Game #4677
Monday, 24 September 2001
Attendance: 26,794
Won
Premier League
6th (+4)
Southampton
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟩
Friends Provident St Mary's Stadium
Villa extend their unbeaten Premier League run to five games under John Gregory this season as they record their second win to climb to sixth in the early table.
Southampton
1-3
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | Dion Dublin | 9’ | 20' | Lee Hendrie | 79’ |
KEY MAN
George Boateng opened the scoring for Villa at Southampton to set up the win and extend their unbeaten Premier League run to five games under John Gregory, Monday, 24 September 2001.
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MATCH TIMELINE
⚽ | 9’ Goal, 1-0, George Boateng, Assist by Dion Dublin
⚽ | 15’ Goal, 2-0, Juan Pablo Ángel, Assist by Dion Dublin
🥅 | 45’ Goal, 2-1, (Southampton), Marian Pahars
🕒 | HT Southampton 1-2 Aston Villa
🟥 | 52’ Sending off, (Southampton), Rory Delap
🟥 | 57’ Sending off, Dion Dublin
🟨 | 64’ Booking, Lee Hendrie
🟨 | 67’ Booking, Hassan Kachloul
🔁 | 69’ Sub off, Hassan Kachloul, Sub on, Steve Staunton
🔁 | 74’ Sub off, Juan Pablo Ángel, Sub on, Boško Balaban
⚽ | 79’ Goal, 3-1, Mustapha Hadji, Assist by Lee Hendrie
🔁 | 87’ Sub off, Lee Hendrie, Sub on, Steve Stone
🕒 | FT Southampton 1-3 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Villa remain five games unbeaten in the League to rise to 6th in the early table.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Southampton
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1975-76
FIXTURE HISTORY
Southampton
Previous 5 vs. Southampton: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2001-02 |
Matchday | #12 |
League Game | #5 |
Manager Game | #168 |
Monday, 24 September 2001
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: John Gregory | 🏴 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: Steve Dunn | 🏴 | Bristol, 1992-2006
Kick off: 8.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 2-1
FT Score: 🟩 3-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟩
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Steve Dunn | 🏴 | Bristol, 1992-2006 🆘
Previous 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 21 December 1998, Villa 1-0, Charlton, The Valley.
Cards: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟨
CARDS
TEAM NEWS
Villa recall Dion Dublin and Paul Merson in place of Steve Stone and Darius Vassell.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 28.45 |
Oldest Player |
GK Peter Schmeichel | 🇩🇰 | 37.88 |
Youngest Player |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 | 24.07 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
John Gregory | 🏴 |
Stuart Gray (ex) | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Peter Schmeichel | 🇩🇰 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
CB Alpay Özalan | 🇹🇷 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴 |
M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 | ⚽ |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 | 🟨 | 🔥 | 🔁 |
M Hassan Kachloul | 🇲🇦 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Mustapha Hadji | 🇲🇦 | ⚽ |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴 | 🔥 | 🔥 | 🟥 |
Southampton
GK Paul Jones | 🏴 |
LB Wayne Bridge | 🏴 |
CB Tahar El Khalej | 🇲🇦 |
CB Claus Lundekvam | 🇳🇴 |
M Matt Oakley | 🏴 |
M Anders Svensson | 🇸🇪 |
M Rory Delap | 🇮🇪 | 🟥 |
M Jo Tessem | 🇳🇴 | 🔁 |
CF Kevin Davies | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CF James Beattie | 🏴 |
CF Marians Pahars | 🇱🇻 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 | for M Hassan Kachloul | 🇲🇦 | 69’ |
🔁 F Boško Balaban | 🇭🇷 | for CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 74’ |
🔁 M Steve Stone | 🏴 | for M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 | 87’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | M Jo Tessem | 🇳🇴 | (LB Francis Benali | 🏴 |)
🔁 | CF Kevin Davies | 🏴 | (CF Scott McDonald | 🇦🇺 |)
🔁 | CF Marians Pahars | 🇱🇻 | (M Matt Le Tissier | 🏴 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
W David Ginola | 🇫🇷 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Neil Moss | 🏴 |
M Chris Marsden | 🏴 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 4/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/16
Homegrown: 1/16
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/16
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Not recorded
UNAVAILABLE
Not Recorded
Player Abbreviations:
GK : Goalkeeper
LB, RB, FB : Left Back, Right Back, Full Back
CB, D : Centre Back, Defender
M, W : Midfielder. Winger
F, CF : Forward, Centre Forward
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game
Symbols:
⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution
🟨 | Booking
🟥 | Sending off
🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
DEBUT APPEARANCES
FINAL APPEARANCES
MATCH STATS
Not recorded
TABLE

PROGRAMME



MATCHDAY QUOTES
“There was hardly any contact.”
John Gregory.
*BBC Sport*
Monday, 24 September, 2001
*Angel strike sinks Saints*
Aston Villa have maintained their unbeaten start to the Premiership season with a hard-earned win at Southampton that moves them into the top five.
Early goals from George Boateng and Juan Pablo Angel set Villa on their way, but they had to wait for a 78th minute header from Mustapha Hadji to seal the points.
By that stage both teams were down to 10-men in an action-packed contest on the south coast.
Marian Pahars dragged Southampton back into the game with a first home goal at the St Mary’s Stadium on the stroke of half time.
His good work looked to have been in vain, however, when Rory Delap saw red early in the second half.
And within five minutes it was all level, at least in terms of players on the pitch, when Dion Dublin was also dismissed.
Southampton managed to reassert their control on the match.
But, just after the crowd acclaimed the arrival of Matt Le Tissier, Hadji struck to end the match as a contest.
Saints started with Pahars, James Beattie and Kevin Davies in a three man attacking formation and came close to seeing their adventure rewarded after only two minutes.
Davies climbed for a header from a Delap cross only to see Peter Schmeichel soar even higher to claw the effort wide.
However before Saints had any opportunities to build on their early promise it was Villa who broke the deadlock with their first attack of the match.
In a move that started with Angel on the left flank, Boateng hammered a lay off from Dublin high into the net beyond Paul Jones at the near post.
Six minutes later Angel again started a move that finished with a goal that he himself scored.
After neat inter-passing on the edge of the area with Lee Hendrie, Dublin again dropped a deft pass into the path of the Colombian who poked the ball under the advancing Jones.
However as half time approached the game turned on its head.
Schmeichel was forced into a second world-class save, palming Beattie’s fierce drive wide, before Pahars stole in to head home moments before the whistle.
The hosts attempted to build on that breakthrough early in the second half but Delap’s dismissal, for bringing down former Saints star Hassan Kachloul, seemed to have checked their stride.
Five minutes later Dublin followed Delap off after a controversial clash with El Khalej as they awaited a free-kick on the edge of the Villa area.
Despite playing with renewed purpose, Saints were unable to find a way through Villa’s rearguard and it was left to Hadji to deny Southampton their first point as well as their first goal at St Mary’s.