Leon Bailey's deflected strike earned Aston Villa a deserved 1-0 win over Manchester City at Villa Park that lifted them above the reigning champions into third.
Match Report
The goal came late in the game to maintain the perfect home record of Unai Emery's side and reflected their superior endeavour throughout the contest against an unusually passive City. It is now four Premier League games without a win for Pep Guardiola's team.
Erling Haaland did have two chances in the first half but City never looked comfortable, missing the suspended Rodri badly. They drop to fourth in the table and are now six points adrift of Arsenal. On this evidence, they may need to worry about Villa too.
Match Events
0' The match is about to start!
12' Haaland nearly scores for City!
23' What a save from Ederson!
31' OFFSIDE!
41' Douglas fires his shot into the sky
45' Foul! Douglas goal disallowed
54' Yellow Card! Lewis booked
60' Yellow Card! Ollie Watkins booked
66' CLOSE! McGinn misses a golden chance!
74' GOAL! Aston Villa 1-0 Man City (Bailey)
79' AGAIN! Fine stop from world-class Ederson
Line-ups
Aston Villa XI: E. Martinez, Digne, McGinn, Tielemans, Carlos, Ollie Watkins, Bailey, P. Torres, Kamara, Ngoyo, Douglas Luiz
Subs: Dendoncker, Lenglet, Álex Moreno, Matty Cash, Zaniolo, Diaby, Jhon Durán, Jacob Ramsey, Filip Marschall
Man City XI: Walker, Stones, Ederson, Ruben Dias, Bernardo, Akanji, Haaland, Foden, Julián Álvarez, Josko Gvardiol, Rico Lewis
Subs: Carson, Stefan Ortega, Kovacic, Ake, Kalvin Phillips, Sergio Gómez, Matheus Nunes, Oscar Bobb
Danyola
1196
The Old Manchester is humiliating the old Chelsea... while the New Chelsea is Humiliating the New Mancheste.
Peaceking1234
785
Aston Villa Won but the HAPPINESS😄 is felt in ARSENAL💯😎🔥
Exodus2
735
Put some respect on his name ladies and gentlemen Unay Emery
ishti
544
Come and see, you will not believe what Aston Villa did to ManCity
Cazorlasanti
505
Me when i realize my next match is Aston villa at (Villa park)
Doxmang
500
FULL TIME: ASTON VILLA 1 - 0 MAN CITY!! Emery's Aston Villa have now won 14 consecutive home games, surpassing the records of Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho, who had 13 each. FORTRESS. World class Coach 🔥🌹👑🤝💯⭐🙌
Debians
484
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Ashiray
481
My takeaways from today's game: *Guardiola has finally landed in England *This is Arsenal's best shot at the league *For guardiola to have lost 15points from a possible 45, after just 15games, it shows that this season is not his Most importantly, if you want to teach someone your trade, always keep your trade secrets intact. It's so amazing how arteta is now asking guardiola to get up for him to occupy his seat. EPL, I hail thee.
BLKBtl
454
Credit goes to Emery for making this team so good
CharlesMakhura
429
even though man city losses another 3 coming games still gonna win the league.....come April 2024🤌
maturidikxith
356
villa out played, out done , out score mancity
yung_breezy654
313
We shall come back strong 👏🏿😔
Tunmise666
232
I hope you didn't complain that the play was stop when you are supposed to score your first chance
Benaiah57
130
I've been an Arsenal supporter for over thirty years but there are some other PL teams that I've always liked. Chelsea is one of these teams since back in Ruud Gullit ,Vialli days and Man City since the Shawn Wright - Phillips days, so I have no problem with the Citizens but I've been saying to my friends (some them I know are City fans since City started winning) that City is beatable any team that goes out and play their game without fear has a good chance of coming away with a win I've been saying this for years play attacking competitive football and City look like any other team no who they put on the field and if you don't believe me check the history of their big losses.
Tunmise666
114
Is that Aston Villa or Arsenal
Zukeklmoty
108
being an arsenal fans I will say emery is much better than arteta ..emery bring Martinelli for 6m then gabriel for 25m n salliba too n give chances to saka n arsenal sit top becoz of these players bring by emery ..arteta bought rice for 100m,havertz for 65m ...credit should go this manager not arteta