soccer wednesday: your running commentary

... brad guzan is back in net for aston villa against crystal palace ... he was replaced by brad friedel in the original fifth-round match, but returns in goal to try and keep the favorites alive

soccer wednesday: your running commentary

... brad guzan is back in net for aston villa against crystal palace ... he was replaced by brad friedel in the original fifth-round match, but returns in goal to try and keep the favorites alive

aston villa's martin o'neill seeks rest without risk in fa cup replay

... indeed the villa manager could also decide to leave out emile heskey, who is prone to picking up pulls and strains, as well as two of the team's more influential players, richard dunne and james milner, and the veteran goalkeeper brad friedel ... these are not players who have not tasted first-team football," said o'neill, whose list of options includes john carew, nathan delfouneso, steve sidwell, fabian delph, habib beye, luke young, curtis davies and brad guzan

villa crush hapless burnley

... nugent made a powerful burst towards the villa area and his shot took a deflection which had goalkeeper brad friedel scrambling across his line before it drifted just wide ... in a rare burnley attack friedel dealt with a well-struck shot from eagles but villa’s quickfire scoring burst had decided the contest

downing´s double helps villa rout burnley

... nugent almost added a second goal for burnley when his shot took a deflection which had brad friedel scrambling across his line before it drifted wide

stewart downing and ashley young put the foot down to leave burnley trailing

... nugent drew the villa goalkeeper, brad friedel, and crossed for steven fletcher to turn into the empty net

gary lineker- martin oneill is the man to replace sir alex ferguson at manchester united

... you only have to look at a villa park dressing room containing james milner, ashley young, brad friedel, richard dunne apparently discarded by manchester city and stewart downing, for whom he was prepared to wait months following the player's injury before gettinghim on to a football pitch, to see that

richard dunne's heart of oak secures aston villa foundations

... villa joined stoke, wolves and hull in denying one of the premier league's livelier attacks a goal on their home ground and did so with a similar mixture of deep, dogged defending backed by a goalkeeper, brad friedel, who makes few errors and will occasionally pull off an outstanding save ... friedel's best moment came towards the end of the first half when peter crouch nodded down a free-kick from david bentley and ledley king flicked a shot up towards the top ­left-hand corner of the net only for the airborne american to deflect the ball to safety ... for all spurs' subsequent pressure they did not achieve a similar element of surprise near goal and although friedel was kept busy some of the hardest shots he had to deal with were struck from long range

aston villa's gabriel agbonlahor backs up martin o'neill's style points

... fulham responded spiritedly to going two down and brad friedel was kept busier in villa's goal after half-time

gabriel agbonlahor double hands aston villa 2-0 win over fulham

... fulham midfielder simon davies made his first start since december 3 and was involved early on when his well-struck volley bounced off goalkeeper brad friedel