Aston Villa 1-1 Middlesbrough: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 25 November 2006

Result

Aston Villa 1-1 Middlesbrough

Premier League · Saturday 25 November 2006, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Aston Villa · Middlesbrough · Premier League predictions

Aston Villa 1-1 Middlesbrough: match report

Aston Villa drew with Middlesbrough 1-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 25 November 2006. The half-time score was 1-1.

Malcolm Christie opened the scoring in the 43rd minute. Aston Villa's goal came from Gareth Barry (45'). Middlesbrough scored through Malcolm Christie (43').

Discipline: Aston Villa received 1 yellow card; Middlesbrough received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 5th on 22 points from 13 and Middlesbrough 14th on 15 points from 13. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 11th with 50 points, and Middlesbrough 12th with 46.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Aston Villa wins, 1 draw and 4 for Middlesbrough.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 37'Yellow card · Gareth BarryAston Villa
  • 43'Goal · Malcolm ChristieMiddlesbrough · 0-1
  • 45'Goal · Gareth BarryAston Villa · 1-1
  • 45'Yellow card · Mark SchwarzerMiddlesbrough
  • 56'Yellow card · Emanuel PogatetzMiddlesbrough
  • 61'Yellow card · Robert HuthMiddlesbrough

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Aston Villa 5, draws 1, Middlesbrough 4.

Team news

Aston Villa line-up

Thomas Sorensen, Wilfred Bouma, Liam Ridgewell, Gareth Barry, Gavin McCann, Stiliyan Petrov, Isaiah Osbourne, Juan Ángel Arango, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Olof Mellberg, Gary Cahill

Middlesbrough line-up

Mark Schwarzer, Emanuel Pogatetz, Robert Huth, Andrew Taylor, Julio Arca, George Boateng, James Morrison, Malcolm Christie, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Jonathan Woodgate, Abel da Silva Costa Xavier