Sunderland 1-2 Aston Villa: result and report

Sunderland 1-2 Aston Villa

Premier League · Saturday 17 January 2009, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Sunderland were beaten by Aston Villa 1-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 17 January 2009. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Danny Collins opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Sunderland's goal came from Danny Collins (10'). Aston Villa scored through James Milner (60') and Gareth Barry (79').

Discipline: Sunderland received 4 yellow cards; Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Sunderland were 13th on 23 points from 21 and Aston Villa 4th on 41 points from 21. Sunderland went on to finish that season 16th with 36 points, and Aston Villa 6th with 62.

Sunderland lined up in a 4-4-2 and Aston Villa in a 4-5-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Sunderland wins, 4 draws and 4 for Aston Villa.

Going into the match Sunderland's last five read D-L-D-W-W and Aston Villa's W-W-D-W-W.