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Game #5069

Aston Villa

Sunday, 7 March 2010

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Won

Quarter Final

Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩

FA Cup

Reading

Madejski Stadium

Attendance: 23,175

🟩 7 March 2010, Villa 4-2 Reading, Madejski Stadium

Reading

2-4

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Assist(s) | Carlos Cuéllar | 47’ | Stewart Downing | 51’ | Stephen Warnock | 57’ |

🟩 7 March 2010, Villa 4-2 Reading, Madejski Stadium

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MATCH TIMELINE

Sunday, 7 March 2010

🟨 | 25’ Booking, Richard Dunne
⚽ | 27’ Goal, 0-1, (Reading), Shane Long
🟨 | 40’ Booking, Ashley Young
⚽ | 42’ Goal, 0-2, (Reading), Shane Long
🕒 | HT Reading 2-0 Aston Villa
⚽ | 47’ Goal, 1-2, Ashley Young, Assist by Carlos Cuéllar
🟨 | 48’ Booking, James Collins
⚽ | 51’ Goal, 2-2, John Carew, Assist by Stewart Downing
⚽ | 57’ Goal, 3-2, John Carew, Assist by Stephen Warnock
🟨 | 84’ Booking, James Milner
🔁 | 90’+1 Sub off, Stewart Downing, Sub on, Steve Sidwell
⚽ | 90’+3 Goal, 4-2, John Carew (pen)
🕒 | FT Reading 2-4 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Possession F | 52%
Possession A | 48%
Shots F | 10
Shots A | 14
Shots on Target F | 6
Shots on Target A | 9
Corners F | 6
Corners A | 11
Fouls F | 8
Fouls A | 12

🟩 7 March 2010, Villa 4-2 Reading, Madejski Stadium

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ON THIS DAY

Sunday, 7 March 2010

  • Villa launch a thrilling comeback as a League Cup hangover threatens to derail their FA Cup journey,

  • John Carew's hat-trick secured a swift return to Wembley and meant Villa had just one defeat in fourteen games since the turn of the year.

  • John Carew scores his 40th, 41st and 42nd goals in a Villa shirt on his 107th appearance (83 Starts) to make it W42 D36 L29, 42 Goals, 11 Assists and 10 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one every 1.57 starts so far in his Villa career.

  • Brad Friedel makes his 75th appearance in a Villa shirt to make it W36 D23 L16, 83 Goals Conceded at a rate of 1.11 goals per game, 25 Clean Sheets (33%), 1 Booking and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

🟩 7 March 2010, Villa 4-2 Reading, Madejski Stadium

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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Aston Villa

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96

Reading

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌

Aston Villa

Reading

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FIXTURE HISTORY

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Reading

Previous 5 vs. Reading: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩

🟩 7 March 2010, Villa 4-2 Reading, Madejski Stadium

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2009-10 |
Matchday | #39 |
Manager Game | #177 |
Sunday, 7 March 2010

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🟩 7 March 2010, Villa 4-2 Reading, Madejski Stadium

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Martin O’Neill | 🇬🇧 | County Londonderry, 2006-2010
Referee: Mike Dean | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Wirral, 1997-2022
Kick off: 1.45pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Score: 🟩 4-2
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 177 | 🟩 | 75 🟨 | 56 🟥 46 | 1.59

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

🟩 7 March 2010, Villa 4-2 Reading, Madejski Stadium

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Mike Dean | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Wirral, 1997-2022
Matches Officiated: 24
🟩 : 11
🟨 : 7
🟥 : 6
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 5 Oct 09, Villa 1-1 Abu Dhabi (h)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Simon Beck, Dave Bryan

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟨 Richard Dunne
🟨 Ashley Young
🟨 James Collins
🟨 James Milner

🟨 Jay Tabb
🟨 Gylfi Sigurðsson

🟩 7 March 2010, Villa 4-2 Reading, Madejski Stadium

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

John Carew replaces Gabriel Agbonlahor.

Starting XI Average Age
| 29.14 |

Oldest Player |
GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 | 38.83 |

Youngest Player |
W James Milner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 24.19 |

Referee
Manager

🟩 7 March 2010, Villa 4-2 Reading, Madejski Stadium

MANAGER

Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

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Aston Villa

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 | 🔥 |
CB James Collins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | ⚽ |
W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🔁 |
W James Milner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 | ⚽ | ⚽ | ⚽ |

MANAGER

Brian McDermott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Reading

GK Adam Federici | 🇦🇺 |
LB Ryan Bertrand | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Matt Mills | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ívar Ingimarsson | 🇮🇸 |
RB Andy Griffin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jay Tabb | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
M Gylfi Sigurðsson | 🇮🇸 | 🟨 |
M Brian Howard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
W Jimmy Kébé | 🇲🇱 |
CF Shane Long | 🇮🇪 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
CF Simon Church | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟩 7 March 2010, Villa 4-2 Reading, Madejski Stadium

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 M Steve Sidwell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for W Stewart Downing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 90’+1 |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Brian Howard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Brynjar Gunnarsson | 🇮🇸 |)
🔁 | CF Simon Church | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (CF Grzegorz Rasiak | 🇵🇱 |)

Substitutes

🟩 7 March 2010, Villa 4-2 Reading, Madejski Stadium

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
RB Luke Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Habib Bèye | 🇸🇳 |
M Fabian Delph | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Ben Hamer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Alex Pearce | 🇮🇪 |
M James Henry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Marek Matějovský | 🇨🇿 |
CF Hal Robson-Kanu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |

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

🟩 7 March 2010, Villa 4-2 Reading, Madejski Stadium

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 0/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/18
Homegrown: 2/18

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 5/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/18

🟩 7 March 2010, Villa 4-2 Reading, Madejski Stadium

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟩 7 March 2010, Villa 4-2 Reading, Madejski Stadium

UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 2 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟩 7 March 2010, Villa 4-2 Reading, Madejski Stadium

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MATCH QUOTES

"We were struggling in the first half and the gaffer told us some serious words at the break. "I won't go into what he said but you can see on the pitch what happened." John Carew. "I think after all the effort that we had put not only into the Carling Cup but also to get to this stage [of the FA Cup], to go out as meekly as we might have done after the first-half performance would have been really disappointing. "Reading played very well in the first half. They kept turning us around and picked up the second ball. They got the second goal and I've got to tell you, I was quite pleased to go in at half-time just two-nil down. "It might have been a bit of [a hangover from last week], but there is no excuses. It's the quarter-final of the FA Cup and we're playing away from home and we're right up for the game [beforehand]. I just felt that it took us time before we treated it like a FA Cup quarter-final. "Sometimes it's nothing to do with pretty football. Sometimes it's to do with character, determination and the ability to fight and I think we had lost that there in the first half. It came back to us in the second half in great abundance." Martin O’Neill. “John at his hungriest can perform like he did today. He got the equalising goal for us and his game lifted two or three-fold more. The next thing you know he's controlling and holding players off which he wasn't doing in the first half. "This is the point: he can do it. I'm not asking him to be scoring a hat-trick every week, but a level of performance that is up there with top-class centre-forwards." Martin O’Neill on John Carew. "We are delighted to be in the semi-finals of the FA Cup and we will take on anybody. ”Chelsea are one of the best sides in Europe but we will take them on. And we certainly don't fear them." Martin O’Neill. “It was a great spell by us just after half-time. The team showed such great character. “We needed to do something because we had played so meekly in the first half. “I didn’t need to say much at half-time because we have some fine players and they knew how second best we were in the first half.” Martin O’Neill.
Quotes

🟩 7 March 2010, Villa 4-2 Reading, Madejski Stadium

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Sunday, 7 March 2010

*Aston Villa produced a remarkable second-half comeback as John Carew’s hat-trick eased the pain of their Carling Cup defeat to Manchester United by sealing a swift return to Wembley and an FA Cup semi-final clash against Chelsea.* Championship strugglers Reading had looked on course for another FA Cup shock as two Shane Long goals carved out a 2-0 half-time lead for the home side, who outplayed their more illustrious rivals in a superb first-half display. But Villa responded with three goals in 10 minutes early in the second half, Ashley Young starting the fightback before Carew took over in devastating fashion. The win ended Martin O’Neill’s bizarre statistic of never having won a game in March with Villa since he took over from David O’Leary in 2006. O’Neill was clearly intent on breaking his mad March duck as he fielded his strongest possible side against the only non-Premier League side still in the competition. Gabriel Agbonlahor was the only notable absentee as he recovers from a stomach virus and O’Neill must have started to have a similar uneasy feeling in the pit of his stomach as his side made an uncertain start. Brian McDermott’s side played with the confidence earned from a cup run that has already been decorated by the Premier League scalps of Liverpool and Burnley, as well as Championship high-fliers West Bromwich Albion. Jimmy Kebe, in particular, looked lively for the Royals and, against a side boasting one of the finest collections of wing talent in English football, the Mali wide man looked determined to steal the show. Kebe had the ball in the net early on when he lashed home after Matt Mills’ bundled effort had finally fallen at his feet, but Dein’s whistle had already sounded for a push by Simon Church. Stilian Petrov lashed long range shot just too high and wide and Kebe turned defender as he headed behind to prevent the waiting Stewart Downing benefitting from a deep Milner centre. But that was Villa’s best spell in a first half dominated by Reading, who deservedly went ahead on 27 minutes. From a Brian Howard corner, Mills rose highest to flick on for Long to escape into space and nod home from close range. Carew looked to have swiftly replied when he swept home Milner’s chipped free-kick but the goal was ruled out for offside - although replays suggested he was not. The momentum was clearly with Reading, and it took a vital block from Dunne to prevent Villa falling further behind when Sigurdsson started and finished a flowing Reading move involving Church and Long. But the home side did extend their advantage minutes later as Sigurdsson carved open the Villa defence with a perfectly weighted pass and Kebe sprinted clear before cutting the ball back for Long to slide home. O’Neill clearly needed to get to work at half-time and although he resisted any personnel changes, he sent Villa out early for the second half with a clear challenge to improve or forget about a Wembley return. Reading knew the opening exchanges of the second half were crucial, but no-one could have predicted the devastating turnaround that was about to unfold. Young completely changed the momentum with a goal only 82 seconds after the restart. Ryan Bertrand’s sliced clearance allowed Downing to cut the ball back towards Carlos Cuellar, and though he failed to make contact Young reacted quickest to ram home at the far post. Seven minutes into the second half Villa produced the kind of football most had been expecting from them, Downing’s right-wing cross finding Carew for an easy headed finish past Federici. And the clinical turnaround was complete five minutes later, Young feeding the overlapping Warnock who pulled the ball back for Carew to escape Ivar Ingimarsson and apply a measured finish. Villa’s response meant there was a feeling of how many more they would score against a deflated Reading, but the home side responded bravely to the devastating spell. Ingimarsson had a header nodded off the line by the alert Young and substitute Grzegorz Rasiak saw his header fumbled by Friedel before being hacked clear. Heskey wasted the chance to put the tie beyond doubt when he was denied by Federici in a one-on-one, but Villa’s comeback was sealed in stoppage time as Carew completed his hat-trick from the penalty spot after he had been fouled by Ingimarsson. *Reading boss Brian McDermott:* “If you are going to lose a game, that is how you lose it. “We played really well in the first half and knew if we could keep it tight for 15 minutes in the second half we’d have a chance but that didn’t happen. “But I am proud of every single one of our players and it is just a shame we couldn’t get through for our fans.” *Aston Villa manager Martin O’Neill:* “It was a great spell by us just after half-time. The team showed such great character. “We needed to do something because we had played so meekly in the first half. “I didn’t need to say much at half-time because we have some fine players and they knew how second best we were in the first half.”
Reports

🟩 7 March 2010, Villa 4-2 Reading, Madejski Stadium

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