Match Centre: Aston Villa vs Manchester City
Player of the match Phil Foden 7.9
GolVolt rating 4.3GolVolt rating
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The match in 30 seconds
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12 → 7
Aston Villa climb 5 places in the table. Manchester City: 3 → 4.
Key stats
Why this rating
Four pillars, each measured against the same league over the last 12 months.
- Dramaweight 50% Goal ruled out by VAR at 90′.Some excitement, but no big twists. Drama: 5.0 out of 10
- Heroesweight 20% Cash scored the winner.Nobody stood out. Heroes: 2.2 out of 10
- Stakesweight 15% A lot was at stake before kick-off. Stakes: 7.7 out of 10
- Quality of playweight 15% An average number of chances. Quality of play: 4.1 out of 10
Match ECG
A spike = a twist. The shading = how open the result still was.
GolVolt rating 4.3more watchable than 43% of Premier League matches
The GolVolt rating comes from four pillars — drama, heroes, stakes and quality of play — measured against this league's matches of the last 12 months (model nap-v2).
Similar matches
A similar story: twists, the finish, chances. Same league, last 12 months.
How the match went
1 goal5 cards1 VAR
Counts cover only events captured in the retained timeline.
Timeline
- 19' Goal: Matty Cashassist: Buendía1:0
- 29' SubstitutionSancho for Buendía
- 40' Savinhoyellow card
- Half-time · 1:0
- 54' Tijjani Reijndersyellow card
- 61' 3 substitutionsDoku for BobbGonzález for SilvaO'Reilly for Stones
- 64' Nico Gonzálezyellow card
- 74' 2 substitutionsBarkley for McGinnGuessand for Sancho
- 76' SubstitutionCherki for Reijnders
- 80' Phil Fodenyellow card
- 81' Boubacar Kamarayellow card
- 84' SubstitutionMarmoush for Savinho
- 86' 2 substitutionsMaatsen for DigneMalen for Watkins
- 90' Goal Disallowed
- Full-time · 1:0
Match stats
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Lineups and ratings
The highlighted rating is the player of the match.
Starting XIs · provider ratings
Aston Villa
Manchester City
Goalkeepers
Defenders
Midfielders
Forwards
Came on
Bench
Aston Villa
- 40 Marco Bizot GK —
- 3 Victor Lindelöf DEF —
- 5 Tyrone Mings DEF —
- 22 Ian Maatsen DEF on
- 6 Ross Barkley MID on
- 26 Lamare Bogarde MID —
- 17 Donyell Malen ATT on
- 19 Jadon Sancho ATT on
- 29 Evann Guessand ATT on
Manchester City
- 1 James Trafford GK —
- 6 Nathan Aké DEF —
- 82 Rico Lewis DEF —
- 8 Mateo Kovacic MID —
- 10 Rayan Cherki MID on
- 14 Nico González MID on
- 33 Nico O'Reilly MID on
- 7 Omar Marmoush ATT on
- 11 Jérémy Doku ATT on
Match sheet
- Stadium
- Villa Park, Birmingham
Player ratings
Ratings from the data provider, scale 1–10.
- Player of the match · Manchester City Phil Foden
- 2. place · Aston Villa Matty Cash
- 3. place · Manchester City Rúben Dias
Manchester City
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