Southampton 1-1 Aston Villa: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 5 December 2015
Result
Southampton 1-1 Aston Villa
Premier League · Saturday 5 December 2015, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Southampton 1-1 Aston Villa: match report
Southampton drew with Aston Villa 1-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 5 December 2015. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Joleon Lescott opened the scoring in the 44th minute. Southampton's goal came from Oriol Romeu (73'). Aston Villa scored through Joleon Lescott (44').
Discipline: Southampton received 1 yellow card; Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Southampton were 10th on 20 points from 14 and Aston Villa 20th on 6 points from 14. Southampton went on to finish that season 7th with 63 points, and Aston Villa 20th with 19.
Southampton lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Aston Villa in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to James Ward-Prowse of Southampton (7.9), ahead of Cédric Soares (7.5).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Southampton wins, 4 draws and 3 for Aston Villa.
Going into the match Southampton's last five read L-L-W-W-D and Aston Villa's L-L-D-L-L.
Key events
- 30'Yellow card · James Ward-Prowse
- 44'Goal · Joleon Lescott
- 73'Goal · Oriol Romeu
- 89'Yellow card · Alan Hutton
- 90'Yellow card · Brad Guzan
Head-to-head
Team news
Southampton line-up (4-2-3-1)
Maarten Stekelenburg, Cédric Soares, José Fonte, Virgil van Dijk, Ryan Bertrand, Victor Wanyama, James Ward-Prowse, Sadio Mané, Steven Davis, Dusan Tadic, Graziano Pellè
Aston Villa expected line-up (4-3-3)
Brad Guzan, Alan Hutton, Micah Richards, Kieran Richardson, Idrissa Gueye, Jordan Veretout, Jordan Ayew, Carles Gil, Scott Sinclair