Aston Villa 1-1 Manchester City: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 4 April 2004

Result

Aston Villa 1-1 Manchester City

Premier League · Sunday 4 April 2004, 13:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Aston Villa 1-1 Manchester City: match report

Aston Villa drew with Manchester City 1-1 in the Premier League on Sunday 4 April 2004. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Juan Ángel Arango opened the scoring in the 26th minute. Aston Villa's goal came from Juan Ángel Arango (26'). Manchester City scored through Sylvain Distin (82').

Discipline: Aston Villa received 1 yellow card; Manchester City received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 7th on 43 points from 30 and Manchester City 15th on 31 points from 30. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 6th with 56 points, and Manchester City 16th with 41.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Aston Villa wins, 1 draw and 2 for Manchester City.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 26'Goal · Juan Ángel ArangoAston Villa · 1-0
  • 66'Yellow card · Sun JihaiManchester City
  • 79'Yellow card · Jlloyd SamuelAston Villa
  • 82'Goal · Sylvain DistinManchester City · 1-1
  • 84'Yellow card · Richard DunneManchester City

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Aston Villa 2, draws 1, Manchester City 2.

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, Juan Ángel Arango, Olof Mellberg

Manchester City line-up

Sylvain Distin, Michael Tarnat, Richard Dunne, Claudio Reyna, Steve McManaman, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Jon Macken, David James, Paulo Wanchope Watson, Sun Jihai, Paul Bosvelt