Game #4649
Aston Villa
Wednesday, 24 January 2001
Lost
13th (-)
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥
Premier League
Attendance: 29,335
Leeds United
Villa Park
Aston Villa
1-2
Leeds United
Assist(s) | Ian Taylor | 24’ |
MATCH SUMMARY
Villa lose for the fifth successive Premier League game under John Gregory to remain 13th in the table.
KEY MAN
Paul Merson, impressive
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MATCH TIMELINE
Wednesday, 24 January 2001
⚽ | 24’ Goal, 1-0, Paul Merson, Assist by Ian Taylor
🥅 | 28’ Goal, 1-1, (Leeds United), Lee Bowyer
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-1 Leeds United
🔁 | 54’ Sub off, Ian Taylor, Sub on, Darius Vassell
🟨 | 61’ Booking, Alpay Özalan
🟨 | 63’ Booking, Gareth Barry
🔁 | 69’ Sub off, Alan Wright, Sub on, David Ginola
🥅 | 75’ Goal, 1-2, (Leeds United, pen), Ian Harte
🔁 | 80’ Sub off, Steve Stone, Sub on, Mark Delaney
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-2 Leeds United
ON THIS DAY
Villa had now delivered just one league win in 11 games.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Leeds United
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1991–92
FIXTURE HISTORY
Leeds United
Previous 5 vs. Leeds: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2000-01 |
Matchday | #30 |
League Game | #23 |
Manager Game | #140 |
Wednesday, 24 January 2001
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: John Gregory | 🏴 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: Steve Bennett | 🏴 | Kent, 1995-2010
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Score: 🟥 1-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥
MANAGERIAL RECORD
John Gregory | 🏴 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 139 | 🟩 | 63 🟨 | 34 🟥 42 | 1.60
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
John Gregory | 🏴 |
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Steve Bennett | 🏴 | Kent, 1995-2010
Previous 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 15 Mar 00, Villa 0-0 Liverpool (a)
Cards: 🟨 🟨
Steve Bennett
CARDS
Villa
🟨 🟨
Leeds United
None
TEAM NEWS
Ian Taylor returns for Dion Dublin.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 28.08 |
Oldest Player |
M Paul Merson | 🏴 | 32.87 |
Youngest Player |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴 | 19.93 |
MANAGER
John Gregory | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK David James | 🏴 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CB Alpay Özalan | 🇹🇷 | 🟨 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴 | 🔥 | 🔁 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴 | ⚽ |
M Steve Stone | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 |
MANAGER
David O’Leary | 🇮🇪 |
Leeds United
GK Paul Robinson | 🏴 |
LB Ian Harte | 🇮🇪 | ⚽ |
LB Dominic Matteo | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CB Jonathan Woodgate | 🏴 |
CB Rio Ferdinand | 🏴 |
RB Gary Kelly | 🇮🇪 |
M Olivier Dacourt | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
M Lee Bowyer | 🏴 | ⚽ |
M Eirik Bakke | 🇳🇴 |
F Robbie Keane | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
CF Mark Viduka | 🇦🇺 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | CF Darius Vassell | 🏴 | for M Ian Taylor | 🏴 | 54’ |
🔁 | W David Ginola | 🇫🇷 | for LB Alan Wright | 🏴 | 69’ |
🔁 | RB Mark Delaney | 🏴 | for M Steve Stone | 🏴 | 80’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | LB Dominic Matteo | 🏴 | (W Jason Wilcox | 🏴 |)
🔁 | M Olivier Dacourt | 🇫🇷 | (M David Batty| 🏴 |)
🔁 | F Robbie Keane | 🇮🇪 | (M Alan Smith | 🏴 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Nigel Martyn | 🏴 |
RB Danny Mills | 🏴 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 7/11
Homegrown: 2/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 10/16
Homegrown: 3/16
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 10/16
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
LEAGUE TABLE
MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
"Gregory left Dion Dublin on the bench, but £9.5m club-record signing Juan Pablo Angel, making his home debut, had a quiet game."
*BBC Sport*
Wednesday, 24 January, 2001
*Leeds hit back to silence Villa*
Leeds United ended a dismal sequence at Aston Villa with Ian Harte grabbing a second-half winner to claim the points.
Villa had looked on course for a fifth successive victory against David O’Leary’s side when the impressive Paul Merson - in front of England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson - put them ahead mid-way through the first half.
Robbie Keane had scored the winner for Coventry against John Gregory’s side last season at Highfield Road which left the Villa boss fighting to hold onto his job.
This time he set up the goals for Lee Bowyer and Ian Harte which earned Leeds only their third away league win of the campaign.
*A scrappy opening*
Leeds deserved their win, which leaves Villa with only one league in the last 11 games, despite a late rally by the home side in which Merson twice hit the woodwork.
Villa worked hard, but only Merson looked as if he had the skills to unlock the Leeds defence.
Gregory left Dion Dublin on the bench, but £9.5m club-record signing Juan Pablo Angel, making his home debut, had a quiet game.
The opening 20 minutes was a scrappy affair, but Lee Hendrie almost opened the scoring for the hosts, but his 20-yard shot went just over the bar.
It came as no surprise when Villa broke the deadlock in the 24th minute through Merson.
Barry floated over a left-wing free-kick which was flicked on by Ian Taylor into the path of the midfielder who drilled the ball past Paul Robinson.
It was Villa’s first goal in 386 minutes of Premiership football since George Boateng scored in the 2-1 win at Elland Road last month.
*Half-time tears*
The lead lasted just four minutes as Villa paid the penalty for backing off before Keane threaded the ball into the path of Bowyer.
The former England Under-21 man gave Villa keeper David James little chance as he side-footed the ball into the corner of the net.
During the interval Belgium striker Luc Nilis made an emotional farewell to Villa fans after being forced to retire because of his broken leg suffered in September.
Jason Wilcox was introduced for the second period, but it was Villa who came close to reclaiming the lead when Steve Stone clipped the bar after Robinson had parried away a shot from Boateng.
Leeds claimed the points after Gareth Barry had held down Keane in the box following a cross from Viduka - Harte comfortably despatched the penalty.
Villa were unlucky not to salvage a point in the dying seconds. After Merson had beaten Robinson, his shot unluckily rebounded off the woodwork.
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