Aston Villa 2-0 Wigan Athletic: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 1 October 2011
Result
Aston Villa 2-0 Wigan Athletic
Premier League · Saturday 1 October 2011, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Aston Villa 2-0 Wigan Athletic: match report
Aston Villa defeated Wigan Athletic 2-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 1 October 2011. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Gabriel Agbonlahor opened the scoring in the 36th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Gabriel Agbonlahor (36') and Darren Bent (62'). Wigan Athletic did not score.
Discipline: Aston Villa received no yellow cards; Wigan Athletic received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 8th on 8 points from 6 and Wigan Athletic 15th on 5 points from 6. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 16th with 38 points, and Wigan Athletic 15th with 43.
Aston Villa lined up in a 4-3-3 and Wigan Athletic in a 4-5-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Aston Villa wins, 4 draws and 2 for Wigan Athletic.
Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read D-D-D-D-W and Wigan Athletic's L-L-L-W-D.
Key events
- 19'Yellow card · Gary Caldwell
- 36'Goal · Gabriel Agbonlahor
- 62'Goal · Darren Bent
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa line-up (4-3-3)
Shay Given, Alan Hutton, Stephen Warnock, Richard Dunne, James Collins, Stephen Ireland, Stiliyan Petrov, Barry Bannan, Darren Bent, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Fabian Delph
Wigan Athletic line-up (4-5-1)
Ali Al-Habsi, Emmerson Orlando Boyce, Patrick van Aanholt, Ronnie Stam, James McCarthy, Victor Moses, Mohamed Diamé, Franco Di Santo, G. Caldwell, Ben Watson, Maynor Alexis Figueroa Róchez