Aston Villa 3-2 Everton: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 2 May 2015
Result
Aston Villa 3-2 Everton
Premier League · Saturday 2 May 2015, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Aston Villa 3-2 Everton: match report
Aston Villa defeated Everton 3-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 2 May 2015. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Christian Benteke opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Christian Benteke (10'), Christian Benteke (45') and Tom Cleverley (64'). Everton scored through Romelu Lukaku (59', penalty) and Phil Jagielka (90+2').
Discipline: Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards; Everton received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 17th on 33 points from 34 and Everton 11th on 41 points from 34. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 16th with 39 points, and Everton 12th with 44.
Aston Villa lined up in a 4-5-1 and Everton in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Aston Villa win, 5 draws and 4 for Everton.
Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read D-W-D-L-L and Everton's W-W-D-W-D.
Key events
- 10'Goal · Christian Benteke
- 45'Goal · Christian Benteke
- 59'Penalty goal · Romelu Lukaku
- 64'Goal · Tom Cleverley
- 73'Yellow card · S. Coleman
- 84'Yellow card · Ron Vlaar
- 90+2'Goal · Phil Jagielka
- 90+3'Yellow card · Shay Given
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa expected line-up (4-5-1)
Brad Guzan, Jores Okore, Ciaran Clark, Leandro Bacuna, Alan Hutton, Fabian Delph, Tom Cleverley, Christian Benteke, Gabriel Agbonlahor
Everton expected line-up (4-4-2)
Tim Howard, Phil Jagielka, Séamus Coleman, Leighton Baines, James McCarthy, Darron Gibson, Gareth Barry, Aaron Lennon, Romelu Lukaku