Garry O'Connor

Blues Reserves ran out comfortable 4-1 winners against their Villa counterparts in a behind-closed-doors friendly at Wast Hills earlier today.

In what a was a competitive and entertaining encounter Blues' goals were spread amongst the team, with Garry O'Connor, Marcus Bent, A Triallist and Quincy all on the score sheet.

The early exchanges were fairly even, but it was Villa who had the first chance when they saw a headed effort cleared off the line.

On ten minutes, Marcus Bent was unlucky to see his shot hit the underside of the bar before being cleared away.

The opening goal arrived after 23 minutes, when Quincy made a surging run down the left from inside his own half before releasing O'Connor just inside the Villa box.

The Scottish international jinked past his marker before lashing the ball across the front of the Villa keeper and into the far corner of the net. 

But Villa were back in the game less than ten minutes later with a well taken volleyed effort from Hungarian winger Zoltan Stieber inside the Blues area.

Then with just seconds to go before the half time break, Blues edged in front again when Marcus Bent headed home with a neat finish. 

Quincy

Blues had put decent first half performance against a young Villa side, but in the second period of the game they raised their play a couple of notches and generally dominated for the full 45 minutes.

Crisp passing and good movement off the ball saw Terry Westley's side fashion a number of good openings.

But it took until the 81st minute to make their dominance pay when Quincy cut the ball back for A Triallist to blast the ball home.

With less than five minutes of the game remaining Quincy finished the visitors off with what was the goal of the game.

He collected the ball by the centre spot before running on 50 yards and avoiding a number of last ditch Villa tackles, before shooting home from the edge of the area.

The match also saw Colin Doyle play his first 90 minutes of football since recovering from his recent cartilage operation.

Full time: Blues Reserves 4 Villa Reserves 1

Blues: Colin Doyle, Franck Queudrue, Jacob Rowe, Radhi Jaidi, Jared Wilson, Quincy, Nigel Quashie, Mehdi Nafti, A Triallist, Marcus Bent, Garry O'Connor.