Aston Villa 1-2 Manchester City: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 7 May 2005

Result

Aston Villa 1-2 Manchester City

Premier League · Saturday 7 May 2005, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-2

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Aston Villa 1-2 Manchester City: match report

Aston Villa lost to Manchester City 1-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 7 May 2005. The half-time score was 0-2.

Shaun Wright-Phillips opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Aston Villa's goal came from Juan Ángel Arango (62'). Manchester City scored through Shaun Wright-Phillips (5') and Kizito Kiki Musampa (12').

Discipline: Aston Villa received 1 yellow card; Manchester City received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 10th on 47 points from 36 and Manchester City 9th on 48 points from 36. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 10th with 47 points, and Manchester City 8th with 52.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Aston Villa wins, 2 draws and 3 for Manchester City.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 5'Goal · Shaun Wright-PhillipsManchester City · 0-1
  • 12'Goal · Kizito Kiki MusampaManchester City · 0-2
  • 62'Goal · Juan Ángel ArangoAston Villa · 1-2
  • 75'Yellow card · Nolberto Albino Solano TodcoAston Villa
  • 85'Yellow card · Joey BartonManchester City

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Aston Villa 2, draws 2, Manchester City 3.

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

Manchester City expected line-up

Sylvain Distin, Richard Dunne, Danny Mills, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Nicolas Anelka, David James, Paul Bosvelt, Antoine Sibierski, Sun Jihai, Robbie Fowler