Arsenal 5-0 Aston Villa: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 1 April 2006

Result

Arsenal 5-0 Aston Villa

Premier League · Saturday 1 April 2006, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Arsenal 5-0 Aston Villa: match report

Arsenal won against Aston Villa 5-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 1 April 2006. The half-time score was 2-0.

Emmanuel Adebayor opened the scoring in the 19th minute. Arsenal's goals came from Emmanuel Adebayor (19'), Thierry Henry (25'), Thierry Henry (46'), Robin van Persie (72') and Abou Diaby (80'). Aston Villa did not score.

Discipline: Arsenal received no yellow cards; Aston Villa received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Arsenal were 6th on 50 points from 30 and Aston Villa 16th on 35 points from 31. Arsenal went on to finish that season 4th with 67 points, and Aston Villa 16th with 42.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 7 Arsenal wins, 3 draws and 0 for Aston Villa.

Going into the match Arsenal's last five read W-W-W-L-L and Aston Villa's D-L-L-W-D.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 19'Goal · Emmanuel AdebayorArsenal · 1-0
  • 25'Goal · Thierry HenryArsenal · 2-0
  • 46'Goal · Thierry HenryArsenal · 3-0
  • 57'Yellow card · Wilfred BoumaAston Villa
  • 72'Goal · Robin van PersieArsenal · 4-0
  • 80'Goal · Abou DiabyArsenal · 5-0

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Arsenal 7, draws 3, Aston Villa 0.

Team news

Arsenal line-up

Jens Lehmann, Philippe Senderos, Emmanuel Eboué, Kolo Touré, Robert Pirès, José Antonio Reyes, Cesc Fàbregas, Mathieu Flamini, Gilberto Silva, Emmanuel Adebayor, Thierry Henry

Aston Villa expected line-up

Thomas Sorensen, Liam Ridgewell, Ronny Johnsen, Gareth Barry, Gavin McCann, James Milner, Steven Davis, Olof Mellberg, Mark Anthony Delaney