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Commentary
3¹A pin-point pass found HÖWEDES and his looping effort floated narrowly wide.
10¹A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the oncoming 'keeper.
12¹SCHÄFER's shot was well saved by the 'keeper.
20¹BOYATA receives a yellow card by the referee for a clumsy tackle.
22¹LALLANA booked by the referee.
28¹A header by SCHMIEDEBACH at the far post was comfortably collected by SCHWARZER.
29¹A poor shot from BENDTNER trickled agonisingly wide.
29¹GOAL!! The Aston Villa 'keeper got into trouble with a backpass from RIETHER and KALOU was able to stab the ball into the back of the net. (1-0 Portsmouth)
33¹LALLANA dribbled round SCHÄFER and rattled a weak shot into the crowd.
34¹BENDTNER booked for a cynical tackle on SAM.
39¹GOAL!! A long ball from KALOU down the middle bobbled toward the lurking LALLANA who whacked a looping shot into the net. (2-0 Portsmouth)
40¹GOAL!! KIESSLING hit a swerving twenty-five yard shot past the stunned SCHWARZER. (2-1 Portsmouth)
42¹Uncertainty in the Aston Villa defence enabled CROUCH to crack an effort just wide.
44¹LAWS gave LALLANA a second yellow card for a bad tackle on RAUSCH.
5²RIETHER's shot was well held by the Portsmouth 'keeper.
10²SCHWARZER saved a lovely strike from KIESSLING.
11²A corner bobbled toward MORETTI who forced the ball wide.
12²SCHMIEDEBACH made space on the left and knocked the ball to GRENIER who touched the ball wide.
21²GOAL!! A terrible clearance fell to SCHMIEDEBACH who scuffed a shot goalward, luckily GRENIER was on hand to volley the ball in off the post. (2-2)
29²SAM snapped at a simple chance.
30²SAM stabbed a simple chance past the near post.
34²GOAL!! A terrible backpass by BOYATA enabled SAM to nip in and fire the ball past the 'keeper. (3-2 Aston Villa)

 
Aston Villa
 
League position: 3
Home league form: WWXX
Overall league form: LWWWOLXL
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
(c)James WREN6 16½Mark SCHWARZER(c)
Sascha RIETHER6½26½Heiko WESTERMANN
Marcel SCHÄFER6½36½Emiliano MORETTI
Lassana DIARRA7½46 Fernando GAGO
Benedikt HÖWEDES7 56 Dedryck BOYATA
Daniel SCHWAAB6½66 Riccardo BROSCO
Manuel SCHMIEDEBACH6½77 Jean MAKOUN
Sidney SAM5½86 Adam LALLANA
(p)Stefan KIESSLING8 97½Peter CROUCH(p)
(f)Clément GRENIER7 106 Nicklas BENDTNER(f)
Konstantin RAUSCH5 116½Salomon KALOU
Manager
Yoann GOURCUFF  12  Roy BEERENS
Marvin MARTIN6 13  Andreas ISAKSSON
Serdar TASCI  14  José BOSINGWA
Christian CLEMENS  15  Ashley EASTHAM
Andreas BECK  166 Pablo MOUCHE
 
Portsmouth
 
League position: 18
Away league form: LLLL
Overall league form: WLWLOLWL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Aston Villa 3 Portsmouth 2
(Half-time: 1-2, Attendance: 42,417, Stadium: Villa Park, Referee: Graham Laws 5½)

Kiessling 40¹, Grenier 21², Sam 34²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Kalou 29¹, Lallana 39¹
SamóMartin 35²WestermannóMouche 35²
 Lallana 44¹
 Boyata 20¹, Lallana 22¹, Bendtner 34¹
176
713
17
92
76
168
60
49%51%
Man of the match: Stefan Kiessling