Aston Villa will play in the Carling League Cup final at Wembley – their first major final for 10 years after recovering from a shock of being 0-2 down less than half-an-hour into the game. A ten goal thriller saw Villa qualify 7-4 on aggregate.

Aston Villa 6 – 4 Blackburn Rovers
Villa Park, Birmingham
Wednesday 20 January 2010
Kickoff: 22:00
Goal Scorers:
Nikola Kalinic ‘9 0-1
Nikola Kalinic ‘25 0-2
Stephen Warnock ‘29 1-2
James Milner ‘39 (pen.) 2-2
Steven Nzonzi ‘52 (o.g.) 3-2
Gabriel Agbonlahor ‘58 4-2
Emile Heskey ‘61 5-2
Martin Olsson ‘62 5-3
Brett Emerton ‘83 5-4
Ashley Young ‘90 6-4