Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Aston Villa: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 2 October 2010

Result

Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Aston Villa

Premier League · Saturday 2 October 2010, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Aston Villa: match report

Tottenham Hotspur beat Aston Villa 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 2 October 2010. The half-time score was 1-1.

Marc Albrighton opened the scoring in the 16th minute. Tottenham Hotspur's goals came from Rafael van der Vaart (45') and Rafael van der Vaart (75'). Aston Villa scored through Marc Albrighton (16').

Discipline: Tottenham Hotspur received 1 yellow card; Aston Villa received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Tottenham Hotspur were 8th on 8 points from 6 and Aston Villa 5th on 10 points from 6. Tottenham Hotspur went on to finish that season 5th with 62 points, and Aston Villa 9th with 48.

Tottenham Hotspur lined up in a 4-4-2 and Aston Villa in a 4-5-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Tottenham Hotspur wins, 6 draws and 2 for Aston Villa.

Going into the match Tottenham Hotspur's last five read L-W-D-L-W and Aston Villa's W-D-L-W-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 16'Goal · Marc AlbrightonAston Villa · 0-1
  • 29'Yellow card · A. YoungAston Villa
  • 45'Goal · Rafael van der VaartTottenham Hotspur · 1-1
  • 45'Yellow card · Marc AlbrightonAston Villa
  • 75'Goal · Rafael van der VaartTottenham Hotspur · 2-1
  • 85'Yellow card · James CollinsAston Villa
  • 90'Yellow card · Gareth BaleTottenham Hotspur

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Tottenham Hotspur 2, draws 6, Aston Villa 2.

Team news

Tottenham Hotspur line-up (4-4-2)

Heurelho Gomes, Alan Hutton, Sebastien Bassong, Benoît Assou-Ekotto, Tom Huddlestone, Jermaine Jenas, Rafael van der Vaart, Luka Modrić, Gareth Bale, Roman Pavlyuchenko, Peter Crouch

Aston Villa line-up (4-5-1)

Luke Young, Stephen Warnock, Richard Dunne, Ashley Young, James Collins, Stewart Downing, Marc Albrighton, Stiliyan Petrov, Nigel Reo-Coker, Emile Heskey, Brad Friedel