Bradford City & Nahki Wells Are Off To Wembley!

[Updated: Nahki Wells and Bradford City became the first League 2 club to reach the League Cup final for 51 years as they defeated Premier League side Aston Villa with a 4-3 aggregate victory. Bradford will now take on either Swansea or Chelsea at Wembley at the end of February. Bermuda’s Nahki Wells started the game and was substituted in the 86th minute. The 22-year-old will be the third Bermudian footballer to play at Wembley – joining Shaun Goater and Kyle Lightbourne]

Nahki Wells and Bradford City will take on Aston Villa today [Jan 22] in the second leg of the Capital One Semi Final, with kick off scheduled for 3.45pm Bermuda time.

Bradford has had a sensational run in the Cup this far, making it through to the semi-finals following a dramatic penalty shoot-out victory over Arsenal in the quarter-final. They then defeated Aston Villa in their first match-up on January 8th, with Nahki Wells opening the scoring in the 19th minute.

The 22-year-old Bermudian, who is Bradford’s leading scorer, can be expected to feature prominently in today’s match up, which will hopefully be televised on ESPN channel 22 or 115 and WOW 103.

Bradford’s hometown media has already got a live blog running with the lead up to today’s match, which can be viewed here.

Update 3.46pm: It does not appear to be on local ESPN on CableVision — but is showing on WOW 103. A link to a live video stream of the game is here, and links to live text updates are here and here. Nahki Wells started the game…

Update 4.11pm: Aston Villa are up 1 – 0.

Update 4.24pm: Score remains 1 – 0. There have been a couple of more shots on goal by Villa, which were saved/tipped over by the Bradford keeper.

Update 4.55pm: Half time has come and gone, with the score remaining 1 -0. Wells has fired on goal, and also got some nice props by the commentators during the 1st half, they talked about how he can create chances and is a threat etc…

Update 4.58pm: Bradford equalized – Hanson scored in the 55th minute….game now 1-1. Aggregate score is Villa 2-4 Bradford

Update 5.20pm: We are in the 80th minute, and the score remains the same…things can always change, but this is looking good for Bradford & Nahki Wells!

Update 5.30pm: Wells has just been taken off. The TV commentator said “Bradford must believe they have done it” if they are taking Wells off.

Update 5.32pm: And right after Wells goes off – Villa score. Game is now 2-1. Aggregate score: Villa 3-4 Bradford. 3 mins left in game [injury time]

Update 5.38pm: Final score 2-1, City win 4-3 on aggregate. Bradford City and Nahki Wells are through to the final! They are off to Wembley!

Update 6.30pm: A couple of photos of Wells from today’s game are here and here.

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