Aston Villa 3-2 Blackburn Rovers: result and report

Aston Villa 3-2 Blackburn Rovers

Premier League · Wednesday 29 October 2008, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Aston Villa defeated Blackburn Rovers 3-2 in the Premier League on Wednesday 29 October 2008. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Stephen Warnock opened the scoring in the 30th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Luke Young (45+1'), Gareth Barry (65') and Gabriel Agbonlahor (87'). Blackburn Rovers scored through Stephen Warnock (30') and Brett Emerton (90').

Discipline: Aston Villa received no yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 5th on 17 points from 9 and Blackburn Rovers 11th on 12 points from 9. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 6th with 62 points, and Blackburn Rovers 15th with 41.

Aston Villa lined up in a 4-3-3 and Blackburn Rovers in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Aston Villa wins, 2 draws and 2 for Blackburn Rovers.

Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read W-D-L-W-W and Blackburn Rovers's D-D-L-W-W.