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Wednesday October 29, 2008 Finished Villa Park

3 - 2

Aston Villa

  • Young 45’
  • Barry 65’
  • Agbonlahor 87’

Blackburn Rovers

  • Warnock 30’
  • Emerton 90’
  1. Clinical Villa down Blackburn

    Clinical Villa down Blackburn

    Clinical finishing from Aston Villa helped them to defeat Blackburn 3-2 at Villa Park despite a sub-par performance. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Aston Villa
    • Blackburn Rovers
    • FT And there is no time for Blackburn to get back into it. Villa have won. Harsh on Blackburn who were the better team for most of the not but Rovers were the more clinical side.
    • 90' Great goal from Emerton as he curls the free-kick into the top corner - has to be too late though?
    • 90' Laursen with a slight push on Derbyshire on the edge of the area...Emerton will take the free.
    • 87 VILLA WRAP IT UP - classic counter-attack move - Ashley Young chips a ball over the defence for Agbonlahor to run onto and then he seals the points with a fine low left foot finish.
    • 85' The Blackburn challenge seems to have fizzled out a bit since they made their changes, Villa now look like they could see this home.
    • 83' Villa looking to shore up the game - Sidwell on for Reo-Coker.
    • 79 Double change for Blackburn McCarthy and Pedersen make way for Derbyshire and Olsson.
    • 78' Great stuff from Young down the left - he turns his man inside out before cutting in for a shot that goes just wide.
    • 77' Samba booked for a foul just outside the box - Villa will have a chance from the free-kick..but Young curls it miles over the bar.
    • 76' Villa have been very, very poor tonight, if they get away with three points here they will be extremely fortunate.
    • 72' Another good chance for Blackburn - Emerton is free at the back post from a Villanueva free kick but he tries to shoot first time when he had time to take it down.
    • 71' Meanwhile, Warnock never recovered from that earlier knock and was replaced a few minutes ago by Tugay.
    • 70' Blackburn with a free-kick on the edge of the area - Pedersen tries a shot but it flies over the bar.
    • 68' Agbonlahor looks like he is going to turn the ball home before a great challenge from Ooijer stops him.
    • 67' Pedersen is found at the far post and tries a superb low volley from a really right angle but Friedel gets down and saves.
    • 65' VILLA IN FRONT AGAINST THE RUN OF PLAY: Great work from Milner as he is found it in the box - he shows great strength to shrug off two defenders and get to the by-line before pulling it back for BARRY who is there to tap home.
    • 62' Finally Villa string a few passes together but their attacking move ends when Young fires a shot well over the bar.
    • 59' More lovely build-up play by Blackburn. Villanueva this time drags a clever ball to Warnock who burst into the left side of the box but this time he can only drag a poor shot wide - ALL ROVERS!
    • 56' Well I said Villa should bring on Carew but with one less in midfield they just can't get the ball at the moment! All Blackburn.
    • 55' More excellent play from Blackburn. One touch stuff from Pedersen and Andrews after a long ball from Robinson and Emerton drills a half volley from distance just wide. Impressive performance this from Blackburn.
    • 53' We have had a little stoppage in play after an injury to Warnock but we are now back underway.
    • 48' Simpson with a little half chance for Blackburn but his half-volley from outside the box is blocked.
    • 48' It was Petrov who made way Carew at half-time.
    • 46' Back underway at Villa Park and no surprise to see that John Carew has come on for the second-half. Still waiting to confirm who came off.
    • HT And that is the last bit of action in the first half at Villa Park. The hosts are lucky to be level - expect to see John Carew in the second-half.
    • 45' Villa are level!! Terrible defending from Blackburn though as they fail to deal with a cross from Shorey - Young hits a ball into the ground it hits a Blackburn defender and bounces back off Young and into the net.
    • 45' Strong finish to the half from Villa - Milner with a superb deep cross, Laursen gets his head on it again, but, under pressure he can't get much contact on it and it goes wide.
    • 43' Great defending from Nelsen to slide in and clear a low Milner cross.
    • 41' Villanueva chests a ball down and tries and ambitious half-volley but it goes miles over. That's the Blackburn player I'm talking about of course, not some kind of "new Villa."
    • 37' Laursen gets his head on a free from Young and puts it on target but Robinson gets down well to save.
    • 35' Blackburn remain on top since the goal. Villa lucky to get away with some poor defending in the box - the ball fell to Andrews on the edge of the area but Luke Young blocked his drive.
    • 31' STEPHEN WARNOCK GIVES BLACKBURN THE LEAD - lovely goal on his 100th Premier League appearance. Some crisp passing from Blackburn and Warnock then played a great one-two with McCarthy before storming into the box and finishing with a superb low drive into the corner of the net.
    • 28' Villa struggling to get the ball to stick up front. Agbonlahor just does not have the presence of Carew up there. The Norwegian is on the bench though.
    • 25' Well after starting so well, Villa have just dropped out of this game and it is Blackburn who are controlling proceedings.
    • 21' McCarthy now drags another shot just wide but he was offside anyway - Blackburn coming more and more into this though.
    • 17' We have had our first good effort and it has actually come from Blackburn. Brad Friedel makes a great save to get down and deny a powerful low effort from Keith Andrews. The ball was set up by Benni McCarthy who was actually named as a late replacement for Santa Cruz who injured himself in the warm up.
    • 14' Blackburn have settled into the game a bit now but Villa are still looking the more dangerous team.
    • 10' Villa really getting on top now - Barry has just been found in the box and he pulled another ball back across but there are only Blackburn players there to clear.
    • 8' Good cross whipped in from a corner Young. Robinson comes out and sort of flaps it clear and he is lucky there is no Villa player there to take advantage.
    • 6' Villa starting to get on top of things - they have whipped a few balls into the box but Blackburn have defended everything thrown at them so far.
    • 3' The ball just bouncing around the midfield in the early stages of this match - we are still waiting for our first chance.
    • - And we are underway at Villa Park.
    • - Big Villa team news is that John Carew drops to the bench. James Milner comes in on the right wing with Agbonlahor taking a more central role. Blackburn are playing Roque Santa Cruz as a lone target man.
    • - Welcome to LIVE coverage of this match at Villa Park between Aston Villa and Blackburn.

  • Team Stats

    Aston Villa Stats Blackburn Rovers
    41% Possession 58%
    10 Shots 15
    4 Shots on target 4
    1 Saves 1
    4 Corners 5
    19 Fouls 7
    7 Offsides 3
    0 Yellow cards 1
    0 Red cards 0
    26 Tackles 32
    189 Accurate passes 306
    62 Bad passes 65

  • Player Stats

    G =
    Goals
    S =
    Shots
    SoT =
    Shot on Target
    F =
    Fouls
    FW =
    Fouls Won
    O =
    Offsides
    A =
    Assists
    AP =
    Accurate Passes
    BP =
    Bad Passes
    T =
    Tackles
    • Aston Villa
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Brad Friedel 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 4 0
      24 Carlos Cuéllar 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 21 2 3
      21 Nicky Shorey 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 21 13 0
      2 Luke Young 1 2 1 2 1 0 0 20 0 3
      5 Martin Laursen 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 16 7 1
      8 James Milner 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 15 2 5
      6 Gareth Barry 1 1 1 0 3 1 0 23 9 2
      19 Stilian Petrov 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 13 3 5
      20 Nigel Reo-Coker 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 2 5
      7 Ashley Young 0 3 0 1 3 2 1 22 13 2
      11 Gabriel Agbonlahor 1 1 1 0 2 2 0 13 6 0
      10 John Carew 0 0 0 1 3 2 0 6 1 0
      26 Craig Gardner 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      9 Marlon Harewood 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
      22 Brad Guzan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      4 Steve Sidwell 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0
      16 Zatyiah Knight 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      15 Curtis Davies 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    • Blackburn Rovers
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Paul Robinson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 6 0
      6 Ryan Nelsen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 6 1
      3 Stephen Warnock 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 27 7 2
      2 Andre Ooijer 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 42 16 2
      7 Brett Emerton 1 3 1 4 0 0 0 24 2 1
      22 Danny Simpson 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 17 0 4
      4 Christopher Samba 0 1 0 4 1 0 0 17 2 3
      19 Carlos Villanueva 0 3 0 4 2 1 0 37 7 4
      17 Keith Andrews 0 3 1 3 0 0 0 39 4 7
      12 Morten Gamst Pedersen 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 18 8 8
      10 Benedict McCarthy 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 15 3 0
      15 Aaron Mokoena 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      32 Jason Brown 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      5 Kerimoglou Tugay 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 22 3 0
      30 Jason Roberts 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      23 Robbie Fowler 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      29 Martin Olsson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0
      27 Matt Derbyshire 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 0 0

  • Summary

    • 90' Great goal from Emerton as he curls the free-kick into the top corner - has to be too late though?
    • 87 VILLA WRAP IT UP - classic counter-attack move - Ashley Young chips a ball over the defence for Agbonlahor to run onto and then he seals the points with a fine low left foot finish.
    • 78' Great stuff from Young down the left - he turns his man inside out before cutting in for a shot that goes just wide.
    • 65' VILLA IN FRONT AGAINST THE RUN OF PLAY: Great work from Milner as he is found it in the box - he shows great strength to shrug off two defenders and get to the by-line before pulling it back for BARRY who is there to tap home.
    • 45' Villa are level!! Terrible defending from Blackburn though as they fail to deal with a cross from Shorey - Young hits a ball into the ground it hits a Blackburn defender and bounces back off Young and into the net.
    • 31' STEPHEN WARNOCK GIVES BLACKBURN THE LEAD - lovely goal on his 100th Premier League appearance. Some crisp passing from Blackburn and Warnock then played a great one-two with McCarthy before storming into the box and finishing with a superb low drive into the corner of the net.
    • 17' We have had our first good effort and it has actually come from Blackburn. Brad Friedel makes a great save to get down and deny a powerful low effort from Keith Andrews. The ball was set up by Benni McCarthy who was actually named as a late replacement for Santa Cruz who injured himself in the warm up.

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Keith Stroud

  • Aston Villa

    Manager: Martin O'Neill

    Captain: Gareth Barry

    Starting line-up

    • B. Friedel
    • L. Young Goal
    • C. Cuellar
    • M. Laursen
    • N. Shorey
    • N. Reo-Coker Substitution Out (83′)
    • G. Barry Goal
    • S. Petrov Substitution Out (45′)
    • J. Milner
    • A. Young
    • G. Agbonlahor Goal Substitution Out (89′)

    Subs

    • J. Carew Substitution In45′
    • M. Harewood Substitution In89′
    • Z. Knight
    • S. Sidwell
    • C. Davies
    • C. Gardner
    • B. Guzan

    Injured

    • W. Bouma

    Suspended

    None

  • Blackburn Rovers

    Manager: Paul Ince

    Captain: Ryan Nelsen

    Starting line-up

    • P. Robinson
    • A. Ooijer
    • R. Nelsen
    • C. Samba Yellow Card
    • S. Warnock Goal Substitution Out (68′)
    • B. Emerton Goal
    • D. Simpson
    • K. Andrews
    • M. Pedersen Substitution Out (79′)
    • C. Villanueva
    • B. McCarthy Substitution Out (79′)

    Subs

    • K. Tugay
    • R. Fowler
    • J. Roberts
    • A. Mokoena
    • M. Derbyshire Substitution In79′
    • J. Brown
    • M. Olsson Substitution In79′

    Injured

    • D. Dunn
    • S. Reid

    Suspended

    None