Aston Villa 1-2 Birmingham City: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 12 December 2004
Result
Aston Villa 1-2 Birmingham City
Premier League · Sunday 12 December 2004, 13:00 UTC · half-time 0-2
Aston Villa 1-2 Birmingham City: match report
Aston Villa lost to Birmingham City 1-2 in the Premier League on Sunday 12 December 2004. The half-time score was 0-2.
Clinton Morrison opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Aston Villa's goal came from Gareth Barry (90'). Birmingham City scored through Clinton Morrison (9') and David Dunn (18').
Discipline: Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards; Birmingham City received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 6th on 25 points from 16 and Birmingham City 16th on 14 points from 16. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 10th with 47 points, and Birmingham City 12th with 45.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Aston Villa wins, 2 draws and 2 for Birmingham City.
Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read D-L-W-W-W and Birmingham City's L-D-D-L-W.
Key events
- 9'Goal · Clinton Morrison
- 18'Goal · David Dunn
- 37'Yellow card · Damien Johnson
- 37'Yellow card · Olof Mellberg
- 45'Yellow card · David Dunn
- 66'Yellow card · Gareth Barry
- 66'Yellow card · Olivier Tebily
- 77'Yellow card · Darren Carter
- 90'Goal · Gareth Barry
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa expected line-up
Thomas Sorensen, Ronny Johnsen, Ulises de la Cruz Bernardo, Liam Ridgewell, Gareth Barry, Gavin McCann, Thomas Hitzlsperger, Jlloyd Samuel, Lee Hendrie, Darius Vassell, Juan Ángel Arango
Birmingham City expected line-up
Maik Taylor, Matthew Upson, Mario Melchiot, Kenny Cunningham, Julian Gray, Robbie Savage, Jesper Gronkjaer, Darren Anderton, Emile Heskey, Damien Johnson, David Dunn