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Match report
English Footie
UEFA Cup: Round 1 (setup 1, season 29)
Levski
v.
Aston Villa
Formation:
4-3-3
Georgi PETKOV16DIEGO LÓPEZ Rodríguez
Formation:
4-1-3-2
League position:
20
Overall form:
Home form:
Zhivko MILANOV728DANILO Luiz da Silva
Miki ORACHEV63JORDI ALBA Ramos
Kévin BRU48Héctor Miguel HERRERA López
Yordan MILIEV58Mapou YANGA-MBIWA
Viktor GENEV667José María GIMÉNEZ de Vargas
John HERRON77Jesús NAVAS González
Ivelin POPOV68DIEGO CAPEL Trinidad
Anthony DEROUARD697BURAK Yilmaz
Georgi SARMOV107Olivier GIROUD
Ashkan DEJAGAH11Sergei IGNASHEVICH
ManagerHarvey Dana
Garra DEMBÉLÉ12Rodrigo Javier DE PAUL
Dimitar EVTIMOV13Luca ANTONELLI
Dimitar ILIEV14José Ignacio Fernández Iglesias, NACHO
Aleksandar KIROV15Ante REBIC
ÁLVARO José JIMÉNEZ Guerrero16Kingsley BOATENG

Levski 0 Aston Villa 3
(Half-time: 0-2, Attendance: 24,973, Stadium: Georgi Asparuhov, Referee: Florent BATTA 6)
Scorers2 Burak, 14 Giroud, 64 Navas
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings
4Corners7
13Fouls7
5Offsides17
10Shots on3
6Shots off13
16Total shots16
7Shots saved0
42%Possession58%
Man of the match: Héctor Miguel HERRERA López
2GOAL!! The creative GIMÉNEZ neatly flicked on a cross for BURAK to thump the ball in. (1-0 Aston Villa)
5A corner fell to POPOV who flicked the ball inches over.
14GOAL!! A shot from GIROUD raced through a ruck of players and trickled past the unsighted PETKOV. (2-0 Aston Villa)
16A header by DEROUARD at the far post was comfortably collected by the Aston Villa 'keeper.
20NAVAS drilled a deadly shot wide from twenty-five yards out.
24DEROUARD headed wide.
27A cross from HERRERA left BURAK in plenty of space but he rushed his shot.
29IGNASHEVICH brought the ball past HERRON and rattled a weak shot over.
36BURAK fluffed a simple chance.
41BRU stroked a simple chance past the righthand post.
42The Aston Villa 'keeper did well to hold onto an amazing shot from SARMOV.
 
54POPOV pulled away from HERRERA but drove the ball into the arms of the Aston Villa 'keeper.
55A great save prevented HERRON from scoring a great goal.
59A mix up in the Aston Villa defence enabled DEROUARD to volley an effort just wide.
61The Aston Villa 'keeper dived to his right to save an accurate shot from Levski's SARMOV.
62A penalty box meleé resulted in GIROUD tapping the ball over.
64GOAL!! A cross from YANGA-MBIWA was headed away by POPOV only for DIEGO CAPEL to fire the ball back into the box for NAVAS to force into the net. (3-0 Aston Villa)
72A shot from BRU held no problem for the Aston Villa 'keeper.
74DEROUARD beat HERRERA and hit the ball to POPOV who blasted his shot wide.
75BURAK made space on the left and touched the ball to HERRERA who clipped the ball over.
78A fine ball from DANILO on the right found IGNASHEVICH who sliced his effort over the bar.
90The hapless 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from SARMOV dropped just over.