Aston Villa 1-3 Manchester City: result and report
Premier League · Wednesday 29 November 2006
Result
Aston Villa 1-3 Manchester City
Premier League · Wednesday 29 November 2006, 18:45 UTC · half-time 0-2
Aston Villa 1-3 Manchester City: match report
Aston Villa were beaten by Manchester City 1-3 in the Premier League on Wednesday 29 November 2006. It was 0-2 at half-time.
Darius Vassell opened the scoring in the 18th minute. Aston Villa's goal came from Gavin McCann (66'). Manchester City scored through Darius Vassell (18'), Joey Barton (32') and Sylvain Distin (75').
Discipline: Aston Villa received 1 yellow card; Manchester City received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 5th on 23 points from 14 and Manchester City 14th on 16 points from 14. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 11th with 50 points, and Manchester City 14th with 42.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Aston Villa wins, 2 draws and 6 for Manchester City.
Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read D-D-W-W-L and Manchester City's L-W-D-L-W.
Key events
- 18'Goal · Darius Vassell
- 32'Goal · Joey Barton
- 66'Goal · Gavin McCann
- 75'Goal · Sylvain Distin
- 82'Yellow card · Gareth Barry
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa line-up
Stuart Taylor, Wilfred Bouma, Liam Ridgewell, Gareth Barry, Gavin McCann, Stiliyan Petrov, Juan Ángel Arango, Milan Baros, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Olof Mellberg, Gary Cahill
Manchester City expected line-up
Nicky Weaver, Richard Dunne, Micah Richards, Sylvain Distin, Ben Thatcher, Trevor Sinclair, Claudio Reyna, Darius Vassell, Joey Barton, Paul Dickov