Villa are held at home for the second successive game and draw for the third consecutive match to extend their unbeaten run in all competitions under Martin O'Neill to ten games.

Villa were now unbeaten in Martin O’Neill’s first 10 games in charge - the first such run since John Gregory in May 2001 - and sat in 7th place in the Premier League having won 4 and drawn 6. 

Centre forward Chris Sutton, 33, makes his Villa debut after joining on a free transfer to become the 793rd player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

Midfielder Isaiah Osbourne, 18, makes his Villa debut after coming through the youth ranks to become the 794th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

Villa extend their unbeaten run to 11 games under Martin O'Neill - the first such run since John Gregory in May 2001 - as Gabriel Agbonlahor wins it for Villa in the last minute of extra time.

Juan Pablo Ángel scores his 60th goal in a Villa shirt on his 147th start (189 Appearances) to make it W68 D52 L69, 60 Goals, 18 Assists and 12 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one for every 1.88 starts so far in his Villa career.

Aaron Hughes makes his 50th appearance in a Villa shirt to make it W18 D17 L15, 0 Goals, 7 Assists and 2 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Villa lose for the first time in 2006-07, the first time in twelve games and the first time under Martin O'Neill.

Villa suffer their first reverse of the season, and first under Martin O'Neill, as their 11 game unbeaten run comes to an end.

Gabriel Agbonlahor scores his fifth goal in a Villa shirt on his 21st appearance (15 Starts) to make it W7 D8 L6, 5 Goals, 3 Assists and 1 Booking so far in his Villa career.

Juan Pablo Ángel suffers his 70th defeat in a Villa shirt on his 190th appearance (148 Starts) to make it W68 D52 L70, 60 Goals, 18 Assists and 12 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one for every 2.44 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

Chris Sutton contributes his 1st assist in a Villa shirt on his 3rd appearance (0 Starts) to make it W1 D1 L1 and 1 Assist so far in his Villa career.

Villa bounce back from their League Cup disappointment to make it successive Premier League wins and one defeat in 12 Premier League matches under Martin O'Neill as they rise to 4th in the early table. 

Chris Sutton scores his 1st goal in a Villa shirt on his 5th appearance (2 Starts) to make it W3 D1 L1, 1 Goal, 1 Assist and 1 Booking so far in his Villa career.

Isaiah Osbourne contributes his first assist in a Villa shirt on his 4th appearance to make it W2 D1 L1 and 1 Assist so far in his Villa career.

Olof Mellberg makes his 200th appearance in a Villa shirt to make it W69 D56 L75, 6 Goals, 6 Assists and 23 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Juan Pablo Ángel secures his 70th win in a Villa shirt on his 151st start (193 Appearances) to make it W70 D52 L71, 61 Goals, 19 Assists and 13 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one for every 1.91 starts so far in his Villa career.

Wilfred Bouma makes his 25th start in a Villa shirt (26 Appearances) to make it W9 D6 L11 and 2 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Villa are held to a goalless draw at Wigan but extend their run under Martin O'Neill to just one defeat in thirteen Premier League games drawing 7 and winning 5 five as  O'Neill takes David O'Leary’s 2005-06 squad, plus Stiliyan Petrov and transforms a squad that had lost 8 of their last 13 games under O’Leary. 

Winger Peter Whittingham, 22, makes his 66th and final appearance (39 Starts) for Villa before moving on to Cardiff City for a fee of £473,000 in January 2007. Whittingham had come through the ranks as a schoolboy and made his debut aged 18 in the final game of the 2002-03 season under Graham Taylor before a 25 game run as a starter under David O’Leary. Inexplicably thereafter O’Leary relegated Whittingham to a substitute role. Following his ‘demotion’ Whittingham scored a single goal in 30 games under O’Leary having contributed 5 goal involvements in his first 22 starts. Whittingham would leave with a record of W26 D18 L22, 2 Goals, 5 Assists and 6 Bookings from his 5 seasons with Villa. Tragically Whittingham died after a fall at the age of 35 in March 2020. 

Winger Didier Agathe, 31, makes his 6th and final appearance for Villa (0 Starts) before moving on to Saint-Pierroise on a free transfer in January 2007. Agathe had joined Villa as a free agent earlier in the 2006-07 season and would leave with a record of W2 D3 L1 across his 6 substitute appearances.

Villa survive one of the most laughably bad offside decisions ever seen to recover a draw against Middlesbrough and extend their run to a single defeat in fourteen Premier League games under Martin O'Neill.

Gareth Barry scores his fourth penalty of the season after a shocking offside decision gifts Gareth Southgate's struggling Middlesbrough side the opener.

Stuart Taylor keeps his first clean sheet in a Villa shirt on his 5th appearance (4 Starts) to make it W2 D2 L1, 7 Goals Conceded and 1 Clean Sheet so far in his Villa career.

Milan Baroš makes it 15 games without a goal in a Villa shirt and 29 games without an assist as he is yet to be involved in a goal in his 13 appearances under Martin O’Nell. His record of W13 D16 L13, 12 Goals, 6 Assists and 6 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one for every 2.33 games he has played so far in his Villa career looks very different from his first 20 starts - a run that had brought 15 goal involvements at a rate of 1.40 per game.

Villa bounce back from their second defeat in fifteen Premier League games under Martin O'Neill but can only draw with Portsmouth in a game the opposition should have been reduced to nine.

Gareth Barry scores his fifth penalty of the season but Villa are held to a draw in a game where former Villa 'keeper David James controversially survives a first half dismissible offence to save his new side.

Villa draw for the 9th time in 16 Premier League under Martin O’Neill.

Juan Pablo Ángel contributes his 80th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 197th appearance (154 Starts) to make it W70 D55 L72, 62 Goals, 18 Assists and 13 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one for every 2.46 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

Villa draw for the second successive game to extend their run to two defeats in seventeen Premier League games under Martin O'Neill.

Villa record their 10th draw in 17 Premier League games under Martin O'Neill.

Stiliyan Petrov scores his first goal in a Villa shirt after just 76 seconds of his 16th appearance to make it W5 D8 L3, 1 Goal and 1 Assist so far in his Villa career.

Milan Baroš scores for the first time in 18 games in a Villa shirt to make it 45 appearances (36 Starts), W13 D18 L14, 13 Goals, 6 Assists and 7 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one for every 2.37 games he has played so far in his Villa career

Villa lose for a third consecutive game with their stand-in 'keeper as the years of under investment under former Chairman Doug Ellis leaves Martin O'Neill with a threadbare squad.

Villa, without a first team 'keeper are now without a win in their last 8 Premier League games under Martin O'Neill but remain 10th in the table with a record for his debut season of P20 W5 D10 L5.

Gary Cahill collects his 5th booking in a Villa shirt on his 17th appearance (16 Starts) to make it W4 D5 L8, 1 Goal and 5 Bookings at a rate of a card every 3.40 games so far in his Villa career.

Villa lose for a fourth consecutive game with their stand-in 'keeper to end 2006 in a difficult run of form after such a solid start to life under Martin O'Neill.

Villa end 2006 with a 4th successive defeat having had to play without a first team 'keeper for the 4th consecutive match, losing Gareth Barry to a red card and conceding an injury time winner. As a result Villa fell to a season low of 12th in the table and the early optimism under Martin O'Neill faced its first rigorous examination.

Juan Pablo Ángel suffers his 75th defeat in a Villa shirt on his 201st appearance (155 Starts) to make it W70 D56 L75, 60 Goals, 18 Assists and 13 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one for every 2.51 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

Villa stop a run of four consecutive Premier League defeats with a hard fought draw against title chasing Chelsea as stand in 'keeper Gábor Király keeps his first clean sheet for Villa.

Villa however are winless in 10 Premier League games under Martin O'Neill and fall to 13th in the table.

Villa lose their annual FA Cup third round tie with Manchester United to an injury time goal. 

Emergency 'keeper Gábor Király makes his 6th and final appearance in a Villa shirt before returning to Championship side Crystal Palace's reserve team and leaving with a record of W0 D1 L5, 10 Goals Conceded at a rate of 1.67 goals per game and 1 Clean Sheet (17%).

Gary Cahill contributes his 1st goal assist in a Villa shirt on his 20th appearance (19 Starts) to make it W4 D6 L10, 1 Goal, 1 Assist and 6 Bookings at a rate of a card every 3.33 games so far in his Villa career.

Goalkeeper Bobby Olejnik, 20, makes his 11th and final squad appearance for Villa as an unused substitute before moving on to Falkirk in June 2007.

Villa lose for the fifth time in six Premier League games.

Villa play Manchester United for the second game in succession and the third time in six matches and have now lost all three.

Villa are out of the Cups and without a Premier League win in 11 games under Martin O’Neill and have dropped from 5th place 6 weeks previously to 15th today.

Gabriel Agbonlahor contributes his 10th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 36th appearance (30 Starts) to make it W9 D13 L14, 6 Goals, 4 Assists and 1 Booking at a goal involvement rate of one for every 3.60 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

Milan Baroš contributes an assist for the first time in 37 games in a Villa shirt to make it 50 appearances (39 Starts), W13 D19 L18, 13 Goals, 7 Assists and 7 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one for every 2.50 games he has played so far in his Villa career. Baroš first 25 appearances had delivered 10 Goals and 6 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one for every 1.56 games.

Liam Ridgewell makes his 75th start in a Villa shirt (92 Starts) to make it W29 D27 L36, 6 Goals, 2 Assists, 11 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

A much changed team makes short work of Wrexham.

Centre back Gary Cahill, 22, makes his 31st and final appearance in a Villa shirt (28 Starts) before being sold to Bolton Wanderers for a fee of £5,400,000 in January 2008 in a move that stunned and shocked the fan base in equal measure. Cahill, like Peter Crouch, Steven Davis and Thomas Hitzlsperger before him was clearly of the class to make a long term career with Villa but Martin O'Neill deemed Cahill surplus to requirements as he had with Steven Davis and as his predecessor had done with Crouch and Hitzlsperger. Perhaps it was with Martin Laursen and Olof Mellberg being his first choice centre back pairing he saw no room for Cahill. But, given the injuries Laursen carried and the expectation that Mellberg would leave the club at the end of his contract the decision worried many. Rumours of strong personalities and playing demands clashing also shone a light on issues not previously public. That O’Neill subsequently recruited lesser players as Cahill’s de facto replacements made the move even more perplexing. As for Cahill himself, although his initial destination was curious, to the surprise of nobody he went on to be a Premier League winning captain and the first chink in the mighty Martin O’Neill armour was opened. Cahill left with a record of W7 D9 L15, 1 Goal, 2 Assists and 7 Bookings.

Shaun Maloney celebrates his 10th appearance in a Villa shirt (6 Starts) with a brace against League Two side Wrexham (who would be relegated from the League at the end of the campaign) to make it W5 D4 L1, 4 Goals and 0 Assists so far in his Villa career.

Marlon Harewood scores his 1st goal and contributes his 1st assist in a Villa shirt on his 2nd appearance (1 Start) to make it W2 D0 L0, 1 Goals and 1 Assist so far in his Villa career.

Martin O'Neill's mass changes backfire as Villa are knocked out of the League Cup by Championship side Leicester. 

Villa have now lost three games this season, all of which have been by a single goal. 

Centre back Curtis Davies makes his debut appearance for Villa after joining on a season long loan from West Bromwich Albion in August 2007 ahead of a permanent move arranged for August 2008 to become the 804th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

Stuart Taylor makes his 10th start in a Villa shirt (12 Appearances) to make it W3 D5 L4, 18 Goals Conceded at a rate of 1.50 goals per game and 2 Clean Sheets so far in his Villa career.

Nine man Villa lose to Manchester United with the customary help from the officials to leave them with a second Premier League defeat in eight games.

Villa lose for the third time in nine Premier League games and for a first time lose a match by more than the odd goal after having both Scott Carson and Nigel Reo-Coker sent off.

Villa fall back to 9th and the toxic combination of atrocious luck, form and poor refereeing performances against Manchester United continues.

Gabriel Agbonlahor scores his 15th goal in a Villa shirt on his 62nd appearance (55 Starts) to make it W20 D21 L21, 15 Goals, 6 Assists and 4 Bookings.

Scott Carson is sent off on his 8th appearance in a Villa shirt to make it W4 D2 L2, 2 Assists, 9 Goals Conceded at a rate of 1.12 goals per game, 4 Clean Sheets (50%), 1 Booking and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

Nigel Reo-Coker is sent off on his 11th appearance in a Villa shirt to make it W5 D2 L4, 1 Goal, 1 Assist, 6 Bookings and 1 Red Card at a rate of a card every 1.57 games so far in his Villa career.

Villa draw at the Reebok having surrendered the early initiative to lowly Bolton to make it P10 W4 D3 L3 compared to Martin O'Neill's first season record of P10 W3 D6 L1, delivering 15 points each time.

Stuart Taylor concedes his 20th goal in a Villa shirt on his 14th appearance (11 Starts) to make it W3 D6 L5, 20 Goals Conceded at a rate of 1.43 goals per game and 2 Clean Sheets so far in his Villa career.

Patrik Berger makes his 25th appearance in a Villa shirt (9 Starts) to make it W7 D8 L10, 2 Goals, 3 Assists and 1 Booking so far in his Villa career.

Villa suffer a shock defeat to lowly Fulham and end an eight game unbeaten run under Martin O'Neill that had moved them into 5th place. 

Wilfred Bouma makes his 75th appearance in a Villa shirt (72 Starts) to make it W26 D24 L25, 3 Assists and 6 Bookings so far in his Villa career.