Aston Villa 4 Bolton Wanderers 2

Dec 13 2008 By John Curtis, PA Sport

caught late by Steinsson. Then replays showed former Villa defender Gary Cahill clearly handling a corner from Barry inside his own six yard box only for referee Lee Probert to decide otherwise.

Villa started the second half on the offensive and Curtis Davies missed a good chance to extend their lead.  The former West Brom player got on the end of an Ashley Young corner but his downward header from close range bounced over the crossbar.
Ashley Young was finding an increasing amount of room on the left flank as Villa started to dominate and he set up the third goal for Agbonlahor after 67 minutes.

Young managed to get in his cross despite the attention of two defenders - and Agbonlahor did the rest with a close range header.

Then with 12 minutes left Agbonlahor turned goal provider, setting up Ashley Young whose low shot took a slight deflection off Cahill before flying past Jaaskelainen into the corner of the net.

Kevin Davies headed a late consolation goal for Bolton from a Steinsson cross.

VILLA: Friedel, Cuellar, Laursen, Davies, Luke Young, Sidwell, Petrov, Barry, Milner (Reo-Coker 68),
Agbonlahor (Shorey 87), Ashley Young (Harewood 81). Subs Not Used: Guzan, Delfouneso, Knight, Gardner.
Goals: Agbonlahor 25, Davies 40 og, Agbonlahor 67, Ashley Young 78.
BOLTON: Jaaskelainen, Steinsson, Cahill, Andrew O'Brien, Samuel, Davies, McCann, Nolan, Muamba (Gardner 53), Taylor,
Elmander (Smolarek 74). Subs Not Used: Al Habsi, Riga, Shittu, Basham, Obadeyi.
Booked: Andrew O'Brien.
Goals: Elmander 17, Davies 86.
Att: 35,134
Ref: Lee Probert (Wiltshire).