Wrexham 0

 

Round Two
Aston Villa 5

Shaun Maloney 32' 72' Stefan Moore 52' Nigel Reo Coker 62' Michael Harewood 78'

Tuesday 28 August 2007

 

Kick Off @ 19:45

Wrexham
Starting XI:
13 Michael Jones
02 Simon Spender
04 Shaun Pejic
05 Steve Evans
03 Ryan Valentine
11 Chris Llewellyn
22 Connell Murtagh 55'
07 Mark Jones
18 Levi Mackin
14 Eifion Williams 79'
10 Michael Proctor 61'
Substitutes:
01 Anthony Williams (GK)
15 Mike Williams
17 Josh Johnson 61'
21 Marc Williams 55'
25 Neil Taylor 79'
Stats:
6 Shots on Goal
2 Shots on Target
4 Shots off Target
41% Possession
13 Fouls Conceded
4 Corners
1 Yellow Cards
0 Red Cards

Aston Villa
Starting XI:
13 Stuart Taylor
26 Craig Gardner
04 Olof Mellberg
21 Gary Cahill
06 Gareth Barry
11 Gabriel Agbonlahor
27 Isaiah Osbourne
20 Nigel Reo-Coker 67'
28 Shaun Maoney
08 Luke Moore
09 Marlon Harewood
Substitutes:
05 Martin laursen
07 Ashley young
10 John carew
19 Stillyan Petrov 67'
22 Scott Carson (GK)
Stats:
18 Shots on Goal
8 Shots on Target
10 Shots off Target
59% Possession
12 Fouls Conceded
7 Corners
0 Yellow Cards
0 Red Cards

Match Notes
Venue: Racecourse Ground
Attendance: 8,221
Half Time: Wrexham 0 Aston Villa 1
Referee: Graham Laws

Match Incidents

32' Shaun Maloney (Villa)
52' Luke Moore (Villa)
62' Nigel-Reo-Coker (Villa)
72' Shaun Maloney (Villa)
76' Ryan Valentine (Wrexham)
78' Marlon Harewood  (Villa)

Match Reports

Wrexham Dragons Podcast

Aston Villa: Comprehensive Villa victory

BBC: Wrexham 0-5 Aston Villa

TEAMtalk: Shaun brace helps to sink Dragons

Wrexham FC: Wrexham 0 Villa 5

Wrexham MAD: Wrexham 0 Aston Villa 5

Round Two Results

Tuesday:
Birmingham 2 Hereford 1
Bristol Rovers 1 West Ham 2
Burnley 3 Oldham 0
Cardiff 1 Leyton Orient 0
Carlisle 0 Coventry 2
Charlton 4 Stockport 3
Derby 2 Blackpool 2

AET, Blackpool win 7-6 on pens
Luton 3 Sunderland 0
Milton Keynes Dons 2 Sheff Utd 3 AET
Nottm Forest 1 Leicester 1

Match abandoned at half time following player illness
Peterborough 3 West Brom 0

Plymouth 2 Doncaster 0
Portsmouth 3 Leeds 0

Rochdale 1 Norwich 1

AET, Norwich win 4-3 on pens
Sheff Wed 2 Hartlepool 1
Shrewsbury 0 Fulham 1
Southend 2 Watford 0
Swansea 0 Reading 1 AET
Wigan 0 Hull 1
Wolverhampton 1 Morecambe 3 AET
Wrexham 0 Aston Villa 5

Wednesday:
Bristol City v Man City
Middlesbrough v Northampton
Newcastle v Barnsley

Next Five Games

Sat 01 Sep: Hereford (h) 15:00

Tue 04 Sep: Macclesfield (h) 19:15

Sat 08 Sep: Rochdale (a) 15:00

Sat 15 Sep: Rotherham (h) 15:00

Sat 22 Sep: Stockport (a) 15:00

Match Report
Aston Villa cruised through to the third round of the Carling Cup after a strong second half display from the Premier League outfit left Wrexham on the wrong end of a five goal trashing.

The first half was fairly even and only a superb Shaun Maloney strike separated the sides at the interval but Villa punished Wrexham for every mistake in the second half as they cruised through into round three.

Stefan Moore started the scoring after the break with a free header and Nigel Reo-Coker made it three after beating Shaun Pejic in the challenge. Maloney made if four but was aided by a mistake from Michael Jones and Wrexham let a near post corner travel past three defenders for Marlon Harewood to make it five.

Wrexham made five changes to the side that started at Bradford on the weekend with Richard Hope, Danny Williams, Matty Done and Neil Roberts not making the bench.

Brain Carey reverted to a 4-5-1 formation as Michael Jones, Steve Evans, Mark Jones, Connall Murtagh and Eifion Williams made the starting line up and it was Michael Proctor who was alone up front.

Wrexham made a positive start to the game with Eifion Williams skinning Craig Gardner down the left and his cross picked out Chris Llewellyn at the back post but Villa managed to scramble away the danger.

Villa responded through Barry’s inswinging corner on the right but Gary Cahill headed over from close range.

There was still a good pace to the game and Wrexham threatened after Llewellyn and Spender combined well down the right but it was Michael Jones in the Wrexham goal who made the game’s first save.

The impressive Maloney had cut in from his wing and Jones was at full stretch to turn his curling effort from the edge of the area around the post for another Villa corner but Maloney was off target with his next effort when he blazed over midway through the first half.

Our best chance of the half came from a free kick after Mark Jones was fouled twenty yards from goal. For some reason, the free kick was taken five yards further back but it caused Villa some problems after Llewellyn’s effort took two deflections on its way until the away side cleared from within their six yard box.

With Villa exerting more control on the game, it was the Premier League side that opened the scoring just after the half hour mark following a superb individual strike from Maloney.

Maloney had looked dangerous all game and after dancing past Spender on the touchline, no Wrexham defender attempted to narrow down the angle and he curled his twenty yard shot beyond Michael Jones and into the bottom corner of the net.

Eifion Williams again got the better of Gardener down the left but Proctor was unable to get on the end of his cross but Villa again threatened and this time Ryan Valentine was forced to concede a corner after Agbonlahor met Barry’s deep cross at the far post.

Villa fired a couple of warning shots before the break but Wrexham held on and were still in the tie as they headed in a goal down at half time.

In a mirror image to the start of the game, Eifion Williams found himself in space down the left but the under worked Taylor in the Villa goal managed to block his effort after the Villa defenders has narrowed down the shooting angle.

Villa responded almost immediately when Gardner’s shot clipped the top of the bar and Harewood’s long range shot struck the far post with Michael Jones well beaten.

Wrexham still continued to threaten and Eifion Williams picked out Chris Llewellyn on the far side of the area and his first time volley was parried behind for a corner by Taylor.

But Villa did not have to wait long for the second goal and they doubled their advantage eight minutes following the restart when Luke Moore was afforded a free header inside the box and he made no mistake by looping the ball over Jones from Barry’s free kick.

Wrexham responded by replacing Connell Mutagh with Marc Williams and adopted a 4-4-2 formation but the Villa defence still continued to enjoy a comfortable evening.

Wrexham replaced Michael Proctor with Josh Johnson but Villa extended their lead just after the hour mark when Reo-Cocker broke through the challenge of Shaun Pejic before coolly slotting underneath the body of Michael Jones in front of his celebrating supporters.

Villa then had appeals for a penalty turned down when Jones was forced to rush off his line and dive at the feet of Agbonlahor but the young Wrexham keeper should have done better with Murphy’s long range effort after he let it slip under him for Villa’s fourth.

Wrexham were now gone and apart from a Steve Evans header that went over we struggled to force Taylor into any saves.

Ryan Valentine, Wrexham’s captain for the night, deservedly ended up in the book for a crunching challenge of Marlon Harewood but it was the former West Ham striker who had the last laugh when he scored from close range after Valentine, Pejic and Evans failed to clear a Maloney corner at the near post.

Neil Taylor replaced Eifion Williams for his first full team start for Wrexham but Maloney’s chance for the hat trick went begging when he curled a long range free kick wide of the near post but the final whistle came as a welcome relief for the Wrexham players.

Match Reaction
Brian Carey: "In the end it was a bit of a lesson for the players. The manner in which we conceded the goals was something that won't happen again, I will make sure of that. I am very disappointed for everybody who turned up tonight. It was potentially a good occasion tonight and we did so well for a period in the game, but I think that we just showed them too much respect in the end. They have got good players, but we let them do what they wanted for long periods and we paid dearly for it in the end. We looked at our most dangerous when we got the ball out wide to Eifion on the left but we know that he is capable of that. I thought that we did well for twenty five minutes or half an hour. It was a weak effort for the first goal, the second one was a set-piece and after that the goals that we conceded were sickening. We did so well for long periods and tried to get back into it but it backfired, it was a huge lesson for all of us." [Source: Wrexham FC - click here for more]

Martin O'Neil: "We played very well and the most important thing was to get the first goal. Maloney was terrific for us all night. He scored a wonder goal and I thought Osbourne was absolutely marvellous as well. We had some excellent performances and there had to be because there was always the danger of Wrexham breaking us down and getting a goal." [Source: Aston Villa FC - click here for more]