Game #4661
Aston Villa
Tuesday, 17 April 2001
Drew
7th (+1)
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟨
Premier League
Attendance: 20,043
Charlton Athletic
The Valley
Charlton Athletic
3-3
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | Lee Hendrie | 59’ | Paul Merson | 75’ | Dion Dublin | 90’ |
MATCH SUMMARY
Villa extend their unbeaten run to eight as they secure a thrilling draw at the Valley to climb to seventh in the Premier League table - a position scarcely believed possible two months before.
KEY MAN
Lee Hendrie, scored one and created one as his best form in a Villa shirt continued, Tuesday, 17 April 2001.
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MATCH TIMELINE
Tuesday, 17 April 2001
🥅 | 16’ Goal, 0-1, (Charlton Athletic), George Boateng o.g.
🟨 | 32’ Booking, Alpay Özalan
🟨 | 41’ Booking, Dion Dublin
🥅 | 45’ Goal, 0-2, (Charlton Athletic, pen), Claus Jensen
🕒 | HT Charlton Athletic 2-0 Aston Villa
⚽ | 59’ Goal, 1-2, David Ginola, Assist by Lee Hendrie
⚽ | 75’ Goal, 2-2, Darius Vassell, Assist by Paul Merson
🥅 | 89’ Goal, 2-3, (Charlton Athletic), Mark Kinsella
⚽ | 90’ Goal, 3-3, Lee Hendrie, Assist by Dion Dublin
🕒 | FT Charlton Athletic 3-3 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Villa recover from being two goals down at half time and conceding a late goal to future Villa midfielder Mark Kinsella to make it eight games unbeaten and as a result rise to 7th in the table.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Charlton Athletic
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1946-47
FIXTURE HISTORY
Charlton Athletic
Previous 5 vs. Charlton: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2000-01 |
Matchday | #42 |
League Game | #34 |
Manager Game | #152 |
Tuesday, 17 April 2001
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: John Gregory | 🏴 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: Graham Poll | 🏴 | Hertfordshire, 1991-2007
Kick off: 8.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Score: 🟨 3-3
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟨
MANAGERIAL RECORD
John Gregory | 🏴 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 151 | 🟩 | 68 🟨 | 39 🟥 44 | 1.61
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
John Gregory | 🏴 |
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Graham Poll | 🏴 | Hertfordshire, 1991-2007
Previous 5: 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 26 Dec 00, Villa 0-1 United (h)
Cards: 🟥 🟨 🟨
Graham Poll
CARDS
Villa
🟨 🟨
Charlton Athletic
🟥
TEAM NEWS
Steve Staunton replaces Gareth Southgate.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 29.33 |
Oldest Player |
M Paul Merson | 🏴 | 33.10 |
Youngest Player |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 | 23.93 |
MANAGER
John Gregory | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK David James | 🏴 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴 |
CB Alpay Özalan | 🇹🇷 | 🟨 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 | 🔥 | ⚽ |
M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴 |
M Steve Stone | 🏴 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴 | 🔥 |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴 | 🟨 | 🔥 |
MANAGER
Alan Curbishley (ex) | 🏴 |
Charlton Athletic
GK Sasa Ilić | 🇦🇺 |
LB Paul Konchesky | 🏴 | 🟨 |
CB Richard Rufus | 🏴 | 🟥 |
CB Mark Fish | 🇿🇦 | 🔁 |
CB Andy Todd | 🏴 |
M Scott Parker | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Mark Kinsella | 🇮🇪 | ⚽ | 🟨 |
M Claus Jensen | 🇩🇰 | ⚽ |
W John Robinson | 🏴 | 🟨 |
CF Shaun Bartlett | 🇿🇦 |
CF Jonatan Johansson | 🇫🇮 | 🔁 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | F Darius Vassell | 🏴 | ⚽ | for M George Boateng | 46’ |
🔁 | W David Ginola | 🇫🇷 | ⚽ | for M Steve Stone | 🏴 | 46’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | CB Mark Fish | 🇿🇦 | (M Shaun Newton | 🏴 |)
🔁 | M Scott Parker | 🏴 | (W John Solako | 🏴 |)
🔁 | CF Jonatan Johansson | 🇫🇮 | (CB Steve Brown | 🏴 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴 |
F Julian Joachim | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Tony Caig | 🏴 |
CF Mathias Svensson | 🇸🇪 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/16
Homegrown: 3/16
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/16
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
“I wanted David Ginola and Paul Merson to stay wide but they didn’t - if we had kept more discipline we would have gone on to win comfortably.”
John Gregory.
*The Guardian*
Wednesday, 18 April, 2001
*Bouncing Villa make late point*
Aston Villa maintained their run of late-season form with a comeback last night from 2-0 and 3-2 down to deny Charlton a victory that they were holding on to gallantly with 10 men for almost an hour.
Five minutes from time, within seconds of Paul Merson hitting the bar from 35 yards, Mark Kinsella broke away and put Charlton ahead. Then in the last minute Lee Hendrie squeezed in a second equaliser.
With quarter-of-an-hour left Darius Vassell, one of two half-time substitutes, weaved down the right, beating two men, cut in and shot past the heroic Sasa Ilic at the near post for Villa’s first equaliser. David Ginola, the other substitute, had scored Villa’s first goal.
Football’s vogue phrase this season among managers has been “on the bounce”. John Gregory may have started it, though at the time Villa settled for even one win on the bounce. But they came here unbeaten in seven and sniffing Europe after Ginola, a late substitute, turned Saturday’s game for them against Everton.
It was not enough though, to earn the Frenchman a start. The only change was Steve Staunton for the injured Gareth Southgate. It did little to bolster the defence though he could hardly be blamed for Charlton’s lead on the quarter hour.
George Boateng lost possession in the centre circle, Shaun Bartlett and Jonatan Johansson exchanged passes and, as Bartlett closed for the tap-in, Boateng did it for him.
Alan Curbishley was looking for a bounce back and got it. After Good Friday’s bad result at Bradford he warned his players they had the five remaining games to nail down their positions for next season.
It was looking good for Charlton until 10 minutes before half-time when Richard Rufus, up in attack, lunged late on Mark Delaney and was sent off. It was Graham Poll’s ninth red card of the season, maintaining his top billing.
Before Charlton could regroup, Paul Merson struck Ilics’s left-hand post and Ian Taylor put the rebound over a gaping goal. Before the interval, though, Charlton had gone two up. As tempers began to fray, Staunton held back Robinson and Claus Jensen converted the penalty.
Not surprisingly Ginola was on for the second half in a double substitution and in 12 minutes he had swept in Hendrie’s pass to reduce the lead. By the 65th minute Ilic had brought off two stunning saves, point-blank from Dublin’s header and high to his left to Merson’s drive and Charlton were hanging on by a thread.
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