Aston Villa 2-1 Ajax: result and report
Europa League · Thursday 23 October 2008
Result
Aston Villa 2-1 Ajax
Europa League · Thursday 23 October 2008, 19:15 UTC · half-time 2-1
Aston Villa 2-1 Ajax: match report
Aston Villa beat Ajax 2-1 in the Europa League on Thursday 23 October 2008. It was 2-1 at half-time.
Martin Laursen opened the scoring in the 8th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Martin Laursen (8') and Gareth Barry (44'). Ajax scored through Thomas Vermaelen (22').
Discipline: Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards; Ajax received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 31st on 8 points from 4 and Ajax 43rd on 6 points from 2. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.
Key events
- 8'Goal · Martin Laursen
- 22'Goal · Thomas Vermaelen
- 44'Goal · Gareth Barry
- 74'Yellow card · Carlos Cuéllar
- 85'Yellow card · Craig Gardner
Team news
Aston Villa expected line-up (4-4-2)
Curtis Davies, Martin Laursen, Ashley Young, Gareth Barry, Nigel Reo-Coker, Stiliyan Petrov, Gabriel Agbonlahor, John Carew, Brad Friedel
Ajax expected line-up
Maarten Stekelenburg, Olaf Lindenbergh, Hatem Trabelsi, Zdenek Grygera, Steven Pienaar, Hedwiges Maduro, Tomas Galasek, Markus Rosenberg, Thomas Vermaelen, Nourdin Boukhari, Urby Emanuelson