Aston Villa 2-2 Arsenal: result and report

Aston Villa 2-2 Arsenal

Premier League · Friday 26 December 2008, 17:15 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Aston Villa drew with Arsenal 2-2 in the Premier League on Friday 26 December 2008. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Denilson opened the scoring in the 40th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Gareth Barry (65') and Zat Knight (90'). Arsenal scored through Denilson (40') and Abou Diaby (49').

Discipline: Aston Villa received 4 yellow cards; Arsenal received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 4th on 34 points from 18 and Arsenal 5th on 31 points from 18. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 6th with 62 points, and Arsenal 4th with 72.

Aston Villa lined up in a 4-5-1 and Arsenal in a 4-1-4-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Aston Villa win, 3 draws and 6 for Arsenal.

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