Middlesbrough 1-3 Aston Villa: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 14 April 2007
Result
Middlesbrough 1-3 Aston Villa
Premier League · Saturday 14 April 2007, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Middlesbrough 1-3 Aston Villa: match report
Middlesbrough lost to Aston Villa 1-3 in the Premier League on Saturday 14 April 2007. The half-time score was 1-1.
Fábio Rochemback opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Middlesbrough's goal came from Fábio Rochemback (13'). Aston Villa scored through Craig Gardner (45'), Luke Moore (70') and Stiliyan Petrov (77').
Discipline: Middlesbrough received 2 yellow cards; Aston Villa received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Middlesbrough were 13th on 39 points from 32 and Aston Villa 14th on 39 points from 33. Middlesbrough went on to finish that season 12th with 46 points, and Aston Villa 11th with 50.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Middlesbrough wins, 1 draw and 5 for Aston Villa.
Going into the match Middlesbrough's last five read W-L-L-D-W and Aston Villa's D-W-D-D-L.
Key events
- 13'Goal · Fábio Rochemback
- 13'Yellow card · Phil Bardsley
- 45'Goal · Craig Gardner
- 70'Goal · Luke Moore
- 77'Goal · Stiliyan Petrov
- 79'Yellow card · L. Cattermole
- 90+1'Yellow card · A. Taylor
Head-to-head
Team news
Middlesbrough line-up
Mark Schwarzer, Robert Huth, Andrew Taylor, George Boateng, Fábio Rochemback, Stewart Downing, Adam Johnson, Malcolm Christie, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Jonathan Woodgate, Abel da Silva Costa Xavier
Aston Villa line-up
Thomas Sorensen, Martin Laursen, Wilfred Bouma, Ashley Young, Phil Bardsley, Gareth Barry, Stiliyan Petrov, Craig Gardner, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Olof Mellberg, Shaun Maloney