Game #4970

Aston Villa

Saturday, 5 April 2008

Won

7th (+1)

Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩

Premier League

Bolton Wanderers

Villa Park

Attendance: 37,773

Aston Villa

4-0

Bolton Wanderers

Scorer(s) | Gareth Barry | 9’ | 60’ | Gabriel Agbonlahor | 56’ | Marlon Harewood | 85’ |

Assist(s) | Ashley Young | 9’ | Gareth Barry | 56’ | 85’ |

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 | 🇸🇳 |

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 | 🇮🇱 |)

🟩 5 April 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.

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