Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Aston Villa: result and report
Premier League · Tuesday 26 December 2006
Result
Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Aston Villa
Premier League · Tuesday 26 December 2006, 13:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
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Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Aston Villa: match report
Tottenham Hotspur defeated Aston Villa 2-1 in the Premier League on Tuesday 26 December 2006. The half-time score was 0-0.
Jermain Defoe opened the scoring in the 58th minute. Tottenham Hotspur's goals came from Jermain Defoe (58') and Jermain Defoe (77'). Aston Villa scored through Gareth Barry (81').
Discipline: Tottenham Hotspur received 1 yellow card; Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Tottenham Hotspur were 7th on 28 points from 19 and Aston Villa 10th on 25 points from 19. Tottenham Hotspur went on to finish that season 5th with 60 points, and Aston Villa 11th with 50.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Tottenham Hotspur wins, 4 draws and 2 for Aston Villa.
Going into the match Tottenham Hotspur's last five read L-W-W-W-L and Aston Villa's L-L-D-D-L.
Key events
- 58'Goal · Jermain Defoe
- 77'Goal · Jermain Defoe
- 81'Goal · Gareth Barry
- 86'Yellow card · Gavin McCann
- 87'Yellow card · S. Malbranque
- 90'Yellow card · Gary Cahill
Head-to-head
Team news
Tottenham Hotspur line-up
Paul Robinson, Pascal Chimbonda, Young-Pyo Lee, Michael Dawson, Ledley King, Didier Zokora, Hossam Ghaly, Steed Malbranque, Tom Huddlestone, Dimitar Berbatov, Jermain Defoe
Aston Villa expected line-up
Thomas Sorensen, Liam Ridgewell, Gareth Barry, Stiliyan Petrov, Gavin McCann, Steven Davis, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Chris Sutton, Olof Mellberg, Gary Cahill