Game #4694
Aston Villa
Wednesday, 26 December 2001


Lost
8th (-)
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥
Premier League
Liverpool
Villa Park
Attendance: 42,602
🟥 26 Dec 2001, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park
Aston Villa
1-2

Liverpool

Assist(s) | Not recorded
🟥 26 Dec 2001, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park


MATCH TIMELINE
Wednesday, 26 December 2001
🥅 | 9’ Goal, 0-1, (Liverpool), Jari Litmanen
⚽ | 21’ Goal, 1-1, Lee Hendrie
💥 | 35’ Missed Penalty, (Liverpool)
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-1 Liverpool
🔁 | 47’ Sub off, Lee Hendrie, Sub on, Ian Taylor
🟨 | 54’ Booking, George Boateng
🥅 | 73’ Goal, 1-2, (Liverpool), Vladimir Smicer
🔁 | 81’ Sub off, Jlloyd Samuel, Sub on, Steve Stone
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-2 Liverpool
Match Statistics
Not recorded
Goal ⚽, Assist 🔥, Goal Conceded 🥅, Injury 🚑, Booking 🟨, Sending off 🟥, Comment 🗒️, ❗ Villa Chance,❗❗Huge Villa Chance, 💥 Opposition action, 🎥 VAR, 🆘 Referee error, ❌ Missed pen, disallowed goal, player retires from field of play, 🟢 Debut, 🔴 Final appearance, 🕒 Half time, Full time, 🔁 Substitution
🟥 26 Dec 2001, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

ON THIS DAY
Wednesday, 26 December 2001
A questionable refereeing performance sees Villa beaten by a poor Liverpool outfit to make it one win in nine Premier League games and five defeats to sit 8th in the table.
Villa's dreadful run now extends to 10 games with 6 defeats and a single victory under John Gregory since the start of November.
Referee D'Urso gifts Liverpool the game and Villa get a shrug of the shoulders and John Gregory sent off after a Schmeichel clearance hits the referee, bounces to the Liverpool player, who fires the ball unchallenged into an empty net.
Peter Schmeichel concedes his 25th goal in a Villa shirt on his 23rd appearance and is now without a clean sheet in 6 games to make it W11 D5 L7, 25 Goals Conceded at a rate of 1.09 goals per game and 9 Clean Sheets (39%) so far in his Villa career.
Juan Pablo Ángel makes his 25th start in a Villa shirt (29 Starts) to make it W12 D6 L11, 12 Goals, 3 Assists and 2 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one for every 1.67 starts so far in his Villa career.
Darius Vassell makes his 25th start in a Villa shirt (81 Appearances) to make it W33 D18 L30, 14 Goals, 5 Assists, 9 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career at a goal involvement rate of one for every 4.26 games played so far in his Villa career.
Lee Hendrie scores his 20th goal in a Villa shirt on his 174th appearance (134 Starts) to make it W74 D46 L54, 20 Goals, 17 Assists, 31 Bookings and 3 Red Cards so far in his Villa career at a goal involvement rate of one for every 4.83 games he has played so far in his Villa career.
🟥 26 Dec 2001, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

DEBUT APPEARANCES
None
FINAL APPEARANCES
None
Seasons | 🕒 Games | ✅ Starts (🔁 Subs) | ⚽ Goals | 🔥 Assists | 🇺 Unused | Player Number |
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: 2000-01
🟥 26 Dec 2001, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park
FIXTURE DETAILS


Season | 2001-02 |
Matchday | #29 |
League Game | #19 |
Manager Game | #185 |
Wednesday, 26 December 2001
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🟥 26 Dec 2001, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park
MATCH SUMMARY


Manager: John Gregory | 🏴 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: Andy D'Urso | 🏴 | Essex, 1999-2005
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Score: 🟥 1-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥
MANAGERIAL RECORD

John Gregory | 🏴 | 1998-2002
🕒 184 | 🟩 | 81 🟨 | 48 🟥 55 | 1.58
Villa Career Form:
Top 8
Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Points per Game
🟥 26 Dec 2001, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Andy D'Urso | 🏴 | Essex, 1999-2005
VAR PROFILE (from 2021)
CARDS

🟨 George Boateng
CARDS

None
Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Notably poor performance 🆘, Cards 🟨 Booking, Cards 🟥 Sending off, Disallowed ❌ Goal disallowed, ⚽ Penalty for, 🥅 Penalty against, ❌ Penalty Disallowed
🟥 26 Dec 2001, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park

TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS
Lee Hendrie, Darius Vassell and Hassan Kachloul return with Dion Dublin, Gareth Barry and Steve Stone dropping out.
Starting XI Average Age
| 27.98 |
Oldest Player |
GK Peter Schmeichel | 🇩🇰 | 38.13 |
Youngest Player |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴 | 20.76 |
🟥 26 Dec 2001, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park
MANAGER
John Gregory | 🏴 | 1998-2002

Aston Villa
GK Peter Schmeichel | 🇩🇰 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴 | 🔁 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 | 🟨 |
M Hassan Kachloul | 🇲🇦 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴 |
MANAGER
Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | (ft)

Liverpool
GK Jerzy Dudek | 🇵🇱 |
LB John Arne Riise | 🇳🇴 |
CB Jamie Carragher | 🏴 |
CB Stéphane Henchoz | 🇨🇭 |
CB Sami Hyypiä | 🇫🇮 |
M Vladimir Šmicer | 🇨🇿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
M Patrik Berger | 🇨🇿 |
M Dietmar Hamann | 🇩🇪 |
M Steven Gerrard | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CF Michael Owen | 🏴 |
CF Jari Litmanen | 🇫🇮 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
🟥 26 Dec 2001, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park
SUBSTITUTES

🔁 M Ian Taylor | 🏴 | for M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 | 47’ |
🔁 M Steve Stone | 🏴 | for FB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴 | 81’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | M Vladimir Šmicer | 🇨🇿 | (M Gary McAllister | 🏴 |)
🔁 | M Steven Gerrard | 🏴 | (M Danny Murphy | 🏴 |)
🔁 | CF Jari Litmanen | 🇫🇮 | (CF Nicolas Anelka | 🇫🇷 |)

🟥 26 Dec 2001, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Chris Kirkland | 🏴 |
RB Stephen Wright | 🏴 |
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

🟥 26 Dec 2001, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park
MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES
STARTING XI
SUBSTITUTES
Player | 🕒 | 🔁 | ⚽ | 🔥 | 🟩 | 🟨 | 🟥 | 🥅 | ⛔ | Yellow | Red |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
M Ian Taylor | 🏴 | | 263 | 30* | 37 | 15 | 113 | 68 | 82* | - | - | 46 | 2 |
UNUSED
Player | 🇺 |
---|---|
GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 | | 91* |
Games 🕒, Starts ✅, Substitute 🔁, Goals ⚽, Assists 🔥, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Conceded 🥅, Clean Sheets ⛔, Unused Substitute 🇺
🟥 26 Dec 2001, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park
SQUAD STATS

1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Homegrown: 3/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/16
Homegrown: 4/16
SQUAD STATS

1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 7/16
🟥 26 Dec 2001, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park
MATCHDAY SQUAD

MATCHDAY SQUAD

🟥 26 Dec 2001, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park
UNAVAILABLE

Not recorded
UNAVAILABLE

Not Recorded
LEAGUE TABLE



MATCHDAY PROGRAMME



🟥 26 Dec 2001, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park


MATCH QUOTES
🟥 26 Dec 2001, Villa 1-2 Liverpool, Villa Park


MATCH REPORTS






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