Aston Villa 1-0 Blackburn Rovers: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 1 January 2005

Result

Aston Villa 1-0 Blackburn Rovers

Premier League · Saturday 1 January 2005, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Aston Villa 1-0 Blackburn Rovers: match report

Aston Villa won against Blackburn Rovers 1-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 1 January 2005. It was 0-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Nolberto Albino Solano Todco of Aston Villa in the 88th minute.

Discipline: Aston Villa received 1 yellow card; Blackburn Rovers received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 11th on 25 points from 20 and Blackburn Rovers 16th on 19 points from 20. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 10th with 47 points, and Blackburn Rovers 15th with 42.

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

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 13'Yellow card · Gavin McCannAston Villa
  • 79'Yellow card · Paul DickovBlackburn Rovers
  • 88'Goal · Nolberto Albino Solano TodcoAston Villa · 1-0

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Aston Villa 3, draws 2, Blackburn Rovers 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

Blackburn Rovers expected line-up

Lucas Neill, Nils-Eric Johansson, Steven Reid, James McEveley, Brett Emerton, Tugay Kerimoglu, Paul Gallagher, Brad Friedel, Andy Todd, Paul Dickov, Barry Ferguson