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Aston Villa

  • Sidwell 38’

Middlesbrough

  • Tuncay 34’, 88’
  1. Tuncay brace downs Villa

    Tuncay brace downs Villa

    Aston Villa missed out on the chance to go fourth in the Premier League after falling to a late goal in a 2-1 home defeat to Middlesbrough. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Aston Villa
    • Middlesbrough
    • - Well well well. Who predicted that? I didn't! Middlesbrough snatch victory at the death after a dreadful mistake from Steven Sidwell hands Tuncay the chance to win it for the visitors. A plucky three points for Boro...Villa will rue those earlier missed chances! Thanks for following the game...
    • 89' Sidwell again, this time at the other end. The midfielder fails to make amends with a header that skids wide.
    • 87' Goal!! Steven Sidwell will not want to watch that one again. The midfielder gifts Tuncay with a back pass which fails to find its target. Tuncay strides forward and blasts home past Friedel. 2-1 Boro!
    • 82' Alves!! Unbelievable! Is that the miss of the season so far? You know, I think it is. Friedel spills a shot into the feet of the Brazilian but somehow the Boro frontman slots it wide with the goal at his mercy.
    • 80' Agbonlahor heads wide!! The forward jumps high above the Boro defence put his header fails to find the target...
    • 79' Mido is getting ready to come on for Middlesbrough on the touchline. Can the Egyptian make the difference?
    • 77' Young blasts over after picking up a clearance just outside the area
    • 74' Clearance off the line!! Riggot powers a header goalwards but Villa clear off the line!
    • 71' Aliadiere joins Milner in Rob Styles' book with a sliding challenge on Young
    • 69' Milner is shown a yellow card for a trip on Taylor
    • 68' Villa change: Harewood comes on for Shorey
    • 67' That's a nasty clash of heads as Riggot crashes into the back of a Villa midfielder. The home player is ok, but Riggot stays down.
    • 63' Young!! Turnbull again saves from the Villa midfielder after Young is given time to set up and shoot from just outside the box.
    • 57' Milner and Barry swap passes before the former fires a shot goalwards. Turnbull saves with his feet! Villa are getting closer and closer to a second here...
    • 56' Aston Villa have moved up into second gear here. Gareth Southgate has never beaten Villa as a manager... and if it continues like this that looks unlikely to change
    • 52' Sidwell heads over after some great play by Milner on the left. The little winger turned his marker inside out before sending over his cross. Brilliant stuff.
    • 48' Agbonlahor!! The forward whizzes past the Boro defence and only a smart Turbull save can stop Villa from going 2-1 up early doors.
    • 46' We're underway again at Villa Park. It's still bucketing it down but there's more goals in this, I'm sure.
    • 45' It's the Downing-Friedel show at the moment with the England youngster testing the American 'keeper again. The veteran bats away the shot and the Villa defence clear. Nervy moments for the home side just prior to half time...
    • 44' Alves!! The Brazilian puts the ball wide from inside the area.
    • 44' Downing tries his luck from afar. But Friedel is equal to it and collects with ease.
    • 38' GOAL!! You wait 35 minutes for one goal and then two come along at the same time! Sidwell rises highest at the far post to nod home a Villa equaliser after a mini-game of pinball in the area. He certainly looks pleased - that's his second in claret colours since moving from Chelsea...
    • 34' GOAL!! Tuncay capitalises on some dreadful defending in the Villa box to fire home after Downing's cross isn't dealt with properly by Shorey. The Turk can't miss from five yards with Friedel given no chance.
    • 29' Oooohhhh!!! Young takes the free-kick and Turnbull produces a good save to tip the ball over for a corner. Suspicion of a handled deflection there from O-Neil in the wall. Rob Styles isn't interested though.
    • 28' Aliadiere clatters into Young on the edge of the Boro box. Can Aston Villa make something from the resultant free-kick?
    • 26 Oh dear. Alves balloons a shot high over with options either side. Boro are putting Villa under pressure here...
    • 24 Tuncay puts in a dangerous cross from the left but Alves fails to connect. Had he done so, it would be 1-0. No doubt.
    • 20 Aliadiere thumps a free-kick into the wall following a nasty colision on the edge of the box. It is starting to liven up here...
    • 17 Barry attempts a reply for Villa from the left-hand side but his effort isn't powerful enough. Still 0-0...
    • 15 Downing flashes a shot wide of Friedel's post. That's the closest thing we've had to a shot so far...
    • 13 And here's another one... so far this season Villa have won every Premier League game in which they have scored first.
    • 10 For those stat lovers out there did you know that the last time Middlesbrough played a Premier League game on a Sunday they scored eight goals - it was against Manchester City on the final day of last season.
    • 8 A scramble in Boro's box and Reo-Coker scuffs a shot towards goal following a nasty deflection. Comfortable save from Turnbull though...
    • 5 It is raining cats and dogs at Villa Park. Both teams are finding it hard to string a few passes together.
    • 3' A bit of pressure here from Middlesbrough as they are awarded two successive corners. Nothing comes of them though...
    • 2' Interesting! Agbonlahor foils Boro's feeble attempts at an offside trap and scampers off down the wing, only for his cross to evade any Villa strikers in the box!
    • 1' Boro make one change from last week's 1-1 draw with West Ham - Justin Hoyte replacing David Wheater in defence.
    • - Villa make five changes from the team that beat Slavia Prague during the week with the most notable absentee being John Carew, the big Norwegian having failed a pre-match fitness test...
    • - And today's referee is Rob Styles. He's handed out three red cards and 27 yellows in seven Premier League matches so far this season. Let's hope today's match is a clean one!
    • - And Middlesbrough: Turnbull, Hoyte, Pogatetz, Riggott, Taylor, Aliadiere, Digard, O'Neil, Downing, Sanli, Alves. Subs: Jones, Emnes, Arca, Adam Johnson, Wheater, Grounds, Walker
    • - Here's how the teams line up today... Aston Villa: Friedel, Cuellar, Davies, Laursen, Shorey, Reo-Coker, Sidwell, Barry, Milner, Agbonlahor, Ashley Young. Subs: Guzan, Routledge, Salifou, Knight, Delfouneso, Harewood, Gardner
    • - Hello and welcome to eurosport.yahoo.com's LIVE coverage of Aston Villa versus Middlesbrough from Villa Park...

  • Team Stats

    Aston Villa Stats Middlesbrough
    48% Possession 51%
    17 Shots 16
    8 Shots on target 6
    1 Saves 5
    8 Corners 4
    7 Fouls 12
    1 Offsides 2
    2 Yellow cards 2
    0 Red cards 0
    22 Tackles 22
    225 Accurate passes 257
    56 Bad passes 69

  • 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 5 1 0
      5 Martin Laursen 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 22 4 2
      21 Nicky Shorey 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 5 2
      24 Carlos Cuéllar 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 19 5 2
      15 Curtis Davies 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 25 1 1
      8 James Milner 0 1 1 3 0 1 1 20 7 2
      6 Gareth Barry 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 30 9 4
      20 Nigel Reo-Coker 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 14 0 4
      4 Steve Sidwell 1 3 1 2 2 0 0 29 4 3
      7 Ashley Young 0 5 2 2 3 0 0 25 15 1
      11 Gabriel Agbonlahor 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 11 5 0
      16 Zatyiah Knight 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      26 Craig Gardner 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      14 Nathan Delfouneso 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      22 Brad Guzan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      9 Marlon Harewood 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 1
      18 Wayne Routledge 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      17 Moustapha Salifou 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    • Middlesbrough
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      21 Ross Turnbull 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 3 0
      5 Chris Riggott 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 10 0 2
      3 Andrew Taylor 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 35 21 4
      2 Justin Hoyte 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 1 0
      6 Emanuel Pogatetz 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 7 3
      8 Didier Digard 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 34 0 3
      4 Gary O'Neil 0 0 0 2 4 0 0 43 9 2
      19 Stewart Downing 0 4 2 0 1 1 0 46 17 3
      10 Jeremie Aliadiere 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 15 0 1
      12 Afonso Alves 0 6 0 0 0 1 0 12 3 2
      17 Tuncay Sanli 2 3 2 2 1 0 0 21 6 1
      22 Bradley Jones 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      41 Josh Walker 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      20 Julio Arca 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 1
      40 Jonathon Grounds 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      11 Marvin Emnes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      31 David Wheater 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      28 Adam Johnson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

  • Summary

    • - Well well well. Who predicted that? I didn't! Middlesbrough snatch victory at the death after a dreadful mistake from Steven Sidwell hands Tuncay the chance to win it for the visitors. A plucky three points for Boro...Villa will rue those earlier missed chances! Thanks for following the game...
    • 87' Goal!! Steven Sidwell will not want to watch that one again. The midfielder gifts Tuncay with a back pass which fails to find its target. Tuncay strides forward and blasts home past Friedel. 2-1 Boro!
    • 74' Clearance off the line!! Riggot powers a header goalwards but Villa clear off the line!
    • 63' Young!! Turnbull again saves from the Villa midfielder after Young is given time to set up and shoot from just outside the box.
    • 57' Milner and Barry swap passes before the former fires a shot goalwards. Turnbull saves with his feet! Villa are getting closer and closer to a second here...
    • 48' Agbonlahor!! The forward whizzes past the Boro defence and only a smart Turbull save can stop Villa from going 2-1 up early doors.
    • 45' It's the Downing-Friedel show at the moment with the England youngster testing the American 'keeper again. The veteran bats away the shot and the Villa defence clear. Nervy moments for the home side just prior to half time...
    • 44' Downing tries his luck from afar. But Friedel is equal to it and collects with ease.
    • 38' GOAL!! You wait 35 minutes for one goal and then two come along at the same time! Sidwell rises highest at the far post to nod home a Villa equaliser after a mini-game of pinball in the area. He certainly looks pleased - that's his second in claret colours since moving from Chelsea...
    • 34' GOAL!! Tuncay capitalises on some dreadful defending in the Villa box to fire home after Downing's cross isn't dealt with properly by Shorey. The Turk can't miss from five yards with Friedel given no chance.
    • 29' Oooohhhh!!! Young takes the free-kick and Turnbull produces a good save to tip the ball over for a corner. Suspicion of a handled deflection there from O-Neil in the wall. Rob Styles isn't interested though.
    • 15 Downing flashes a shot wide of Friedel's post. That's the closest thing we've had to a shot so far...

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Alan Wiley

  • Aston Villa

    Manager: Martin O'Neill

    Captain: Martin Laursen

    Starting line-up

    • B. Friedel
    • C. Cuellar
    • C. Davies
    • M. Laursen
    • N. Shorey Substitution Out (68′)
    • N. Reo-Coker
    • S. Sidwell Goal
    • G. Barry
    • J. Milner Yellow Card
    • G. Agbonlahor
    • A. Young

    Subs

    • M. Harewood Substitution In68′
    • Z. Knight
    • W. Routledge
    • M. Salifou
    • C. Gardner
    • N. Delfouneso

    Injured

    • W. Bouma

    Suspended

    None

  • Middlesbrough

    Manager: Gareth Southgate

    Captain: Emanuel Pogatetz

    Starting line-up

    • R. Turnbull
    • J. Hoyte
    • C. Riggott
    • E. Pogatetz
    • A. Taylor
    • J. Aliadière Yellow Card
    • G. O'Neil
    • D. Digard
    • S. Downing
    • A. Alves
    • S. Tuncay Goals×2

    Subs

    • J. Arca
    • B. Jones
    • D. Wheater
    • .. Walker
    • J. Grounds
    • M. Emnes
    • J. Johnson

    Injured

    • R. Huth
    • M. Bates
    • M. Shawky
    • S. Hines

    Suspended

    None