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.
2023/2024 Premier League
1-0
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