Aston Villa vs. Manchester City live score, updates, highlights & lineups from Premier League clash at Villa Park

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Steven Gerrard must mastermind a way to deal with Erling Haaland after the Manchester City striker fired two hat-tricks in as many games this week.

It is probably a conundrum the under-fire Aston Villa boss could do without after Wednesday’s 2-1 loss at Arsenal left them second-bottom of the Premier League with four defeats from five games.

By contrast, champions City have won four out of five, only dropping points in a 3-3 draw at Newcastle United.

However, Pep Guardiola’s men were 3-1 down in that game and 2-0 behind before Haaland inspired a 4-2 triumph against Crystal Palace last weekend. Gerrard will hope there are defensive vulnerabilities to exploit. 

Sporting News is following the match live and providing live score updates and commentary.

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Aston Villa vs. Man City live score

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Aston Villa vs. Manchester live updates, highlights from the Premier League: 

Halftime: So far, so good for Gerrard. Villa have really grown into this game, with the early chance that fell to Walker still the best City have enjoyed.Villa’s compact midfield is a puzzle Guardiola will try to solve during the interval.

44th minute: Luiz tries to thread a ball to Watkins and Dias makes an important interception. It’s been a decent 10 minutes or so for the hosts.

40th minute: Ederson and Walker give De Bruyne the ball where he wants it. There’s the through-ball for Haaland but Mings stands firm and wins that battle.

39th minute: Konsa gets up above Ederson from the corner but is penalised for a foul.

38th minute: Villa go close. Young hares back to dispossess De Bruyne and Gerrard’s side launch a counter-attack of their own. Watkins stands up Stones and the City centre-back slides in to make a vital challenge, deflecting the ball behind.

36th minute: De Bruyne sends a bouncing ball towards Haaland and it’s another one that Martinez can easily collect. The temptation is obvious, but City might just be rushing passes into the striker now as Villa approach halftime with the deadlock still intact. 

34th minute: He won’t have enjoyed that, however, as Martinez and Konsa over-play under pressure from De Bruyne and Haaland. Konsa lumps it out for a throw.

32nd minute: Now Martinez pouches a raking ball from Walker. Gerrard will be pretty pleased with this so far.

30th minute: Cancelo fizzes a pass from halfway looking to release Haaland but Martinez is alert to the threat and claims just inside his box.

29th minute: The Villa Park faithful aren’t happen as Rodri gets a handful of Ramsey’s shirt. The home side continued their attack as advantage was played but there’s no punishment for the Spain midfielder.

27th minute: Villa deal with the initial ball in and then Cancelo looks for Foden at the back post but punts it out for a goalkick.

26th minute: Oof, that was a long period of City possession for Cash to endure. He’s off now and Young and his teammates have a corner to defend.

22nd minute: Silva commits a fairly crude foul on Digne but it’s Villa’s other full-back, Cash, who appears to be in trouble injury-wise.Young is ramping up his warmups on the touchline and the 37-year-old veteran is about to come on.

20th minute: Villa half clear from an attack that was launched by a sweeping Ederson pass out to Walker. Cancelo has a deflected behind. The corner also picks out the Portugal full-back, whose volley into the turf is blocked.

14th minute: Chance! De Bruyne curls one of those De Bruyne crosses into the box and Villa’s final day tormentor Gundogan is agonisingly close to getting on the end of it.

12th minute: Sky Sports have just flashed up the latest passing stats: Villa 14-118 City (!).

11th minute: Rodri clips a delightful first-time ball into the box but Foden’s touch uncharacteristically lets him down. Guardiola’s side look like they’re starting to move through the gears and they have a corner.

9th minute: Ohhh, close. Villa are trying to close up those spaces between the lines where City do so much damage, but De Bruyne finds some room to manoeuvre and smashes just past the post from 20 yards.

8th minute: Scratch that, he was just standing in the centre circle then. More as well get it…

7th minute: Worth pointing out that Walker enjoyed that chance because he’s operating as a more conventional full-back so far. During the opening weeks of the season, the England international has generally tucked into midfield with mixed results.

4th minute: Lovely move from City. Haaland drops in and acts as a massive wall in a wall pass with Silva. He slots in Walker, who takes his time and blazes wide of the near post. Probably not the player Guardiola would have wanted that chance to fall to, in all fairness.

3rd minute: Ederson saunters out to a long ball forward, then plays a sand wedge of a pass out for a throw. Even the most laid-back goalkeeper in the Premier League has to tune in a bit.

1st minute: Villa look to press City high from kickoff and that was a sniff of a chance as Dias just deflected a left-wing cross away from Watkins.

2 mins from kickoff: The teams are out. Villa in their traditional claret and blue, City in their fluorescent third kit that looks like it’s been run over by a truck.

10 mins from kickoff: We won’t get to see City’s latest arrival today. Manuel Akanji, who signed from Borussia Dortmund this week, is absent due to the birth of his baby son. Congratulations!

20 mins from kickoff: Jan Bednarek could also come into play to try and thwart Haaland and the City attack.He’s on the Villa bench after completing a deadline day loan move from Southampton. Fellow new arrival Leandro Dendoncker is out with tonsillitis.

35 mins from kickoff: Feels like a big afternoon for Tyrone Mings. The England international was stripped of Villa’s captaincy and dropped at the start of the season. He’s back in the side now, but was culpable for Arsenal’s winner in midweek. A big performance against the man of the moment would be a handy way to flip the script.

55 mins from kickoff: And here’s how Villa line up. The discussion around Steven Gerrard’s selections often revolves around whether Philippe Coutinho or Emiliano Buendia will start. The answer today is neither. They’re both on the bench.

1 hour from kickoff: The teams are in. Julian Alvarez has to be content with a place on the bench after his midweek brace for City, who also have former Villa hero Jack Grealish and Nathan Ake back among the substitutes after some time on the sidelines. Guardiola resists any temptation to rest Haaland ahead of Tuesday’s Champions League trip to Sevilla.

1 hr 20 mins from kickoff: While City had to turn to Gundogan’s goalscoring expertise from midfield in the previous encounter, they now have a monster marksman striking fear into the division. Erling Haaland’s hat-tricks against Crystal Palace and Nottingham Forest mean he has nine goals in his first five Premier League games — a competition record.

1 hr 40 mins from kickoff: There’s plenty on the line today for both teams, but it’s safe to say the stakes are not as high as the previous time they met. When Philippe Coutinho put Villa 2-0 up at the Etihad Stadium on the final day of last season, it looked like Pep Guardiola’s side were about to surrender their title to Liverpool. Of course, pair of goals from Ilkay Gundogan either side of a precision finish from Rodri turned the whole picture upside down in one of the great finishes to a Premier League season. 

“We had this City team extremely worried for 76/77 minutes. We know we can hurt this team, and I’m really looking forward to the game,” Steven Gerrard said at his pre-match news conference. Of course, if we’re splitting hairs, there’s been a certain new addition since then.

2 hours from kickoff: Hello and welcome to The Sporting News’ live coverage of Aston Villa against Manchester City at Villa Park.

Aston Villa vs. Man City lineups

Douglas Luiz came off the bench to briefly pull Villa level at Arsenal and remains at Villa Park despite the Gunners’ deadline day interest in him. The Brazil midfielder was once on City’s books and expect him to return to the starting XI to reinforce central areas.

Aston Villa projected starting lineup (4-3-2-1, right to left): Martinez (GK) — Cash, Konsa, Mings, Digne — Kamara, Luiz, McGinn — Ramsey, Bailey — Watkins.

Julian Alvarez marked his full Premier League debut with a brace in the 6-0 midweek demolition of Nottingham Forest but drops to the bench as a rested Kevin De Bruyne returns.

Man City  starting lineup (4-3-3, right to left): Ederson (GK) — Walker, Stones, Dias, Cancelo — De Bruyne, Rodri, Gundogan — Silva, Haaland, Foden.

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How to watch Man City vs. Aston Villa

  UK USA Canada Australia
Date Saturday, September 3 Saturday, September 3 Saturday, September 3 Sunday, September 4
Time 17:30 BST 12:30 ET 12:30 ET 03:30 AEST
TV channel  Sky Sports Premier League USA Network/Universo — —
Streaming Sky Sports website, SkyGo FuboTV FuboTV Optus Sports

UK: Sky Sports will show the action on Sky Sports Premier League. Subscribers can stream via either the SkyGo app or the Sky Sports website.

USA: Fans can tune in to the USA Network or Universo in the United States, with FuboTV streaming

Canada: FuboTV is also your destination for Villa vs. City in Canada.

Australia: Optus Sport is the place to go for Premier League fans in Australia.

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