Aston Villa 2-1 Tottenham Hotspur: result and report

Aston Villa 2-1 Tottenham Hotspur

Premier League · Tuesday 1 January 2008, 17:20 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Aston Villa beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 in the Premier League on Tuesday 1 January 2008. The half-time score was 1-0.

Olof Mellberg opened the scoring in the 41st minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Olof Mellberg (41') and Martin Laursen (85'). Tottenham Hotspur scored through Jermain Defoe (79').

Discipline: Aston Villa received no yellow cards; Tottenham Hotspur received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 8th on 33 points from 20 and Tottenham Hotspur 12th on 24 points from 20. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 6th with 60 points, and Tottenham Hotspur 11th with 46.

Aston Villa lined up in a 4-5-1 and Tottenham Hotspur in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Aston Villa wins, 4 draws and 4 for Tottenham Hotspur.

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