Game #5000
Thursday, 4 December 2008
Attendance: 28,797
Lost
UEFA Cup Group F Game 3
Group F
MŠK Žilina
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟥
Villa Park
Villa carry their indifferent League form to Slovakia and lose to Žilina after a much changed line up falls two behind after twenty minutes and are unable to recover.
Aston Villa
1-2
MŠK Žilina
Assist(s) | Marlon Harewood | 28' |
KEY MAN
Ashley Young shares Villa's disappointment at UEFA Cup defeat but Martin O'Neill's side have already done enough to qualify with a game to spare, Thursday, 4 December 2008.
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MATCH TIMELINE
🥅 | 16’ Goal, 0-1, (MŠK Žilina), Vladimir Leitner
🥅 | 19’ Goal, 0-2, (MŠK Žilina), Peter Štyvar
⚽ | 28’ Goal, 1-2, Nathan Delfouneso, Assist by Marlon Harewood
🟨 | 29’ Booking, Nathan Delfouneso
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-2 MŠK Žilina
🔁 | 65’ Sub off, Isaiah Osbourne, Sub on, James Milner
🔁 | 68’ Sub off, Moustapha Salifou, Sub on, Gareth Barry
🔁 | 76’ Sub off, Nathan Delfouneso, Sub on, Gabriel Agbonlahor
🟥 | 79’ Sending off, (MŠK Žilina), Vladimir Leitner
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-2 MŠK Žilina
ON THIS DAY
Villa suffer their first UEFA Cup setback of the campaign after Martin O'Neill's mass changes don't work out once again but Villa still progress to the Round of 32 with a game still to play.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
MŠK Žilina
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
Slovak League Champions: 🏆🏆
Slovak National League Champions: 🏆
Slovak Super Liga Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
Slovak Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 2006-07
FIXTURE HISTORY
MŠK Žilina
Previous 5 vs. Žilina: None
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2008-09 |
Matchday | #25 |
Manager Game | #108 |
Thursday, 4 December 2008
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Martin O’Neill | 🇬🇧 | County Londonderry, 2006-2010
Referee: Espen Berntsen | 🇳🇴 | Vang, 2002-2012
HT Score: 🟥 1-2
FT Score: 🟥 1-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟥
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Espen Berntsen | 🇳🇴 | Vang, 2002-2012
Previous 5: None
Last Match: None
Cards: 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Erik Ræstad, Odd-Jarle Larsen
CARDS
TEAM NEWS
Martin O'Neill again makes a raft of changes for the UEFA Cup with Zat Knight (first start in 5), Craig Gardner (first start in 5), Moustapha Salifou (first start in 5), Nigel Reo-Coker, Isaiah Osbourne (first start in 14), Marlon Harewood (first start in 12), Nathan Delfouneso (first start) and Brad Guzan replacing James Milner, Curtis Davies, Brad Friedel, Gareth Barry, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Steve Sidwell, Stiliyan Petrov and Martin Laursen.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 24.85 |
Oldest Player |
RB Luke Young | 🏴 | 29.40 |
Youngest Player |
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴 | 17.85 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 |
Dušan Radolský | 🇸🇰 |
Aston Villa
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
CB Zat Knight | 🏴 |
CB Carlos Cuéllar | 🇪🇸 |
RB Luke Young | 🏴 |
M Craig Gardner | 🏴 |
M Isaiah Osbourne | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Moustapha Salifou | 🇹🇬 | 🔁 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴 |
CF Marlon Harewood | 🏴 | 🔥 |
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴 | ⚽ | 🟨 | 🔁 |
MŠK Žilina
GK Dusan Perniš | 🇸🇰 |
LB Vladimir Leitner | 🇸🇰 | ⚽ | 🟨 | 🟨 | 🟥 |
CB Mario Pečalka | 🇸🇰 | 🟨 |
CB Benjamin Vomáčka | 🇨🇿 |
CB Jozef Piaček | 🇸🇰 |
CB Ondrej Šourek | 🇨🇿 |
RB Peter Pekarík | 🇸🇰 |
M Zdeno Štrba | 🇸🇰 |
M Robert Jež | 🇸🇰 | 🔁 |
CF Ádauto | 🇧🇷 | 🔁 |
CF Peter Štyvar | 🇸🇰 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 W James Milner | 🏴 | for M Isaiah Osbourne | 🏴 | 65’ |
🔁 M Gareth Barry | 🏴 | for M Moustapha Salifou | 🇹🇬 | 68’ |
🔁 F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 | for F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴 | 76’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | M Robert Jež | 🇸🇰 | (LB Lucas Tesák | 🇸🇰 |)
🔁 | CF Ádauto | 🇧🇷 | (M Admir Vladavić | 🇧🇦 |)
🔁 | CF Peter Štyvar | 🇸🇰 | (M Emil Rilke | 🇨🇿 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
CB Martin Laursen | 🇩🇰 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Miroslav Seman | 🇸🇰 |
M Pavol Poliacek | 🇸🇰 |
CF Ivan Belak | 🇸🇰 |
CF Mislav Karoglan | 🇭🇷 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/11
Homegrown: 3/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/18
Homegrown: 6/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
Home Nation 🇸🇰 : 9/14
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
MATCH STATS
Not recorded
TABLE
PROGRAMME



MATCHDAY QUOTES
“We are through and we deserve to go through. We changed the side significantly but we put an awful lot of pressure on Zilina.
“I thought we would get an equaliser but that did not materialise. However, our effort was absolutely fantastic.
“Nathan was terrific. I thought he played with little fear - and it is great to see a talent like that coming up. It was a great goal and I was really pleased with him.
“When Nathan got us back in the game at 2-1 I thought there was plenty of time to conjure an equaliser.
“In the end it did not matter as Hamburg won in Prague. But even if we had not gone through tonight, we would have gone to Hamburg and got the result we needed there.”
Martin O'Neill.
*BBC Sport*
Thursday, 4 December 2008
*Aston Villa fell to a shock loss to MSK Zilina but still reached the Uefa Cup’s last 32, thanks to Hamburg’s victory over Slavia Prague.*
Zilina took the lead when Vladimir Leitner’s cross went straight in.
They doubled their advantage when Peter Styvar converted Peter Pekarik’s cross after a breakaway.
Nathan Delfouneso, on his full debut for Villa, scored with a superb left-foot volley but Zilina held on despite having Leitner sent off.
Not that the result mattered in terms of Villa’s progress in the competition as Hamburg’s 2-0 win guaranteed Martin O’Neill’s side a top-three finish in the group.
But O’Neill will not be pleased with the way Villa conceded twice to a side who had previously scored only one goal in the whole of the group stages.
Zat Knight, who had earlier seen a header tipped over the bar by Zilina keeper Dusan Pernis, looked a little at fault for Zilina’s first goal.
The defender looked to duck out of heading away Leitner’s floated cross and the ball sailed over him and beyond Brad Guzan’s dive to nestle in the bottom right corner.
But if the Slovaks’ opener owed a little to poor defending and good fortune, their second goal was simply sublime.
A devastating counter-attack saw Adauto carry the ball forward before laying it off to Pekarik to cross for Styvar to finish the move in style.
At that time it was hard to see how an unfamiliar Villa side, which had eight changes from the team that played at the weekend, would claw their way back into the match.
It took a moment of superb skill for 17-year-old striker Delfouneso, who volleyed in superbly after Marlon Harewood had set him up by chesting the ball down at the edge of the box.
Yet the goal did little to improve Villa’s fluency and too many crosses failed to find a player as the hosts struggled to take a grip on the game.
In midfield, Villa looked lightweight, and while that changed when James Milner and Gareth Barry were brought on, chances remained sparse.
Craig Gardner saw his shot on the turn saved and Milner fired over from the rebound.
Then Leitner pulled back Ashley Young, having been booked for the same thing earlier, and was sent off after being cautioned again.
Villa tried to make their numerical advantage tell and Barry went close before Gardner should have done much better with a free header that he directed wide.
In injury time, Gardner came close to making amends but his header cannoned back off the post.