Portsmouth 2-2 Aston Villa: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 2 December 2006

Result

Portsmouth 2-2 Aston Villa

Premier League · Saturday 2 December 2006, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Portsmouth 2-2 Aston Villa: match report

Portsmouth drew with Aston Villa 2-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 2 December 2006. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Gareth Barry opened the scoring in the 37th minute. Portsmouth's goals came from Matthew Taylor (52') and Matthew Taylor (80', penalty). Aston Villa scored through Gareth Barry (37', penalty) and Juan Ángel Arango (82').

Discipline: Portsmouth received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card; Aston Villa received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Portsmouth were 4th on 24 points from 15 and Aston Villa 6th on 23 points from 15. Portsmouth went on to finish that season 9th with 54 points, and Aston Villa 11th with 50.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Portsmouth win, 1 draw and 4 for Aston Villa.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 36'Yellow card · David JamesPortsmouth
  • 37'Penalty goal · Gareth BarryAston Villa · 0-1
  • 45'Yellow card · Liam RidgewellAston Villa
  • 51'Yellow card · Pedro MendesPortsmouth
  • 52'Goal · Matthew TaylorPortsmouth · 1-1
  • 73'Yellow card · I. OsbourneAston Villa
  • 74'Yellow card · Milan BarosAston Villa
  • 79'Yellow card · Gareth BarryAston Villa
  • 80'Penalty goal · Matthew TaylorPortsmouth · 2-1
  • 82'Goal · Juan Ángel ArangoAston Villa · 2-2
  • 86'Second yellow · Pedro MendesPortsmouth

Head-to-head

6 meetings: Portsmouth 1, draws 1, Aston Villa 4.

Team news

Portsmouth expected line-up

Shaka Hislop, Dejan Stefanovic, Arjan de Zeeuw, Linvoy Primus, Richard Hughes, Nigel Quashie, Alexei Smertin, Patrik Berger, Lomana Lualua, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Steve Stone

Aston Villa line-up

Stuart Taylor, Liam Ridgewell, Gareth Barry, Gavin McCann, Stiliyan Petrov, Steven Davis, Isaiah Osbourne, Milan Baros, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Olof Mellberg, Gary Cahill