Blackburn Rovers 0-4 Aston Villa: result and report

Premier League · Wednesday 28 November 2007

Result

Blackburn Rovers 0-4 Aston Villa

Premier League · Wednesday 28 November 2007, 20:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Blackburn Rovers 0-4 Aston Villa: match report

Blackburn Rovers were beaten by Aston Villa 0-4 in the Premier League on Wednesday 28 November 2007. It was 0-1 at half-time.

John Carew opened the scoring in the 29th minute. Blackburn Rovers did not score. Aston Villa scored through John Carew (29'), Gareth Barry (53', penalty), A. Young (81') and Marlon Harewood (89').

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received no yellow cards and 1 red card; Aston Villa received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 9th on 23 points from 13 and Aston Villa 7th on 24 points from 13. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 7th with 58 points, and Aston Villa 6th with 60.

Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-4-2 and Aston Villa in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Blackburn Rovers wins, 2 draws and 6 for Aston Villa.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 29'Goal · John CarewAston Villa · 0-1
  • 50'Yellow card · Olof MellbergAston Villa
  • 52'Red card · Ryan NelsenBlackburn Rovers
  • 53'Penalty goal · Gareth BarryAston Villa · 0-2
  • 81'Goal · A. YoungAston Villa · 0-3
  • 89'Goal · Marlon HarewoodAston Villa · 0-4

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 2, draws 2, Aston Villa 6.

Team news

Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-4-2)

Andre Ooijer, Stephen Warnock, Christopher Samba, Aaron Mokoena, Brett Emerton, Daniel Bentley, Roque Santa Cruz, Brad Friedel, Ryan Nelsen, B. McCarthy, David Dunn

Aston Villa line-up (4-4-2)

Scott Carson, Wilfred Bouma, Martin Laursen, Ashley Young, Zat Knight, Gareth Barry, Stiliyan Petrov, Nigel Reo-Coker, John Carew, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Olof Mellberg