Bolton Wanderers – Aston Villa

All the action from the Reebok - kicking off at 20.00 GMT

Jay-Jay Okocha captains the Bolton side for the last time before heading off to the African Nations Cup. Manager Sam Allardyce makes one change to the side that defeated Portsmouth with Stelios Giannakopoulos replacing Javi Moreno.

Aston Villa welcom back midfielder Gavin McCann and striker Darius Vassell after knee and hamstring injuries respectively.

Bolton get the game underway

McCann's cross into the box has Angel backpeddling, he gets his head to the ball but can't keep it in

Nolan is fouled by Whittingham, it's a free-kick to Bolton 25-yards out in a central position. Perfect for Okocha this one. Okocha takes...

GOAL!!!!!

Sorensen was unsighted by the wall, expecting the ball to be played to his right. It wasn't and he was left floundering. Advantage Bolton

Stelios finds Hunt in the box and he looks to get to the byline and deliver, but Mellberg does well to put the pressure on and it's a goal-kick

It's a good start for Bolton, but Villa don't look too downtrodden by that early goal

Djorkaeff gets on the end of Davies' flick on and creates space, before shooting weakly into the arms of Sorensen

Campo slices a clearance towards his own goal and Thome has to mop up, it comes back into the area but Angel's header lacks power

Nolan picks the ball up just outside the centre circle and bursts forward. Whittingham gives chase but fails to tackle. Mellberg stands off and allows the Bolton midfielder to get into the box...

GOAL!!!!!

Worful defending from Villa. Maybe Whittingham had thoughts of the first goal - where he conceded the free-kick. But Mellberg was as much to blame for allowing Nolan to come forward, dink right and place the ball into the corner past the despairing dive of Sorensen. 2-0 Bolton!

Jasskelainen is able to claim Hendrie's weak shot

Villa have a real task on their hands now - even though it's a two-legged tie

Angel tries a shot from 25-yards, it lacks any real power and is easy for Jaaskelainen

Despite the bad start, Villa do look fairly lively up front

McCann does well and looks to slide one through to Angel, N'Gotty is wise to it and hacks clear

N'Gotty plays forward a long ball from a free-kick just inside in own half, Davies flicks it on and Stelios produces the acrobatic overhead kick...

GOAL!!!!!

Stelios, six-yards out, produced real pace, power and precission on the overhead kick to beat Sorensen - Bolton are in dreamland

David O'Leary and Roy Aitken look shellshocked on the touchline - and who can blame them

Stelios fouls Samuel on the left flank. Hendrie takes it, only for a Bolton head to get there first. Angel picks up the loose ball, and battles three challenges to keep control. He looks up and crosses into the danger area...

GOAL!!!!!

Angel was certainly looking to cross the ball, he got it wrong but it looped over the head of Jaaskelained and into the back of the net. This is a real humdinger! 3-1

Delaney gets forward into the box and pulls it back for Whittingham - only for Nolan to get in with a superb block, that could easily have been the fifth goal of the night

Stelios comes forward with pace on the right, crosses into the box Mellberg is there to hack clear

It's end to end stuff here, surely not the end to the scoring

Angel is adjudged offside from Mellberg's long ball forward

Barry gets the ball inside the box on the left, he opts to take the shot across goal, Jaaskelainen gets a strong hand to it, taking it away from the onrushing Vassell. Another close call

Whittingham comes forward but holds onto it too long when he had options ahead of him, and is tackled

Hunt finds Davies just inside the box, he chests it and strikes on the volley - well over

Villa are slightly on top now, looking for a second

Stelios fells Samuel, free-kick to the Villa

Good work from Djorkaeff ends with Campo in possession on the edge of the box, he dinks it to the lett to try and create space for the shot but is closed down

Okocha shoots well wide from the edge of the box

Dublin goes down under the challenge of Davies while trying to guide the ball out for a goal-kick, the ref gives no free-kick and it ends up being a corner, which comes to nothing

Delaney and Vassell both try and work an opening in the box, but the Bolton defence stands firm

Vassell pushes Alan Davies, sorry Campo, to the floor, that'll be a free-kick

Thome blocks Angel's goal-bound shot, that would have been close

Barry trips Nolan, a chacne to get it into the box from the right flank here. It's played square to Okocha instead, but his shot is wild

Villa win a free-kick for Hunt's jump on Barry. Hunt needs a bit of treatment after falling awkwardly

Samuel plays the free-kick into the danger area, N'Gotty heads clear

Twenty minutes without a goal - what on earth is going on?

Corner to Villa. Barry takes from the right and Campo has to head behind. Barry floats one in again and this time Hunt clears

Whittingham attempts an ambitious shot from 30-yards, which hits Campo

Campo fells Barry, free-kick to Villa, taken short

Davies does brilliantly to get past his man on the left, he cuts it back for Stelios on the penalty spot but Dublin does very well to stay strong and end the danger

Free-kick to Bolton 25-yards out. It's Okocha again but this time his effort drops wide of Sorensen's right-hand post

Two minutes to be added

Barness looks for Davies, but the flag has gone up for offside against Djorkaeff

Barry's cross finds McCann completely unmarked onthe back stick, he takes a touch and simple has to square it. McCann opts to go for the shot, but Jaaskelainen has come rushing out to block. That should have been 3-2

Free-kick to Bolton, Djorkaeff delivers into the box - Dublin heads away

And that's half-time

It was a pulsating first 20 minutes, and the rest of the half wasn't far bad either. Bolton almost had the tie won after 18 minutes, but Angel's flukey goal has changed all that.

Villa begin the second period

Angel works space on the right but his cross only finds Jaaskelainen

Corner to Bolton. Djorkaeff drifts it into the box, Dublin heads to safety

Barry delivers from the left, Jaaskelainen drops the ball onto the head of Barness but gets away with it, claiming at the second attempt

Hendrie plays in Delaney on the overlap, and Barness has to knock his cross behind for a corner. Barry's ball is fisted to safety

Corner to Bolton, taken by Djorkaeff. Angel knocks it into the path of N'Gotty and Delaney has to make a fine block to prevent a fourth for Bolton. Corner again

Mellberg picks up a knock in the melee and is off the pitch for this corner. Villa deal with it but McCann then fells Campo on the left flank, free-kick in a dangerous area

Djorkaeff delivers, and it look like he went to bend it into the far corner rather than cross it, and Sorensen collects

Mellberg goes down the tunnel for stitches in a head wound, Villa down to ten for now

Stelios sees his shot bloked, but collects the return and feeds in Hunt down the right, who wins a corner off Delaney

Villa forced into a change, as the injured Olof Mellberg is replaced by Ronny Johnsen

Villa deal with the corner from Djorkaeff

Whittingham suddenly finds space in the box, he fires his shot straight at Jaaskelainen. It comes to Barry, who plays it back across goal first time. Vassell's shot hits Angel, but it comes straight back to him and his shot hits Angel...

GOAL!!!!!

Angel was stood in an offside position when it hit him on both ocassions. Vassell's effort just hit his shin - goal! It should have been disallowed, but the score reads 3-2!

A change for Villa, Thomas Hitzlsperger is on for Gareth Barry

Villa win a free-kick for a foul on Whittingham just outside the area. It's tapped to Hitzlsperger but by the time he strikes it he's been closed down

Referee Paul Durkin has words with the Villa bench over some matter - you'd have thought it'd be the Bolton bench in bother after the goal

McCann wins the ball and looks to get space for a shot, he's tripped by Hendrie and gets the free-kick. That sets off all sorts of trouble with all players pushing and shoving, which Durkin has to calm

A change for Bolton: Simon Charlton on, Anthony Barness off

McCann enters the book for a foul on Hunt, in the corner on the right. Djorkaeff takes the free-kick, Thome heads over

It's a real fiery game now, it could boil over

Charlton feels Delaney just outside the box on the right. Hitzelsperger plays it across the egde of the box for Whittingham, who hits a defender, It breaks for Hitzelsperger, but he fires straight at Jaaskelainen

Hunt feeds it into the box, Dubin clears

Samuel is brought down by Thome, again there's strong words between the players

Vassell goes into the book following a late challenge on Campo. It's a free-kick on the left, taken by Djorkaeff, only for N'Gotty to head wide

Another change for the Trotters as Henrik Pedersen comes on for Stelios Giannakopoulos

McCann's cross is flicked on by Angel for Whittingham, his first time shot hits Hunt and goes behind for a corner. Hendrie's delivery is poor

The clearance comes to Djorkaeff who shows great control and is through, but he opts to lop Sorensen from fully 40 yards and gets it all wrong

Corner to Bolton. Djorkaeff takes, and it's met by the unmarked N'Gotty...

GOAL!!!!!

N'Gotty's header was perfectly placed into the top left-hand corner of the net. Hendrie was on the post, but was too short to keep it out. 4-2! It's a Villa thriller!

Hitzlsperger shoots from 20 yards, and again it's straight into the grasp of Jaaskelainen

After working so hard to get back into the game, Villa face a two-goal deficit again - at least they have those precious away goals

Darious Vassell is replaced by Marcus Allback

Bolton taking their time over things now. Happy with the scoreline?

Okocha tries one from 20 yards, straight at Sorensen

Djorkaeff wants a penalty for handball against Dublin, it was accidental

Free-kick to Bolton a yard outside the box, Dublin was holding back Pedersen. It's on the left edge, Okocha steps up to take it...

GOAL!!!!!

What an unbelievable strike by the Nigerian. He struck it with the outside of his right boot, it bent round the wall and flew into the top corner. Absolutely superb - world class. What a humdinger

Two free-kicks from the Nigerian master before he departs for Tunisia and the African Nations Cup, how Bolton will miss him

Another change for Bolton. Ibrahim Ba is on for Youri Djorkaeff

Okocha wins the adulation of the Bolton faithful with a few tricks, and in the end Hendrie rockets the ball out of play in frustration

There's some late Villa challenges going in now, clearly the players are crestfallen after working hard to get back into this

Davies does brilliantly to win the loose ball from Delaney. He finds Okocha in the box, who lays it off for Davies. Davies dummys for the Campo shot, and it's well over

Hendrie gets an unnecessary booking for kicking the ball away

Bolton look to keep the ball in the corner now, happy to preserve the three goal advantage for the second leg

Villa playing keep-ball

Three minutes to be added

Davies breaks through, but his touch lets hum down and the chance is gone

Foul by Dublin - he's furious with the decision, claiming he won the ball. Referee Durkin shows the yellow card.

And there goes the final whistle

That was a superb Cup encounter, capped off by two fine free-kicks from Okocha - the second being out of this world

Both of Villa's goals had more than a hint of luck about them, but they will welcome any small mercy on a night when they let in five. It should make for an excting second leg, as Villa will have to come out all guns blazing.