Aston Villa 4-0 Bolton Wanderers: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 5 April 2008
Result
Aston Villa 4-0 Bolton Wanderers
Premier League · Saturday 5 April 2008, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Aston Villa 4-0 Bolton Wanderers: match report
Aston Villa beat Bolton Wanderers 4-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 5 April 2008. The half-time score was 1-0.
Gareth Barry opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Gareth Barry (9'), Gabriel Agbonlahor (56'), Gareth Barry (60') and Marlon Harewood (85'). Bolton Wanderers did not score.
Discipline: Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards; Bolton Wanderers received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 8th on 49 points from 32 and Bolton Wanderers 18th on 26 points from 32. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 6th with 60 points, and Bolton Wanderers 16th with 37.
Aston Villa lined up in a 4-4-2 and Bolton Wanderers in a 4-5-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Aston Villa wins, 7 draws and 1 for Bolton Wanderers.
Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read L-L-L-D-D and Bolton Wanderers's L-D-L-L-L.
Key events
- 9'Goal · Gareth Barry
- 37'Yellow card · Danny Guthrie
- 43'Yellow card · John Carew
- 56'Goal · Gabriel Agbonlahor
- 60'Goal · Gareth Barry
- 85'Goal · Marlon Harewood
- 90'Yellow card · Nigel Reo-Coker
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa line-up (4-4-2)
Scott Carson, Wilfred Bouma, Martin Laursen, Ashley Young, Zat Knight, Gareth Barry, Stiliyan Petrov, Nigel Reo-Coker, John Carew, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Olof Mellberg
Bolton Wanderers line-up (4-5-1)
Ali Al-Habsi, Gretar Steinsson, Joey O'Brien, Andrew O'Brien, Danny Guthrie, Gavin McCann, Heidar Helguson, El-Hadji Diouf, Kevin Davies, Matthew Taylor, Gary Cahill