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Aston Villa (a) Premier Reserve League
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Date: Tuesday
28th March 2006, 7.00pm
Venue: Bescot Stadium,
Walsall |
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Aston Villa |
Newcastle United |
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3 - 0 |
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| Half time: | 2 - 0 | |
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| Score Sheet: | ||
 Agbonlahor
(3) Mikaelsson
(7) Gardner(74)(pen)
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Teams |
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Stuart Taylor Eric Lund Philip Green Gary Cahill Stephen O'Halloran Peter Whittingham Christian Kabeya Eric Djemba-Djemba Gabriel Agbonlahor Tobias Mikaelsson Craig Gardner |
Fraser
Forster Craig Baxter Phil Cave David Edgar Paul Huntington Kris Gate Martin Brittain Amady Faye Michael Chopra Albert Luque Alan O'Brien |
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Scott Bridges for Mikaelsson (60) Daniels for Humphrey (78) Daniels for Humphrey (84) |
Chris
Farman for Luque (13) Chris Shanks for Cave (57) Scott Marshall for Faye (70) |
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| Subs not used: | ||
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Robert Olejnik Jonathan Hogg |
None | |
| Bookings: | ||
| none | none | |
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| None | None | |
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| Referee: I.Hodgson | ||
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| Attendance: 274 | ||
Goals |
3 mins
Birmingham-born forward Gabriel Agbonlahor blasted home a right-footed effort from the edge of the United area 0-17 mins His Swedish strike partner Tobias Mikaelsson latched onto Gardner's through pass and lobbed the oncoming Forster 0-2
Half time: Villa 2 Newcastle 0
74 mins Forster upended Agbonlahor and
Craig Gardner converted the resultant penalty 0-3
We Said |
Coach Tommy Craig said:
"There are no excuses and this was a similar story to the defeat against
West Brom a few weeks ago when we conceded two goals in the early exchanges.
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cannot do that against Aston Villa. They are one of the best teams in the league
and they were always in control.
"They could have scored more but for the woodwork and our keeper, Fraser
Forster.
"We had a word at half time but still didn't really trouble them and at 3-0 it was game over.
"Our form away from home has been disappointing this year. We are normally good for half-a-dozen wins on the road.
"The home form has been good and our final five games are at home, so we will be hoping to remain unbeaten."
Waffle |
Euro flop Albert Luque lasted just thirteen minutes of a miserable night at The Bescot Stadium as Tommy Craig's Reserves ended their away campaign with a 3-0 defeat.
The nightmare for the £10.4m man continued in more ways than one after hobbling around following a hefty challenge. He seemed ready to return to the action but by this time, substitute Chris Farman was all ready to replace the Spaniard and the substitution was made before Luque had time to protest.
Judging by the number of the English expletives Luque then hurled in Tommy Craig's direction he was none too pleased about being replaced and marched off down the tunnel, followed by Craig.
By that time United were already two goals down after their
porous defence had been breached twice in the opening seven minutes.
And they can count themselves slightly fortunate to have made it to half time
without conceding further; Cave clearing a Mikaelsson header off the line and
Agbonlahor striking the woodwork with another effort.
Newcastle's young 'keeper Fraser Forster also played his part in preventing
title-chasing Villa from increasing their goal difference, but his challenge on
Agbonlahor with sixteen minutes remaining allowed Craig Gardner the chance to
fire home the resultant penalty.
Niall Mackenzie
Reserves