Season 2026-27

Manchester City vs Aston Villa

Premier League · Round 1 · Wed 20 Jan 2021, 18:00

Manchester City
20 Full time
Aston Villa

Manchester City beat Aston Villa 2–0 on 20 January 2021 (Premier League 2020-2021, Round 1). Goals – Manchester City: Bernardo Silva 79', Ilkay Gundogan 90' (pen). In 44 Premier League meetings since 2000-01, Manchester City have won 28, Aston Villa 10 and 6 matches have been drawn.

Summary

Key events

  1. Half time · 0–0
  2. 79' Bernardo Silva Manchester City · assist Rodri 1–0
  3. 81' Dean Smith Aston Villa · Red card
  4. 90' Ilkay Gundogan Manchester City · Penalty 2–0
  5. Full time · 2–0

Lineups

Manchester City

  1. 31 Ederson
  2. 2 Kyle Walker
  3. 5 John Stones
  4. 3 Ruben Dias
  5. 27 Joao Cancelo
  6. 17 Kevin De Bruyne (c)
  7. 16 Rodri
  8. 8 Ilkay Gundogan
  9. 7 Raheem Sterling
  10. 20 Bernardo Silva
  11. 47 Phil Foden

Substitutes used

Unused

Adrian Bernabe Garcia, Fernandinho, Eric Garcia, Benjamin Mendy, Zack Steffen, Ferran Torres

Aston Villa

  1. 26 Emiliano Martinez
  2. 2 Matty Cash
  3. 4 Ezri Konsa
  4. 5 Tyrone Mings
  5. 18 Matt Targett
  6. 6 Douglas Luiz
  7. 7 John McGinn
  8. 15 Bertrand Traore
  9. 20 Ross Barkley
  10. 10 Jack Grealish (c)
  11. 11 Ollie Watkins

Substitutes used

Unused

Keinan Davis, Ahmed Elmohamady, Bjorn Engels, Frederic Guilbert, Tom Heaton, Marvelous Nakamba

Head-to-head & form

Head-to-head since 2000-01

Full head-to-head
28Manchester City wins6Draws10Aston Villa wins

44 meetings · goals Manchester City 92–43 Aston Villa

Previous meetings

12 Jan 2020 Aston Villa1–6FT · 16:30Manchester City
26 Oct 2019 Manchester City3–0FT · 11:30Aston Villa
5 Mar 2016 Manchester City4–0FT · 15:00Aston Villa
8 Nov 2015 Aston Villa0–0FT · 13:30Manchester City
25 Apr 2015 Manchester City3–2FT · 17:30Aston Villa

Form before the match

Last five Premier League matches, oldest to newest.

Final table 2020-2021

Full table
# Team P W D L GD Pts
1 Manchester City 38 27 5 6 +51 86
11 Aston Villa 38 16 7 15 +9 55

Top scorers 2020-2021

All scorers

Manchester City

  1. Ilkay Gundogan 13
  2. Raheem Sterling 10
  3. Phil Foden 9

Aston Villa

  1. Ollie Watkins 14
  2. Anwar El Ghazi 10
  3. Bertrand Traore 7