Game #5145
Aston Villa
Saturday, 10 December 2011
Won
9th (-)
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩
Premier League
Attendance: 20,285
Bolton Wanderers
Reebok Stadium
Villa beat bottom of the table Bolton to secure a fourth win in fifteen Premier League games under Alex McLeish.
Bolton Wanderers
1-2
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | Gabriel Agbonlahor | 33’ | Stephen Warnock | 39’ |
KEY MAN
Goalscorer Marc Albrighton celebrates Stiliyan Petrov's that earns Villa a fourth win in fifteen under Alex McLeish, Saturday, 10 December 2011.
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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 10 December 2011
⚽ | 33’ Goal, 1-0, Marc Albrighton, Assist by Gabriel Agbonlahor
⚽ | 39’ Goal, 2-0, Stiliyan Petrov, Assist by Stephen Warnock
🕒 | HT Bolton Wanderers 2-0 Aston Villa
🥅 | 55’ Goal, 2-1, (Bolton Wanderers), Ivan Klasnić
🔁 | 81’ Sub off, Darren Bent, Sub on, Emile Heskey
🟨 | 90’+1 Booking, Gabriel Agbonlahor
🟨 | 90’+3 Booking, Marc Albrighton
🕒 | FT Bolton Wanderers 2-1 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Alex McLeish's Villa bounce back from defeat to Manchester United with their fourth League win in fifteen to remain 9th in the table.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Bolton Wanderers
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1957-58
FIXTURE HISTORY
Bolton Wanderers
Previous 5 vs. Bolton: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2011-12 |
Matchday | #17 |
League Game | #15 |
Manager Game | #17 |
Saturday, 10 December 2011
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Alex McLeish | 🏴 | Glasgow, 2011-2012
Referee: Phil Dowd | 🏴 | Stoke on Trent, 1998-2016
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 2-0
FT Score: 🟩 2-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Alex McLeish | 🏴 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 17 | 🟩 | 5 🟨 | 7 🟥 5 | 1.29
Career Form:
Mid Table
Alex McLeish | 🏴 |
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Phil Dowd | 🏴 | Stoke on Trent, 1998-2016
Previous 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 22 Oct 11, Villa 1-2 Albion (h) 🆘
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Darren Bond, Jake Collin
Phil Dowd
CARDS
Villa
🟨
Bolton Wanderers
🟨 🟨
TEAM NEWS
Following Shay Given's injury Villa are forced to play Brad Guzan whose appearances to date have been limited to various Cup outings and despite being rated by Martin O'Neill was seen as a compromise by subsequent managers. Meanwhile, Charles N'Zogbia and Stiliyan Petrov replace Barry Bannan and Jermaine Jenas.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 27.34 |
Oldest Player |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 | 32.45 |
Youngest Player |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴 | 22.07 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
Alex McLeish | 🏴 |
Owen Coyle | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴 | 🔥 |
CB James Collins | 🏴 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 |
M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | ⚽ |
W Charles NZogbia | 🇫🇷 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴 | ⚽ | 🟨 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 | 🔥 | 🟨 |
F Darren Bent | 🏴 | 🔁 |
Bolton Wanderers
GK Jussi Jääskeläinen | 🇫🇮 |
LB Paul Robinson | 🏴 |
CB Gary Cahill (ex) | 🏴 |
CB Zat Knight (ex) | 🏴 |
CB Dedryck Boyata | 🇧🇪 |
M Mark Davies | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Darren Pratley | 🏴 |
W Tuncay Şanlı | 🇹🇷 | 🔁 |
W Chris Eagles | 🏴 |
CF Kevin Davies | 🏴 |
CF Ivan Klasnić | 🇭🇷 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 CF Emile Heskey | 🏴 | for F Darren Bent | 🏴 | 81’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | W Tuncay Şanlı | 🇹🇷 | (M Gaël Kakuta | 🇨🇩 |)
🔁 | CF Ivan Klasnić | 🇭🇷 | (CF David N’Gog | 🇫🇷 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Andy Marshall | 🏴 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 |
M Barry Bannan | 🏴 |
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴 |
F Andreas Weimann | 🇦🇹 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Ádám Bogdán | 🇭🇺 |
RB Gretar Steinsson | 🇮🇸 |
M Fabrice Muamba | 🏴 |
W Michael O'Halloran | 🏴 |
W Martin Petrov | 🇧🇬 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI: £62.37m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 3/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 10/18
Homegrown: 7/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
Team Cost: £16.96m
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 7/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Injury | 3 |
RB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 |
GK Shay Given | 🇮🇪 |
M Jermaine Jenas | 🏴 |
Out on Loan | 5 |
M Jean Makoun | 🇨🇲 | Olympiacos Piraeus
RB Habib Bèye | 🇸🇳 | Doncaster
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴 | Millwall
CB Shane Lowry | 🇦🇺 | Millwall
M Gary Gardner | 🏴 | Coventry
UNAVAILABLE
Not Reported
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
DEBUT APPEARANCES
FINAL APPEARANCES
🔴 M Jermaine Jenas | 🏴 |
MATCH STATS
Possession F | 45%
Possession A | 55%
Shots F | 17
Shots A | 17
Shots on Target F | 11
Shots on Target A | 12
Corners F | 10
Corners A | 4
Fouls F | 7
Fouls A | 10
TABLE
PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
“I’m delighted to get the first away win of the season.
“It’s been a long time coming - we have thrown away a couple of opportunities, so well done to the players for digging deep at the end under a barrage of Bolton attacks.
“It is credit to their mental toughness, and hopefully that is improving after capitulating at a couple of other away venues.”
Alex McLeish.
*RTE Sport*
Saturday, 10 December 2011
Goals from Marc Albrighton and Stiliyan Petrov at the Reebok Stadium earned Aston Villa their first away win of the season as Bolton’s troubles at home continued.
Wanderers went into the contest having lost six out of seven Barclays Premier League games at their own ground this term, and they fell behind in the 33rd minute when Albrighton prodded in Gabriel Agbonlahor’s cross.
Petrov then added to the Trotters’ woes six minutes before the break with a strike that went in off former Villa man Gary Cahill, and although Ivan Klasnic reduced the deficit 10 minutes into the second half, the hosts could not salvage a point, slumping to the foot of the table.
They were booed by their disgruntled fans, something recently heard from Villa supporters, who will be feeling more positive after seeing their team - now up to eighth - record a win on the road and only their second victory in eight matches.
Bolton boss Owen Coyle made two changes to his first XI, Darren Pratley and Tuncay Sanli coming in for the benched Fabrice Muamba and injured ex-Villa man Nigel Reo-Coker, with Cahill keeping his place to face his old side after his red card in Wanderers’ 3-0 defeat to Tottenham last weekend was rescinded.
Villa’s team showed three adjustments from the 1-0 loss to Manchester United, manager Alex McLeish recalling Charles N’Zogbia - a week after dropping him for a breach of club rules - at the expense of Barry Bannan, and replacing injured duo Shay Given and Jermaine Jenas with Brad Guzan and Petrov.
After respects had been paid around the ground to former Bolton midfielder Gary Speed with a minute’s applause, it was the hosts who created the first real chance of the game when Chris Eagles swung a free-kick towards the box and Cahill headed into Guzan’s arms.
Eagles side-footed weakly at Guzan from Klasnic’s lay-off before Villa squandered a good opportunity, Cahill’s slip allowing N’Zogbia to cross to Petrov, who was right in front of goal but put his shot wide.
Moments later, it was Darren Bent failing to convert when he really should have scored, the unmarked striker seeing his effort come back off the legs of Jussi Jaaskelainen.
Bolton were bizarrely awarded a free-kick in a useful position after Kevin Davies appeared to shove over Alan Hutton and it was taken by Eagles, whose strike was spilled by Guzan before the danger passed. N’Zogbia then attempted to guide the ball in following a short corner, but his effort was off target.
Wanderers were struggling to contain their opponents’ attacking play and it came as little surprise when Villa made the breakthrough just after the half-hour mark, Albrighton on hand to tap in Agbonlahor’s delivery from the left.
Within six minutes, the visitors had doubled their lead, Petrov’s drive taking a deflection off Cahill on its way in.
Bolton might have pulled one back two minutes before the break, but Guzan did well to block Kevin Davies’ header.
The hosts showed more purpose at the start of the second half and after Guzan had dived to push away a curler from Eagles, Wanderers made it 2-1.
Klasnic pounced in the 55th minute, sweeping in his seventh goal of the season after Zat Knight’s shot had caused a scramble in the box.
Bent was then guilty of further profligacy with a glaring miss, allowing the Trotters go on the hunt for an equaliser, Eagles dragging a shot wide, Kevin Davies heading tamely at Guzan and Mark Davies firing over the bar.
Coyle refreshed his attack, introducing Gael Kakuta in place of Tuncay and then being forced to replace the injured Klasnic with David Ngog.
Despite their continued efforts, though, Bolton they were unable to find a leveller, with Kakuta lashing wide in the closing stages before Jaaskelainen prevented Albrighton from inflicting an even heavier defeat.
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