Game #4979
Aston Villa
Sunday, 17 August 2008
Won
2nd
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟩
Premier League
Manchester City
Villa Park
Attendance: 39,955
Aston Villa
4-2
Manchester City
Assist(s) | Ashley Young | 47’ | Curtis Davies | 69’ | Gareth Barry | 74’ | 76’ |
MANAGER
Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010
Aston Villa
GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
LB Nicky Shorey | 🏴 |
CB Curtis Davies | 🏴 | 🔥 |
CB Martin Laursen | 🇩🇰 |
RB Luke Young | 🏴 | 🟢 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴 | 🔥 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴 | 🔥 | 🔥 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 | ⚽ | ⚽ | ⚽ |
CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 | ⚽ |
MANAGER
Mark Hughes | 🏴 |
Manchester City
GK Joe Hart | 🏴 |
CB Micah Richards | 🏴 |
CB Vedran Ćorluka | 🇭🇷 | ⚽ |
CB Tal Ben Haim (yth) | 🇮🇱 | 🟨 |
LB Javier Garrido | 🇪🇸 |
M Michael Johnson | 🏴 |
M Elano | 🇧🇷 | ⚽ |
M Gelson Fernandes |🇨🇭| 🔁 |
M Kelvin Etuhu | 🇳🇬 |
W Martin Petrov | 🇧🇬 |
CF Ched Evans | 🏴 | 🔁 |
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions Made
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | M Gelson Fernandes |🇨🇭| (M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 |)
🔁 | CF Ched Evans | 🏴 | (CF Daniel Sturridge | 🏴 |)
🟩 17 August 2008, Villa 4-2 Abu Dhabi, Villa Park.
ON THIS DAY
Sunday, 17 August 2008
Villa open the 2008-09 Premier League campaign with a fine win over pretenders City as Gabriel Agbonlahor hits a seven minute hat-trick and Luke Young makes his debut.
Right back Luke Young makes his Villa debut aged 29 after joining from Middlesbrough for a fee of £2,700,000 earlier this month to become the 811th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.
Gabriel Agbonlahor scores a hat-trick to pass 25 goals in a Villa shirt on his 95th appearance (88 Starts) and make it W34 D32 L29, 26 Goals, 11 Assists and 6 Bookings so far in his Villa career.
Curtis Davies contributes his first assist in a Villa shirt on his 16th appearance (13 Starts) to make it W9 D4 L3, 1 Goal, 1 Assist and 1 Booking so far in his Villa career.
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