Aston Villa 5-1 Birmingham City: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 20 April 2008

Result

Aston Villa 5-1 Birmingham City

Premier League · Sunday 20 April 2008, 11:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Aston Villa 5-1 Birmingham City: match report

Aston Villa beat Birmingham City 5-1 in the Premier League on Sunday 20 April 2008. It was 2-0 at half-time.

A. Young opened the scoring in the 28th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from A. Young (28'), John Carew (42'), John Carew (54'), A. Young (63') and Gabriel Agbonlahor (78'). Birmingham City scored through Mikael Forssell (67').

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

Going into the game Aston Villa were 7th on 55 points from 34 and Birmingham City 18th on 31 points from 34. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 6th with 60 points, and Birmingham City 19th with 35.

Aston Villa lined up in a 4-3-3 and Birmingham City in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Aston Villa wins, 2 draws and 4 for Birmingham City.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 28'Goal · A. YoungAston Villa · 1-0
  • 42'Goal · John CarewAston Villa · 2-0
  • 52'Yellow card · James McFaddenBirmingham City
  • 54'Goal · John CarewAston Villa · 3-0
  • 63'Goal · A. YoungAston Villa · 4-0
  • 67'Goal · Mikael ForssellBirmingham City · 4-1
  • 78'Goal · Gabriel AgbonlahorAston Villa · 5-1

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Aston Villa 3, draws 2, Birmingham City 4.

Team news

Aston Villa line-up (4-3-3)

Scott Carson, Wilfred Bouma, Martin Laursen, Ashley Young, Zat Knight, Gareth Barry, Stiliyan Petrov, Nigel Reo-Coker, John Carew, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Olof Mellberg

Birmingham City line-up (4-4-2)

Maik Taylor, Stephen Kelly, Liam Ridgewell, David Murphy, Gary McSheffrey, Fabrice Muamba, Cameron Jerome, James McFadden, Mauro Zárate, Mehdi Nafti, Radhi Jaïdi