• Date: Sun 28 October 2007
  • Venue: Reebok Stadium
  • Ref: Atkinson, M
  • Attendance: 18,413
1 - 1
Aston Villa

Aston Villa

Moore (57)

Bolton Wanderers vs Aston Villa

Team Lineups

Bolton Wanderers

Jussi Jaaskelainen
Abdoulaye Meite
Andy O'Brien
Ricardo Gardner
Gavin McCann (Danny Guthrie, 71)
Ramos Ivan Campo (Gary Speed, 65)
Joey O'Brien
Kevin Nolan
Kevin Davies, K
El Hadji Diouf
Nicolas Anelka (Jlloyd Samuel, 79)

Aston Villa

Stuart Taylor
Zat Knight
Wilfred Bouma
Martin Laursen
Isaiah Osbourne (Patrik Berger, 46)
Olof Mellberg
Gareth Barry
Stiliyan Petrov
Shaun Maloney (Luke Moore, 46)
Ashley Young, A
Gabriel Agbonlahor


Live Text Commentary
Full time
 

Anelka's free-kick is cancelled out by Moore in the second half as both sides claim a point at The Reebok.

90

Guthrie almost gets on the end of a ball into the box

90

It comes to nothing though and there will be 3 minutes of extra time to play

90

Agbonlahor wins a free-kick - a chance for Villa to load the box

87

A point apeice here seems the likely outcome from this game

85

Guthrie defends well and wins a free-kick

84

Gardner saves well from Taylor before Diouf misses the rebound - but a good chance for a winner that

83

Drifiting towards a 1-1 draw now with less than 10 minutes left

80
Substitution
 

Anelka is replaced by Megson now, former Villa man Jlloyd Samuel is on in his place

79
Yellow Card
 

Young is the first Villa man to be booked

77

Guthrie's cross is straight at Taylor

75

Time ticking away and both sides continue to look for a winner

73

Young's final ball in is poor from a good position and Jaaskelainen gathers

72
Substitution
 

McCann is off to be replaced by Danny Guthrie, the Liverpool youngster on loan at Bolton for the season

71

The game is finely balanced now and really could go either way with 20 minutes or so left

69

Young's cross for Villa is overhit and Bolton survive again

67

Berger's shot is blocked

66

Speed fires a shot wide - the second half is much better

64

A Bolton shot is deflected wide for a corner this time

63
Substitution
 

Gary Speed is on in place of Campo - the Bolton fans didn't want him to go off though

62

A dangerous Villa corner just evades everyone but the visitors now look really dangerous

61

Villa have been much better after the break following the two substitutions

59

Bouma has to guide the ball behind for a Bolton corner

58
Yellow Card
 

Campo is booked for a high challenge on Bouma

57

It was a shot from Agbonlahor that Moore got a touch to, but Bolton are furious at the awarding of a throw-in to Villa in the build up to the goal

55
Goal
 

Moore deflects the ball past Jussi Jaaskelainen to bring Aston Villa level

53

Anelka almost makes it 2-0 but he is denied by a great save from Taylor

50

Villa look brighter at the start of the second half and Agbonlahor wins a corner

47

Moore overhits his pass as Villa look to improve

45
Substitution
 

Patrik Berger is also on for Villa in place of Maloney

45
Substitution
 

Luke Moore is on for Villa in place of Isaiah Osbourne

Second half
 

The action begins in the second period

Half time
 

Anelka's excellent free-kick on 21 minutes gives Bolton a deserved half-time lead

44

Young wins a free-kick in a dangerous position from which the ball eventually finds its way to Maloney, who's shot is dropped by Jaaskelainen but Agbonlahor can't pounce on the rebound

41

Villa finally enjoy a bit of possession but still they can't get past the Bolton defence

40
Yellow Card
 

Anelka is booked for a foul

39

Megson will be pleased with the half so far - the home side are in complete control at the moment

36

Olof Mellberg has to clear for another Bolton corner - from which Bouma clears for another one

35

Still very quiet at The Reebok with plenty of empty seats around the ground

32

Villa have been poor so far, not troubling the Bolton defence at all

30

Villa win a corner but Gavin McCann heads away easily and the Trotters break to win a quick corner of their own

28

Diouf combines well with Anelka again but the forward shoots just wide, almost his second of the game there though

26

Jaaskelainen is forced into drastic action after a poor back-pass puts him under pressure but he get's the ball away

23

It was a great strike from the direct free-kick and Anelka's seventh goal of the season puts the Trotters in the driving seat

21
Goal
 

Nicolas Anelka's superb free-kick flies past Taylor and Bolton have the lead

20

Diouf fires a decent cross over but Kevin Nolan can't control it and the chance goes begging

18

Bolton are enjoying the better of it as Wilfred Bouma appears to foul Campo but gets away with it

17

Diouf picked up a knock and needed treatment, but he's up and appears fine now

16

Gardner advances into the Villa box and goes down wanting a penalty - the referee says no though

14

Joey O'Brien's attempt is very high and wide and never troubling Villa keeper Stuart Taylor

12

No major chances at either end so far as both sides look tentative early on

10

Ricardo Gardner hauls down Ashley Young for a Villa free-kick

9

Andy O'Brien defends well to nod the ball back to Jussi Jaaskelainen with Agbonlahor on the prowl

7

A fairly lively opening at The Reebok, but the home fans remain quiet

4

El Hadji Diouf does well out wide and pulls it back, the ball eventually dropping for Ivan Campo but he volleys over

2

Gabriel Agbonlahor wins an early free-kick but Shaun Maloney's effort is off-target - a decent strike though

1

It's the Villa fans making the early noise with apparently not much support for Gary Megson from the home faithful

Kickoff
 

The game gets underway

Awaiting Kickoff
 

Both managers made four changes to their sides for the clash at The Reebok in what is Gary Megson's first game in charge of Bolton.