Aston Villa 0-1 Sunderland: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 22 March 2008
Result
Aston Villa 0-1 Sunderland
Premier League · Saturday 22 March 2008, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Aston Villa 0-1 Sunderland: match report
Aston Villa were beaten by Sunderland 0-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 22 March 2008. It was 0-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from Michael Chopra of Sunderland in the 83rd minute.
Discipline: Aston Villa received no yellow cards; Sunderland received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 7th on 49 points from 30 and Sunderland 17th on 27 points from 30. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 6th with 60 points, and Sunderland 15th with 39.
Aston Villa lined up in a 4-3-3 and Sunderland in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Aston Villa wins, 5 draws and 1 for Sunderland.
Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read L-D-D-W-W and Sunderland's L-L-D-L-W.
Key events
- 34'Yellow card · Phil Bardsley
- 57'Yellow card · R. O'Donovan
- 83'Goal · Michael Chopra
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa line-up (4-3-3)
Scott Carson, Wilfred Bouma, Martin Laursen, Ashley Young, Zat Knight, Gareth Barry, Nigel Reo-Coker, Craig Gardner, John Carew, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Shaun Maloney
Sunderland line-up (4-4-2)
Craig Gordon, Nyron Nosworthy, Kieran Richardson, Danny Collins, Phil Bardsley, Jonny Evans, Carlos Edwards, Dean Whitehead, Andy Reid, Daryl Murphy, Roy O'Donovan