Villa took the lead when Young's trickery on the left saw him evade the challenge of Kevin Davies and his pinpoint right-footed cross was met firmly by Barry's header.
But France, with nine players in their ranks from the Catalans Dragons, stunned England when Toulouse scrum-half Wynne, who qualifies through residency, wrong-footed Jamie Peacock to cross after nine minutes.
The visitors took the lead after the break as in-form Robertson fired home a right-footed effort from Robson's cross.
Modric was the creator with a diagonal pass of the highest calibre that exposed the left side of Villa's defence and when Hutton sent in his cross Van der Vaart side-footed a precise finish low past Friedel into the bottom corner.
Almost immediately, the Elephants whizzed up the field and the impressive Boka produced another fine cross from the left which Kalou side-footed in from six yards.
James was again left cursing soon after when he was wrong-footed by a deflection off Vanden Borre from Nani's cross.
Caldwell cleared a dangerous low cross by Tevez, then a low left-footed shot by Ronaldo found the grateful gloves of Celtic's Polish keeper Boruc.
Downing was allowed the freedom of the right wing and fired in a cross to Bent, whose first-time side-footed shot flew into the roof of the net.
When Kevin Doyle held off Brede Hangeland on the right there looked to be little real danger, but the Irishman clipped an enticing cross to the back post and Van Damme side-footed the ball back across a scrambling Mark Schwarzer to claim his first goal for the club.
McVeigh opened the scoring when he side-footed the ball home at the far post following Iwan Roberts' excellent low cross from the right.
Rangers continued to press and took the lead when Weiss's cross found Miller and the striker's backwards header wrong-footed Langfield and found the net.
Villa could only half block Cruyff's cross and the ball broke to Sheringham who planted it left-footed into the corner of the net, although Enckelman managed to get a hand to the shot.
More sloppy defending allowed a cross to come in from the right and Junior crashed home a right-footed shot from six yards.
Stephen Douglas delivered the cross for Stewart's goal which owed much to the deflection off Delaney, which wrong-footed Doherty.
Nasri's cross looked to be posing no serious threat, but a slight touch off Jamie Carragher wrong-footed Johnson, who bundled the ball past Reina.
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