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Match report
English Footie
Premier League: Round 32 (setup 1, season 26)
Cambridge United
v.
Aston Villa
Formation:
3-4-1-2
League position:
13
Overall form:
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Christian ABBIATI18Piet VELTHUIZEN
Formation:
3-5-2
League position:
11
Overall form:
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Tomás HUBOCAN27DANILO Luiz da Silva
FILIPE LUIS Karsmirski837Luca ANTONELLI
Rio MAVUBA747José Manuel JURADO Marín
Íńigo MARTÍNEZ Berridi857Mapou YANGA-MBIWA
Nuri SAHIN6Riccardo MONTOLIVO
Aleksandr SAMEDOV7Jesús NAVAS González
Marco VERRATTI87JORDI ALBA Ramos
Gonzalo CASTRO97BURAK Yilmaz
Alexis Alejandro SÁNCHEZ Barbé106Olivier GIROUD
Zoran TOSIC611Andrea PIRLO
Rikki FaulknerManagerRichard Conway
Kamil GLIK12DIEGO CAPEL Trinidad
Salomon KALOU13José Manuel REINA Páez
LEANDRO DAMIĂO da Silva dos Santos14Ádám SZALAI
Abdoulay KONKO157ADRIÁN Lopez Alvarez
Andriy PYATOV166BRUNO Miguel Borges FERNANDES

Cambridge United 1 Aston Villa 0
(Half-time: 0-0, Attendance: 58,966, Stadium: Trade Recruitment Stadium, Referee: Alan WILEY 6½)
87 CastroScorers
Substitutions66 Burak <=> Adrián, 66 Jurado <=> Bruno Fernandes
Sendings off
Bookings57 Giroud, 61 Montolivo
12Corners3
15Fouls15
7Offsides9
8Shots on7
5Shots off4
13Total shots11
5Shots saved7
43%Possession57%
Man of the match: FILIPE LUIS Karsmirski
3A shot from SÁNCHEZ was smothered by the Aston Villa 'keeper.
12MONTOLIVO floated the ball to ANTONELLI who flicked it wide.
13JORDI ALBA's shot beat the Cambridge United 'keeper but rebounded off the Cambridge United woodwork.
19A delightful save prevented BURAK from scoring a lovely goal.
20VELTHUIZEN managed to block a fierce shot.
23GIROUD's shot was well saved by the 'keeper.
26PIRLO made space on the right and touched the ball to JORDI ALBA who fired the ball over.
27A penalty box meleé resulted in VERRATTI cracking a low shot wide.
32VERRATTI stormed through the Aston Villa defence but shot straight at the 'keeper.
33SÁNCHEZ's shot was well held by the 'keeper.
37SÁNCHEZ brought the ball round ANTONELLI and rattled a tame shot into the crowd.
42BURAK beat FILIPE LUIS but hit the ball into the arms of ABBIATI.
43A fine ball from HUBOCAN on the right found SÁNCHEZ who sliced his effort inches wide.
 
47The Cambridge United 'keeper dived to his left to block an accurate shot from Aston Villa's BURAK.
57GIROUD receives a yellow card for a late foul on SÁNCHEZ.
61WILEY books MONTOLIVO for violent conduct against SÁNCHEZ.
65GIROUD headed inches over.
66A neatly crafted cross from BURAK, was tapped goalbound by BRUNO FERNANDES only for the 'keeper to palm clear.
67A great effort from CASTRO scraped the top of the crossbar.
75SÁNCHEZ ran onto a wonderful ball from TOSIC but pulled his effort wide of the goal.
76ADRIÁN blasted a looping shot wide from thirty yards out.
81A fine dribble was ended by a good save by the oncoming Aston Villa 'keeper.
83A header by MAVUBA at the far post was comfortably collected by the Aston Villa 'keeper.
85A shot from SÁNCHEZ held no problem for the 'keeper.
87GOAL!! A tackle from PIRLO gave Cambridge United a free-kick thirty yards out which CASTRO blasted past the Aston Villa 'keeper. (1-0 Cambridge United)
88The 'keeper saved a refined strike from GIROUD.