Aston Villa 0-4 Tottenham Hotspur: result and report

Premier League · Wednesday 26 December 2012

Result

Aston Villa 0-4 Tottenham Hotspur

Premier League · Wednesday 26 December 2012, 17:30 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Aston Villa 0-4 Tottenham Hotspur: match report

Aston Villa were beaten by Tottenham Hotspur 0-4 in the Premier League on Wednesday 26 December 2012. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Jermain Defoe opened the scoring in the 58th minute. Aston Villa did not score. Tottenham Hotspur scored through Jermain Defoe (58'), Gareth Bale (61'), Gareth Bale (73') and Gareth Bale (84').

Discipline: Aston Villa received 1 yellow card; Tottenham Hotspur received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 16th on 18 points from 18 and Tottenham Hotspur 6th on 30 points from 18. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 16th with 41 points, and Tottenham Hotspur 5th with 72.

Aston Villa lined up in a 3-5-2 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, 3 draws and 5 for Tottenham Hotspur.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 58'Goal · Jermain DefoeTottenham Hotspur · 0-1
  • 61'Goal · Gareth BaleTottenham Hotspur · 0-2
  • 69'Yellow card · Fabian DelphAston Villa
  • 73'Goal · Gareth BaleTottenham Hotspur · 0-3
  • 84'Goal · Gareth BaleTottenham Hotspur · 0-4

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Aston Villa 2, draws 3, Tottenham Hotspur 5.

Team news

Aston Villa line-up (3-5-2)

Ciaran Clark, Matthew Lowton, Ashley Westwood, Fabian Delph, Karim El Ahmadi, Christian Benteke, Brad Guzan, Joe Bennett, Chris Herd, Brett Holman, Nathan Baker

Tottenham Hotspur line-up (4-4-2)

Hugo Lloris, Jan Vertonghen, Kyle Naughton, Aaron Lennon, Mousa Dembélé, Sandro, Emmanuel Adebayor, Jermain Defoe, William Gallas, Kyle Walker, Gareth Bale