Aston Villa 0-1 Manchester City: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 12 February 2012

Result

Aston Villa 0-1 Manchester City

Premier League · Sunday 12 February 2012, 16:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Aston Villa 0-1 Manchester City: match report

Aston Villa were beaten by Manchester City 0-1 in the Premier League on Sunday 12 February 2012. It was 0-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Joleon Lescott of Manchester City in the 63rd minute.

Discipline: Aston Villa received 3 yellow cards; Manchester City received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 15th on 28 points from 24 and Manchester City 2nd on 57 points from 24. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 16th with 38 points, and Manchester City 1st with 89.

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 3 Aston Villa wins, 2 draws and 5 for Manchester City.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 62'Yellow card · Stiliyan PetrovAston Villa
  • 63'Goal · Joleon LescottManchester City · 0-1
  • 68'Yellow card · Richard DunneAston Villa
  • 88'Yellow card · Charles N'ZogbiaAston Villa

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Aston Villa 3, draws 2, Manchester City 5.

Team news

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

Shay Given, Alan Hutton, Richard Dunne, James Collins, Marc Albrighton, Stiliyan Petrov, Gary Gardner, Darren Bent, Emile Heskey, R. Keane, Carlos Cuéllar

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

Joe Hart, Stefan Savić, Micah Richards, Joleon Lescott, David Silva, Gareth Barry, Samir Nasri, Edin Džeko, Sergio Agüero, Aleksandar Kolarov