4-2)
Stuart Taylor, Wilfred Bouma, Martin Laursen, Ashley Young, Curtis Davies, Stiliyan Petrov, Nigel Reo-Coker, Craig Gardner, John Carew, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Olof Mellberg