Aston Villa 2-0 Portsmouth: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 19 September 2009
Result
Aston Villa 2-0 Portsmouth
Premier League · Saturday 19 September 2009, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Aston Villa 2-0 Portsmouth: match report
Aston Villa defeated Portsmouth 2-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 19 September 2009. The half-time score was 2-0.
James Milner opened the scoring in the 34th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from James Milner (34', penalty) and Gabriel Agbonlahor (43'). Portsmouth did not score.
Discipline: Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards; Portsmouth received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 6th on 9 points from 4 and Portsmouth 20th on 0 points from 5. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 6th with 64 points, and Portsmouth 20th with 28.
Aston Villa lined up in a 4-4-2 and Portsmouth in a 4-3-3.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Aston Villa wins, 4 draws and 2 for Portsmouth.
Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read W-W-W-L and Portsmouth's L-L-L-L-L.
Key events
- 34'Penalty goal · James Milner
- 43'Goal · Gabriel Agbonlahor
- 57'Yellow card · Carlos Cuéllar
- 71'Yellow card · Gabriel Agbonlahor
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa line-up (4-4-2)
Richard Dunne, Ashley Young, Stephen Warnock, James Collins, Steve Sidwell, James Milner, Stiliyan Petrov, John Carew, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Brad Friedel, Carlos Cuéllar
Portsmouth line-up (4-3-3)
Younès Kaboul, Aaron Mokoena, Anthony Vanden Borre, Tal Ben Haim, Kevin-Prince Boateng, Nadir Belhadj, Frédéric Piquionne, Tommy Smith, David James, Jamie O'Hara, Michael Brown