Manchester City 4-1 Aston Villa: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 14 September 2003
Result
Manchester City 4-1 Aston Villa
Premier League · Sunday 14 September 2003, 13:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Manchester City 4-1 Aston Villa: match report
Manchester City won against Aston Villa 4-1 in the Premier League on Sunday 14 September 2003. The half-time score was 0-1.
Juan Ángel Arango opened the scoring in the 31st minute. Manchester City's goals came from Nicolas Anelka (48', penalty), Michael Tarnat (50'), Nicolas Anelka (68', penalty) and Nicolas Anelka (83'). Aston Villa scored through Juan Ángel Arango (31').
Discipline: Manchester City received no yellow cards; Aston Villa received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Manchester City were 7th on 7 points from 4 and Aston Villa 15th on 4 points from 4. Manchester City went on to finish that season 16th with 41 points, and Aston Villa 6th with 56.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Manchester City win, 1 draw and 2 for Aston Villa.
Going into the match Manchester City's last five read L-W-D-W and Aston Villa's W-L-D-L.
Key events
- 31'Goal · Juan Ángel Arango
- 48'Penalty goal · Nicolas Anelka
- 50'Goal · Michael Tarnat
- 52'Yellow card · Ronny Johnsen
- 68'Penalty goal · Nicolas Anelka
- 83'Goal · Nicolas Anelka
Head-to-head
Team news
Manchester City line-up
David Seaman, David Sommeil, Sylvain Distin, Michael Tarnat, Steve McManaman, Trevor Sinclair, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Nicolas Anelka, Paulo Wanchope Watson, Sun Jihai, Joey Barton