Aston Villa 2-3 SK Rapid: result and report

Europa League · Thursday 26 August 2010

Result

Aston Villa 2-3 SK Rapid

Europa League · Thursday 26 August 2010, 18:45 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Aston Villa 2-3 SK Rapid: match report

Aston Villa were beaten by SK Rapid 2-3 in the Europa League on Thursday 26 August 2010. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Gabriel Agbonlahor opened the scoring in the 22nd minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Gabriel Agbonlahor (22') and Emile Heskey (77'). SK Rapid scored through Atdhe Nuhiu (52'), Mario Sonnleitner (78') and Rene Gartler (81').

Discipline: Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards; SK Rapid received 2 yellow cards.

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, 1 draw and 1 for SK Rapid.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 22'Goal · Gabriel AgbonlahorAston Villa · 1-0
  • 52'Goal · Atdhe NuhiuSK Rapid · 1-1
  • 72'Yellow card · Mario SonnleitnerSK Rapid
  • 77'Goal · Emile HeskeyAston Villa · 2-1
  • 78'Goal · Mario SonnleitnerSK Rapid · 2-2
  • 81'Goal · Rene GartlerSK Rapid · 2-3
  • 83'Yellow card · Andreas DoberSK Rapid
  • 86'Yellow card · James CollinsAston Villa
  • 90'Yellow card · A. YoungAston Villa

Head-to-head

3 meetings: Aston Villa 1, draws 1, SK Rapid 1.

Team news

Aston Villa line-up

Brad Guzan, Ashley Young, Curtis Davies, James Collins, Stephen Ireland, Stiliyan Petrov, Nigel Reo-Coker, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Emile Heskey, Habib Beye, Carlos Cuéllar

SK Rapid line-up

Raimund Hedl, Mario Sonnleitner, Markus Katzer, Ragnvald Soma, Andreas Dober, Markus Heikkinen, Veli Kavlak, Christoph Saurer, Yasin Pehlivan, Atdhe Nuhiu, Steffen Hofmann