Bournemouth beat Aston Villa 3-0 to reach the League Cup quarter-finals

Bournemouth led inside seven minutes and never gave it up. Adli converted Soler's assist in the 7th minute, and Aston Villa spent the rest of the night chasing a game that got away from them twice more. Bournemouth finished with 19 shots to Aston Villa's 17 and 7 on target to 5, and all three of their shots on target in the chances that mattered went in.

Cook's goal in the 51st minute, finished from Gannon-Doak's assist, doubled the lead, and Rodríguez made it three in the 69th minute from a ball played by Adams, on himself for six minutes at that point after replacing Christie in the 63rd. Marco Rose made five changes across the match; Unai Emery made five of his own, and neither bench stopped Bournemouth scoring.

The shape of the game sits in the rest of the sheet. Aston Villa had the better of possession, 51 per cent to 49, completed more passes, 486 to 456, at a near-identical accuracy, 88.7 per cent to Bournemouth's 89.0, and won the aerial duels 7 to 4. Bournemouth's answer was to win the ball back more often and do more with it: 20 tackles to Aston Villa's 12, 15 of them successful to 9, and 6 corners to 2.

Bournemouth also had the better of the areas that put shots in the net: 37 touches in the Aston Villa box to 24, and 20 crosses sent in to Aston Villa's 9. Aston Villa cleared more often, 19 times to Bournemouth's 10, work that goalkeeper Bizot backed up with 4 saves to Di Gregorio's 5. Three players were booked for each side: Buendía, Madjo and João Gomes for Aston Villa, Juanlu Sánchez, Gannon-Doak and Cook, his after the second goal, for Bournemouth.

Attendance was 12,162 at the Vitality Stadium, with Tony Harrington the referee. Before this game Bournemouth had won four of their five listed matches, the exception a 1-5 defeat away at Chelsea, while Aston Villa had won four of their five and drawn the other, a 2-2 at home to Brentford.

Three meetings are listed here, all in the Premier League, and Aston Villa had not lost any of them: a 1-1 draw at Bournemouth in February 2026, a 4-0 win for Aston Villa at home in November 2025, and a 0-1 defeat for Bournemouth at home in May 2025. This 3-0 is Bournemouth's first win over Aston Villa in the meetings listed here.