Liverpool 3-1 Aston Villa: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 28 October 2006

Result

Liverpool 3-1 Aston Villa

Premier League · Saturday 28 October 2006, 14:00 UTC · half-time 3-0

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Liverpool 3-1 Aston Villa: match report

Liverpool beat Aston Villa 3-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 28 October 2006. It was 3-0 at half-time.

Dirk Kuyt opened the scoring in the 31st minute. Liverpool's goals came from Dirk Kuyt (31'), Peter Crouch (38') and Luis García (44'). Aston Villa scored through Gabriel Agbonlahor (56').

Discipline: Liverpool received no yellow cards; Aston Villa received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Liverpool were 11th on 11 points from 9 and Aston Villa 7th on 15 points from 9. Liverpool went on to finish that season 3rd with 68 points, and Aston Villa 11th with 50.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Liverpool wins, 3 draws and 1 for Aston Villa.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 30'Yellow card · Olof MellbergAston Villa
  • 31'Goal · Dirk KuytLiverpool · 1-0
  • 38'Goal · Peter CrouchLiverpool · 2-0
  • 44'Goal · Luis GarcíaLiverpool · 3-0
  • 56'Goal · Gabriel AgbonlahorAston Villa · 3-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Liverpool 6, draws 3, Aston Villa 1.

Team news

Liverpool line-up

Pepe Reina, Steve Finnan, John Arne Semundseth Riise, Jamie Carragher, Luis García, Mohamed Sissoko, Peter Crouch, Dirk Kuyt, Sami Hyypia, Steven Gerrard, Xabi Alonso

Aston Villa expected line-up

Thomas Sorensen, Liam Ridgewell, Martin Laursen, Gareth Barry, Gavin McCann, Steven Davis, Stiliyan Petrov, Juan Ángel Arango, Luke Moore, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Olof Mellberg