Stoke City 3 Aston Villa 2 Highlights and Goal Videos
Stoke’s have their first taste of Premiership action on home soil and celebrate it with a win.After their heavy defeat last week at the hands of Bolton few expected the home side to get a result against Martin O’Neil’s inform Aston Villa side. Villa made it difficult for themselves when Martin Laursen fouled Delap to concede a penalty. Liam Lawrence stepped up to the mark and had no trouble putting his team in front. Aston Villa put themselves back in the game when John Carew showed off his creativity and score the equaliser on 63 minutes.
The last ten minutes of the match was to be the best part of the game staging 3 more goals. Stoke sprung the surprise on Villa when Ricardo Fuller’s clever finish put the underdogs back in the driving seat but the match looked to be heading for a draw when Martin Laursen made up for his earlier mishap. But Stoke would not give up. Mamady Sidibe scored an injury time winner for Stoke to have their first taste of a Premier League victory.
Final score Stoke City 3 Aston Villa 2.