Villa had a good night all round as Gareth Barry played and scored in their Uefa Cup second qualifying round first leg win over FH Hafnarfjordur in Reykjavik.

In front of watching England coach Fabio Capello, Barry capitalised on some terrible defending to stab Villa's opener in the fourth minute.

Ashley Young and Gabriel Agbonlahor also scored first-half goals at the Laugardalsvollur Stadium and although Matthias Gudmundsson pulled one back, Martin Laursen's second-half header secured his side a comfortable lead to take back to Villa Park.

looked lethargic

Manchester City are facing an uphill battle if they are to reach the Uefa Cup first round after Danny Olsen scored the only goal of the game to hand FC Midtjylland a first-leg lead.

A mistake by captain Richard Dunne allowed Olsen to break the deadlock. He lost possession to Jonas Borring who showed a good first touch as the Danes quickly got men forward. Borring released Mikkel Thygesen, who played the ball to Olsen and he rattled a shot into the corner.

It was no more than the visitors deserved as City looked lethargic and short of ideas.

City almost equalised two minutes before half-time, only for Daniel Sturridge's shot to come back off the underside of the crossbar.

They almost went 2-0 down in the 72nd minute after a wayward header from Dunne but Petrov cleared off the line. The home side hit back and almost equalised six minutes later only for Petrov's superb free-kick to come back off the bar.