Sunderland 0-1 Aston Villa: result and report
Premier League · Wednesday 1 January 2014
Result
Sunderland 0-1 Aston Villa
Premier League · Wednesday 1 January 2014, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Sunderland 0-1 Aston Villa: match report
Sunderland lost to Aston Villa 0-1 in the Premier League on Wednesday 1 January 2014. The half-time score was 0-1.
The only goal came from Gabriel Agbonlahor of Aston Villa in the 15th minute.
Discipline: Sunderland received 4 yellow cards; Aston Villa received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Sunderland were 16th on 17 points from 19 and Aston Villa 14th on 19 points from 19. Sunderland went on to finish that season 10th with 45 points, and Aston Villa 16th with 37.
Sunderland lined up in a 4-5-1 and Aston Villa in a 4-4-2.
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 W-W-D-D-L and Aston Villa's D-L-L-L-L.
Key events
- 15'Goal · Gabriel Agbonlahor
- 23'Yellow card · E. Giaccherini
- 41'Yellow card · L. Bacuna
- 56'Yellow card · Fabian Delph
- 64'Yellow card · Ki Sung-Yeung
- 90+1'Yellow card · Gabriel Agbonlahor
- 90+1'Yellow card · Jozy Altidore
- 90+1'Yellow card · Jack Colback
Head-to-head
Team news
Sunderland expected line-up (4-5-1)
Vito Mannone, Phil Bardsley, Wes Brown, Andrea Dossena, Sung-yueng Ki, Emanuele Giaccherini, Sebastian Larsson, Lee Cattermole, Fabio Borini, Jozy Altidore, John O'Shea
Aston Villa expected line-up (4-4-2)
Brad Guzan, Ciaran Clark, Nathan Baker, Antonio Luna, Fabian Delph, Ashley Westwood, Karim El Ahmadi, Andreas Weimann, Libor Kozák, Gabriel Agbonlahor