Game #4850
Aston Villa
Tuesday, 23 August 2005
14th (-2)
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟨
GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 |
LB Aaron Hughes | 🇬🇧 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
CB Liam Ridgewell | 🏴 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 |
M Gavin McCann | 🏴 |
W Nolberto Solano | 🇵🇪 | 🟥 | 🔴 |
W Peter Whittingham | 🏴 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 🔁 |
F Kevin Phillips | 🏴 | 🔁 |
David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006
Substitutes:
🔁 RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 | for F Kevin Phillips | 🏴 | 37’ |
🔁 F Luke Moore | 🏴 | for CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 74’ |
Unused Substitutes:
GK Stuart Taylor | 🏴 |
CB Gary Cahill | 🏴 |
M Eric Djemba-Djemba | 🇨🇲 |
🟥 Nolberto Solano
🟨 Gareth Barry
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Matchday Squad:
Not recorded
Nolberto Solano and Kevin Phillips replace Ulises de la Cruz and Jlloyd Samuel.
Starting XI Average Age
| 26.41 |
Oldest Player |
F Kevin Phillips | 🏴 | 32.18 |
Youngest Player |
M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 | 20.65 |
Ten man Villa are held by Portsmouth Fratton Park to leave them winless in their first three Premier League games of the season under David O'Leary.
Nolberto Solano, 30, is sent off for the second time in a Villa shirt on his 52nd and unexpectedly final appearance for the club (47 Starts) before returning to Newcastle United for a fee of £2,030,000 in October 2005. Solano, who had cost Villa £1,800,000 in January 2004, had been a committed and productive player during his short Villa career and would leave with a record of W18 D15 L19, 9 Goals, 9 Assists, 7 Bookings and 2 Red Cards at a goal involvement rate of one for every 2.88 games played. However whilst his first 40 games delivered 15 goal involvements (Every 2.66 games), his final 12 delivered just 3 (Every 4.00 games) as he seemed to be another player whose form was detrimentally affected by extended exposure to O’Leary.
Scorer(s) | Own Goal | 11’ |
Assist(s) | None
Match Timeline:
🟥 | 11’ Sending off, Nolberto Solano
⚽ | 11’ Goal, 1-0, Own Goal, Richard Hughes
🟨 | 16’ Booking, Gareth Barry
🔁 | 37’ Sub off, Kevin Phillips, Sub on, Ulises de la Cruz
🥅 | 42’ Goal, 1-1, Portsmouth, Lomana LuaLua
🕒 | HT Portsmouth 1-1 Aston Villa
🔁 | 74’ Sub off, Juan Pablo Ángel, Sub on, Luke Moore
🕒 | FT Portsmouth 1-1 Aston Villa
Season | 2005-06 |
Matchday | #3 |
League Game | #3 |
Manager Game | #89 |
Tuesday, 23 August 2005
Manager: David O’Leary | 🇮🇪 | Stoke Newington, 2003-2006
Referee: Graham Poll | 🏴 | Hertfordshire, 1994-2006
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟨
Referee: Graham Poll | 🏴 | Hertfordshire, 1994-2006
Previous 5 vs. Portsmouth: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟩
Not recorded
Debut Appearances:
None
Final Appearances:
🔴 W Nolberto Solano | 🇵🇪 | 2004-05 🕒 52 | 47 (5) | ⚽ 9 | 🔥 9 | 🇺 1 | #773 |
David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006
🕒 89 | 🟩 | 33 🟨 | 24 🟥 32 | 1.38
Villa Career Form:
Mid Table
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Premier League
Portsmouth
Fratton Park
Attendance: 19,778
GK Sander Westerweld | 🇳🇱 |
LB Grégory Vignal | 🇫🇷 |
CB Dejan Stefanović | 🇷🇸 |
CB Azar Karadaş | 🇳🇴 | 🔁 |
CB Andrew O’Brien | 🇮🇪 |
RB Brian Priske | 🇩🇰 |
M Jhon Viáfara | 🇨🇴 | 🟨 |
M Richard Hughes | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Gary O’Neil | 🏴 | 🔁 |
W Laurent Robert | 🇫🇷 |
CF Lomana LuaLua | 🇨🇩 | ⚽ | 🟨 |
Alain Perrin | 🇫🇷 |
Substitutes:
🔁 | CB Azar Karadaş | 🇳🇴 | (CF Vincent Péricard | 🇫🇷 |)
🔁 | M Gary O’Neil | 🏴 | (CF Svetoslav Todorov | 🇧🇬 |)
Unused Substitutes:
GK Jamie Ashdown | 🏴 |
RB Andy Griffin | 🏴 |
M Giannis Skopelitis | 🇬🇷 |
🟨 Jhon Viáfara
🟨 Richard Hughes |
🟨 Lomana LuaLua
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1949-50
Matchday Squad:
Not Recorded
“I thought the sending off was a joke. Nolberto Solano sent off for violent conduct? Do me a favour.
“He is an honest lad and says he didn’t touch him. But I was proud of the way the players fought for the rest of the game. The only thing we did wrong was showing LuaLua inside in the incident when he scored his goal.”
David O’Leary.
Lomana LuaLua’s spectacular strike gave Portsmouth a point against Aston Villa.
Villa took the lead after 11 minutes, just seconds after being reduced to 10 men when Nolberto Solano was sent off for elbowing Richard Hughes.
Hughes recovered, only to then head Gareth Barry’s free-kick past goalkeeper Sander Westerveld.
Pompey dominated with the extra man, and LuaLua curled a brilliant 20-yard drive past Thomas Sorensen, but their pressure failed to force a winner.
Pompey gave a debut to new signing, Denmark defender Brian Priske, but it proved an inauspicious start for his new club.
Villa took the lead in bizarre circumstances after 11 minutes, immediately after going down to 10 men.
Solano was rightly shown the red card by referee Graham Poll for lashing out with an elbow at Hughes, who was booked for his original foul on the Peruvian.
Hughes was quickly back on his feet, only to head Barry’s resulting free-kick past a startled Westerveld.
Pompey responded well as LuaLua proved a constant threat to the Villa defence, and O’Leary’s side suffered a blow after 35 minutes when Kevin Phillips limped off to be replaced by Ulises De la Cruz.
The home side continued to dominate and deservedly equalised four minutes before the interval, LuaLua cutting in from the left before curling a glorious finish beyond Thomas Sorensen.
Pompey were lifted by the goal and tried to press home the advantage after the break.
Gary O’Neil somehow shot over the top of an open goal after 62 minutes from John Viafara’s cross, before Laurent Robert brought
a fine fingertip save from Sorensen.
Hughes then almost made amends for his earlier own goal, only to shoot inches wide as time ran out.
*Aston Villa manager David O’Leary:*
“I thought the sending off was a joke. Nolberto Solano sent off for violent conduct? Do me a favour.
“He is an honest lad and says he didn’t touch him. But I was proud of the way the players fought for the rest of the game. The only thing we did wrong was showing LuaLua inside in the incident when he scored his goal.”