Aston Villa 1-4 Stoke City: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 23 March 2014
Result
Aston Villa 1-4 Stoke City
Premier League · Sunday 23 March 2014, 16:00 UTC · half-time 1-3
Aston Villa 1-4 Stoke City: match report
Aston Villa lost to Stoke City 1-4 in the Premier League on Sunday 23 March 2014. The half-time score was 1-3.
Christian Benteke opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Aston Villa's goal came from Christian Benteke (5'). Stoke City scored through Peter Odemwingie (22'), Peter Crouch (26'), S. Nzonzi (42') and Geoff Cameron (90').
Discipline: Aston Villa received 5 yellow cards; Stoke City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 10th on 33 points from 29 and Stoke City 12th on 32 points from 30. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 16th with 37 points, and Stoke City 9th with 46.
Aston Villa lined up in a 4-3-3 and Stoke City in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Aston Villa wins, 6 draws and 2 for Stoke City.
Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read W-W-L-D-L and Stoke City's W-D-W-L-D.
Key events
- 5'Goal · Christian Benteke
- 8'Yellow card · Karim El Ahmadi
- 22'Goal · Peter Odemwingie
- 24'Yellow card · Wilson Palacios
- 26'Goal · Peter Crouch
- 42'Goal · S. Nzonzi
- 52'Yellow card · Christian Benteke
- 72'Yellow card · Marc Albrighton
- 81'Yellow card · L. Bacuna
- 83'Yellow card · Nathan Baker
- 90'Goal · Geoff Cameron
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa expected line-up (4-3-3)
Brad Guzan, Nathan Baker, Ron Vlaar, Ryan Bertrand, Fabian Delph, Leandro Bacuna, Andreas Weimann, Ashley Westwood, Karim El Ahmadi, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Christian Benteke
Stoke City expected line-up (4-2-3-1)
Asmir Begović, Ryan Shawcross, Erik Pieters, Geoff Cameron, Marc Wilson, Glenn Whelan, Steven Nzonzi, Peter Crouch, Jonathan Walters, Marko Arnautovic, Charlie Adam