Sunderland 2-2 Aston Villa: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 29 October 2011
Result
Sunderland 2-2 Aston Villa
Premier League · Saturday 29 October 2011, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Sunderland 2-2 Aston Villa: match report
Sunderland drew with Aston Villa 2-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 29 October 2011. The half-time score was 1-1.
Stiliyan Petrov opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Sunderland's goals came from Connor Wickham (38') and Stéphane Sessègnon (89'). Aston Villa scored through Stiliyan Petrov (20') and Richard Dunne (85').
Discipline: Sunderland received 1 yellow card; Aston Villa received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Sunderland were 14th on 9 points from 9 and Aston Villa 11th on 11 points from 9. Sunderland went on to finish that season 13th with 45 points, and Aston Villa 16th with 38.
Sunderland 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 3 Sunderland wins, 2 draws and 5 for Aston Villa.
Going into the match Sunderland's last five read W-L-D-L-W and Aston Villa's L-L-W-D-D.
Key events
- 20'Goal · Stiliyan Petrov
- 38'Goal · Connor Wickham
- 67'Yellow card · Phil Bardsley
- 73'Yellow card · Gabriel Agbonlahor
- 85'Goal · Richard Dunne
- 87'Yellow card · Stephen Warnock
- 88'Yellow card · Richard Dunne
- 89'Goal · Stéphane Sessègnon
Head-to-head
Team news
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Sunderland line-up (4-4-2)
Simon Mignolet, Michael Turner, Wes Brown, Kieran Richardson, John O'Shea, Sebastian Larsson, Jack Colback, Stéphane Sessègnon, Connor Wickham, Nicklas Bendtner, David Vaughan
Aston Villa line-up (4-4-2)
Shay Given, Alan Hutton, Stephen Warnock, Richard Dunne, James Collins, Charles N'Zogbia, Stiliyan Petrov, Chris Herd, Darren Bent, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Emile Heskey