Aston Villa 0-2 Wigan Athletic: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 29 December 2012
Result
Aston Villa 0-2 Wigan Athletic
Premier League · Saturday 29 December 2012, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Aston Villa 0-2 Wigan Athletic: match report
Aston Villa were beaten by Wigan Athletic 0-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 29 December 2012. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Ramis opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Aston Villa did not score. Wigan Athletic scored through Ramis (3'), Emmerson Boyce (52') and Arouna Koné (56').
Discipline: Aston Villa received 3 yellow cards; Wigan Athletic received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 16th on 18 points from 19 and Wigan Athletic 18th on 16 points from 19. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 16th with 41 points, and Wigan Athletic 18th with 36.
Aston Villa lined up in a 5-3-2 and Wigan Athletic in a 3-4-3.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Aston Villa wins, 3 draws and 2 for Wigan Athletic.
Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read L-L-W-D-D and Wigan Athletic's L-L-D-D-L.
Key events
- 3'Goal · Ramis
- 37'Yellow card · Emmerson Boyce
- 43'Yellow card · Shaun Maloney
- 52'Goal · Emmerson Boyce
- 55'Yellow card · Barry Bannan
- 56'Goal · Arouna Koné
- 80'Yellow card · Matthew Lowton
- 90'Yellow card · Andreas Weimann
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa line-up (5-3-2)
Ciaran Clark, Matthew Lowton, Christian Benteke, Brad Guzan, Joe Bennett, Eric Lichaj, Stephen Ireland, Barry Bannan, Andreas Weimann, Chris Herd, Brett Holman
Wigan Athletic line-up (3-4-3)
Ali Al-Habsi, Iván Ramis, G. Caldwell, Emmerson Orlando Boyce, Jean Beausejour, Shaun Maloney, James McCarthy, Arouna Koné, Franco Di Santo, David Jones, Maynor Alexis Figueroa Róchez