Aston Villa 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 17 September 2005

Result

Aston Villa 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur

Premier League · Saturday 17 September 2005, 16:15 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Aston Villa 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur: match report

Aston Villa drew with Tottenham Hotspur 1-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 17 September 2005. It was 1-0 at half-time.

James Milner opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Aston Villa's goal came from James Milner (4'). Tottenham Hotspur scored through Robbie Keane (78').

Discipline: Aston Villa received 1 yellow card; Tottenham Hotspur received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 16th on 5 points from 5 and Tottenham Hotspur 7th on 8 points from 5. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 16th with 42 points, and Tottenham Hotspur 5th with 65.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Aston Villa wins, 3 draws and 4 for Tottenham Hotspur.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 4'Goal · James MilnerAston Villa · 1-0
  • 23'Yellow card · Ledley KingTottenham Hotspur
  • 41'Yellow card · Milan BarosAston Villa
  • 76'Yellow card · Nourredine NaybetTottenham Hotspur
  • 78'Goal · Robbie KeaneTottenham Hotspur · 1-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Aston Villa 3, draws 3, Tottenham Hotspur 4.

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

Tottenham Hotspur line-up

Paul Robinson, Paul Stalteri, Young-Pyo Lee, Ledley King, Anthony Gardner, Andy Reid, Michael Carrick, Jermaine Jenas, Grzegorz Rasiak, Teemu Tainio, Jermain Defoe