Game #4666
Aston Villa
Saturday, 14 July 2001
3rd Round
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥
GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴 | 🟨 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |
CB Alpay Özalan | 🇹🇷 | 🟨 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴 |
M Steve Stone | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴 | 🔁 |
John Gregory | 🏴 | 1998-2002
Substitutes
🔁 F Darius Vassell | 🏴 | for CF Dion Dublin | 🏴 | 52’ |
🔁 W David Ginola | 🇫🇷 | ⚽ | for M Gareth Barry | 🏴 | 71’ |
🔁 RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴 | for M Steve Stone | 🏴 | 77’ |
Unused Substitutes
GK Boaz Myhill | 🏴 |
RB Jonathan Bewers | 🏴 |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 |
Yellow Cards (Warnings, Cautions, Bookings)
🟨 Alan Wright (21)
🟨 Alpay Özalan (12)
Red Cards (Ordered from Field of Play, Dismissals, Sendings Off)
Trophy Record
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Matchday Squad
Unavailable
Not recorded
Team News
Villa start the season in mid July once again and a hand a starting spot to Peter Enckelman in goal.
Team Stats
Starting XI Average Age
| 27.81 |
Oldest Player |
M Paul Merson | 🏴 | 33.34 |
Youngest Player |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴 | 20.40 |
Debut Appearances
None
Final Appearances
None
Lost
1-2
🟥 14 Jul 2001, Villa 1-2 Slaven, Gradski Stadion
Scorer(s) | David Ginola | 87’ |
Assist(s) | None
Match Timeline
🕒 | HT NK Slaven Belupo Koprivnica 0-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 52’ Sub off, Dion Dublin, Sub on, Darius Vassell
🥅 | 61’ Goal, 0-1, (NK Slaven Belupo Koprivnica), Pavo Crnac
🔁 | 71’ Sub off, Gareth Barry, Sub on, David Ginola
🟨 | 74’ Booking, Alan Wright
🔁 | 77’ Sub off, Steve Stone, Sub on, Jlloyd Samuel
⚽ | 87’ Goal, 1-1, David Ginola
🟨 | 87’ Booking, Alpay Özalan
🥅 | 89’ Goal, 1-2, (NK Slaven Belupo Koprivnica), Goran Gersak
🕒 | FT NK Slaven Belupo Koprivnica 2-1 Aston Villa
Season | 2001-02 |
Matchday | #1 |
Manager Game | #157 |
Saturday, 14 July 2001
Match Record
Game Record
Manager: John Gregory | 🏴 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
*Absent through illness*
Manager: Ross MacLaren (Caretaker) | 🏴 | Edinburgh, 2001
Referee: Massimo De Santis | 🇮🇹 | Lazio, 2001
Kick off: 5.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟥 1-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥
Officials
Referee: Massimo De Santis | 🇮🇹 | Lazio, 2001
Assistants: Andrea Consolo | 🇮🇹 | Alessandro Stagnoli | 🇮🇹 |
Previous 5 vs. NK Slaven: None
Head to Head
Total 🕒 1 | 🟩 W0 (0% ) | 🟨 D0 | 🇺(0% ) | 🟥 L1 (100% ) | ⚽ 1 | 🥅 2 | GD -1
Match Stats
Not recorded
John Gregory | 🏴 | 1998-2002
🕒 156 | 🟩 | 69 🟨 | 41 🟥 46 | 1.59
Villa Career Form:
Top 8
Intertoto Cup
NK Slaven Koprivnica
Gradski Stadion, Koprivnica
Attendance: 3,000
GK Ivica Solomun | 🇭🇷 |
LB Hasan Kacic | 🇭🇷 |
CB Pavo Crnac | 🇭🇷 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CB Stipe Bošnjak | 🇭🇷 |
RB Petar Bošnjak | 🇭🇷 |
M Mario Kovacevic | 🇭🇷 |
M Frane Amižić | 🇭🇷 |
M Damir Muzek | 🇭🇷 | 🔁 |
M Roy Ferencina | 🇭🇷 |
CF Marijo Dodik | 🇧🇦 |
F Renato Jurcec | 🇭🇷 | 🔁 |
Drazen Besek | 🇭🇷 |
Substitutes
🔁 | CB Pavo Crnac | 🇭🇷 | (CB Zdravko Međimorec | 🇭🇷 |)
🔁 | M Damir Muzek | 🇭🇷 | (F Goran Gersak | 🇭🇷 | ⚽ |)
🔁 | F Renato Jurcec | 🇭🇷 | (F Miljenko Kovacic | 🇭🇷 |)
Unused Substitutes
Not Recorded
Yellow Cards (Warnings, Cautions, Bookings)
None
Red Cards (Ordered from Field of Play, Dismissals, Sendings Off)
Opposition Trophy Record
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
Croatian Football League Champions: ❌
Croation Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌
Opposition Matchday Squad
Opposition Unavailable
Not Recorded
Starting XI
Match Media
On This Day
Villa's early start to the season sees them defeated in Croatia but an away goal gives them a lifeline ahead of the second leg at Villa Park.
Villa face Slaven Belupo Koprivnica for the first time in competitive football, Slaven become the 144th team that the Villa first team has played in League or Cup football, Villa’s 28th continental European opponents and their first from Croatia.
A sick John Gregory absents himself from a mid July central European jaunt as an unembellished team with a week's training fall to a last minute winner.
Goalkeeper Boaz Myhill, 18, makes his first squad appearance for Villa after coming through the youth ranks.
What they Said
“David’s [Ginola] goal got us out of jail.
“It rescued us and kept us in the tie. This is two-legged football and it does not matter how you play as long as you go through.
“After David scored I thought we would draw 1-1, but to be honest they deserved a 2-1 win.”
Paul Merson.
*Ginola’s strike supplies lifeline*
Aston Villa’s captain Paul Merson was thankful that a fine strike from David Ginola handed his team an Intertoto Cup third-round lifeline against Slaven Belupo on Saturday.
Villa may have slipped to a 2-1 defeat in Croatia, but Ginola’s stunning 30-yard drive that briefly put the team on level terms could prove crucial in Saturday’s second leg at Villa Park. “David’s goal got us out of jail,” said Merson. “It rescued us and kept us in the tie. This is two-legged football and it does not matter how you play as long as you go through.
“After David scored I thought we would draw 1-1, but to be honest they deserved a 2-1 win.”
The result will have left Villa’s manager John Gregory feeling even worse, after he was unable to make the trip to the Balkans having suffered a bout of food poisoning.
Yet it could have been a far bigger winning margin for the home side, who had dominated proceedings in the second half but only goals from Pavo Crnac and Goran Gersak accrued from their 17 shots on target.
“The heat played a big part,” admitted Merson. “We have only had a week’s training, but I am not making any excuses. The better team won and we have got to make sure that we are fitter next time.”
Villa, bidding to recover quickly from the recent sales of David James to West Ham and Gareth Southgate to Middlesbrough, left their £9.5m record signing Juan Pablo Angel and winger Ginola on the bench. With Gregory on his sick bed, the reserve-team manager Kevin MacDonald and the chief scout Ross MacLaren took charge of affairs.