Game #4811
Saturday, 11 September 2004
Attendance: 36,691
Drew
Premier League
7th (-1)
Chelsea
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟨
Villa Park
Villa hold early pacesetters Chelsea at Villa Park to leave them with one defeat in their first five Premier League games.
Aston Villa
0-0
Chelsea
Assist(s) | None
KEY MAN
Lee Hendrie, brilliant dummy
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MATCH TIMELINE
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Chelsea
🔁 | 57’ Sub off, Nolberto Solano, Sub on, Lee Hendrie
🔁 | 67’ Sub off, Juan Pablo Ángel, Sub on, Luke Moore
🔁 | 90’ Sub off, Darius Vassell, Sub on, Peter Whittingham
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 0-0 Chelsea
ON THIS DAY
Villa make it one defeat in five Premier League games as they take a point off early leaders Chelsea but results around them mean David O'Leary's men drop back to 7th place in the table.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Chelsea
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆🏆
League Champions: 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1999-00
FIXTURE HISTORY
Chelsea
Previous 5 vs. Chelsea: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2004-05 |
Matchday | #5 |
League Game | #5 |
Manager Game | #50 |
Saturday, 11 September 2004
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: David O’Leary | 🇮🇪 | Stoke Newington, 2003-2006
Referee: Rob Styles | 🏴 | Hampshire, 1996-2009
Kick off: 12.45pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟨
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Rob Styles | 🏴 | Hampshire, 1996-2009
Previous 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 15 May 04, Villa 0-2 United (h)
Cards: 🟨
CARDS
TEAM NEWS
Juan Pablo Ángel comes in for his first start of the season in place of Carlton Cole (loan terms).
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 26.62 |
Oldest Player |
RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 | 30.12 |
Youngest Player |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 | 22.45 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 |
José Mourinho | 🇵🇹 |
Aston Villa
GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴 |
RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴 |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 |
M Gavin McCann | 🏴 |
W Nolberto Solano | 🇵🇪 | 🔁 |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 🔁 |
Chelsea
GK Petr Čech | 🇨🇿 |
LB Celestine Babayaro | 🇳🇬 |
CB Ricardo Carvalho | 🇵🇹 |
CB John Terry | 🏴 |
RB Paulo Ferreira | 🇵🇹 |
M Claude Makélélé | 🇫🇷 |
M Frank Lampard | 🏴 |
M Joe Cole | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Tiago Mendes | 🇵🇹 | 🔁 |
CF Mateja Kežman | 🇸🇰 | 🔁 |
CF Didier Drogba | 🇨🇮 | 🟨 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 | for W Nolberto Solano | 🇵🇪 | 57’ |
🔁 F Luke Moore | 🏴 | for CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 67’ |
🔁 W Peter Whittingham | 🏴 | for F Darius Vassell | 🏴 | 90’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | M Joe Cole | 🏴 | (CF Eidur Guðjohnsen | 🇮🇸 |)
🔁 | M Tiago Mendes | 🇵🇹 | (M Aleksey Smertin | 🇷🇺 |)
🔁 | CF Mateja Kežman | 🇸🇰 | (CF Adrian Mutu | 🇷🇴 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Stefan Postma | 🇳🇱 |
M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Lenny Pidgeley | 🏴 |
CB William Gallas | 🇫🇷 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Homegrown: 4/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/16
Homegrown: 8/16
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 3/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 4/16
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
“I thought, taking the penalty decision away from it, it was a fair result.
“From where I was I honestly thought it was a penalty. We tried to win the game but we are delighted with a point.
“You look at our squad and look at Chelsea’s and their agenda is far, far different to ours.
“This is a big club. If we want to take it where people say it should be that is going to take a lot of money.
“Last season we sorted a lot of problems out and we are currently getting the best out of the players we have.”
David O’Leary.
*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 11 September, 2004
Chelsea dropped their first points of the season in a draw at Aston Villa.
Villa started well and Petr Cech tipped a Thomas Hitzlsperger free-kick around the post before Chelsea replied, Didier Drogba’s curler slamming off the bar.
Juan Pablo Angel volleyed over before Chelsea stepped up a gear, Joe Cole forcing Thomas Sorensen to save well and seeing another shot blocked.
Darius Vassell dragged a late shot wide before Drogba was booked for an alleged dive when he may have won a penalty.
Gareth Barry and Hitzlsperger were at the forefront of Villa’s attacking intent, the German forcing a fine save from Cech with a 30-yard free-kick early on.
Chelsea replied as Drogba controlled a long pass and lashed his right-foot shot across the face of goal, but it was Villa doing the majority of the pressing.
Nolberto Solano slammed a 25-yard effort wide before Hitzlsperger dragged another shot off target, this time with his weaker right foot.
Chelsea had conceded just one goal in their previous four league games, and their defensive fortitude was managing to keep Villa at bay.
At the other end Mateja Kezman used his pace to create space down the right-hand side, but his fierce cross-shot was deflected wide by Cole.
Moments later Drogba went within inches of an opener, his sublime 20-yard curler after a neat build-up crashing back off Sorensen’s crossbar with the Dane well-beaten.
A relatively quiet spell - with Villa again probing but failing to find a way through - was interrupted by a lovely run and cross by Frank Lampard, but Kezman could only head over.
Solano’s right-wing cross then invited Angel to have a go, the Colombian volleying acrobatically over from 12 yards.
Chelsea knew the three points were there to be won and they soon had Villa under huge pressure after the break.
First Lampard drove wide of the target before Cole’s impressive right-foot effort was tipped around the post by Sorensen.
Soon after Cole’s goalbound shot was blocked by Gavin McCann while Ricardo Carvalho missed the target after Villa failed to
deal with another cross into their box.
Mourinho made a surprising double change on the hour mark, taking off Kezman and the excellent Cole and bringing on Eidur Gudjohnsen and Adrian Mutu, a move that seemed to knock Chelsea off their attacking stride.
With 15 minutes left Villa put a fabulous move together, Lee Hendrie - on for Solano - brilliantly dummied a pass into the Chelsea box only for Vassell to drag a shot wide from eight yards.
But the hosts could count themselves fortunate when Ulises de la Cruz seemed to foul Drogba in the area, only for referee Rob Styles to show the striker a yellow card for a dive.
John Terry had the final opportunity, his header from a Lampard corner producing a comfortable diving save from Sorensen in stoppage time.