Chelsea 1-1 Aston Villa: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 30 September 2006

Result

Chelsea 1-1 Aston Villa

Premier League · Saturday 30 September 2006, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Chelsea 1-1 Aston Villa: match report

Chelsea drew with Aston Villa 1-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 30 September 2006. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Didier Drogba opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Chelsea's goal came from Didier Drogba (3'). Aston Villa scored through Gabriel Agbonlahor (45').

Discipline: Chelsea received no yellow cards; Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Chelsea were 1st on 15 points from 6 and Aston Villa 6th on 12 points from 6. Chelsea went on to finish that season 2nd with 83 points, and Aston Villa 11th with 50.

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

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Goal · Didier DrogbaChelsea · 1-0
  • 45'Goal · Gabriel AgbonlahorAston Villa · 1-1
  • 53'Yellow card · Gavin McCannAston Villa
  • 83'Yellow card · Olof MellbergAston Villa

Head-to-head

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

Team news

Chelsea expected line-up

Damien Duff, William Gallas, John Terry, Paulo Ferreira, Michael Essien, Geremi N'Djitap Fotso, Arjen Robben, Petr Čech, Eiður Guðjohnsen, Joe Cole, Claude Makélélé

Aston Villa expected line-up

Thomas Sorensen, Liam Ridgewell, Martin Laursen, Gareth Barry, Gavin McCann, Steven Davis, Stiliyan Petrov, Juan Ángel Arango, Luke Moore, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Olof Mellberg