Aston Villa 2-2 Stoke City: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 1 March 2009

Result

Aston Villa 2-2 Stoke City

Premier League · Sunday 1 March 2009, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Aston Villa 2-2 Stoke City: match report

Aston Villa drew with Stoke City 2-2 in the Premier League on Sunday 1 March 2009. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Stiliyan Petrov opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Stiliyan Petrov (45') and John Carew (78'). Stoke City scored through Ryan Shawcross (87') and Glenn Whelan (90').

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

Going into the game Aston Villa were 4th on 51 points from 26 and Stoke City 19th on 25 points from 26. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 6th with 62 points, and Stoke City 12th with 45.

Aston Villa lined up in a 4-4-2 and Stoke City in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Aston Villa wins, 0 draws and 1 for Stoke City.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 29'Yellow card · Ryan ShawcrossStoke City
  • 34'Yellow card · Ashley YoungAston Villa
  • 45'Goal · Stiliyan PetrovAston Villa · 1-0
  • 78'Goal · John CarewAston Villa · 2-0
  • 87'Goal · Ryan ShawcrossStoke City · 2-1
  • 90'Goal · Glenn WhelanStoke City · 2-2

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Aston Villa 0, draws 0, Stoke City 1.

Team news

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

Luke Young, Ashley Young, Curtis Davies, Zat Knight, Gareth Barry, James Milner, Stiliyan Petrov, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Emile Heskey, Brad Friedel, Carlos Cuéllar

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

Thomas Sorensen, Andy Griffin, Abdoulaye Faye, Danny Higginbotham, Ibrahima Sonko, Salif Diao, Amdy Faye, Mamady Sidibé, Dave Kitson, Rory Delap