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Match report
English Footie
Championship: Round 36 (setup 1, season 25)
Aston Villa
v.
Tranmere Rovers
Formation:
4-4-2
League position:
2
Overall form:
Home form:
Wilfredo Daniel CABALLERO81Mihai GHERASIM
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
24
Overall form:
Home form:
JOĂO Pedro da Silva PEREIRA82FELIPE Dias da Silva dal Belo
Renat YANBAEV73Yuri ZHIRKOV
Esteban Matías CAMBIASSO Deleau84RUBÉN Salvador PÉREZ del Marmol
Ânderson Luis da Silva, LUISĂO5Paolo CANNAVARO
Alberto Tomas BOTÍA Rabasco76Aleksandar IGNJOVSKI
Jesús NAVAS González76Niko KRANJCAR
JORDI ALBA Ramos886Andrei ARSHAVIN
ADRIÁN Lopez Alvarez9Tomás NECID
Óscar René CARDOZO Marín10Vágner Silva de Souza, VÁGNER LOVE
José Paulo Bezerra Maciel Júnior, PAULINHO116EDUARDO Alves da Silva
Richard ConwayManager
Nicklas HELENIUS Jensen12Dmitri SYCHEV
Javier Varas Herrera, JAVI VARAS13Mladen PETRIC
Manuel del Moral Fernández, MANU DEL MORAL614Rob HALL
Ante REBIC15Nathan STANTON
Johannes GEIS16

Aston Villa 5 Tranmere Rovers 0
(Half-time: 4-0, Attendance: 41,315, Stadium: Villa Park, Referee: Aris GALANOPOULOS 6)
26 Jordi Alba, 27 Paulinho, 30 Navas, 38 Jordi Alba, 57 AdriánScorers
66 Paulinho <=> Geis, 66 Adrián <=> Manu Del MoralSubstitutions
Sendings off
90+2 CambiassoBookings
5Corners2
3Fouls19
8Offsides7
5Shots on6
15Shots off2
20Total shots8
0Shots saved5
57%Possession43%
Man of the match: JOĂO Pedro da Silva PEREIRA
6A penalty box scramble resulted in JORDI ALBA driving the ball over.
12ARSHAVIN blasted a left foot shot just beyond the near post from twenty-five yards out.
13PAULINHO snapped at a simple chance.
16CARDOZO ran onto a great ball from JORDI ALBA but dragged his shot wide.
21A cross from RUBÉN PÉREZ left ZHIRKOV in lots of space but he scuffed his shot.
26GOAL!! An energetic CARDOZO ran down the wing and dragged the ball back for JORDI ALBA to drill home. (1-0 Aston Villa)
27GOAL!! A refined set-piece enabled PAULINHO to fire the ball into the net. (2-0 Aston Villa)
30GOAL!! A great twenty yard shot from JORDI ALBA hit the woodwork and in the ensuing meleé the ball was headed into the net by NAVAS. (3-0 Aston Villa)
38GOAL!! After PAULINHO was pulled to the ground the ref waved play-on and JORDI ALBA went on to comfortably score. (4-0 Aston Villa)
40ADRIÁN waltzed past IGNJOVSKI and stroked a poor shot over.
41Uncertainty in the Tranmere Rovers defence enabled JORDI ALBA to thump an effort wide.
 
48NAVAS beat two Tranmere Rovers players and thundered a great chance wide.
51The stunned 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from CANNAVARO fell just over.
57GOAL!! After being forced wide ADRIÁN managed to force the ball in from the tightest of angles. (5-0 Aston Villa)
62A corner fell to YANBAEV who nodded an effort wide.
70A delightful strike from EDUARDO was dealt with by a good stop from the 'keeper.
74NAVAS beat KRANJCAR and fired the ball to JORDI ALBA who toe-poked his shot wide.
75ARSHAVIN worked the ball to RUBÉN PÉREZ, NECID gathered his pass and hoofed the ball within easy reach of CABALLERO.
76CAMBIASSO made space on the right and dragged the ball to CARDOZO who touched the ball wide.
86A poor shot from JORDI ALBA bounced agonisingly wide.
90+1An exceptional effort from CARDOZO scraped the outside of the righthand post.
90+2A poor foul on RUBÉN PÉREZ by CAMBIASSO results in a booking.