Season 2026-27

Aston Villa vs Sunderland

Premier League · Round 4 · Sat 29 Aug 2015, 15:00

Aston Villa
22 Full time
Sunderland

Aston Villa and Sunderland drew 2–2 on 29 August 2015 (Premier League 2015-2016, Round 4). Goals – Aston Villa: Scott Sinclair 11' (pen), 41'; Sunderland: Yann M'Vila 8', Jeremain Lens 52'. In 28 Premier League meetings since 2000-01, Aston Villa have won 11, Sunderland 5 and 12 matches have been drawn.

Summary

Key events

  1. 8' Yann M'Vila Sunderland 0–1
  2. 11' Scott Sinclair Aston Villa · Penalty 1–1
  3. 41' Scott Sinclair Aston Villa · assist Jordan Amavi 2–1
  4. Half time · 2–1
  5. 52' Jeremain Lens Sunderland · assist Ola Toivonen 2–2
  6. Full time · 2–2

Lineups

Aston Villa

  1. 1 Brad Guzan
  2. 21 Alan Hutton
  3. 4 Micah Richards (c)
  4. 6 Ciaran Clark
  5. 23 Jordan Amavi
  6. 15 Ashley Westwood
  7. 24 Carlos Sanchez
  8. 8 Idrissa Gueye
  9. 7 Leandro Bacuna
  10. 39 Rudy Gestede
  11. 9 Scott Sinclair

Substitutes used

Unused

Jordan Ayew, Joe Bennett, Mark Bunn, Joe Cole, Libor Kozak, Jordan Veretout

Sunderland

  1. 1 Costel Pantilimon
  2. 2 Billy Jones
  3. 16 John O'Shea (c)
  4. 15 Younes Kaboul
  5. 3 Patrick van Aanholt
  6. 21 Yann M'Vila
  7. 6 Lee Cattermole
  8. 8 Jack Rodwell
  9. 17 Jeremain Lens
  10. 19 Danny Graham
  11. 18 Jermain Defoe

Substitutes used

Unused

Sebastian Coates, Lynden Gooch, Vito Mannone, Duncan Watmore

Head-to-head & form

Head-to-head since 2000-01

Full head-to-head
11Aston Villa wins12Draws5Sunderland wins

28 meetings · goals Aston Villa 38–24 Sunderland

Previous meetings

14 Mar 2015 Sunderland0–4FT · 15:00Aston Villa
28 Dec 2014 Aston Villa0–0FT · 15:00Sunderland
1 Jan 2014 Sunderland0–1FT · 15:00Aston Villa
30 Nov 2013 Aston Villa0–0FT · 15:00Sunderland
29 Apr 2013 Aston Villa6–1FT · 20:00Sunderland

Form before the match

Last five Premier League matches, oldest to newest.

Final table 2015-2016

Full table
# Team P W D L GD Pts
17 Sunderland 38 9 12 17 −14 39
20 Aston Villa 38 3 8 27 −49 17

Top scorers 2015-2016

All scorers

Aston Villa

  1. Jordan Ayew 7
  2. Rudy Gestede 5
  3. Carles Gil 2

Sunderland

  1. Jermain Defoe 15
  2. Fabio Borini 5
  3. Steven Fletcher 4