Aston Villa 4-2 Newcastle United: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 28 August 2004
Result
Aston Villa 4-2 Newcastle United
Premier League · Saturday 28 August 2004, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-2
Aston Villa 4-2 Newcastle United: match report
Aston Villa beat Newcastle United 4-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 28 August 2004. The half-time score was 1-2.
Olof Mellberg opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Olof Mellberg (4'), Carlton Cole (53'), Gareth Barry (71') and Juan Ángel Arango (82'). Newcastle United scored through Patrick Kluivert (28') and Andrew O'Brien (36').
Discipline: Aston Villa received 3 yellow cards; Newcastle United received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 11th on 4 points from 3 and Newcastle United 15th on 2 points from 3. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 10th with 47 points, and Newcastle United 14th with 44.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Aston Villa wins, 5 draws and 3 for Newcastle United.
Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read L-D-W and Newcastle United's D-L-D.
Key events
- 4'Goal · Olof Mellberg
- 28'Goal · Patrick Kluivert
- 36'Goal · Andrew O'Brien
- 52'Yellow card · Jlloyd Samuel
- 53'Goal · Carlton Cole
- 56'Yellow card · Thomas Sorensen
- 71'Goal · Gareth Barry
- 82'Goal · Juan Ángel Arango
- 90'Yellow card · Shay Given
- 90'Yellow card · Lee Hendrie
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa expected line-up
Thomas Sorensen, Ronny Johnsen, Ulises de la Cruz Bernardo, Liam Ridgewell, Gareth Barry, Gavin McCann, Thomas Hitzlsperger, Jlloyd Samuel, Lee Hendrie, Darius Vassell, Juan Ángel Arango