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Game #4609

Aston Villa

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Saturday, 18 March 2000

6th= (-)

Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟥

GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
RB Steve Watson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Steve Stone | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Benito Carbone | 🇮🇹 |

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002
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Substitutes:

🔁 | CF Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Steve Stone | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 62’ |
🔁 | RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 69’ |
🔁 | M Alan Thompson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 81’ |

Unused Substitutes:

GK Neil Cutler | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Richard Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

🟨 Ugo Ehiogu

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96

Matchday Squad:

Not recorded

Mark Delaney, Gareth Southgate and Julian Joachim drop out with Ian Taylor, Lee Hendrie (after a 20 game absence from the starting line up) and Steve Watson (7 game absence) returning.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.58 |

Oldest Player |
M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 32.02 |

Youngest Player |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.08 |

  • Villa suffer a shock defeat at the Dell as their twelve game unbeaten Premier league run comes to an end.

  • Villa lose for the first time in 14 Premier League games under John Gregory but remain 6th.

  • Lee Hendrie makes his 100th appearance in a Villa shirt (74 Starts) to make it W47 D21 L32, 9 Goals, 9 Assists, 18 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

Southampton exorcised the demons of their 7-2 thrashing at Tottenham last week by inflicting a first defeat of the year on an out-of-sorts Villa.

Southampton scored twice for the second week running, Kevin Davies scoring either side of half time, but this time their defence came away with their goal and pride intact.

Indeed Paul Jones, the goalkeeper who was the most overworked man at White Hart Lane last week as he picked the ball out of the net seven times, did not have a save to make against a Villa side who succumbed to their first defeat in 13 games.

Not surprisingly, Southampton’s manager Glenn Hoddle put caution first after losing at Tottenham, and dropped the error-prone Francis Benali.

Villa were without inspirational but injured captain Gareth Southgate, who was replaced by midfielder Ian Taylor in the heart of defence, and dropped striker Julian Joachim to the substitutes’ bench.

That meant a place for Paul Merson, but the former England man was far less influential than in his more customary midfield role.

His strike partner Benito Carbone, who is hoping to sign a lucrative contract, had little chance to impress against a Saints defence in which Tahar El Khalej was making his home debut.

It was pretty tedious stuff until Davies finally found the target. The former Blackburn striker had not scored since the start of January, but he looked full of confidence when he smacked home a volley from the edge of the penalty area after chesting down a poor headed clearance from Gareth Barry.

That sparked a frenzy of chances by comparison to what had happened previously. Jo Tessem had a shot cleared off the line by Taylor, and Villa’s goalkeeper Peter Enckelman carried the ball over his goal-line under challenge from Davies, who was penalised.

Having scored his first goal for ten weeks, Davies then scored another, running on to Matthew Oakley’s incisive through-pass from the half-way line before drawing Enckelman and curling a shot into the far corner of goal in the 64th minute.

But once Davies made it 2-0, Southampton’s confidence rose and Hassan Kachloul almost made it three when he volleyed just over the bar from close range.

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Lost

0-2

🟥 18 Mar 2000, Villa 0-2 Southampton, The Dell
Scorer(s) | None

Assist(s) | None

Match Timeline:

🥅 | 39’ Goal, 0-1, (Southampton), Kevin Davies
🕒 | HT Southampton 1-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 62’ Sub off, Steve Stone, Sub on, Julian Joachim
🥅 | 63’ Goal, 0-2, (Southampton), Kevin Davies
🔁 | 69’ Sub off, Lee Hendrie, Sub on, Jlloyd Samuel
🔁 | 81’ Sub off, Alan Wright, Sub on, Alan Thompson
🕒 | FT Southampton 2-0 Aston Villa

🟨 | Booking, Ugo Ehiogu

Season | 1999-00 |
Matchday | #42 |
League Game | #30 |
Manager Game | #99 |
Saturday, 18 March 2000

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Manager: John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: Mike Riley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Leeds, 1996-2009
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 0-2
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟥

Referee: Mike Riley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Leeds, 1996-2009

Previous 5 vs. Southampton: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩

Total 🕒 57 | 🟩 22 | 🟨 16 | 🟥 19 | ⚽ 78 | 🥅 68 |
League 🕒 50 | 🟩 19 | 🟨 15 | 🟥 16 | ⚽ 66 | 🥅 60 |
FA Cup 🕒 5 | 🟩 2 | 🟨 2 | 🟥 1 | ⚽ 7 | 🥅 6 |
League Cup 🕒 2 | 🟩 1 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 1 | ⚽ 5 | 🥅 2 |
Home 🕒 29 | 🟩 16 | 🟨 8 | 🟥 5 | ⚽ 49 | 🥅 21 |
Away 🕒 28 | 🟩 6 | 🟨 9 | 🟥 13 | ⚽ 29 | 🥅 47 |

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Not recorded

Debut Appearances:

None

Final Appearances:

None

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

🕒 99 | 🟩 | 49 🟨 | 21 🟥 29 | 1.70

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

Referee:

VAR (from 2021)

GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
13
🟩
6
🟨
0
12*
🟨
4
🟥
0
0
🟥
3*
0
🥅
7
9*
RB Steve Watson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
49
🟩
21
🟨
7
46*
🟨
11
🟥
1
1
🟥
17*
5
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
232
🟩
106
🟨
14
229*
🟨
56
🟥
0
3
🟥
70*
20
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
289
🟩
134
🟨
37*
273*
🟨
67
🟥
2
15
🟥
88*
8
M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
62
🟩
27
🟨
4
47*
🟨
15
🟥
0
9
🟥
20*
9
M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
36
🟩
18
🟨
8
33*
🟨
10
🟥
0
2
🟥
8*
0
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
215
🟩
97
🟨
42
197*
🟨
53
🟥
0
31
🟥
65*
13
F Benito Carbone | 🇮🇹 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
21
🟩
10
🟨
5
19*
🟨
7
🟥
1
7
🟥
4*
4
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Sub 2
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔁
🔥
3
🟩
2
🟨
0
3*
🟨
0
🟥
0
0
🟥
1*
0
Sub 4
Games
Results
Cards
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🔁
🔥
🟩
🟨
🟨
🟥
🟥
Player Profile
M Steve Stone | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
41
🟩
18
🟨
2
24*
🟨
11
🟥
0
3
🟥
12*
5
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
100
🟩
47
🟨
18
74*
🟨
21
🟥
1
9
🟥
32*
9
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
72
🟩
35
🟨
9
66*
🟨
18
🟥
0
2
🟥
19*
2
F Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Sub 1
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔁
🔥
138
🟩
59
🟨
1
42*
🟨
29
🟥
0
36
🟥
50*
12
M Alan Thompson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Sub 3
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔁
🔥
49
🟩
20
🟨
15
11*
🟨
10
🟥
0
3
🟥
19*
5
Sub 5
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔁
🔥
🟩
🟨
🟨
🟥
🟥
Player Profile

Premier League

Southampton

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The Dell

Attendance: 15,218

GK Paul Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
LB Wayne Bridge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Dean Richards | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Tahar El Khalej | 🇲🇦 | 🟨 |
RB Jason Dodd | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Hassan Kachloul | 🇲🇦 | 🟨 |
M Chris Marsden | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Matt Oakley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jo Tessem | 🇳🇴 |
CF Kevin Davies | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🟨 |
CF Marians Pahars | 🇱🇻 | 🔁 |

Glenn Hoddle | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
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Substitutes:

🔁 | CF Marians Pahars | 🇱🇻 | (M Trond Egil Soltvedt | 🇳🇴 |)

Unused Substitutes:

GK Neil Moss | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Francis Benali | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Matt Le Tissier | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Luis Boa Morte | 🇵🇹 |

🟨 Tahar El Khalej
🟨 Hassan Kachloul
🟨 Chris Marsden
🟨 Kevin Davies

European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1975-76

Matchday Squad:

Not Recorded

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"Villa were without inspirational but injured captain Gareth Southgate, who was replaced by midfielder Ian Taylor in the heart of defence, and dropped striker Julian Joachim to the substitutes’ bench."

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