Game #4621
Aston Villa
Saturday, 22 July 2000
3rd Round
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟩
GK David James | 🏴 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴 |
CB Gareth Southgate | 🏴 |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴 |
M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 | 🔁 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴 | 🟥 |
M Steve Stone | 🏴 |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
F Luc Nilis | 🇧🇪 | 🟢 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
John Gregory | 🏴 | 1998-2002
Substitutes:
🔁 | M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 | for M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 | 56’ |
🔁 | F Darius Vassell | 🏴 | for CF Dion Dublin | 🏴 | 65’ |
🔁 | F Julian Joachim | 🏴 | for F Luc Nilis | 🇧🇪 | 75’ |
Unused Substitutes:
GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
D Jonathan Bewers | 🏴 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴 |
F Richard Walker | 🏴 |
M Alan Thompson | 🏴 |
🟥 Paul Merson
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Matchday Squad:
Not recorded
Villa hand a debut to Luc Nilis and recall Gareth Southgate as Mark Delaney (suspension) and Jlloyd Samuel drop out. Despite fielding 19 year old Gareth Barry, the first XI is an extremely 'experienced' one with an average age of 28.97 years old - a concern for a team that had already demonstrably shown that lasting the distance over a full season was its achilles heel.
Starting XI Average Age
| 28.97 |
Oldest Player |
F Luc Nilis | 🇧🇪 | 33.18 |
Youngest Player |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴 | 19.42 |
Villa survive a late sending off to beat FK Příbram at The Hawthorns and reach the Intertoto semi final.
In the expectation of a low crowd and with works taking place at Villa Park, Villa make use of neighbour’s West Brom’s Hawthorns stadium for the visit of Příbram. For the second successive game Villa have a player sent off with Paul Merson following on from Mark Delaney, much to the chagrin of boss John Gregory.
Belgian international forward Luc Nilis, 33, makes a goalscoring Villa debut of much promise after joining from PSV Eindhoven on a free transfer earlier in July 2000 to become the 745th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.
Paul Merson is sent off for the 1st time in a Villa shirt on his 73rd appearance (58 Starts) to make it W31 D20 L22, 10 Goals, 11 Assists, 4 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.
Won
3-1
🟩 22 Jul 2000, Villa 3-1 Příbram, Hawthorns
Scorer(s) | Dion Dublin | 8’ | Ian Taylor | 57’ | Luc Nilis | 61’ |
Assist(s) | None
Match Timeline:
🟢 | 1’ Debut, Luc Nilis
⚽ | 8’ Goal, 1-0, Dion Dublin
🥅 | 20’ Goal, 1-1, (FK Příbram), Marek Kulič
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-1 FK Příbram
🔁 | 56’ Sub off, George Boateng, Sub on, Lee Hendrie
⚽ | 57’ Goal, 2-1, Ian Taylor
⚽ | 61’ Goal, 3-1, Luc Nilis
🔁 | 65’ Sub off, Dion Dublin, Sub on, Darius Vassell
🔁 | 75’ Sub off, Luc Nilis, Sub on, Julian Joachim
🟥 | 87’ Sending off, Paul Merson
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 3-1 FK Příbram
Season | 2000-01 |
Matchday | #2 |
Manager Game | #112 |
Saturday, 22 July 2000
Manager: John Gregory | 🏴 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: Knud Stadsgaard | 🇩🇰 | Copenhagen, 2000
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 3-1 (3-1)
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟩
Referee: Knud Stadsgaard | 🇩🇰 | Copenhagen, 2000
Assistants: Lars Gerner | 🇩🇰 | Torben Siersen | 🇩🇰 |
Previous 5 vs. Příbram: 🟨
Not recorded
Debut Appearances:
🟢 CF Luc Nilis | 🇧🇪 | #745 | Free Transfer signing from PSV Eindhoven
Final Appearances:
None
John Gregory | 🏴 | 1998-2002
🕒 111 | 🟩 | 55 🟨 | 25 🟥 31 | 1.71
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
Referee:
VAR (from 2021)
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Intertoto Cup
FK Příbram
The Hawthorns
Attendance: 8,200
GK Michal Čaloun | 🇨🇿 |
RB Radek Mynář | 🇨🇿 | 🔁 |
RB Marcel Mácha | 🇨🇿 |
CB Jaroslav Schindler | 🇨🇿 |
CB Damir Grlić | 🇭🇷 |
D Jiří Rychlík | 🇨🇿 |
M Daniel Šmejkal | 🇨🇿 |
M Róbert Novák | 🇭🇷 | 🔁 |
M Lukáš Jarolím | 🇨🇿 |
M Tomáš Kučera | 🇨🇿 |
CF Marek Kulič | 🇨🇿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
Jiří Kotrba
Substitutes:
🔁 | RB Radek Mynář | 🇨🇿 | (F Michal Nehoda | 🇨🇿 |)
🔁 | M Róbert Novák | 🇭🇷 | (M Rudolf Otepka | 🇨🇿 |)
🔁 | CF Marek Kulič | 🇨🇿 | (CF Michal Seman | 🇨🇿 |)
Unused Substitutes:
GK Michal Špit | 🇨🇿 |
D Petr Podzemsky | 🇨🇿 |
CB Jan Riegel | 🇨🇿 |
M Jan Zustek | 🇨🇿 |
None
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
Czech First League Champions: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌
Matchday Squad:
Not Recorded
