Southampton 2-0 Aston Villa: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 22 February 2020
Result
Southampton 2-0 Aston Villa
Premier League · Saturday 22 February 2020, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Southampton 2-0 Aston Villa: match report
Southampton beat Aston Villa 2-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 22 February 2020. The half-time score was 1-0.
Ingo Goetze opened the scoring in the 8th minute. Southampton's goals came from Ingo Goetze (8') and Stuart Armstrong (90+5'). Aston Villa did not score.
Discipline: Southampton received 1 yellow card; Aston Villa received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Southampton were 12th on 31 points from 26 and Aston Villa 17th on 25 points from 26. Southampton went on to finish that season 11th with 52 points, and Aston Villa 17th with 35.
Southampton lined up in a 4-4-2 and Aston Villa in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Stuart Armstrong of Southampton (8.3), ahead of Moussa Djenepo (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Southampton wins, 4 draws and 1 for Aston Villa.
Going into the match Southampton's last five read L-L-W-L-W and Aston Villa's L-L-W-D-L.
Key events
- 8'Goal · Ingo Goetze
- 45+4'Yellow card · E. Konsa
- 72'Yellow card · Pepe Reina
- 90'Yellow card · F. Guilbert
- 90+5'Goal · Stuart Armstrong
- 90+6'Yellow card · Stuart Armstrong
- 90+6'Yellow card · Jack Grealish
Head-to-head
Team news
Southampton line-up (4-4-2)
Alex Simon McCarthy, James Ward-Prowse, Jack Stephens, Jan Bednarek, Ryan Bertrand, Stuart Armstrong, Will Smallbone, Pierre-Emile Højbjerg, Moussa Djenepo, Shane Long, Danny Ings
Aston Villa line-up (3-4-2-1)
Pepe Reina, Ezri Konsa, Tyrone Mings, Kortney Hause, Frédéric Guilbert, Marvelous Nakamba, Douglas Luiz, Matt Targett, Anwar El Ghazi, Jack Grealish, Ally Samatta