Aston Villa 3-1 Leicester City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 30 August 2003
Result
Aston Villa 3-1 Leicester City
Premier League · Saturday 30 August 2003, 14:00 UTC · half-time 3-0
Aston Villa 3-1 Leicester City: match report
Aston Villa beat Leicester City 3-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 30 August 2003. It was 3-0 at half-time.
Aston Villa's goals came from an own goal by Ben Thatcher (8'), Juan Ángel Arango (10') and Juan Ángel Arango (16'). Leicester City scored through Mustafa Izzet (53').
Discipline: Aston Villa received 1 yellow card; Leicester City received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 17th on 1 point from 3 and Leicester City 15th on 2 points from 3. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 6th with 56 points, and Leicester City 18th with 33.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Aston Villa win, 2 draws and 1 for Leicester City.
Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read L-D-L and Leicester City's D-L-D.
Key events
- 8'Own goal · Ben Thatcher
- 10'Goal · Juan Ángel Arango
- 16'Goal · Juan Ángel Arango
- 40'Yellow card · Leslie Ferdinand
- 40'Second yellow · Leslie Ferdinand
- 43'Yellow card · Mustafa Izzet
- 52'Yellow card · Ronny Johnsen
- 53'Goal · Mustafa Izzet