Leicester City 0-5 Aston Villa: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 31 January 2004
Result
Leicester City 0-5 Aston Villa
Premier League · Saturday 31 January 2004, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Leicester City 0-5 Aston Villa: match report
Leicester City were beaten by Aston Villa 0-5 in the Premier League on Saturday 31 January 2004. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Darius Vassell opened the scoring in the 50th minute. Leicester City did not score. Aston Villa scored through Darius Vassell (50'), Peter Crouch (57'), Darius Vassell (60'), Dion Dublin (64') and Peter Crouch (68').
Discipline: Leicester City received no yellow cards; Aston Villa received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Leicester City were 18th on 20 points from 22 and Aston Villa 12th on 27 points from 22. Leicester City went on to finish that season 18th with 33 points, and Aston Villa 6th with 56.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Leicester City win, 2 draws and 2 for Aston Villa.
Going into the match Leicester City's last five read D-L-D-D-D and Aston Villa's L-L-W-W-D.
Key events
- 9'Yellow card · Olof Mellberg
- 50'Goal · Darius Vassell
- 57'Goal · Peter Crouch
- 60'Goal · Darius Vassell
- 64'Goal · Dion Dublin
- 68'Goal · Peter Crouch
Head-to-head
Team news
Leicester City expected line-up
Ian Walker, John Curtis, Jordan Stewart, Steve Howey, Ben Thatcher, Riccardo Scimeca, Mustafa Izzet, Marcus Bent, Leslie Ferdinand, James Scowcroft, Billy McKinlay