Aston Villa 4-2 Bolton Wanderers: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 13 December 2008
Result
Aston Villa 4-2 Bolton Wanderers
Premier League · Saturday 13 December 2008, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-1
Aston Villa 4-2 Bolton Wanderers: match report
Aston Villa defeated Bolton Wanderers 4-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 13 December 2008. The half-time score was 2-1.
Johan Elmander opened the scoring in the 17th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Gabriel Agbonlahor (25'), an own goal by Kevin Davies (40'), Gabriel Agbonlahor (67') and Ashley Young (78'). Bolton Wanderers scored through Johan Elmander (17') and Kevin Davies (86').
Discipline: Aston Villa received no yellow cards; Bolton Wanderers received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 5th on 28 points from 16 and Bolton Wanderers 10th on 20 points from 16. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 6th with 62 points, and Bolton Wanderers 13th with 41.
Aston Villa lined up in a 4-5-1 and Bolton Wanderers in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Aston Villa wins, 7 draws and 1 for Bolton Wanderers.
Key events
- 17'Goal · Johan Elmander
- 25'Goal · Gabriel Agbonlahor
- 28'Yellow card · Andy O'Brien
- 40'Own goal · Kevin Davies
- 67'Goal · Gabriel Agbonlahor
- 78'Goal · Ashley Young
- 86'Goal · Kevin Davies
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa line-up (4-5-1)
Luke Young, Martin Laursen, Ashley Young, Curtis Davies, Steve Sidwell, Gareth Barry, James Milner, Stiliyan Petrov, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Brad Friedel, Carlos Cuéllar
Bolton Wanderers line-up (4-2-3-1)
Jussi Jaaskelainen, Gretar Steinsson, Andrew O'Brien, Jlloyd Samuel, Fabrice Muamba, Gavin McCann, Johan Elmander, Kevin Nolan, Gary Cahill, Matthew Taylor, Kevin Davies