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

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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.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 34'Penalty goal · James MilnerAston Villa · 1-0
  • 43'Goal · Gabriel AgbonlahorAston Villa · 2-0
  • 57'Yellow card · Carlos CuéllarAston Villa
  • 71'Yellow card · Gabriel AgbonlahorAston Villa

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Aston Villa 4, draws 4, Portsmouth 2.

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