Manchester City 4-1 Aston Villa: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 15 October 2011
Result
Manchester City 4-1 Aston Villa
Premier League · Saturday 15 October 2011, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Manchester City 4-1 Aston Villa: match report
Manchester City defeated Aston Villa 4-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 15 October 2011. The half-time score was 1-0.
Mario Balotelli opened the scoring in the 28th minute. Manchester City's goals came from Mario Balotelli (28'), Adam Johnson (47'), Vincent Kompany (52') and James Milner (71'). Aston Villa scored through Stephen Warnock (65').
Discipline: Manchester City received 1 yellow card; Aston Villa received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Manchester City were 2nd on 19 points from 7 and Aston Villa 7th on 11 points from 7. Manchester City went on to finish that season 1st with 89 points, and Aston Villa 16th with 38.
Manchester City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Aston Villa in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Manchester City wins, 2 draws and 3 for Aston Villa.
Going into the match Manchester City's last five read W-W-D-W-W and Aston Villa's W-D-D-D-D.
Key events
- 28'Goal · Mario Balotelli
- 47'Goal · Adam Johnson
- 52'Goal · Vincent Kompany
- 59'Yellow card · Gareth Barry
- 65'Goal · Stephen Warnock
- 71'Goal · James Milner
- 80'Yellow card · Barry Bannan
Head-to-head
Team news
Manchester City expected line-up (4-2-3-1)
Micah Richards, Jérôme Boateng, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Adam Johnson, James Milner, David Silva, Germán Gonzalo Cabrera
Aston Villa line-up (4-2-3-1)
Shay Given, Alan Hutton, Stephen Warnock, Richard Dunne, Ciaran Clark, Stephen Ireland, Stiliyan Petrov, Darren Bent, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Emile Heskey, Fabian Delph