Stoke City 2-1 Aston Villa: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 21 December 2013
Result
Stoke City 2-1 Aston Villa
Premier League · Saturday 21 December 2013, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Stoke City 2-1 Aston Villa: match report
Stoke City defeated Aston Villa 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 21 December 2013. The half-time score was 0-0.
Charlie Adam opened the scoring in the 50th minute. Stoke City's goals came from Charlie Adam (50') and Peter Crouch (70'). Aston Villa scored through Libor Kozák (66').
Discipline: Stoke City received 1 yellow card; Aston Villa received 5 yellow cards.
Going into the game Stoke City were 14th on 18 points from 16 and Aston Villa 13th on 18 points from 16. Stoke City went on to finish that season 9th with 46 points, and Aston Villa 16th with 37.
Stoke City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Aston Villa in a 4-3-3.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Stoke City wins, 6 draws and 2 for Aston Villa.
Going into the match Stoke City's last five read D-W-D-L-W and Aston Villa's L-L-D-D-D.
Key events
- 21'Yellow card · Marc Albrighton
- 26'Yellow card · M. Wilson
- 50'Goal · Charlie Adam
- 50'Yellow card · Ciaran Clark
- 60'Yellow card · Fabian Delph
- 61'Yellow card · Chris Herd
- 66'Goal · Libor Kozák
- 70'Goal · Peter Crouch
- 85'Yellow card · Ashley Westwood
Head-to-head
Team news
Stoke City line-up (4-4-2)
Asmir Begović, Geoff Cameron, Ryan Shawcross, Marc Wilson, Erik Pieters, Glenn Whelan, Steven Nzonzi, Jonathan Walters, Marko Arnautovic, Oussama Assaidi, Peter Crouch
Aston Villa line-up (4-3-3)
Brad Guzan, Matthew Lowton, Ciaran Clark, Nathan Baker, Chris Herd, Aleksandăr Tonev, Ashley Westwood, Fabian Delph, Marc Albrighton, Libor Kozák, Andreas Weimann