Aston Villa 1-0 Manchester City: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 22 January 2011

Result

Aston Villa 1-0 Manchester City

Premier League · Saturday 22 January 2011, 17:30 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Aston Villa 1-0 Manchester City: match report

Aston Villa beat Manchester City 1-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 22 January 2011. It was 1-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Darren Bent of Aston Villa in the 18th minute.

Discipline: Aston Villa received 1 yellow card; Manchester City received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 17th on 22 points from 22 and Manchester City 3rd on 45 points from 23. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 9th with 48 points, and Manchester City 3rd with 71.

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

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-L-D-L-L and Manchester City's W-D-W-W-W.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 18'Goal · Darren BentAston Villa · 1-0
  • 25'Yellow card · Ciaran ClarkAston Villa
  • 69'Yellow card · Aleksandar KolarovManchester City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Aston Villa 2, draws 2, Manchester City 6.

Team news

Aston Villa line-up (4-2-3-1)

Richard Dunne, Ashley Young, Ciaran Clark, James Collins, Stewart Downing, Marc Albrighton, Stiliyan Petrov, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Darren Bent, Brad Friedel, Carlos Cuéllar

Manchester City expected line-up (4-4-2)

Shay Given, Micah Richards, Germán Gonzalo Cabrera, Joleon Lescott, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Adam Johnson, James Milner, David Silva, Emmanuel Adebayor, P. Vieira