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Game #4861

Saturday, 5 November 2005

Attendance: 42,551

Lost

Premier League

17th (-1)

Liverpool

Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥

Villa Park

Villa lose for the fifth time in six League games under David O'Leary and have just two wins in thirteen Premier League games so presumably the manager didn't really know "what's needed to put it right".

Aston Villa

0-2

Liverpool

Assist(s) | None

KEY MAN

Thomas Sørensen, error

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MATCH TIMELINE

🟨 | 13’ Booking, Gareth Barry
🟨 | 24’ Booking, Gavin McCann
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Liverpool
🔁 | 61’ Sub off, Kevin Phillips, Sub on, Juan Pablo Ángel
🔁 | 82’ Sub off, Eirik Bakke, Sub on, Lee Hendrie
🥅 | 85’ Goal, 0-1, (Liverpool, pen), Steven Gerrard
🥅 | 89’ Goal, 0-2, (Liverpool), Xabi Alonso
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 0-2 Liverpool

ON THIS DAY

David O'Leary's 100th game in charge of Villa saw him lose for a tenth time in seventeen Premier League having accumulated just two wins over that period. Villa, somewhat hard done by, tumbled to 17th in the table - their lowest position of the season and relegation looked a distinct possibility if the woeful form under O'Leary continued.

Aston Villa

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

Liverpool

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
UEFA Cup / Europa League: 🏆🏆🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 2004-05

FIXTURE HISTORY

Liverpool

Previous 5 vs. Liverpool: 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟥

FIXTURE DETAILS

Season | 2005-06 |
Matchday | #14 |
League Game | #12 |
Manager Game | #100 |
Saturday, 5 November 2005

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager: David O’Leary | 🇮🇪 | Stoke Newington, 2003-2006
Referee: Steve Bennett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Kent, 1995-2010
Kick off: 12.45pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Steve Bennett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Kent, 1995-2010 🆘
Previous 5: 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 17 Sep 05, Villa 1-1 Tottenham (h)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

CARDS

Villa

🟨 🟨

Liverpool

🟨 🟨

Steve Bennett

TEAM NEWS

Thomas Sörensen and Milan Baroš (first start in 7) replace Stuart Taylor and Luke Moore.

TEAM STATS

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.02 |

Oldest Player |
F Kevin Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 32.39 |

Youngest Player |
W James Milner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.85 |

MANAGER

MANAGER

David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 |

Rafa Benítez | 🇪🇸 |

Aston Villa

GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
CB Liam Ridgewell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Gavin McCann | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Steven Davis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Eirik Bakke | 🇳🇴 | 🔁 |
W James Milner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Kevin Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
F Milan Baroš | 🇨🇿 |

Liverpool

GK Pepe Reina | 🇪🇸 |
LB John Arne Riise | 🇳🇴 |
CB Sami Hyypiä | 🇫🇮 |
CB Jamie Carragher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Steve Finnan | 🇮🇪 |
M Steven Gerrard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Xabi Alonso | 🇪🇸 | 🟨 | ⚽ |
M Mohamed Sissoko | 🇲🇱 | 🟨 |
W Luis García | 🇪🇸 | 🔁 |
CF Fernando Morientes | 🇪🇸 | 🔁 |
CF Djibril Cissé | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | for CF Kevin Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 61’ |
🔁 M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Eirik Bakke | 🇳🇴 | 82’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | W Luis García | 🇪🇸 | (W Boudewijn Zenden | 🇳🇱 |)
🔁 | CF Fernando Morientes | 🇪🇸 | (CF Peter Crouch (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Djibril Cissé | 🇫🇷 | (W Harry Kewell | 🇦🇺 |)

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Stuart Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Luke Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Jerzy Dudek | 🇨🇿 |
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SQUAD STATS

1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7/11
Homegrown: 3/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/16
Homegrown: 6/16

MATCHDAY SQUAD

SQUAD STATS

Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 3/14

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

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PROGRAMME

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MATCHDAY QUOTES

“I am not happy with the penalty. It was a bad decision.

“You are going to have 100 penalties every game if you award them for those type of challenges.

“The referee couldn’t wait to give certain decisions in favour of their big players. There is no doubt that the penalty changed the whole game.”

David O’Leary.

*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 5 November 2005

Late goals from Steven Gerrard and Xabi Alonso gave Rafael Benitez’s side their first back-to-back Premiership victories of the season.

Gerrard calmly slotted home a penalty on 85 minutes after substitute Peter Crouch was fouled by Liam Ridgewell.

Four minutes later, Xabi Alonso cracked in a shot that Villa keeper Thomas Sorensen probably should have kept out.

Prior to his fumble, Sorensen had kept Liverpool at bay, making notable saves from Djibril Cisse and Gerrard.

Prior to those late goals the game had looked to be heading for a draw, because of a combination of Sorensen’s goalkeeping and
Liverpool’s indifferent finishing.

Just before winning the penalty Crouch missed the game’s best chance with a poorly-placed header, while Cisse and Fernando Morientes had subdued matches.

Villa were just as indifferent in attack and Milan Baros had a quiet game against his old club.

Baros was superbly tackled by Jamie Carragher in the first half, while he was robbed of the ball by Alonso on 67 minutes when in a good position.

Liverpool have struggled badly for goals this season in the Premiership and in the first-half there was plenty of evidence of their misfiring attack.

Despite starting in the centre, Cisse was quickly instructed to play on the right wing, a position he looked clearly uncomfortable in.

Morientes looked just as out of sorts and he managed just one shot in the entire game, an effort comfortably saved by Sorensen.

Midway through the second half the Spaniard was replaced by former Villa striker Crouch.

The England striker quickly made his presence felt, picking out Gerrard, whose rasping shot was saved by Sorensen.

Liverpool fans will be wondering quite why it took them 85 minutes to find a way past Sorensen.

Early on, after an elaborate Liverpool move the ball arrived at Luis Garcia’s feet, the Spaniard turned quickly and sent in a shot that went narrowly wide.

Cisse was the next to probe Villa’s defence, slipping the ball to Gerrard, whose cross was blocked by Ridgewell.

Having weathered that early storm Villa came back into the game.

Baros was stopped in his tracks by a well-timed Carragher tackle, while Kevin Phillips flashed a header past the post.

The best chance of the first half fell to Cisse when Gerrard’s raking pass released the Frenchman.

Cisse quickly controlled the ball but his shot was well saved by Sorensen.

The Frenchman made amends for his miss when he robbed Gareth Barry of possession only for his cross to elude Morientes and Garcia.

Finally, with five minutes to go, Crouch and Ridgewell tangled in the box and to the Villa defender’s disbelief, referee Steve Bennett awarded the penalty.

Four minutes later the ball broke to Alonso on the edge of the box and the Spanish midfielder’s swerving shot found its way past Sorensen.

*Aston Villa manager David O’Leary:*

“I am not happy with the penalty. It was a bad decision.

“You are going to have 100 penalties every game if you award them for those type of challenges.

“The referee couldn’t wait to give certain decisions in favour of their big players. There is no doubt that the penalty changed the whole game.”