Aston Villa 2-3 Middlesbrough: result and report

Aston Villa 2-3 Middlesbrough

Premier League · Sunday 2 October 2005, 13:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Aston Villa were beaten by Middlesbrough 2-3 in the Premier League on Sunday 2 October 2005. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Yakubu Aiyegbeni opened the scoring in the 33rd minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Luke Moore (50') and Steven Davis (90'). Middlesbrough scored through Yakubu Aiyegbeni (33'), George Boateng (64') and Yakubu Aiyegbeni (88', penalty).

Discipline: Aston Villa received 4 yellow cards; Middlesbrough received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 16th on 6 points from 7 and Middlesbrough 12th on 8 points from 7. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 16th with 42 points, and Middlesbrough 14th with 45.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Aston Villa wins, 3 draws and 3 for Middlesbrough.

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