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Aston Villa

  • Laursen 8’
  • Barry 45’

Ajax

  • Vermaelen 22’

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  1. Villa off to winning start

    Villa off to winning start

    Aston Villa got their UEFA Cup group stage campaign off to a winning start with a 2-1 victory over Ajax at Villa Park. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Aston Villa
    • Ajax
    • - Thanks for joining us tonight... until next time.
    • 90'+3 There goes the final whistle! And Villa get their group stage campaign off to a winning start!
    • 90'+2 Agbonlahor challenges Vermeer here... and the Villa man comes off worse... he will have to be stretchered off the pitch. It's his knee.
    • 89' Great run by Milner... the ball falls to Barry! Super hit from the former Villa captain with the outside of his boot, but Vermeer is there to make the save!
    • 85' Oh dear, that's a poor challenge from Gardner on goalscorer Vermaelen... and he rightly has his name taken.
    • 82' Time for a Villa change now... Reo-Coker is brought off... on comes Craig Gardner.
    • 79' Oooh! Emanuelson fires goalwards with a super half volley from outside the box! Friedel flings himself to his left to paw the ball away!
    • 78' Ajax make their third and final change... Van der Wiel replaces Silva.
    • 76' Hunterlaar takes the resulting free kick... deflected over off the wall and over the bar!
    • 75' Cuellar into the book for what you could call an "uncompromising" challenge.
    • 72' The tempo has just dropped a little now... Villa need to step it up a gear if they are to grab a third and seal all three points.
    • 70' Oooh! Cvitanich heads just over the bar for Ajax! But the flag is up on the far side... it wouldn't have counted even if it did find its intended target.
    • 68' Big penalty shout for Villa as Agbonlahor goes down in the box! Play on says the referee, despite Leonardo's challenge.
    • 66' Strong play by Agbonlahor! He outmuscles Oleguer at the by-line before playing a ball across into the middle... but it's deflected back to the keeper before it can reach Milner in the middle.
    • 64' Steve Sidwell is warming up on the sidelines... looks like the former Reading and Chelsea man could see some action tonight.
    • 61' Barry shoots on target! Vermeer is well behind it though and the Dutch keeper isn't overly troubled this time.
    • 60' Ajax make another change now... Suarez is replaced by Brazilian Leonardo.
    • 59' Luke Young now gets well forward... but his cross can't find the other Young at the back stick...
    • 58' So far so good for Villa. But this Ajax side are more than capable of hitting back...
    • 55' Ajax make a change... off goes Sarpong to be replaced by Argentine Cvitanich.
    • 52' Oooh! Shorey brings Vermeer into action with a crisp strike from the edge of the box! He can only parry it out to Barry who heads goalwards! But the keeper recovers and is able to get back in time to make a second save!
    • 48' Here come Villa early on in the second half... and Milner wins a corner after his shot is deflected behind!
    • 46' Here we go! Back underway at Villa Park!
    • 45'+1 And that's the last kick of the first half... the ref blows up and Villa head in 2-1 up!
    • 45' GOAL! BARRY PUTS VILLA BACK INTO THE LEAD! It's Young again who is the provider, beating his man on the left hand side before cutting back to the edge of the box where Barry side foots into the corner! 2-1!
    • 40' Sarpong tries to set Suarez off... but his pass is a little over hit and the it runs all the way through to Friedel.
    • 37' Oooh! Suarez goes close with a long range effort that rather surprises Friedel in the Villa goal... that really isn't too far away from the Ajax man.
    • 35' Real chance for Ashley Young! Milner's cross is deflected into his path at the far post! But his volley is dragged wide of the mark! Should have done better.
    • 33' At the other end, Laursen leaps once again to meet a free kick this time... he nods across into the danger area, but there's no one there to meet it.
    • 30' Oooh! Ajax go so close to a second! And it comes from a corner again... Suarez gets the slightest of touches at the near post and Huntelaar stretches at the far, but can only prod wide!
    • 27' Not this time... Oleguer heads clear for the Dutch side.
    • 26' Villa look to hit back... Young wins another corner, and there's danger here...
    • 23' That's a real blow for the hosts... they'd been playing very well indeed.
    • 22' GOAL! AJAX EQUALISE! Emanuelson delivers the corner towards Vermaelen at the near post... the defender fires a header past Friedel and into the Villa net! 1-1 now!
    • 21' Chance now for Ajax to send a decent ball into the danger area after Young concedes a corner...
    • 17' It's been all Villa since the goal... Ajax are stuggling to cope with the pace of the game at the moment.
    • 15' Reo-Coker ghosts into the penalty box and nearly gets to an Agbonlahor flick!
    • 14' Another corner to Villa now... Barry will take it over on the far side... Laursen's there again! But this time, the Villa captain is off target...
    • 10' Villa are looking good now after Ajax have enjoyed the better of the opening stages. Shorey overlaps Young on the left hand side now... but the ball runs out of play just before he wraps his foot around a cross.
    • 9' After a poor first one, that delivery was so much better from Ashley Young... Villa fans are in full voice now! What a start!
    • 8' GOAL! VILLA LEAD! It's Martin Laursen who heads the hosts into ahead from another Young corner! The keeper comes for it, but Laursen climbs higher and nods the ball over the line!
    • 7' It's not the best of deliveries from Young though and it's easily headed clear at the near post.
    • 6' Here come Villa though and second after Agbonlahor goes down under a challenge in the box, Shorey wins the first corner of the night!
    • 5' Vertonghen bursts forward... he slips the ball out to Suarez but he can't get a cross in and Villa come away with the ball.
    • 4' Ajax have started well... as is their tradition, the visitors are playing the ball around nicely and keeping possession well.
    • 3' Great atmosphere in the Midlands tonight! Villa fans are really doing their best to lift their team.
    • 2' Ajax playing in all blue tonight... they look rather like Chelsea from a distance.
    • 1' Here we go! Underway at Villa Park!
    • - And tonight's referee is Thomas Einwaller (Austria).
    • - Ajax line up like this: Vermeer, Silva, Oleguer, Vermaelen, Emanuelson, Lindgren, Sarpong, Vertonghen, Suarez, Huntelaar, Gabri. Subs: Vonk, Van Der Wiel, Cvitanich, Leonardo, Sno, Anita, Schilder
    • - Aston Villa: Friedel, Luke Young, Cuellar, Laursen, Shorey, Reo-Coker, Petrov, Barry, Milner, Agbonlahor, Ashley Young. Subs: Guzan, Sidwell, Harewood, Davies, Knight, Salifou, Gardner
    • - John Carew has been struck down with an illness, so he misses out for Villa while Nicky Shorey and James Milner come into Martin O'Neill's side.
    • - Hello and welcome to eurosport.yahoo.com's LIVE coverage of tonight's big game in the Midlands between Villa and Dutch masters Ajax!

  • Team Stats

    Aston Villa Stats Ajax
    36% Possession 63%
    11 Shots 11
    7 Shots on target 2
    0 Saves 2
    8 Corners 6
    13 Fouls 18
    3 Offsides 4
    2 Yellow cards 0
    0 Red cards 0
    29 Tackles 24
    170 Accurate passes 346
    62 Bad passes 38

  • 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 6 3 0
      24 Carlos Cuéllar 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 15 1 2
      21 Nicky Shorey 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 14 14 6
      2 Luke Young 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 15 0 3
      5 Martin Laursen 1 3 2 1 3 0 0 15 5 2
      8 James Milner 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 16 3 1
      19 Stilian Petrov 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 22 7 7
      6 Gareth Barry 1 3 3 4 1 1 0 31 7 3
      20 Nigel Reo-Coker 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 13 2 4
      7 Ashley Young 0 2 0 1 2 1 1 9 11 0
      11 Gabriel Agbonlahor 0 0 0 4 2 1 0 13 8 1
      15 Curtis Davies 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      26 Craig Gardner 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0
      9 Marlon Harewood 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      22 Brad Guzan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      4 Steve Sidwell 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      17 Moustapha Salifou 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      16 Zatyiah Knight 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    • Ajax
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      12 Kenneth Vermeer 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 0 0
      3 Oleguer Presas Renom 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 43 3 2
      5 Jan Vertonghen 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 48 8 2
      8 Urby Emanuelson 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 32 7 3
      2 Bruno Silva 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 35 0 5
      4 Thomas Vermaelen 1 1 1 2 3 0 0 37 4 3
      26 Jeffery Sarpong 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 18 5 1
      6 Rasmus Lindgren 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 43 1 4
      18 Gabri García 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 24 2 1
      9 Klaas Jan Huntelaar 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 19 2 1
      16 Luis Suárez 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 12 2 0
      23 Leonardo de Vitor Santiago 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 7 2 2
      37 Robbert Schilder 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      20 Dario Cvitanich 0 0 0 3 1 2 0 4 2 0
      31 Hans Vonk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      15 Gregory Van der Wiel 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 7 0 0
      28 Vurnon Anita 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      25 Evander Sno 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

  • Summary

    • - Thanks for joining us tonight... until next time.
    • 89' Great run by Milner... the ball falls to Barry! Super hit from the former Villa captain with the outside of his boot, but Vermeer is there to make the save!
    • 79' Oooh! Emanuelson fires goalwards with a super half volley from outside the box! Friedel flings himself to his left to paw the ball away!
    • 70' Oooh! Cvitanich heads just over the bar for Ajax! But the flag is up on the far side... it wouldn't have counted even if it did find its intended target.
    • 68' Big penalty shout for Villa as Agbonlahor goes down in the box! Play on says the referee, despite Leonardo's challenge.
    • 61' Barry shoots on target! Vermeer is well behind it though and the Dutch keeper isn't overly troubled this time.
    • 52' Oooh! Shorey brings Vermeer into action with a crisp strike from the edge of the box! He can only parry it out to Barry who heads goalwards! But the keeper recovers and is able to get back in time to make a second save!
    • 45' GOAL! BARRY PUTS VILLA BACK INTO THE LEAD! It's Young again who is the provider, beating his man on the left hand side before cutting back to the edge of the box where Barry side foots into the corner! 2-1!
    • 37' Oooh! Suarez goes close with a long range effort that rather surprises Friedel in the Villa goal... that really isn't too far away from the Ajax man.
    • 35' Real chance for Ashley Young! Milner's cross is deflected into his path at the far post! But his volley is dragged wide of the mark! Should have done better.
    • 30' Oooh! Ajax go so close to a second! And it comes from a corner again... Suarez gets the slightest of touches at the near post and Huntelaar stretches at the far, but can only prod wide!
    • 22' GOAL! AJAX EQUALISE! Emanuelson delivers the corner towards Vermaelen at the near post... the defender fires a header past Friedel and into the Villa net! 1-1 now!
    • 8' GOAL! VILLA LEAD! It's Martin Laursen who heads the hosts into ahead from another Young corner! The keeper comes for it, but Laursen climbs higher and nods the ball over the line!

Team lineup & ratings

  • Aston Villa

    Manager: Martin O'Neill

    Captain: Martin Laursen

  • Ajax

    Manager: Marco van Basten

    Captain: Klaas Jan Huntelaar

  • Lineup

    Live Team Line-Up

    • Aston Villa

      Manager: Martin O'Neill

      Captain: Martin Laursen

      Starting line-up

      • B. Friedel
      • L. Young
      • C. Cuellar Yellow Card
      • M. Laursen Goal
      • N. Shorey
      • N. Reo-Coker Substitution Out (82′)
      • S. Petrov
      • G. Barry Goal
      • J. Milner
      • A. Young
      • G. Agbonlahor Substitution Out (90′)

      Subs

      • M. Harewood
      • Z. Knight
      • S. Sidwell
      • M. Salifou
      • C. Davies
      • C. Gardner Substitution In82′ Yellow Card
      • B. Guzan

      Injured

      • W. Bouma

    • Ajax

      Manager: Marco van Basten

      Captain: Klaas Jan Huntelaar

      Starting line-up

      • K. Vermeer
      • B. Silva Substitution Out (78′)
      • J. Oleguer
      • T. Vermaelen Goal
      • U. Emanuelson
      • R. Lindgren
      • G. García "Gabri"
      • J. Vertonghen
      • J. Sarpong Substitution Out (55′)
      • K. Huntelaar
      • .. Suarez Substitution Out (60′)

      Subs

      • H. Vonk
      • R. Schilder
      • E. Sno
      • .. Anita
      • L. Santiago Substitution In60′
      • G. van der Wiel Substitution In78′
      • D. Cvitanich Substitution In55′

      Injured

      • M. Stekelenburg
      • I. Aissati
      • M. Donald

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