Aston Villa 2-0 Middlesbrough: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 5 March 2005

Result

Aston Villa 2-0 Middlesbrough

Premier League · Saturday 5 March 2005, 12:45 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Aston Villa 2-0 Middlesbrough: match report

Aston Villa won against Middlesbrough 2-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 5 March 2005. The half-time score was 0-0.

Martin Laursen opened the scoring in the 64th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Martin Laursen (64') and Luke Moore (79'). Middlesbrough did not score.

Discipline: Aston Villa received 1 yellow card; Middlesbrough received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 11th on 35 points from 28 and Middlesbrough 6th on 42 points from 28. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 10th with 47 points, and Middlesbrough 7th with 55.

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

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 64'Goal · Martin LaursenAston Villa · 1-0
  • 70'Yellow card · Dorival Guidoni JúniorMiddlesbrough
  • 73'Yellow card · Steven DavisAston Villa
  • 79'Goal · Luke MooreAston Villa · 2-0

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Aston Villa 3, draws 3, Middlesbrough 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