Game #4717
Aston Villa
Wednesday, 31 July 2002
Drew
Semi Final
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟨
Intertoto Cup Semi Final
Attendance: 14,437
LOSC Lille
Stade Grimonprez-Jooris, Lille
Lille OSC
1-1
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | None
MATCH SUMMARY
Villa are held at the last in the away leg of the Intertoto semi final but take an away goal into the second leg at Villa Park.
KEY MAN
Ian Taylor celebrates opening the scoring against Lille OSC with a crucial away goal ahead of the second leg at Villa Park, Wednesday, 31 July 2002.
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MATCH TIMELINE
Wednesday, 31 July 2002
🟢 | 1’ Debut, Stefan Postma
🕒 | HT Lille OSC 0-0 Aston Villa
🟨 | 46’ Booking, Jlloyd Samuel
🔁 | 69’ Sub off, Mustapha Hadji, Sub on, Darius Vassell
⚽ | 76’ Goal, 1-0, Ian Taylor, Assist by Olof Mellberg
🔁 | 81’ Sub off, Marcus Allbäck, Sub on, Steve Stone 🔴
🟨 | 83’ Booking, Steve Staunton
🥅 | 90’ Goal, 1-1, (Lille OSC), Fernando D’Amico
🕒 | FT Lille OSC 1-1 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Villa score a crucial away goal through Ian Taylor but concede in the last minute to leave the tie in the balance. Meanwhile, goalkeeper Stefan Postma made his Villa debut aged 26 after joining from De Graafschap for £2,000,000 earlier this month.
In less positive news, Graham Taylor’s clear out of the Gregory era team continued as 30 year old midfielder Steve Stone was shown the door and followed Paul Merson to Portsmouth on a free transfer.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
LOSC Lille
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
Ligue 1 Champions: 🏆🏆
Coupe de France Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Coupe de la Ligue Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1954-55
FIXTURE HISTORY
LOSC Lille
Previous 5 vs. Lille: None
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2002-03 |
Matchday | #3 |
Manager Game | #16 |
Wednesday, 31 July 2002
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: Željko Širić | 🇭🇷 | 1993-2006
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟨
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Graham Taylor | 🏴 | 2002-03
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 16 | 🟩 | 4 🟨 | 5 🟥 7 | 1.06
Villa Career Form:
Bottom 8
Graham Taylor | 🏴 | 2002-03
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Željko Širić | 🇭🇷 | 1993-2006
Previous 5: None
Last Match: None
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨
Željko Širić
CARDS
Villa
🟨 🟨
LOSC Lille
🟨
TEAM NEWS
Villa hand a debut to Stefan Postma in place of Peter Enckelman and Jlloyd Samuel returns as Mustapha Hadji makes his first start of the season. Lee Hendrie and Michael Boulding drop out.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 26.32 |
Oldest Player |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴 | 34.18 |
Youngest Player |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 | 20.33 |
MANAGER
Graham Taylor | 🏴 | 2002-03
Aston Villa
GK Stefan Postma | 🇳🇱 | 🟢 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 | 🔥 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴 |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 |
M Mustapha Hadji | 🇲🇦 | 🔁 |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CF Peter Crouch | 🏴 |
F Marcus Allbäck | 🇸🇪 | 🔁 |
MANAGER
Claude Puel | 🇫🇷 |
LOSC Lille
GK Grégory Wimbée | 🇫🇷 |
LB Grégory Tafforeau | 🇫🇷 |
CB Matthieu Delpierre | 🇫🇷 |
CB Abdelilah Fahmi | 🇲🇦 |
RB Stéphane Pichot | 🇫🇷 |
RB Matthieu Chalmé | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
M Fernando D’Amico | 🇦🇷 | ⚽ | 🟨 |
M Sylvain N’Diaye | 🇸🇳 |
M Philippe Brunel | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
M Mile Sterjovski | 🇦🇺 |
CF Matt Moussilou | 🇨🇬 | 🔁 |
Not necessarily indicative of the actual matchday formation
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 F Darius Vassell | 🏴 | for M Mustapha Hadji | 🇲🇦 | 69’ |
🔁 M Steve Stone | 🏴 | 🔴 | for F Marcus Allbäck | 🇸🇪 | 81’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | RB Matthieu Chalmé | 🇫🇷 | (CF Djezon Boutoille | 🇫🇷 |)
🔁 | M Philippe Brunel | 🇫🇷 | (M Nicolas Bonnal | 🇫🇷 |)
🔁 | CF Matt Moussilou | 🇨🇬 | (CF Héctor Tapia | 🇨🇱 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
CB Liam Ridgewell | 🏴 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴 |
F Michael Boulding | 🏴 |
F Stefan Moore | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Grégory Malicki | 🇫🇷 |
M Christophe Landrin | 🇫🇷 |
CB Rafael Schmitz | 🇧🇷 |
CF Marc-Antoine Fortuné | 🇬🇫 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Homegrown: 3/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/17
Homegrown: 6/17
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
Home Nation 🇫🇷 : 8/14
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Not reported
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
🟢 GK Stefan Postma | 🇳🇱 |
FINAL APPEARANCES
🔴 M Steve Stone | 🏴 |
MATCH STATS
Not reported
LEAGUE TABLE
MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
"Midfielder Ian Taylor looked to have won it for Villa just seven minutes from time when he scored from close range following a corner."
*BBC Sport*
Wednesday, 31 July, 2002
*Villa share spoils in France*
A last-gasp goal denied Aston Villa victory in their Intertoto Cup semi-final first leg match in Lille.
Midfielder Ian Taylor looked to have won it for Villa just seven minutes from time when he scored from close range following a corner.
But Fernando D’Amico levelled in the closing moments to leave the tie finely balanced ahead of the return.
Graham Taylor’s side will now have to hope that having at least scored an away goal in Lille they can make home advantage count in the second leg on 8 August.
Villa nearly got off to a dream start after just four minutes when Peter Crouch found the back of the net, but the goal was disallowed.
The assistant referee adjudged the ball to have already gone out of play before Thomas Hitzlsperger’s right-wing cross came in.
Lille finally found their way into the game and had their first effort on goal thanks to a Philippe Brunel free-kick but goalkeeper Stefan Postma, making his debut in place of the injured Peter Enckelman, dealt with it comfortably.
The French side looked a little short of ideas, following the departure of Bruno Cheyrou to Liverpool and Pascal Cygan to Arsenal, and it was Brunel who provided most of their inspiration.
The 29-year-old attacking midfielder should have given the hosts the lead after 33 minutes but his lob drifted wide of the upright.
Marcus Allback looked dangerous in tandem with Crouch and missed a great opportunity to open the scoring 10 minutes before the interval.
The final action of the half saw Brunel firing just wide after Postma had rushed off his line to deny Mile Sterjovski.
It was Villa who were on the attack immediately after the break when Allback dragged a left-foot shot just wide of the target only three minutes in, after linking up well with Crouch.
Sterjovski went close for the home side in the 51st minute when he raced onto a through ball from D’Amico, but could only find the side netting.
Villa were next to go close, but Gregory Wimbee in the Lille goal had no trouble saving Hitzlsperger’s 68th minute free-kick.
In the 83rd minute Villa got the breakthrough they had been looking for.
Olof Mellberg connected well with a corner from Hitzlsperger but saw his header parried by Wimbee, and Taylor pounced to poke the ball home.
That was the spur Lille needed as they pushed forward for the equaliser and they forced two good saves from Postma.
In the dying moments D’Amico latched onto Hector Tapia’s free-kick, slotting the ball past Postma to leave the second leg finely poised.
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