Aston Villa 1-2 Newcastle United: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 11 February 2006
Result
Aston Villa 1-2 Newcastle United
Premier League · Saturday 11 February 2006, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-2
Aston Villa 1-2 Newcastle United: match report
Aston Villa lost to Newcastle United 1-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 11 February 2006. The half-time score was 1-2.
Shola Ameobi opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Aston Villa's goal came from Luke Moore (16'). Newcastle United scored through Shola Ameobi (2') and Charles N'Zogbia (29').
Discipline: Aston Villa received 4 yellow cards; Newcastle United received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 13th on 30 points from 25 and Newcastle United 15th on 29 points from 24. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 16th with 42 points, and Newcastle United 7th with 58.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Aston Villa wins, 5 draws and 3 for Newcastle United.
Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read W-D-D-L-W and Newcastle United's W-L-L-L-D.
Key events
- 2'Goal · Shola Ameobi
- 16'Goal · Luke Moore
- 18'Yellow card · M. Delaney
- 29'Goal · Charles N'Zogbia
- 48'Yellow card · Craig Gardner
- 53'Yellow card · Scott Parker
- 61'Red card · Celestine Babayaro
- 72'Yellow card · Milan Baros
- 87'Yellow card · Peter Whittingham
- 90'Yellow card · Shay Given
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
Newcastle United line-up
Shay Given, Jean-Alain Boumsong Somkong, Titus Bramble, Peter Ramage, Celestine Babayaro, Charles N'Zogbia, Shola Ameobi, N. Solano, Emre Belözoğlu, Alan Shearer, Scott Parker