Aston Villa 3-1 Birmingham City: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 16 April 2006
Result
Aston Villa 3-1 Birmingham City
Premier League · Sunday 16 April 2006, 11:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Aston Villa 3-1 Birmingham City: match report
Aston Villa defeated Birmingham City 3-1 in the Premier League on Sunday 16 April 2006. The half-time score was 1-1.
Milan Baros opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Milan Baros (10'), Gary Cahill (56') and Milan Baros (78'). Birmingham City scored through Chris Sutton (25').
Discipline: Aston Villa received 4 yellow cards; Birmingham City received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 16th on 36 points from 33 and Birmingham City 18th on 29 points from 33. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 16th with 42 points, and Birmingham City 18th with 34.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Aston Villa win, 2 draws and 4 for Birmingham City.
Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read D-L-D-L-L and Birmingham City's D-W-D-L-L.
Key events
- 10'Goal · Milan Baros
- 25'Goal · Chris Sutton
- 52'Yellow card · Milan Baros
- 56'Yellow card · Gary Cahill
- 56'Goal · Gary Cahill
- 69'Yellow card · Gavin McCann
- 78'Goal · Milan Baros
- 84'Yellow card · Damien Johnson
- 86'Yellow card · Gareth Barry
- 86'Yellow card · Olivier Tebily
- 90'Yellow card · Nicky Butt
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa expected line-up
Thomas Sorensen, Liam Ridgewell, Ronny Johnsen, Gareth Barry, Gavin McCann, James Milner, Steven Davis, Olof Mellberg, Mark Anthony Delaney
Birmingham City line-up
Maik Taylor, Martin Taylor, Kenny Cunningham, Olivier Tebily, Jermaine Pennant, Emile Heskey, Chris Sutton, David Dunn, Nicky Butt, Damien Johnson, Matt Sadler