FOOTBALL: Barry spares Villa's blushes as Hull fail to make an impact ; Hull City 0 Aston Villa 1 First Edition

The visitors were without Milan Baros, suspended, but welcomed back Juan Pablo Angel, who was narrowly offside after 16 minutes when he fired home [James Milner]'s low pass from 10 yards out. Milner had already gone close himself after a neat exchange with Angel and the pattern seemed set for a...

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Published inThe Independent on Sunday
Main Author Jon Culley AT THE KC STADIUMlaney Mellberg Hughes Barry Milner McCann Davis Hendrie Angel Moore Goal: Barry Half-time: 0-0 Attendance: 17,051 Referee: Chris Foy (Merseyside)
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London (UK) Independent Digital News & Media 08.01.2006
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Barry, Gareth
Hendrie, Lee
Milner, James
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Summary:The visitors were without Milan Baros, suspended, but welcomed back Juan Pablo Angel, who was narrowly offside after 16 minutes when he fired home [James Milner]'s low pass from 10 yards out. Milner had already gone close himself after a neat exchange with Angel and the pattern seemed set for a comfortable [Villa] win. For one reason or another, though, their dominance of the first half did not translate to goals. Boaz Myhill, the American goalkeeper who had begun his career at Villa, pulled off a couple of decent saves, from [Lee Hendrie]'s volley and then [Steven Davis]' long-range dipper; another couple of shots went narrowly wide and Olaf Mellberg, jumping well at a corner, squandered a good chance with his head. The advantage came only after [Hull], who had shown nothing at all until [Craig Fagan] almost hooked the ball past Thomas Sorensen on the stroke of half- time, at last began to make forward progress. Under pressure for the first time, Villa saw [Billy Paynter] and Jason Price have shots saved, while Hendrie had to clear a header from Leon Cort, the centre-back, from under his crossbar.