Aston Villa 1-0 Blackburn Rovers: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 27 August 2005

Result

Aston Villa 1-0 Blackburn Rovers

Premier League · Saturday 27 August 2005, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Aston Villa 1-0 Blackburn Rovers: match report

Aston Villa defeated Blackburn Rovers 1-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 27 August 2005. It was 1-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Milan Baros of Aston Villa in the 10th minute.

Discipline: Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 15th on 2 points from 3 and Blackburn Rovers 11th on 4 points from 3. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 16th with 42 points, and Blackburn Rovers 6th with 63.

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

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Goal · Milan BarosAston Villa · 1-0
  • 19'Yellow card · Olof MellbergAston Villa
  • 52'Yellow card · Ryan NelsenBlackburn Rovers
  • 56'Yellow card · Dominic MatteoBlackburn Rovers
  • 90'Yellow card · Milan BarosAston Villa

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Aston Villa 4, 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, Steven Reid, Dominic Matteo, Brett Emerton, Robbie Savage, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Tugay Kerimoglu, Brad Friedel, Andy Todd, Ryan Nelsen, Shefki Kuqi