Aston Villa 0-2 Manchester United: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 17 December 2005
Result
Aston Villa 0-2 Manchester United
Premier League · Saturday 17 December 2005, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
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Aston Villa 0-2 Manchester United: match report
Aston Villa lost to Manchester United 0-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 17 December 2005. The half-time score was 0-1.
Ruud van Nistelrooy opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Aston Villa did not score. Manchester United scored through Ruud van Nistelrooy (10') and Wayne Rooney (51').
Discipline: Aston Villa received 1 yellow card; Manchester United received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 14th on 17 points from 16 and Manchester United 2nd on 34 points from 16. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 16th with 42 points, and Manchester United 2nd with 83.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Aston Villa wins, 2 draws and 8 for Manchester United.
Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read D-D-W-W-L and Manchester United's W-D-W-W-W.
Key events
- 10'Goal · Ruud van Nistelrooy
- 51'Goal · Wayne Rooney
- 61'Yellow card · Juan Ángel Arango
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa expected line-up
Thomas Sorensen, Liam Ridgewell, Ronny Johnsen, Gareth Barry, Gavin McCann, James Milner, Steven Davis, Olof Mellberg, Mark Anthony Delaney
Manchester United expected line-up
Roy Carroll, Mikaël Silvestre, John O'Shea, Rio Ferdinand, Wes Brown, Cristiano Ronaldo, Louis Saha, Paul Scholes, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Alan Smith, Gary Neville