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Game #4752

Aston Villa

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Monday, 3 March 2003

14th (-2)

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥

GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
CB Ronny Johnsen | 🇳🇴 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Joey Guðjónsson | 🇮🇸 | 🟨 | 🟨 | 🟥 |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟥 |
F Stefan Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003
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Substitutes:

🔁 M Mustapha Hadji | 🇲🇦 | for CF Stefan Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 46’ |
🔁 CF Peter Crouch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 89’ |

Unused Substitutes:

GK Stefan Postma | 🇳🇱 |
CB Rob Edwards | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 |

🟥 Dion Dublin
🟥 Joey Guðjónsson
🟨 Joey Guðjónsson
🟨 Joey Guðjónsson

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96

Matchday Squad:

Not reported

Jlloyd Samuel, Dion Dublin, Lee Hendrie and Stefan Moore return with Alpay Özalan, Ulises de la Cruz, Mark Kinsella and Peter Crouch drop out.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.94 |

Oldest Player |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 33.88 |

Youngest Player |
F Stefan Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.44 |

  • Villa lose for the 3rd successive game having failed to score in 14 of 29 league matches under Graham Taylor 

  • Villa are beaten for the 20th time.in 42 Premier League games under Graham Taylor.

  • The once venerated manager is no longer the subject of deference as his defeatist, dismissive and self absorbed response to defeat exacerbates the chasm that this most torrid of seasons had begun to create.

  • Villa lose home and away to Birmingham for the first time since 1978.

  • Dion Dublin is sent off for the 2nd time in a Villa shirt on his 156th appearance (130 Starts) to make it W58 D43 L55, 54 Goals, 18 Assists, 15 Bookings and 2 Red Cards at a goal involvement 

  • Joey Guðjónsson is sent off for the 1st time in a Villa shirt on his 5 appearance to make it W2 D0 L3, 1 Goal, 1 Assist, 4 Bookings and 1 Red Card at a rate of a card every game he has played so far in his Villa career.

*Blues win fierce derby*

For the second time this season the Midlands derby ended disastrously for Aston Villa, who finished the game with nine men as they went down to their local rivals.

Dion Dublin and Joey Gudjonsson were sent off for the home side as Birmingham scored twice in the last 16 minutes.

Goals from Stan Lazaridis and Geoff Horsfield helped the visitors move six points clear of the relegation zone.

Horsfield profited from another piece of lame goalkeeping from Peter Enckelman, who had given away a bizarre own goal in the first meeting at St Andrews.

As with that first meeting, this game also saw fans running on to the pitch in the closing stages as the match degenerated into farce.

Dublin was dismissed five minutes into the second half.

As referee Mark Halsey mulled over whether to book the Villa striker for a late tackle on Savage, Dublin then headbutted the Birmingham midfielder.

Gudjonsson was red-carded for a two-footed tackle on Matthew Upson nine minutes from time.

A couple of Savage’s challenges, particularly one on Gudjonsson, had set the tone for this bruising encounter.

Gudjonsson and Christophe Dugarry had also clashed intermittently throughout the match and their running feud saw the Frenchman appear to spit at the Icelandic player.

Despite the feisty tackling it took 35 minutes before Halsey booked a player - showing a yellow card to Kenny Cunningham for his high tackle on Gareth Barry.

At least when the ball did intermittently reach either penalty area the tackling was more judicious.

Notably when Jeff Kenna denied Barry with a last-ditch tackle, while Dublin was similarly thwarted by Jamie Clapham.

Two spectacular long-range volleys also stood out in a frenetic first half.

Lee Hendrie drove just wide of the Birmingham post, while at the other end of the pitch Peter Enckelman reacted quickly to tip a dipping effort from Dugarry over the bar.

Clinton Morrison should have also done better with a header from a Damien Johnson cross.

On 74 minutes Lazaridis got on to the end of a Kenna cross to give Birmingham the lead.

Soon after, Horsfield doubled Birmingham’s advantage after he capitalised on Enckelman’s indecision, and Gudjonsson was dismissed four minutes later.

Horsfield ended the game in goal for Birmingham after Nico Vaesen was injured clearing the ball.

The win leaves Birmingham six points ahead of third-from-bottom West Ham.

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Lost

0-2

🟥 3 Mar 2003, Villa 0-2 Birmingham, Villa Park
Scorer(s) | None

Assist(s) | None

Match Timeline:

🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Birmingham City
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Stefan Moore, Sub on, Mustapha Hadji
🟥 | 51’ Sending off, Dion Dublin
🥅 | 74’ Goal, 0-1, (Birmingham City), Stan Lazaridis
🟨 | 75’ Booking, Joey Guðjónsson
🥅 | 77’ Goal, 0-2, (Birmingham City), Geoff Horsfield
🟨 | 81’ Booking, Joey Guðjónsson
🟥 | 81’ Sending off, Joey Guðjónsson
🔁 | 89’ Sub off, Alan Wright, Sub on, Peter Crouch
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 0-2 Birmingham City

Season | 2002-03 |
Matchday | #38 |
League Game | #29 |
Manager Game | #51 |
Monday, 3 March 2003

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Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Worksop, 2002-2003
Referee: Mark Halsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Hertfordshire, 1999-2013
Kick off: 8.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥

Referee: Mark Halsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Hertfordshire, 1999-2013

Previous 5 vs. Birmingham: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥

Total 🕒 108 | 🟩 46 | 🟨 27 | 🟥 35 | ⚽ 171 | 🥅 142 |
League 🕒 98 | 🟩 39 | 🟨 25 | 🟥 34 | ⚽ 150 | 🥅 139 |
FA Cup 🕒 3 | 🟩 2 | 🟨 1 | 🟥 0 | ⚽ 5 | 🥅 0 |
League Cup 🕒 6 | 🟩 4 | 🟨 1 | 🟥 1 | ⚽ 10 | 🥅 3 |
Other 🕒 1 | 🟩 1 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 0 | ⚽ 6 | 🥅 0 |
Home 🕒 54 | 🟩 27 | 🟨 14 | 🟥 13 | ⚽ 95 | 🥅 59 |
Away 🕒 54 | 🟩 19 | 🟨 13 | 🟥 22 | ⚽ 76 | 🥅 83 |

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Not reported

Debut Appearances:

None

Final Appearances:

None

Graham Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2002-2003

🕒 51 | 🟩 | 17 🟨 | 10 🟥 24 | 1.20

Villa Career Form:

Bottom 8

Referee:

VAR (from 2021)

GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
61
🟩
21
🟨
1
59*
🟨
15
🟥
1
0
🟥
25*
0
🥅
19
67*
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
327
🟩
140
🟨
23
322*
🟨
86
🟥
0
5
🟥
101*
26
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
71
🟩
21
🟨
3
71*
🟨
20
🟥
0
1
🟥
30*
3
CB Ronny Johnsen | 🇳🇴 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
22
🟩
10
🟨
2
21*
🟨
3
🟥
0
0
🟥
9*
0
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
79
🟩
27
🟨
9
59*
🟨
20
🟥
1
0
🟥
32*
5
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
214
🟩
87
🟨
38
164*
🟨
54
🟥
3
23
🟥
73*
20
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
156
🟩
58
🟨
15
130*
🟨
43
🟥
2*
54
🟥
55*
18
F Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
131
🟩
47
🟨
12
66*
🟨
30
🟥
1
30
🟥
54*
9
CF Peter Crouch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Sub 2
Games
Results
Cards
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🔁
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24
🟩
6
🟨
1
7*
🟨
5
🟥
0
2
🟥
13*
4
Sub 4
Games
Results
Cards
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Player Profile
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
185
🟩
74
🟨
21
171*
🟨
49
🟥
0
8
🟥
62*
9
M Joey Gudjonsson | 🇮🇸 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
5
🟩
2
🟨
4*
5*
🟨
0
🟥
1*
1
🟥
3*
1
F Stefan Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔥
15
🟩
7
🟨
2
7*
🟨
3
🟥
0
1
🟥
5*
0
M Mustapha Hadji | 🇲🇦 |
Sub 1
Games
Results
Cards
🕒
🔁
🔥
42
🟩
15
🟨
4
16*
🟨
8
🟥
0
3
🟥
19*
2
Sub 3
Games
Results
Cards
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Player Profile
Sub 5
Games
Results
Cards
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Player Profile

Premier League

Birmingham City

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Villa Park

Attendance: 42,602

GK Nico Vaesen | 🇧🇪 |
LB Jamie Clapham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Kenny Cunningham | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
CB Matthew Upson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Jeff Kenna | 🇮🇪 |
M Robbie Savage | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Damien Johnson | 🇬🇧 |
M Stephen Clemence | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Stan Lazaridis | 🇦🇺 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CF Clinton Morrison | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Christophe Dugarry | 🇫🇷 |

Steve Bruce | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (ft)
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Substitutes:

🔁 | M Robbie Savage | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (M Darren Carter | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | W Stan Lazaridis | 🇦🇺 | (M Paul Devlin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | (🟨) )
🔁 | CF Clinton Morrison | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Geoff Horsfield | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |)

Unused Substitutes:

GK Ian Bennett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Stern John | 🇹🇹 |

🟨 Kenny Cunningham
🟨 Paul Devlin

European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1962-63

Matchday Squad:

Not Recorded

🟩 12 Apr 2025, Villa 3-0 Southampton, St Mary's TBL.png

"As referee Mark Halsey mulled over whether to book the Villa striker for a late tackle on Savage, Dublin then headbutted the Birmingham midfielder."

🟩 12 Apr 2025, Villa 3-0 Southampton, St Mary's TBL.png

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