Villa make the trip worth it

Dublin Tournament/ St Patrick's Athletic 0 Aston Villa 6: Juan-Pablo Angel scored two first-half goals that put David O'Leary…

Dublin Tournament/St Patrick's Athletic 0 Aston Villa 6: Juan-Pablo Angel scored two first-half goals that put David O'Leary's Aston Villa on their way to a comfortable victory over St Patrick's Athletic in the final of the Dublin Tournament at Tolka Park yesterday.

Angel's first goal came after 37 minutes when he rose to head home a Mark Delaney cross.

Just six minutes later Angel was at it again, this time the Columbian international managed to get in behind the Pat's defence to toe-poke home Peter Whittingham's cross.

The game started to a get a bit tetchy in the second-half and Pat's manager Eamonn Collins was banished from the sideline for his protests.

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A host of second-half substitutions seemed to up Villa's tempo and four late goals, two from Allback, one from Hitzlsperger and a Peter Whittingham volley, sealed the win for Villa.

ST PATRICK'S ATHELTIC: Adamson (Clarke, 59 mins), Croly (Niccomedes, half-time), Murphy, El Khebyr, Foley, Maguire (Rose, ht), Byrne (Marney, ht), Fahy (Quigley, ht) , Harris (Siccolotto, 76 mins) Mbabazi (Donnelly, ht), Le Bloc.

ASTON VILLA: Sorensen, Delaney, Samuel (Kinsella, 53 mins), McCann (Hadji, 53 mins), Alpay, Johnson, De La Cruz (Jackman, 53 mins), Angel, Allback, Barry (Hitzlsperger, 60 mins), Whittingham.

Referee: Ian Stokes