Game #4626
Aston Villa
Wednesday, 6 September 2000
Lost
19th (-3)
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟥
Premier League
Attendance: 43,360
Liverpool
Anfield
Villa fall to a first defeat of the season as they are beaten at Anfield to leave them 19th in the early Premier League table having finished 6th the previous season.
Liverpool
3-1
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | Dion Dublin | 83’ |
KEY MAN
Luc Nilis, close
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MATCH TIMELINE
Wednesday, 6 September 2000
🥅 | 5’ Goal, 0-1, (Liverpool), Michael Owen
🥅 | 14’ Goal, 0-2, (Liverpool), Michael Owen
🟨 | 31’ Booking, Gareth Southgate
🥅 | 33’ Goal, 0-3, (Liverpool), Michael Owen
🟨 | 35’ Booking, Ugo Ehiogu
🕒 | HT Liverpool 3-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 64’ Sub off, George Boateng, Sub on, Lee Hendrie
🔁 | 70’ Sub off, Alpay Özalan, Sub on, David Ginola
⚽ | 83’ Goal, 1-3, Steve Stone, Assist by Dion Dublin
🟨 | 86’ Booking, Ian Taylor
🕒 | FT Liverpool 3-1 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Villa's poor start to the campaign continues as they fall 0-3 behind in just over half an hour and have 2 goals, and 2 points from 9.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
UEFA Cup Winners: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Liverpool
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
UEFA Cup / Europa League: 🏆🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1994-95
FIXTURE HISTORY
Liverpool
Previous 5 vs. Liverpool: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟨
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2000-01 |
Matchday | #7 |
League Game | #3 |
Manager Game | #117 |
Wednesday, 6 September 2000
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: John Gregory | 🏴 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: Neale Barry | 🏴 | Scunthorpe, 1993-2006
Kick off: 8.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-3
FT Score: 🟥 1-3
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟥
MANAGERIAL RECORD
John Gregory | 🏴 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 116 | 🟩 | 55 🟨 | 27 🟥 34 | 1.66
Career Form:
Top 6
John Gregory | 🏴 |
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Neale Barry | 🏴 | Scunthorpe, 1993-2006
Previous 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 8 January 2000, FA Cup, Villa 1-0 Southampton, Villa Park.
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Neale Barry
CARDS
Villa
🟨 🟨 🟨
Liverpool
🟨
TEAM NEWS
Ugo Ehiogu and Ian Taylor return in place of Alan Wright and Lee Hendrie as the average age of the starting XI nudges 29 years old.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 28.95 |
Oldest Player |
F Luc Nilis | 🇧🇪 | 33.31 |
Youngest Player |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴 | 19.55 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
John Gregory | 🏴 |
Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 |
Aston Villa
GK David James | 🏴 | 🤡 |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴 | 🟨 |
CB Alpay Özalan | 🇹🇷 | 🔁 |
CB Gareth Southgate | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴 |
M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 | 🔁 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴 |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Steve Stone | 🏴 |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴 |
F Luc Nilis | 🇧🇪 |
Liverpool
GK Sander Westerveld | 🇳🇱 |
CB Djimi Traoré | 🇲🇱 |
CB Stéphane Henchoz | 🇨🇭 |
CB Markus Babbel | 🇩🇪 |
CB Sami Hyypiä | 🇫🇮 |
CB Jamie Carragher | 🏴 |
M Vladimir Šmicer | 🇨🇿 | 🔁 |
M Dietmar Hamann | 🇩🇪 |
M Steven Gerrard | 🏴 | 🟨 |
CF Emile Heskey | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CF Michael Owen | 🏴 | ⚽ | ⚽ | ⚽ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 | for M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 | 64’ |
🔁 | W David Ginola | 🇫🇷 | for CB Alpay Özalan | 🇹🇷 | 70’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | M Vladimir Šmicer | 🇨🇿 | (M Nick Barmby | 🏴 |)
🔁 | CF Emile Heskey | 🏴 | (CF Erik Meijer | 🇳🇱 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴 |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Pegguy Arphexad | 🇫🇷 |
CB Rigobert Song | 🇨🇲 |
W Bernard Diomede | 🇫🇷 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/16
Homegrown: 4/16
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 4/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/16
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Not recorded
UNAVAILABLE
Not Recorded
Player Positions:
GK : Goalkeeper
CB, D, B : Centre Back, Defender, Back
FB, LB, RB, WH : Full Back, Left Back, Right Back, Wing Back, Wing Half
M, CH, LH, RH : Midfielder, Centre Half, Left Half, Right Half
W, OL, OR : Winger, Outside Left, Outside Right
F, IF, IL, IR : Forward, Inside Forward, Inside Left, Inside Right, Second Striker, False 9
CF : Centre Forward
Match Symbols:
⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution
🟨 | Booking
🟥 | Sending off
🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game
DEBUT APPEARANCES
FINAL APPEARANCES
MATCH STATS
Not recorded
TABLE
PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
"It was to get worse for Villa and quickly. John Gregory’s boys were actually starting to play well when they succumbed for a second time."
*The Guardian*
Thursday, 7 September, 2000
*Owen hat-trick hits Völler and Villa*
Until Rudi Völler left his seat in the directors’ box just before the final whistle he had been little more than a face in the crowd. But, as he made his way through dark and unfamiliar street she may well have found himself on the sharp end of some typical scouse joshing.
If the caretaker manager of Germany, who play England in a World Cup qualifier next month, had come to Anfield to assess the form of Dietmar Hamman and Markus Babbel, he will, presumably, have departed mulling over the possible consequences for his country of the startling renaissance of Michael Owen.
As Völler looked on impassively, Owen single-handedly took Aston Villa apart with a fine hat-trick to take his tally to six goals in his last three games for club and country.
“Michael is coming back to what he was before all his injury problems; he is beginning to menace, to scare, defences again,” said Liverpool’s manager Gérard Houllier.
After the trauma which had unfolded 11 days earlier at the Dell - three sloppy goals conceded without so much as a hint of collective defiance - there was a real sense of urgency about Owen and his team-mates last night.
Had the Villa defence been able to boast a similar degree of defiance, they would not have been undone quite so early for barely five minutes had elapsed when Liverpool made a memorable breakthrough.
It was a goal constructed at great speed and beautifully executed, Owen stabbing in powerfully from no great distance after Emile Heskey had outmanoeuvred and outpaced George Boateng and Gareth Barry before crossing exquisitely from the by-line.
It was to get worse for Villa and quickly. John Gregory’s boys were actually starting to play well when they succumbed for a second time.
Both Luc Nilis and Dion Dublin had gone close but success away from home is built on defensive resilience and there was little of that as the red tide rolled ever forward.
It was Owen again, this time arriving unannounced at the far post to head in a Vladimir Smicer corner after the Villa goalkeeper David James had reminded supporters of his former club that his fondness for flapping at anything above waist height has in no way been diminished by his relocation in the Midlands.
Although Villa continued to attack with panache and enthusiasm, Villa had come apart at the back and there was an air of inevitability about Owen’s third goal after 33 minutes, a text-book finish after Alpay Ozalan’s composure had deserted him.
Had Villa folded in the traditional manner they would, of course, have been forgiven but, commendably, they opted to carry the fight to their tormentors, swamping midfield in the forlorn belief that Liverpool would eventually be undone either by complacency or, more probably, boredom.
But, by attempting to retrieve the night, Villa did leave open the prospect of yet more punishment and, as legs began to tire, Owen’s ceaseless running did serve as a timely reminder that gifted goal-scorers are likely to prosper when those charged with containing them are otherwise engaged.
But, as it turned out, Villa scored the only other goal, Steve Stone’s late strike giving them something to reflect on - well, that and a season which has still to yield a victory.
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