Aston Villa 0-2 Manchester United: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 15 May 2004

Result

Aston Villa 0-2 Manchester United

Premier League · Saturday 15 May 2004, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-2

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Aston Villa 0-2 Manchester United: match report

Aston Villa lost to Manchester United 0-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 15 May 2004. The half-time score was 0-2.

Cristiano Ronaldo opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Aston Villa did not score. Manchester United scored through Cristiano Ronaldo (4') and Ruud van Nistelrooy (10').

Discipline: Aston Villa received 4 yellow cards; Manchester United received 3 yellow cards and 2 red cards.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 5th on 56 points from 37 and Manchester United 3rd on 72 points from 37. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 6th with 56 points, and Manchester United 3rd with 75.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Aston Villa wins, 2 draws and 5 for Manchester United.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 4'Goal · Cristiano RonaldoManchester United · 0-1
  • 10'Goal · Ruud van NistelrooyManchester United · 0-2
  • 38'Yellow card · Cristiano RonaldoManchester United
  • 52'Yellow card · Juan Ángel ArangoAston Villa
  • 60'Yellow card · Jlloyd SamuelAston Villa
  • 65'Yellow card · Lee HendrieAston Villa
  • 66'Yellow card · Darren FletcherManchester United
  • 67'Yellow card · Paul ScholesManchester United
  • 75'Second yellow · Darren FletcherManchester United
  • 83'Yellow card · Thomas HitzlspergerAston Villa
  • 85'Second yellow · Cristiano RonaldoManchester United

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Aston Villa 0, draws 2, Manchester United 5.

Team news

Aston Villa line-up

Thomas Sorensen, Ulises de la Cruz Bernardo, Liam Ridgewell, Jlloyd Samuel, Gareth Barry, Lee Hendrie, Gavin McCann, Thomas Hitzlsperger, Peter Crouch, Juan Ángel Arango, Olof Mellberg

Manchester United expected line-up

Roy Carroll, Mikaël Silvestre, Wes Brown, Louis Saha, Gary Neville, John O'Shea, Nicky Butt, Paul Scholes