Game #4816
Aston Villa
Saturday, 16 October 2004
Lost
13th (-5)
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟥
Premier League
Attendance: 38,137
Arsenal
Highbury
Arsenal
3-1
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | Carlton Cole | 3’ |
MATCH SUMMARY
Villa take the lead but are beaten by Arsenal for their second loss in nine Premier League games but drop to 13th in the table after recording just two wins and five draws under David O'Leary.
KEY MAN
Lee Hendrie celebrates putting Villa in front against Arsenal on 3' but Villa succumb to just their second defeat in nine Premier League games under David O'Leary, Saturday, 16 October 2004.
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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 16 October 2004
⚽ | 3’ Goal, 1-0, Lee Hendrie, Assist by Carlton Cole
🔁 | 8’ Sub off, Gareth Barry, Sub on, Peter Whittingham
🟨 | 17’ Booking, Carlton Cole
🥅 | 19’ Goal, 1-1, (Arsenal, pen), Robert Pirés
🟨 | 21’ Booking, Olof Mellberg
🥅 | 45’+1 Goal, 1-2, (Arsenal), Thierry Henry
🕒 | HT Arsenal 2-1 Aston Villa
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Thomas Hitzlsperger, Sub on, Steven Davis
🔁 | 58’ Sub off, Carlton Cole, Sub on, Juan Pablo Ángel
🟨 | 63’ Booking, Jlloyd Samuel
🥅 | 72’ Goal, 1-3, (Arsenal), Robert Pirés
🟨 | 73’ Booking, Lee Hendrie
🕒 | FT Arsenal 3-1 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Villa lose for the first time in six League games despite taking an early lead against the League leaders. However with no win in six Villa drop back to 13th 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
Arsenal
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 2003-04
FIXTURE HISTORY
Arsenal
Previous 5 vs. Arsenal: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟥
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2004-05 |
Matchday | #10 |
League Game | #9 |
Manager Game | #55 |
Saturday, 16 October 2004
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: David O’Leary | 🇮🇪 | Stoke Newington, 2003-2006
Referee: Graham Poll | 🏴 | Hertfordshire, 1991-2007
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 1-2
FT Score: 🟥 1-3
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟥
MANAGERIAL RECORD
David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 55 | 🟩 | 23 🟨 | 16 🟥 16 | 1.55
Villa Career Form:
Top 8
ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Graham Poll | 🏴 | Hertfordshire, 1991-2007
Previous 5: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 14 Dec 03, Villa 3-2 Wolves (h)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:
CARDS
Villa
🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Arsenal
🟨 🟨
TEAM NEWS
Stefan Postma, Thomas Hitzlsperger and Darius Vassell replace Thomas Sörensen, Nolberto Solano and Juan Pablo Ángel.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 25.77 |
Oldest Player |
RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 | 30.21 |
Youngest Player |
CF Carlton Cole | 🏴 | 20.94 |
MANAGER
David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 |
Aston Villa
GK Stefan Postma | 🇳🇱 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 | 🟨 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴 |
RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 | ⚽ | 🟨 |
M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 | 🔁 |
M Gavin McCann | 🏴 |
CF Carlton Cole | 🏴 | 🔥 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴 |
MANAGER
Arsène Wenger | 🇫🇷 |
Arsenal
GK Lens Lehmann | 🇩🇪 |
LB Ashley Cole | 🏴 | 🟨 |
CB Sol Campbell | 🏴 |
CB Kolo Touré | 🇨🇮 |
RB Laurén | 🇨🇲 |
M Patrick Viera | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
M Cesc Fàbregas | 🇪🇸 | 🟨 |
W Robert Pirés | 🇫🇷 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🔁 |
W José Antonio Reyes | 🇪🇸 | 🔁 |
CF Thierry Henry | 🇫🇷 | ⚽ |
F Dennis Bergkamp | 🇳🇱 |
Not necessarily indicative of the actual matchday formation
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 W Peter Whttingham | 🏴 | for M Gareth Barry | 🏴 | 8’ |
🔁 M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 | for M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 | 46’ |
🔁 CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | for CF Carlton Cole | 🏴 | 58’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | M Patrick Viera | 🇫🇷 | (M Matthieu Flamini | 🇫🇷 |)
🔁 | W Robert Pirés | 🇫🇷 | (CF Robin van Persie | 🇳🇱 |)
🔁 | W José Antonio Reyes | 🇪🇸 | (W Jermaine Pennant | 🏴 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Wayne Henderson | 🇮🇪 |
W Nolberto Solano | 🇵🇪 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Stuart Taylor | 🏴 |
CB Pascal Cygan | 🇫🇷 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 7/11
Homegrown: 5/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/16
Homegrown: 8/16
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 2/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 4/16
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Not recorded
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
FINAL APPEARANCES
MATCH STATS
Not recorded
LEAGUE TABLE
MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
“Stefan was excellent out there. He was the difference between 3-1 and anything worse.
“This Arsenal team is the best that I have seen. They are a fantastic side - big, strong, fit and quick.
“They are a bigger club now. Everything about Arsenal is right. They’re the team to beat now.”
David O’Leary.
*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 16 October, 2004
Arsenal are just one game from extending their remarkable unbeaten run in the Premiership to a half century of matches after beating Aston Villa.
But they had to come from behind after Lee Hendrie’s stunning drive from outside the area opened the scoring.
Robert Pires levelled from the penalty spot after Thierry Henry was fouled.
Superb goalkeeping from Stefan Postma kept the score level but Henry struck before the break and Pires sealed the win with a smart, low shot.
Arsenal’s finishing needed to be sublime to beat Postma, whose excellent performance as stand-in for the injured Thomas Sorensen, had repelled wave after wave of Arsenal attacks.
Postma had been beaten in the opening minutes, but Sol Campbell’s thunderous header crashed against the bar.
The visitors’ relief at their reprieve turned to delight just seconds later as Hendrie supplied the perfect finish to Villa’s first attack.
Following determined work by Carlton Cole, Hendrie nonchalantly dispatched the loose ball on the edge of the area, leaving Jens Lehmann no chance.
Arsenal’s unbeaten run could have been further threatened but substitute Peter Whittingham, who replaced an injured Gareth Barry after six minutes, curled his shot narrowly wide.
However, Villa were soon rudely awoken from their dream start as Arsenal launched an unrelenting assault on their goal.
But a combination of the Gunners’ profligate finishing and magnificent goalkeeping kept David O’Leary’s side ahead.
Postma proved equal to the task as he denied Reyes, repeatedly throughout the match, Dennis Bergkamp, Cesc Fabregas and Patrick Vieira.
Inevitably, the pressure led to a Arsenal equaliser when Mark Delaney became the latest player to find Henry too pacy and was forced into the foul.
After Pires had scored from the resultant spot-kick, Arsenal continued to carve through the Villa defence but it took until the stroke of half-time before they scored again.
Once Henry had put the Premiership leaders ahead with a right-footed effort after he had been put through by Reyes’ defence-splitting pass, the win never looked in doubt.
With Villa completely over-run after the interval, it was left to Postma to provide almost single-handed resistance and he performed miracles.
But even he ran out of heroics when left exposed and facing Pires, who had collected the ball unmarked in the box following a neat flick from Henry.
The midfielder curled a right-footed shot low into the corner to give the scoreline a fairer reflection of Arsenal’s superiority.
One could feel sympathy for Postma, who surely could have done no more to earn his side something from a contest in which they were outclassed.