Aston Villa 4-0 Bolton Wanderers: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 5 April 2008

Result

Aston Villa 4-0 Bolton Wanderers

Premier League · Saturday 5 April 2008, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Aston Villa 4-0 Bolton Wanderers: match report

Aston Villa beat Bolton Wanderers 4-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 5 April 2008. The half-time score was 1-0.

Gareth Barry opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Gareth Barry (9'), Gabriel Agbonlahor (56'), Gareth Barry (60') and Marlon Harewood (85'). Bolton Wanderers did not score.

Discipline: Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards; Bolton Wanderers received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 8th on 49 points from 32 and Bolton Wanderers 18th on 26 points from 32. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 6th with 60 points, and Bolton Wanderers 16th with 37.

Aston Villa lined up in a 4-4-2 and Bolton Wanderers in a 4-5-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Aston Villa wins, 7 draws and 1 for Bolton Wanderers.

Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read L-L-L-D-D and Bolton Wanderers's L-D-L-L-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 9'Goal · Gareth BarryAston Villa · 1-0
  • 37'Yellow card · Danny GuthrieBolton Wanderers
  • 43'Yellow card · John CarewAston Villa
  • 56'Goal · Gabriel AgbonlahorAston Villa · 2-0
  • 60'Goal · Gareth BarryAston Villa · 3-0
  • 85'Goal · Marlon HarewoodAston Villa · 4-0
  • 90'Yellow card · Nigel Reo-CokerAston Villa

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Aston Villa 2, draws 7, Bolton Wanderers 1.

Team news

Aston Villa line-up (4-4-2)

Scott Carson, Wilfred Bouma, Martin Laursen, Ashley Young, Zat Knight, Gareth Barry, Stiliyan Petrov, Nigel Reo-Coker, John Carew, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Olof Mellberg

Bolton Wanderers line-up (4-5-1)

Ali Al-Habsi, Gretar Steinsson, Joey O'Brien, Andrew O'Brien, Danny Guthrie, Gavin McCann, Heidar Helguson, El-Hadji Diouf, Kevin Davies, Matthew Taylor, Gary Cahill