Aston Villa 0-2 Wigan Athletic: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 3 May 2008
Result
Aston Villa 0-2 Wigan Athletic
Premier League · Saturday 3 May 2008, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Aston Villa 0-2 Wigan Athletic: match report
Aston Villa were beaten by Wigan Athletic 0-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 3 May 2008. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Antonio Valencia opened the scoring in the 52nd minute. Aston Villa did not score. Wigan Athletic scored through Antonio Valencia (52') and Antonio Valencia (63').
Discipline: Aston Villa received no yellow cards; Wigan Athletic received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 6th on 59 points from 36 and Wigan Athletic 14th on 37 points from 36. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 6th with 60 points, and Wigan Athletic 14th with 40.
Aston Villa lined up in a 4-4-2 and Wigan Athletic in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Aston Villa win, 2 draws and 2 for Wigan Athletic.
Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read D-W-W-W-L and Wigan Athletic's D-D-D-W-L.
Key events
- 52'Goal · Antonio Valencia
- 54'Yellow card · Michael Brown
- 63'Goal · Antonio Valencia
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa line-up (4-4-2)
Scott Carson, Wilfred Bouma, Martin Laursen, Ashley Young, Zat Knight, Gareth Barry, Stiliyan Petrov, Nigel Reo-Coker, John Carew, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Olof Mellberg
Wigan Athletic line-up (4-4-2)
Antonio Valencia, Emmerson Orlando Boyce, Titus Bramble, Wilson Palacios, Kevin Kilbane, Jason Koumas, Paul Scharner, Emile Heskey, Marcus Bent, Chris Kirkland, Michael Brown