Sunderland 1-1 Aston Villa: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 15 December 2007
Result
Sunderland 1-1 Aston Villa
Premier League · Saturday 15 December 2007, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Sunderland 1-1 Aston Villa: match report
Sunderland drew with Aston Villa 1-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 15 December 2007. The half-time score was 1-0.
Danny Higginbotham opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Sunderland's goal came from Danny Higginbotham (10'). Aston Villa scored through Shaun Maloney (73').
Discipline: Sunderland received 2 yellow cards; Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Sunderland were 18th on 13 points from 16 and Aston Villa 8th on 27 points from 16. Sunderland went on to finish that season 15th with 39 points, and Aston Villa 6th with 60.
Sunderland lined up in a 4-4-2 and Aston Villa in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Sunderland win, 4 draws and 3 for Aston Villa.
Going into the match Sunderland's last five read L-W-L-D-L and Aston Villa's L-L-W-W-W.
Key events
- 5'Yellow card · Craig Gardner
- 10'Goal · Danny Higginbotham
- 19'Yellow card · Dean Whitehead
- 73'Goal · Shaun Maloney
- 79'Yellow card · A. Young
- 85'Yellow card · Dwight Yorke
Head-to-head
Team news
Sunderland line-up (4-4-2)
Darren Ward, Paul McShane, Danny Higginbotham, Danny Collins, Dickson Etuhu, Dean Whitehead, Ross Wallace, Anthony Stokes, Daryl Murphy, Kenwyne Jones, Dwight Yorke
Aston Villa line-up (4-4-2)
Scott Carson, Wilfred Bouma, Martin Laursen, Ashley Young, Zat Knight, Gareth Barry, Nigel Reo-Coker, Craig Gardner, John Carew, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Olof Mellberg