Aston Villa 5-2 Burnley: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 21 February 2010

Result

Aston Villa 5-2 Burnley

Premier League · Sunday 21 February 2010, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Aston Villa 5-2 Burnley: match report

Aston Villa defeated Burnley 5-2 in the Premier League on Sunday 21 February 2010. The half-time score was 1-1.

Steven Fletcher opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from A. Young (32'), Stewart Downing (56'), Stewart Downing (58'), Emile Heskey (61') and Gabriel Agbonlahor (68'). Burnley scored through Steven Fletcher (10') and Martin Paterson (90').

Discipline: Aston Villa received no yellow cards; Burnley received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 7th on 42 points from 25 and Burnley 19th on 23 points from 25. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 6th with 64 points, and Burnley 18th with 30.

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

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Aston Villa wins, 1 draw and 0 for Burnley.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Goal · Steven FletcherBurnley · 0-1
  • 32'Goal · A. YoungAston Villa · 1-1
  • 41'Yellow card · Clarke CarlisleBurnley
  • 56'Goal · Stewart DowningAston Villa · 2-1
  • 58'Goal · Stewart DowningAston Villa · 3-1
  • 61'Goal · Emile HeskeyAston Villa · 4-1
  • 68'Goal · Gabriel AgbonlahorAston Villa · 5-1
  • 74'Yellow card · Steven FletcherBurnley
  • 85'Yellow card · F. NimaniBurnley
  • 90'Goal · Martin PatersonBurnley · 5-2

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Aston Villa 0, draws 1, Burnley 0.

Team news

Aston Villa line-up (4-4-2)

Richard Dunne, Ashley Young, Stephen Warnock, James Collins, Stewart Downing, James Milner, Stiliyan Petrov, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Emile Heskey, Brad Friedel, Carlos Cuéllar

Burnley line-up (4-5-1)

Brian Jensen, Clarke Carlisle, Tyrone Mears, Leon Cort, Andre Bikey, Danny Fox, K. McDonald, Chris Eagles, Jack Cork, Steven Fletcher, David Nugent