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Game #4981

Aston Villa

Thursday, 28 August 2008

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Drew

2nd Qualifying

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨

UEFA Cup

Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar

Villa Park

Attendance: 25,415

🟨 28 Aug 2008, Villa 1-1 Hafnarfjordur, Villa Park

Aston Villa

1-1

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Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar

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Assist(s) | Marlon Harewood | 27' |

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MATCH TIMELINE
Thursday, 28 August 2008

⚽ | 27’ Goal, 1-0, Craig Gardner, Assist by Marlon Harewood
🥅 | 30’ Goal, 1-1, (Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar), Atli Vidar Björnsson
🟨 | 40’ Booking, Marlon Harewood
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-1 Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar
🔁 | 62’ Sub off, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Sub on, Nathan Delfouneso
🟨 | 72’ Booking, Nathan Delfouneso
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-1 Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar

Match Statistics

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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

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ON THIS DAY
Thursday, 28 August 2008
  • Villa face Hafnarfjarðar in the return leg of the UEFA Cup qualifier and are held after leading for three minutes.

  • Martin O'Neill's changes see Villa struggle against their opponents but with qualification never in danger after the first leg a UEFA Cup 1st Round place is theirs.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

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

Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
Icelandic Champions: 🏆🏆🏆
Icelandic Cup Winners: 🏆
Icelandic League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 2007

FIXTURE HISTORY
Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar
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Previous 5 vs. Hafnarfjarðar: 🟩

Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Goals Scored ⚽, Goals Conceded 🥅

Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar

PREVIOUS MATCH
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Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar

SUBSEQUENT MATCH
None

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FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 2008-09 |
Matchday | #6 |
Manager Game | #89 |
Thursday, 28 August 2008

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MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: Martin O’Neill | 🇬🇧 | County Londonderry, 2006-2010
Referee: Björn Kuipers | 🇳🇱 | Oldenzaal, 2008
Kick off: 8.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 1-1 (5-2)
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

🕒 89 | 🟩 | 33 🟨 | 31 🟥 25 | 1.46

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Points per Game

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Björn Kuipers | 🇳🇱 | Oldenzaal, 2008

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟨 Marlon Harewood
🟨 Nathan Delfouneso

CARDS
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🟨 Hjörtur Logi Valgarðsson

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

Martin O'Neill makes a number of changes for the UEFA Cup with Zat Knight, Craig Gardner, Wayne Routledge, Isaiah Osbourne, Marlon Harewood and Moustapha Salifou replacing Luke Young, Nicky Shorey, John Carew, Stiliyan Petrov, Ashley Young and Martin Laursen.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.76 |

Oldest Player |
GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 | 37.31 |

Youngest Player |
M Isaiah Osbourne | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.83 |

Referee

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MANAGER

Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

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Aston Villa

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
CB Curtis Davies | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Zat Knight | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Craig Gardner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Moustapha Salifou | 🇹🇬 |
M Isaiah Osbourne | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Wayne Routledge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Marlon Harewood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🟨 |

MANAGER

Heimir Guðjónsson | 🇮🇸 |

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Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar

GK Gunnar Sigurðsson | 🇮🇸 |
CB Dennis Slim | 🇩🇰 |
M Tommy Nielsen | 🇩🇰 |
M Ásgeir Gunnar Ásgeirsson | 🇮🇸 |
M Davíd Thór Viðarsson | 🇮🇸 |
M Matthías Guðmundsson | 🇮🇸 |
M Björn Daníel Sverisson | 🇮🇸 | 🔁 |
LB Hjörtur Logi Valgarðsson | 🇮🇸 | 🟨 |
CF Tryggvi Guðmundsson | 🇮🇸 | 🔁 |
CF Matthías Vilhjálmsson | 🇮🇸 |
CF Atli Vidar Björnsson | 🇮🇸 | ⚽ | 🔁 |

Line Ups

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SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | for F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 62’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Björn Daníel Sverisson | 🇮🇸 | (CF Jónas Grani Garðarsson | 🇮🇸 |)
🔁 | CF Tryggvi Guðmundsson | 🇮🇸 | (D Gudmundur Sævarsson | 🇮🇸 |)
🔁 | CF Atli Vidar Björnsson | 🇮🇸 | (W Atli Guðnason | 🇮🇸 |)

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Substitutes

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Stuart Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Martin Laursen | 🇩🇰 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Dathi Larusson | 🇮🇸 |
CB Freyr Bjarnason | 🇮🇸 |
CB Hoskuldur Eiriksson | 🇮🇸 |
CB Birkir Sverrisson | 🇮🇸 |

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

Squad Bios

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SQUAD STATS
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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/11
Homegrown: 4/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 13/18
Homegrown: 6/18

SQUAD STATS
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Home Nation 🇮🇸 : 12/14

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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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MATCH QUOTES
“We were in a great position to start with. “We did really well out there but I was hoping we would be ready for the game. We did enough to get through. “But I believe we could improve immensely on that performance.” Martin O'Neill.
Quotes

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Thursday, 28 August 2008
*Aston Villa comfortably booked their spot in the Uefa Cup after a draw against FH Hafnarfjordur gave them a 5-2 aggregate victory.* England Under-21 midfielder Craig Gardner gave Villa the lead with a fierce strike from inside the area. Within three minutes the Icelandic team were level when Atli Bjornsson fired in at the near post. Gardner also had a shot saved by keeper Gunnar Sigurdsson and an effort deflected wide from 10 yards. The first-half score by the visitors from Iceland should only be seen as a minor blip during what was a comfortable night for Martin O’Neill’s side. Taking a 4-1 lead into the home leg, the Villa boss decided to make six changes to the side that lost to Stoke last weekend. The best of the half-dozen was Gardner who was outstanding in the centre and was involved in most of Villa’s slick moves upfield. The 21-year-old had a fierce drive saved by Sigurdsson and was stopped from connecting with Marlon Harewood’s low centre, before opening the scoring. It was striker Harewood again, who sped up the right and cut the ball back for Gardner, who buried the ball high past the reach of Sigurdsson from 20 yards. A rout seemed likely, but just three minutes later the part-timers reduced the aggregate deficit to 5-2 when Villa keeper Brad Friedel inexplicably parried a high cross into the path of Bjornsson, who steadied himself before firing in at the far post. The game, which was played at pre-season level in the first half, dropped another notch after the break. Only the omnipresent Gardner had a real sight on goal for Villa in the second half when he arrived late to latch on to a Wayne Routledge cross and unleash a shot that was deflected wide. The Villa crowd began leaving 10 minutes before the end, perhaps slightly disgruntled with their side’s lackadaisical efforts. But from manager O’Neill’s point of view his side’s objective was achieved in the first leg and the team can now look forward to their European challenge.
Reports

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