Aston Villa 2-1 Portsmouth: result and report

Premier League · Tuesday 6 January 2004

Result

Aston Villa 2-1 Portsmouth

Premier League · Tuesday 6 January 2004, 20:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Aston Villa 2-1 Portsmouth: match report

Aston Villa won against Portsmouth 2-1 in the Premier League on Tuesday 6 January 2004. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Juan Ángel Arango opened the scoring in the 22nd minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Juan Ángel Arango (22') and Darius Vassell (85'). Portsmouth scored through Yakubu Aiyegbeni (49').

Neither side received a card.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 10th on 24 points from 19 and Portsmouth 16th on 19 points from 19. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 6th with 56 points, and Portsmouth 13th with 45.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Aston Villa wins, 0 draws and 1 for Portsmouth.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 22'Goal · Juan Ángel ArangoAston Villa · 1-0
  • 49'Goal · Yakubu AiyegbeniPortsmouth · 1-1
  • 85'Goal · Darius VassellAston Villa · 2-1

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Aston Villa 0, draws 0, Portsmouth 1.

Team news

Portsmouth line-up

Pavel Srnicek, Linvoy Primus, Boris Zivkovic, Arjan de Zeeuw, Richard Duffy, Petri Pasanen, Richard Hughes, Patrik Berger, Alexei Smertin, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Matthew Taylor