Aston Villa 1-1 Lovech: result and report
Europa League · Thursday 2 October 2008
Result
Aston Villa 1-1 Lovech
Europa League · Thursday 2 October 2008, 19:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Aston Villa 1-1 Lovech: match report
Aston Villa drew with Lovech 1-1 in the Europa League on Thursday 2 October 2008. The half-time score was 1-0.
Marlon Harewood opened the scoring in the 27th minute. Aston Villa's goal came from Marlon Harewood (27'). Lovech scored through W. Niflore (53', penalty).
Discipline: Aston Villa received no yellow cards; Lovech received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 26th on 7 points from 3 and Lovech 61st on 4 points from 3. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Aston Villa win, 0 draws and 0 for Lovech.
Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read W-D-W and Lovech's L-W-D.
Key events
- 23'Yellow card · Ivelin Popov
- 27'Goal · Marlon Harewood
- 53'Penalty goal · W. Niflore
- 84'Yellow card · Petar Zanev
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa expected line-up (4-4-2)
Luke Young, Curtis Davies, Martin Laursen, Ashley Young, Nicky Shorey, Gareth Barry, Nigel Reo-Coker, Stiliyan Petrov, Gabriel Agbonlahor, John Carew, Brad Friedel