Aston Villa 1-1 Manchester City: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 22 December 2007

Result

Aston Villa 1-1 Manchester City

Premier League · Saturday 22 December 2007, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Aston Villa 1-1 Manchester City: match report

Aston Villa drew with Manchester City 1-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 22 December 2007. The half-time score was 1-1.

Rolando Bianchi opened the scoring in the 11th minute. Aston Villa's goal came from John Carew (14'). Manchester City scored through Rolando Bianchi (11').

Discipline: Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards; Manchester City received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 8th on 28 points from 17 and Manchester City 4th on 33 points from 17. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 6th with 60 points, and Manchester City 9th with 55.

Aston Villa lined up in a 4-4-2 and Manchester City in a 4-2-3-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Aston Villa win, 1 draw and 8 for Manchester City.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 11'Goal · Rolando BianchiManchester City · 0-1
  • 14'Goal · John CarewAston Villa · 1-1
  • 39'Yellow card · Dietmar HamannManchester City
  • 55'Yellow card · Gareth BarryAston Villa
  • 56'Yellow card · Gelson FernandesManchester City
  • 63'Yellow card · Michael BallManchester City
  • 69'Yellow card · Darius VassellManchester City
  • 80'Yellow card · Nigel Reo-CokerAston Villa

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Aston Villa 1, draws 1, Manchester City 8.

Team news

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

Scott Carson, Wilfred Bouma, Martin Laursen, Ashley Young, Zat Knight, Gareth Barry, Nigel Reo-Coker, John Carew, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Olof Mellberg, Shaun Maloney

Manchester City line-up (4-2-3-1)

Joe Hart, Micah Richards, Michael Ball, Nedum Onuoha, Richard Dunne, Martin Petrov, Dietmar Hamann, Gelson Fernandes, Rolando Bianchi, Darius Vassell, Elano