Aston Villa 1-2 Birmingham City: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 12 December 2004

Result

Aston Villa 1-2 Birmingham City

Premier League · Sunday 12 December 2004, 13:00 UTC · half-time 0-2

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Aston Villa 1-2 Birmingham City: match report

Aston Villa lost to Birmingham City 1-2 in the Premier League on Sunday 12 December 2004. The half-time score was 0-2.

Clinton Morrison opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Aston Villa's goal came from Gareth Barry (90'). Birmingham City scored through Clinton Morrison (9') and David Dunn (18').

Discipline: Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards; Birmingham City received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 6th on 25 points from 16 and Birmingham City 16th on 14 points from 16. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 10th with 47 points, and Birmingham City 12th with 45.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Aston Villa wins, 2 draws and 2 for Birmingham City.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 9'Goal · Clinton MorrisonBirmingham City · 0-1
  • 18'Goal · David DunnBirmingham City · 0-2
  • 37'Yellow card · Damien JohnsonBirmingham City
  • 37'Yellow card · Olof MellbergAston Villa
  • 45'Yellow card · David DunnBirmingham City
  • 66'Yellow card · Gareth BarryAston Villa
  • 66'Yellow card · Olivier TebilyBirmingham City
  • 77'Yellow card · Darren CarterBirmingham City
  • 90'Goal · Gareth BarryAston Villa · 1-2

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Aston Villa 0, draws 2, Birmingham City 2.

Team news

Aston Villa expected line-up

Thomas Sorensen, Ronny Johnsen, Ulises de la Cruz Bernardo, Liam Ridgewell, Gareth Barry, Gavin McCann, Thomas Hitzlsperger, Jlloyd Samuel, Lee Hendrie, Darius Vassell, Juan Ángel Arango

Birmingham City expected line-up

Maik Taylor, Matthew Upson, Mario Melchiot, Kenny Cunningham, Julian Gray, Robbie Savage, Jesper Gronkjaer, Darren Anderton, Emile Heskey, Damien Johnson, David Dunn