Game #4977
Saturday, 26 July 2008
Attendance: 34,394
Won
Intertoto Cup 3rd Round
3rd Round
Odense Boldklub
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟩
Villa Park
Villa finish the job over Odense as epic failure Djemba-Djemba returns to Villa Park with his new club.
Aston Villa
1-0
Odense Boldklub
Assist(s) | None
KEY MAN
Ashley Young celebrates his first strike of the season with big John Carew as they send Villa into the UEFA Cup, Saturday, 26 July 2008.
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MATCH TIMELINE
🔁 | 14’ Sub off, Wilfred Bouma 🔴 Sub on, Gareth Barry
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Odense Boldklub
⚽ | 50’ Goal, 1-0, Ashley Young
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-0 Odense Boldklub
ON THIS DAY
Right back Wilfred Bouma made his final appearance for Villa aged 30 before returning to PSV Eindhoven in August 2010.
Bouma was an outstanding right back however injuries limited his appearances for Villa and so between 2005-06 and 2008-09 he made only 90 appearances - far less than his talent should have allowed.
Goalkeeper Stuart Taylor made his final appearance for Villa aged 27 before moving on to Manchester City on a free transfer in July 2009. Taylor had made 17 appearances over his three seasons with Villa.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Odense Boldklub
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
Danish Champions: 🏆🏆🏆
Danish Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 2006-07
FIXTURE HISTORY
Odense Boldklub
Previous 5 vs. Odense: 🟨
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2008-09 |
Matchday | #2 |
Manager Game | #85 |
Saturday, 26 July 2008
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Martin O’Neill | 🇬🇧 | County Londonderry, 2006-2010
Referee: Cüneyt Çakır | 🇹🇷 | Istanbul, 2006-2022
Kick off: 5.15pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
Aggregate Score: 🟩 3-2
Aggregate Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟩
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Cüneyt Çakır | 🇹🇷 | Istanbul, 2006-2022
Previous 5: None
Last Match: None
Cards: 🟨
Assistants: Bahattin Duran, Hüseyin Fidan
CARDS
TEAM NEWS
Martin O'Neill names an unchanged line up.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 26.53 |
Oldest Player |
CB Martin Laursen | 🇩🇰 | 31.43 |
Youngest Player |
M Craig Gardner | 🏴 | 21.68 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 |
Lars Olsen | 🇩🇰 |
Aston Villa
GK Stuart Taylor | 🏴 |
CB Zat Knight | 🏴 |
CB Martin Laursen | 🇩🇰 |
RB Wilfred Bouma | 🇳🇱 | 🔴 | 🔁 |
M Craig Gardner | 🏴 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴 |
M Steve Sidwell | 🏴 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴 | ⚽ |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 |
CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 |
Odense Boldklub
GK Arkadiusz Onyszko | 🇵🇱 |
CB Atle Roar Håland | 🇳🇴 |
CB Chris Sörensen | 🇩🇰 |
CB Jonas Troest | 🇩🇰 |
RB Thomas Helveg | 🇩🇰 | 🔁 |
M Hans Henrik Andreasen | 🇩🇰 | 🔁 |
M Eric Djemba-Djemba (ex) | 🇨🇲 |
M Henrik Hansen | 🇩🇰 |
W Johan Absalonsen | 🇩🇰 | 🟨 |
CF Djiby Fall | 🇸🇳 |
CF Björn Runström | 🇸🇪 | 🔁 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 M Gareth Barry | 🏴 | for RB Wilfred Bouma | 🇳🇱 | 14’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | RB Thomas Helveg | 🇩🇰 | (RB Espen Ruud | 🇳🇴 |)
🔁 | M Hans Henrik Andreasen | 🇩🇰 | (W Christian Bolaños | 🇨🇷 |)
🔁 | CF Björn Runström | 🇸🇪 | (CF Anders Jacobsen | 🇳🇴 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Elliot Parish | 🏴 |
M Isaiah Osbourne | 🏴 |
M Shaun Maloney | 🏴 |
M Moustapha Salifou | 🇹🇬 |
W Wayne Routledge | 🏴 |
CF Marlon Harewood | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Anders Lindegaard | 🇩🇰 |
M Morten Bisgaard | 🇩🇰 |
M Matti Lund Nielsen | 🇩🇰 |
M Peter Nymann | 🇩🇰 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 7/11
Homegrown: 2/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 13/18
Homegrown: 5/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
Home Nation 🇩🇰 : 6/14
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Not recorded
UNAVAILABLE
Not Recorded
Player Abbreviations:
GK : Goalkeeper
LB, RB, FB : Left Back, Right Back, Full Back
CB, D : Centre Back, Defender
M, W : Midfielder. Winger
F, CF : Forward, Centre Forward
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game
Symbols:
⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution
🟨 | Booking
🟥 | Sending off
🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
DEBUT APPEARANCES
FINAL APPEARANCES
RB Wilfred Bouma | 🇳🇱 |
MATCH STATS
Not recorded
TABLE
PROGRAMME



MATCHDAY QUOTES
“They’ve [Liverpool] not officially come back to us in any form of writing [an offer for Gareth Barry after unsettling him in 2007-08]. It’s a really awkward position.
“I wouldn’t mind it ending one way or another. We’ve our own plans to make.”
“We shouldn’t be at Liverpool’s behest.
“We haven’t heard back from Liverpool for some time.
“When people say people are in limbo, I don’t think that applies to anybody more than ourselves. We don’t know whether to move forward or not with it.”
“My preference - and hopefully I’m speaking for a lot of Villa fans, if not all of them - is that we would like Gareth to stay at the football club.
“That would be great because it will be hard to replace him, but we’re not sure where Liverpool stand now.
“He will be in contention for Saturday.
“I have never not been impressed with him in two years as to his attitude on the football pitch.
“In fairness the Intertoto gives us that chance to get into the Uefa Cup, which we set out to get into by one way or another, and Gareth was a major part of that last year.”
“I am a bit squeamish and the pictures [of Wilfred Bouma’s injury] were not so good.
“However, Wilfred has good strength of character and I hope he’ll come through it. I am sure he will because if anyone can it is him.
“It’s a dislocation, which is still a bad injury, which you could see by the reaction of the players.
“The hospital have put it in plaster and got it reset but obviously there can be loads of complications.
“It’s terrible news because he played every single game last season. He was fantastic, but he’ll come through it.”
Martin O’Neill.
*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 26 July 2008
*Aston Villa booked a spot in the final Uefa Cup qualifying round with a win over Odense but the match was marred by a serious injury to Wilfred Bouma.*
The Dutch defender suffered a dislocated ankle early in a match that Villa won thanks to a second-half strike from Ashley Young.
The England midfielder fired in an unstoppable shot from 20 yards that gave keeper Arkadiusz Onyszko no hope.
John Carew also went close with a header that hit the crossbar.
Villa began brightly but the early injury to Bouma, which resulted in play being stopped for about five minutes in order for treatment to be administered, seemed to unsettle Martin O’Neill’s side during the first half.
Nevertheless, the Premier League outfit went close on a handful of occasions, with Young’s free-kick deflected over the bar by Jonas Troest before Carew screwed his turn-and-shot fractionally wide.
There were a couple of scares for the home side, with Henrik Hansen forcing a save from Stuart Taylor and Baye Fall striking the post after finding himself in a one-on-one situation with the Villa keeper.
O’Neill’s men looked a different proposition after the break as first-half substitute Gareth Barry exerted his influence.
Barry had come on to replace Bouma in defence and received a warm welcome, despite facing the wrath of Villa fans in the midweek friendly against Walsall as a consequence of his desire to leave the club.
The England midfielder took a number of pinpoint set-pieces but had little say in Villa’s winner, which was created and finished by his international team-mate Young.
The sprightly winger cut in from the left to smash a vicious effort into the top left corner.
Villa upped the tempo and should have had at least doubled their total, with Carew hitting the bar from Barry’s free-kick and Gabriel Agbonlahor screwing wide from 12 yards.
But with a poor Odense needing two goals, Villa did not need to panic and they saw out the game comfortably.