Aston Villa 2-0 Chelsea: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 2 September 2007
Result
Aston Villa 2-0 Chelsea
Premier League · Sunday 2 September 2007, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Aston Villa 2-0 Chelsea: match report
Aston Villa beat Chelsea 2-0 in the Premier League on Sunday 2 September 2007. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Zat Knight opened the scoring in the 47th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Zat Knight (47') and Gabriel Agbonlahor (88'). Chelsea did not score.
Discipline: Aston Villa received 4 yellow cards; Chelsea received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 14th on 4 points from 3 and Chelsea 4th on 10 points from 4. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 6th with 60 points, and Chelsea 3rd with 83.
Aston Villa lined up in a 4-3-3 and Chelsea in a 4-3-3.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Aston Villa wins, 4 draws and 4 for Chelsea.
Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read W-D-L and Chelsea's W-D-W-W.
Key events
- 47'Goal · Zat Knight
- 56'Yellow card · Nigel Reo-Coker
- 66'Yellow card · Gareth Barry
- 68'Yellow card · Gabriel Agbonlahor
- 70'Yellow card · Didier Drogba
- 71'Yellow card · John Carew
- 88'Goal · Gabriel Agbonlahor
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa line-up (4-3-3)
Scott Carson, Wilfred Bouma, Martin Laursen, Ashley Young, Zat Knight, Gareth Barry, Nigel Reo-Coker, Luke Moore, John Carew, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Olof Mellberg
Chelsea line-up (4-3-3)
Petr Čech, Ashley Cole, John Terry, Alex, Juliano Haus Belletti, Michael Essien, John Mikel Obi, Florent Malouda, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Didier Drogba, Claude Makélélé