Game #4725
Aston Villa
Sunday, 22 September 2002
Won
10th (+5)
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩
Premier League
Attendance: 30,023
Everton
Villa Park
Villa recover from their St Andrew's embarrassment to beat Everton and record their third win in seven Premier League games under Graham Taylor.
Aston Villa
3-1
Everton
Assist(s) | Darius Vassell | 7’ | Gareth Barry | 48’ | Olof Mellberg | 85’ |
KEY MAN
Dion Dublin celebrates his winner after coming on as substitute to make it three wins in seven Premier League games under Graham Taylor, Sunday, 22 September, 2002
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MATCH TIMELINE
Sunday, 22 September 2002
⚽ | 7’ Goal, 1-0, Lee Hendrie, Assist by Darius Vassell
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 Everton
⚽ | 48’ Goal, 2-0, Lee Hendrie, Assist by Gareth Barry
🥅 | 51’ Goal, 2-1, (Everton), Tomasz Radzinski
🥅 | 66’ Goal, 2-2, (Everton), Kevin Campbell
🔁 | 75’ Sub off, Ulises de la Cruz, Sub on, Öyvind Leonhardsen 🟢
🔁 | 81’ Sub off, Peter Crouch, Sub on, Dion Dublin
🔁 | 82’ Sub off, Darius Vassell, Sub on, Stefan Moore
⚽ | 85’ Goal, 3-2, Dion Dublin, Assist by Olof Mellberg
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 3-2 Everton
ON THIS DAY
Villa win just their sixth League game in 20 under Graham Taylor (losing 10) but make it three successive home wins to climb to 10th in the early table as another left field Taylor signing, Öyvind Leonhardsen, makes his Villa debut aged 32 after signing on a free transfer from Tottenham Hotspur in July.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Everton
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1994-95
FIXTURE HISTORY
Everton
Previous 5 vs. Everton: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2002-03 |
Matchday | #11 |
League Game | #7 |
Manager Game | #24 |
Sunday, 22 September 2002
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴 | Worksop, 2002-2003
Referee: Jeff Winter | 🏴 | Middlesbrough, 1992-2004
Kick off: 1.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Score: 🟩 3-2
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Graham Taylor | 🏴 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 24 | 🟩 | 7 🟨 | 5 🟥 12 | 1.08
Career Form:
Bottom 8
Graham Taylor | 🏴 |
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Jeff Winter | 🏴 | Middlesbrough, 1992-2004
Previous 5: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 23 February 2002, Villa 0-1 Manchester United, Old Trafford.
Cards: 🟨
Jeff Winter
CARDS
Villa
None
Everton
🟨
TEAM NEWS
Villa recall Peter Crouch, Darius Vassell and Lee Hendrie as Marcus Allbäck, Alpay Özalan and Juan Pablo Ángel drop out.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 26.21 |
Oldest Player |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 | 33.70 |
Youngest Player |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴 | 21.50 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
Graham Taylor | 🏴 |
David Moyes | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 | 🔥 |
CB Ronny Johnsen | 🇳🇴 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴 |
RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 | 🔁 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴 | 🔥 |
M Mark Kinsella | 🇮🇪 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
CF Peter Crouch | 🏴 | 🔁 |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴 | 🔥 | 🔁 |
Everton
GK Richard Wright | 🏴 |
CB Alan Stubbs | 🏴 |
CB David Weir | 🏴 |
CB David Unsworth (ex) | 🏴 |
RB Tony Hibbert | 🏴 |
M Mark Pembridge | 🏴 |
M Tie Li | 🇨🇳 |
M Thomas Gravesen | 🇩🇰 |
CF Tomasz Radzinski | 🇨🇦 | ⚽ |
CF Kevin Campbell | 🏴 | ⚽ |
F Wayne Rooney | 🏴 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 M Öyvind Leonhardsen | 🇳🇴 | 🟢 | for RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 | 75’ |
🔁 CF Dion Dublin | 🏴 | ⚽ | for CF Peter Crouch | 🏴 | 81’ |
🔁 CF Stefan Moore | 🏴 | for CF Darius Vassell | 🏴 | 82’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | F Wayne Rooney | 🏴 | (M Niclas Alexandersson | 🇸🇪 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Stefan Postma | 🇳🇱 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Paul Gerrard | 🏴 |
CB Weifeng Li | 🇨🇳 |
LB Gary Naysmith | 🏴 |
M Tobias Linderoth | 🇸🇪 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Homegrown: 4/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 7/16
Homegrown: 5/16
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 10/16
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
🟢 M Öyvind Leonhardsen | 🇳🇴 |
FINAL APPEARANCES
MATCH STATS
Not reported
TABLE
PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
"We were under the cosh to say the least, but we dug in and got the points.
“The players showed a lot of spirit.”
Graham Taylor.
*BBC Sport*
Sunday, 22 September, 2002
*Villa late show sinks Everton*
Dion Dublin came off the bench to lift the pressure on Aston Villa boss Graham Taylor with a late winner against Everton at Villa Park.
Villa Park was full of frustration after the desperate derby defeat against Birmingham City - and the mood was not improved as Everton fought back from two goals down.
But veteran Dublin came to Villa and Taylor’s rescue with an 84th minute decider to end Everton’s brave challenge.
Lee Hendrie’s double looked to have put Villa on course for three points, but Tomasz Radzinski and Kevin Campbell capped a stirring Everton comeback to set up a rousing finish.
Everton boss David Moyes will have found defeat a bitter pill to swallow after a spirited performance from his team.
Villa star Hendrie made his point to the manager who had left him out at Birmingham by scoring a brilliant opener after six minutes.
He gave Villa the perfect start when he spotted Richard Wright off his line and curled a right foot finish into the top corner from 20 yards.
Everton youngster Wayne Rooney was in aggressive mood, and he was booked for barging Darius Vassell after earlier flattening Villa veteran Steve Staunton.
Moyes’s side were enjoying plenty of possession without threatening Peter Enckelman, apart from a long-range effort from China international Li Tie which flew narrowly wide.
And they were made to pay for not taking advantage when Hendrie doubled Villa’s lead two minutes after the interval.
He shot high past Wright after Gareth Barry headed Ulises de la Cruz’s cross into his path.
But it was signal for a spirited Everton response, and they were back in contention after 50 minutes when Radzinski scored on the turn from the edge of the area.
Everton pinned Villa in their own half, and it needed a stunning instinctive save from Enckelman to stop Campbell’s header from point-blank range after 64 minutes.
It was a crucial save by Enckelman, who was mocked throughout by Everton’s fans after his much-publicised error in the derby at Birmingham.
But it was a brief reprieve, with Campbell heading home at the near post from the resulting corner.
Villa were almost back in front with ten minutes to go when Alan Stubbs slipped to let in Vassell, but he headed agonisingly wide.
And boss Taylor decided to make a change, sending on Dublin and youngster Stefan Moore for Vassell and Peter Crouch.
And he was rewarded when Dublin scrambled home the winner at the far post as Everton failed to clear a corner.
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