Aston Villa 3-2 Chelsea: result and report

Premier League · Monday 12 April 2004

Result

Aston Villa 3-2 Chelsea

Premier League · Monday 12 April 2004, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Aston Villa 3-2 Chelsea: match report

Aston Villa defeated Chelsea 3-2 in the Premier League on Monday 12 April 2004. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Hernán Jorge Crespo opened the scoring in the 11th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Darius Vassell (39', penalty), Thomas Hitzlsperger (49') and Lee Hendrie (52'). Chelsea scored through Hernán Jorge Crespo (11') and Hernán Jorge Crespo (90').

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

Going into the game Aston Villa were 7th on 45 points from 32 and Chelsea 2nd on 71 points from 32. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 6th with 56 points, and Chelsea 2nd with 79.

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

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 11'Goal · Hernán Jorge CrespoChelsea · 0-1
  • 39'Penalty goal · Darius VassellAston Villa · 1-1
  • 49'Goal · Thomas HitzlspergerAston Villa · 2-1
  • 52'Goal · Lee HendrieAston Villa · 3-1
  • 90'Yellow card · Robert HuthChelsea
  • 90'Goal · Hernán Jorge CrespoChelsea · 3-2

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Aston Villa 2, draws 2, Chelsea 3.

Team news

Aston Villa line-up

Thomas Sorensen, Ulises de la Cruz Bernardo, Ronny Johnsen, Jlloyd Samuel, Gareth Barry, Lee Hendrie, Gavin McCann, Thomas Hitzlsperger, Darius Vassell, Peter Crouch, Olof Mellberg