Game #4865
Saturday, 3 December 2005
Attendance: 52,267
Drew
Premier League
15th (-)
Newcastle United
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨
St James' Park
Villa draw with struggling Newcastle as the hangover from a poor League season to date and David O'Leary's Doncaster embarrassment continues to play out.
Newcastle United
1-1
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | Lee Hendrie | 75’ |
KEY MAN
Gavin McCann celebrates his equaliser to earn Villa a point at struggling Newcastle and make it four wins in fifteen Premier League games under David O'Leary, Saturday, 3 December 2005.
RELATED MATCHES
MATCH TIMELINE
🟨 | 30’ Booking, Gavin McCann
🥅 | 32’ Goal, 0-1, (Newcastle United, pen), Alan Shearer
🟨 | 45’ Booking, Lee Hendrie
🕒 | HT Newcastle United 1-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 61’ Sub off, Steven Davis, Sub on, Eirik Bakke
🔁 | 62’ Sub off, Juan Pablo Ángel, Sub on, Luke Moore
⚽ | 75’ Goal, 1-1, Gavin McCann, Assist by Lee Hendrie
💥 | Missed penalty, Gareth Barry
🕒 | FT Newcastle United 1-1 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Villa, although unbeaten in the League in the last three games, now have just four wins in twenty games, ten losses and six draws under David O'Leary taking 18 points from a possible 60. Yet what was more worrying than the relegation form the team was showing under O'Leary was the manager's abject delusion about the true nature of his performance.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Newcastle United
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1954-55
FIXTURE HISTORY
Previous 5 vs. Newcastle: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟩
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2005-06 |
Matchday | #18 |
League Game | #15 |
Manager Game | #104 |
Saturday, 3 December 2005
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: David O’Leary | 🇮🇪 | Stoke Newington, 2003-2006
Referee: Alan Wiley | 🏴 | Staffordshire, 1995-2010
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Alan Wiley | 🏴 | Staffordshire, 1995-2010
Previous 5: 🟥 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 9 December 2001, Villa 2-3 Arsenal, Highbury.
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨
CARDS
TEAM NEWS
Wilfred Bouma and Lee Hendrie (first start of the season) replace Jlloyd Samuel and James Milner.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 26.28 |
Oldest Player |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 30.13 |
Youngest Player |
M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 | 20.93 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 |
Graeme Souness | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 |
LB Aaron Hughes | 🇬🇧 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
CB Liam Ridgewell | 🏴 |
RB Wilfred Bouma | 🇳🇱 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴 |
M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 | 🔁 |
M Gavin McCann | 🏴 | 🟨 | ⚽ |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 | 🟨 | 🔥 |
F Milan Baroš | 🇨🇿 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 🔁 |
Newcastle United
GK Shay Given | 🇮🇪 |
LB Robbie Elliott | 🏴 |
CB Jean-Alain Boumsong | 🇫🇷 |
CB Titus Bramble | 🏴 |
CB Peter Ramage | 🏴 |
M Amdy Faye | 🇸🇳 |
M Scott Parker | 🏴 |
W Nolberto Solano (ex) | 🇵🇪 | 🔁 |
CF Michael Chopra | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CF Alan Shearer | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CF Shola Ameobi | 🏴 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 M Eirik Bakke | 🇳🇴 | for M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 | 61’ |
🔁 F Luke Moore | 🏴 | for CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 62’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | W Nolberto Solano (ex) | 🇵🇪 | (M Lee Bowyer | 🏴 |)
🔁 | CF Michael Chopra | 🏴 | (W Albert Luque | 🇪🇸 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Stuart Taylor | 🏴 |
RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Steve Harper | 🏴 |
M Lee Clark | 🏴 |
M Martin Brittain | 🏴 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 4/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/16
Homegrown: 6/16
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 7/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/16
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
“We should have had all three points, but I have to praise the players and how they played.
“A few people jumped on us very quickly after the Doncaster defeat but we had won our last two league games.
“We let ourselves down but we got back to the way we were playing before the Doncaster game.”
David O’Leary.
*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 3 December 2005
Under-fire Newcastle boss Graeme Souness watched Aston Villa miss a late penalty, but nonetheless left the pitch to boos from the home faithful.
Gareth Barry sent his spot-kick high over the bar following Titus Bramble’s clumsy challenge on Milan Baros.
Alan Shearer put Newcastle ahead from the spot after Liam Ridgewell’s handball and also hit the bar.
But in a scrappy game, Villa equalised with 15 minutes left through McCann’s low drive before Barry’s aberration.
However, with the home fans disgruntled, the pressure on Souness has eased only slightly.
He responded to Wednesday’s Carling Cup humiliation against Wigan by relegating Lee Bowyer and Albert Luque to the bench.
Michael Chopra, who has been in sparkling form for the reserves, got his chance up front and Amdy Faye came into midfield.
Villa boss David O’Leary also came into the match under pressure following his side’s embarrassing Cup exit to Doncaster and the atmosphere was understandably tense among both sets of fans.
Those nerves quickly spread to the players.
Passed were misplaced, tackles were poorly timed, and it took 27 minutes for either side to fashion a chance, Shola Ameobi jinking past two defenders but bending his right-foot shot wide.
Five minutes later, Newcastle were ahead as the unfortunate Ridgewell inexplicably blocked Scott Parker’s shot with his arm to concede a penalty for the fourth time in five games.
Shearer stepped up to move within two goals of Jackie Milburn’s record of 200 goals for the Magpies.
Villa came close to equalising moments later when Hendrie sent a blistering free-kick inches wide and he thought he should have had a penalty shortly before half-time.
Baros escaped down the right and cut the ball back to the midfielder, who was booked for throwing himself to the ground under a challenge from Jean-Alain Boumsong.
But while Villa undoubtedly worked hard, it was Newcastle who were marginally the more threatening going forward.
Ridgewell misjudged a Shay Given clearance and Shearer pounced, sending a sweetly-timed volley crashing onto the crossbar.
Villa responded with their first corner - after over an hour’s play.
It was only half-cleared and Given was forced into an athletic save from Gareth Barry’s hooked shot.
But as things began to look bleak for Villa, Barry found Hendrie in space and he pulled the ball back for McCann to drive home.
And the match almost turned completely when Bramble, so often prone to lapses in concentration, bundled over Baros.
If Souness manages to survive this period of intense speculation surrounding his future at St James’ Park, he will probably have Barry’s disastrous spot-kick to thank.
*Aston Villa boss David O’Leary:*
“We should have had all three points, but I have to praise the players and how they played.
“A few people jumped on us very quickly after the Doncaster defeat but we had won our last two league games.
“We let ourselves down but we got back to the way we were playing before the Doncaster game.”