Aston Villa 0-0 Portsmouth: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 18 October 2008

Result

Aston Villa 0-0 Portsmouth

Premier League · Saturday 18 October 2008, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Aston Villa 0-0 Portsmouth: match report

Aston Villa drew with Portsmouth 0-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 18 October 2008. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Neither side found the net.

Discipline: Aston Villa received 1 yellow card; Portsmouth received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 5th on 13 points from 7 and Portsmouth 7th on 12 points from 7. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 6th with 62 points, and Portsmouth 14th with 41.

Aston Villa lined up in a 4-4-2 and Portsmouth in a 4-4-2.

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

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 42'Yellow card · Glen JohnsonPortsmouth
  • 60'Yellow card · Sean DavisPortsmouth
  • 63'Yellow card · Ashley YoungAston Villa
  • 75'Yellow card · Papa Bouba DiopPortsmouth
  • 81'Second yellow · Sean DavisPortsmouth

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Aston Villa 4, draws 3, Portsmouth 3.

Team news

Aston Villa line-up (4-4-2)

Martin Laursen, Ashley Young, Curtis Davies, Gareth Barry, James Milner, Stiliyan Petrov, Nigel Reo-Coker, John Carew, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Brad Friedel, Carlos Cuéllar

Portsmouth line-up (4-4-2)

Glen Johnson, Sylvain Distin, Noé Pamarot, Armand Traore, Papa Diop, Sean Davis, Peter Crouch, David James, Jermain Defoe, Sulzeer Campbell, Glen Little