Aston Villa 2-1 Leicester City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 4 January 2025
Result
Aston Villa 2-1 Leicester City
Premier League · Saturday 4 January 2025, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Aston Villa 2-1 Leicester City: match report
Aston Villa beat Leicester City 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 4 January 2025. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Ross Barkley opened the scoring in the 58th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Ross Barkley (58') and Leon Bailey (76'). Leicester City scored through Stephy Mavididi (63').
Discipline: Aston Villa received no yellow cards; Leicester City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 9th on 29 points from 19 and Leicester City 19th on 14 points from 19. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 6th with 66 points, and Leicester City 18th with 25.
Aston Villa lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Leicester City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Ross Barkley of Aston Villa (8.1), ahead of Matty Cash (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Aston Villa wins, 2 draws and 4 for Leicester City.
Key events
- 58'Goal · Ross Barkley
- 63'Goal · Stephy Mavididi
- 76'Goal · Leon Bailey
- 90+5'Yellow card · Boubakary Soumaré
Head-to-head
Team news
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Aston Villa line-up (4-2-3-1)
Emiliano Martínez, Matty Cash, Ezri Konsa, Tyrone Mings, Lucas Digne, Boubacar Kamara, Ross Barkley, Leon Bailey, Youri Tielemans, John McGinn, Ollie Watkins
Leicester City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Jakub Stolarczyk, James Justin, Conor Coady, Jannik Vestergaard, Luke Jonathan Thomas, Harry Winks, Boubakary Soumaré, Jordan Ayew, Bilal El Khannouss, Stephy Alvaro Mavididi, Jamie Vardy