Game #4970
Aston Villa
Saturday, 5 April 2008


Won
7th (+1)
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩
Premier League
Bolton Wanderers
Villa Park
Attendance: 37,773
🟩 5 Apr 2008, Villa 4-0 Bolton, Villa Park
Aston Villa
4-0

Bolton Wanderers

Assist(s) | Ashley Young | 9’ | Gareth Barry | 56’ | 85’ |
🟩 5 Apr 2008, Villa 4-0 Bolton, Villa Park


MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 5 April 2008
⚽ | 9’ Goal, 1-0, Gareth Barry, Assist by Ashley Young
🟨 | 43’ Booking, John Carew
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 Bolton Wanderers
⚽ | 56’ Goal, 2-0, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Assist by Gareth Barry
⚽ | 60’ Goal, 3-0, Gareth Barry
🔁 | 77’ Sub off, John Carew, Sub on, Marlon Harewood
🔁 | 83’ Sub off, Ashley Young, Sub on, Patrik Berger
⚽ | 85’ Goal, 4-0, Marlon Harewood, Assist by Gareth Barry
🔁 | 86’ Sub off, Stiliyan Petrov, Sub on, Wayne Routledge 🟢
🟨 | 90’ Booking, Nigel Reo-Coker
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 4-0 Bolton Wanderers
Match Statistics
Possession F | 52%
Possession A | 48%
Shots F | 13
Shots A | 8
Shots on Target F | 6
Shots on Target A | 1
Corners F | 5
Corners A | 4
Fouls F | 15
Fouls A | 12
Goal ⚽, Assist 🔥, Goal Conceded 🥅, Injury 🚑, Booking 🟨, Sending off 🟥, Comment 🗒️, ❗ Villa Chance,❗❗Huge Villa Chance, 💥 Opposition action, 🎥 VAR, 🆘 Referee error, ❌ Missed pen, disallowed goal, player retires from field of play, 🟢 Debut, 🔴 Final appearance, 🕒 Half time, Full time, 🔁 Substitution
🟩 5 Apr 2008, Villa 4-0 Bolton, Villa Park

ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 5 April 2008
Villa bounce back from three successive defeats to hammer Bolton at Villa Park and move back into 7th place in the Premier League table.
The Gareth Barry Show. Against a team that had caused Villa so much pain in recent seasons, Gareth Barry scored two and created two to end a run of three successive defeats under Martin O'Neill.
Winger Wayne Routledge, 23, makes his debut after having joined from Tottenham Hotspur for a fee of £1,530,000 in January 2008 to become the 806th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.
Scott Carson keeps his 8th clean sheet and his first in 19 games in a Villa shirt on his 31st appearance to make it W14 D8 L9, 3 Assists, 40 Goals Conceded at a rate of 1.29 goals per game, 8 Clean Sheets (26%), 1 Booking and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.
Marlon Harewood scores his 5th goal in a Villa shirt on his 20th appearance (3 Starts) to make it W8 D6 L6, 5 Goals, 1 Assist and 1 Booking so far in his Villa career.
🟩 5 Apr 2008, Villa 4-0 Bolton, Villa Park

DEBUT APPEARANCES
🟢 W Wayne Routledge | 🏴 | #806 | £1,530,000 signing from Tottenham
FINAL APPEARANCES
None
Seasons | 🕒 Games | ✅ Starts (🔁 Subs) | ⚽ Goals | 🔥 Assists | 🇺 Unused | Player Number |
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Bolton Wanderers


European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1957-58
🟩 5 Apr 2008, Villa 4-0 Bolton, Villa Park
FIXTURE DETAILS


Season | 2007-08 |
Matchday | #36 |
League Game | #33 |
Manager Game | #78 |
Saturday, 5 April 2008
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🟩 5 Apr 2008, Villa 4-0 Bolton, Villa Park
MATCH SUMMARY


Manager: Martin O’Neill | 🇬🇧 | County Londonderry, 2006-2010
Referee: Martin Atkinson | 🏴 | West Riding, 2006-2021
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Score: 🟩 4-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩
MANAGERIAL RECORD

Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010
🕒 78 | 🟩 | 28 🟨 | 27 🟥 23 | 1.42
Villa Career Form:
Top 8
Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Points per Game
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MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Martin Atkinson | 🏴 | West Riding, 2006-2021
VAR PROFILE (from 2021)
CARDS

🟨 John Carew
🟨 Nigel Reo-Coker
CARDS

🟨 Danny Guthrie
Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Notably poor performance 🆘, Cards 🟨 Booking, Cards 🟥 Sending off, Disallowed ❌ Goal disallowed, ⚽ Penalty for, 🥅 Penalty against, ❌ Penalty Disallowed
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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS
Zat Knight replaces Marlon Harewood.
Starting XI Average Age
| 26.80 |
Oldest Player |
CB Martin Laursen | 🇩🇰 | 31.13 |
Youngest Player |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 | 21.49 |
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MANAGER
Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

Aston Villa
GK Scott Carson | 🏴 |
RB Wilfred Bouma | 🇳🇱 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
CB Zat Knight | 🏴 |
CB Martin Laursen | 🇩🇰 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴 | ⚽ | 🔥 | ⚽ | 🔥 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | 🔁 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴 | 🟨 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴 | 🔥 | 🔁 |
CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 | ⚽ |
MANAGER
Gary Megson | 🏴 |

Bolton Wanderers
GK Ali Al Habsi | 🇴🇲 |
RB Grétar Steinsson | 🇮🇸 |
CB Andrew O’Brien | 🇮🇪 |
CB Gary Cahill (ex) | 🏴 |
RB Joey O’Brien | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
M Danny Guthrie | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Gavin McCann (ex) | 🏴 |
M Matthew Taylor | 🏴 |
CF Heidar Helguson | 🇮🇸 |
CF Kevin Davies | 🏴 |
CF El-Hadji Diouf | 🇸🇳 |
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SUBSTITUTES

🔁 CF Marlon Harewood | 🏴 | ⚽ | for CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 | 77’ |
🔁 W Patrik Berger | 🇨🇿 | for W Ashley Young | 🏴 | 83’ |
🔁 W Wayne Routledge | 🏴 | 🟢 | for M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | 86’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | RB Joey O’Brien | 🇮🇪 | (M Tamir Cohen | 🇮🇱 |)

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Stuart Taylor | 🏴 |
M Moustapha Salifou | 🇹🇬 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Ian Walker | 🏴 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel (ex) | 🏴 |
W Stelios Giannakopoulos | 🇬🇷 |
M Ivan Campo | 🇪🇸 |
Player Positions:
GK : Goalkeeper
CB, D, B : Centre Back, Defender, Back
FB, LB, RB, WH : Full Back, Left Back, Right Back, Wing Back, Wing Half
M, CH, LH, RH : Midfielder, Centre Half, Left Half, Right Half
W, OL, OR : Winger, Outside Left, Outside Right
F, IF, IL, IR : Forward, Inside Forward, Inside Left, Inside Right, Second Striker, False 9
CF : Centre Forward
Match Symbols:
⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution
🟨 | Booking
🟥 | Sending off
🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game
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MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES
STARTING XI
SUBSTITUTES
Player | 🕒 | 🔁 | ⚽ | 🔥 | 🟩 | 🟨 | 🟥 | 🥅 | ⛔ | Yellow | Red |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CF Marlon Harewood | 🏴 | | 20 | 17* | 5* | 1 | 8* | 6 | 6 | - | - | 1 | 0 |
UNUSED
Player | 🇺 |
---|---|
GK Stuart Taylor | 🏴 | | 102* |
Games 🕒, Starts ✅, Substitute 🔁, Goals ⚽, Assists 🔥, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Conceded 🥅, Clean Sheets ⛔, Unused Substitute 🇺
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SQUAD STATS

1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 2/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/16
Homegrown: 2/16
SQUAD STATS

1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 7/16
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MATCHDAY SQUAD

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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UNAVAILABLE

Not recorded
UNAVAILABLE

Not Recorded
LEAGUE TABLE



MATCHDAY PROGRAMME



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MATCH QUOTES
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MATCH REPORTS






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