Aston Villa progressed to the fifth round of the FA Cup yesterday following a 2-1 victory over Championship side Bournemouth.

Prior to kickoff Villa had gone nearly nine hours without finding the back of the net.

But goals from Carles Gil and Anreas Weimann saw Paul Lambert’s side score two goals in a game for only the second time since August 31.

Substitute Callum Wilson stabbed home a consolation for the visitors deep into second-half injury time.

It was the first ever meeting between the Villans and the Cherries in the FA Cup and Lambert, who is under increasing pressure from the Villa faithful, made six changes to the side that lost 2-0 to Liverpool in the Premier League with new signing Gil making his full debut following his £3.2 million move from Valencia.

Prior to kick-off it was announced that Fabian Delph had committed his future to the Midlands club by signing a new four-and-a-half year deal, however the England international was left out of the match day squad.

The Championship leaders made eight changes to their starting line-up with Tommy Elphick, Steve Cook and Harry Arter the survivors from the 1-0 defeat at Leeds.

And it was the visitor’s side who had the game’s first effort at goal, Shaun MacDonald’s effort from just outside the box cut out by Carlos Sanchez.

Villa’s best chance in the opening exchanges came from Weimann who headed a cross from Alan Hutton just wide of Lee Camp’s goal. But just before the 20-minute mark Bournemouth were inches away from taking the lead.

MacDonald was involved again, this time beating Shay Given only to see his effort cleared off the line by Kieran Richardson, before Weimann shot wide of goal from outside of the box at the other end.

But it took until six minutes after the half-time interval for the deadlock to be broken through Gil.

Gil had gone close with the first attack of the half, his shot just failing to find the back of the net.

However minutes later the Spaniard let fly with a left-footed shot from outside the area that nestled in the the roof of Camp’s goal — 233 minutes after Villa last found the back of the net.

Weimann doubled his side’s lead 20 minutes after, guiding home a Hutton cross from the right before Wilson netted for the visitors in the dying embers of the game with the home side able to hold on to the victory.