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Fulham 0-2 Aston Villa
Match Reports, 17:10, January 30, 2010 ,
A Gabriel Agbonlahor double secured a comfortable win for Aston Villa against a lacklustre Fulham outfit.
Agbonlahor's double strike near the end of a first half that the visitors controlled never looked like being cancelled out by a home team that lacked fluency throughout. Visiting keeper Brad Friedel had few saves of note to make as an injury-hit Fulham outfit ran out of ideas.
Agbonlahor opened the scoring on 40 minutes after beating Chris Smalling to Stiliyan Petrov's accurate right-wing cross and three minutes later doubled an advantage that was well-protected by an organised visiting defence.
The second goal was a superb piece of forward play, the England striker wriggling free from Brede Hangeland to curl an unstoppable finish past Mark Schwarzer, although Hangeland should have paid closer attention to a player that gave him a stern test all afternoon.
Fulham started brightly but could create a clear chance and once James Milner and Petrov got the better of the midfield battle, the visitors looked in full command. Ashley Young and Stewart Downing wasted half-chances, but Agbonlahor's double strike was just reward for a dominant first-half display.
Fulham used all three substitutions in the search for a way back into the game but Villa coped comfortably with everything that was thrown their way, with Bobby Zamora an often isolated figure in the Cottagers' attack.