Game #4866
Aston Villa
Saturday, 10 December 2005
Drew
14th (+1)
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟨
Premier League
Attendance: 23,646
Bolton Wanderers
Reebok Stadium
Bolton Wanderers
1-1
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | Luke Moore | 88’ |
MATCH SUMMARY
Villa draw for the second successive game to extend their unbeaten run to four Premier League games however they now have just four wins in sixteen league games under David O'Leary.
KEY MAN
Juan Pablo Ángel celebrates his goal that earnt Villa a point at Bolton in the final minutes to secure a second successive draw but leave David O'Leary with just four wins in sixteen Premier League games, Saturday, 10 December 2005.
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Saturday, 10 December 2005
🕒 | HT Bolton Wanderers 0-0 Aston Villa
🟨 | 73’ Booking, James Milner
🟨 | 74’ Booking, Milan Baroš
🔁 | 76’ Sub off, Milan Baroš, Sub on, Luke Moore
🥅 | 82’ Goal, 0-1, (Bolton Wanderers), El-Hadji Diouf
🔁 | 83’ Sub off, James Milner, Sub on, Steven Davis
🔁 | 84’ Sub off, Lee Hendrie, Sub on, Juan Pablo Ángel
🟨 | 84’ Booking, Gavin McCann
🟨 | 86’ Booking, Eirik Bakke
⚽ | 88’ Goal, 1-1, Juan Pablo Ángel, Assist by Luke Moore
🕒 | FT Bolton Wanderers 1-1 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Villa make it four games unbeaten in the League for the first time this season and rise to 14th in the table - their highest position since October - but it is now just four wins in twenty one games for David O'Leary.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Bolton Wanderers
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1957-58
FIXTURE HISTORY
Bolton Wanderers
Previous 5 vs. Bolton: 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟨
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2005-06 |
Matchday | #19 |
League Game | #16 |
Manager Game | #105 |
Saturday, 10 December 2005
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: David O’Leary | 🇮🇪 | Stoke Newington, 2003-2006
Referee: Phil Dowd | 🏴 | Stoke on Trent, 1998-2016
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟨
MANAGERIAL RECORD
David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 105 | 🟩 | 39 🟨 | 27 🟥 39 | 1.37
Villa Career Form:
Mid Table
David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 |
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Phil Dowd | 🏴 | Stoke on Trent, 1998-2016
Previous 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 20 Aug 05, Villa 0-1 United (a)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Phil Dowd
CARDS
Villa
🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Bolton Wanderers
🟨 🟨
TEAM NEWS
James Milner and Eirik Bakke replace Juan Pablo Ángel and Steven Davis.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 26.04 |
Oldest Player |
GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 | 29.43 |
Youngest Player |
W James Milner | 🏴 | 19.95 |
MANAGER
David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 |
Aston Villa
GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 |
LB Aaron Hughes | 🇬🇧 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
CB Liam Ridgewell | 🏴 |
RB Wilfred Bouma | 🇳🇱 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴 |
M Eirik Bakke | 🇳🇴 | 🟨 |
M Gavin McCann | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 | 🔁 |
W James Milner | 🏴 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
F Milan Baroš | 🇨🇿 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
MANAGER
Sam Allardyce | 🏴 |
Bolton Wanderers
GK Jussi Jääskeläinen | 🇫🇮 |
LB Ricardo Gardner | 🇯🇲 |
CB Bruno N’Gotty | 🇫🇷 |
CB Abdoulaye Faye | 🇸🇳 |
CB Tal Ben Haim (yth) | 🇮🇱 | 🟨 |
RB Joey O’Brien | 🇮🇪 |
M Kevin Nolan | 🏴 |
M Gary Speed | 🏴 |
W Stelios Giannakpoulos | 🇬🇷 | 🔁 |
CF Kevin Davies | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CF El-Hadji Diouf | 🇸🇳 | ⚽ | 🟨 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 F Luke Moore | 🏴 | 🔥 | for F Milan Baroš | 🇨🇿 | 76’ |
🔁 M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 | for W James Milner | 🏴 | 83’ |
🔁 CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | ⚽ | for M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 | 84’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | W Stelios Giannakpoulos | 🇬🇷 | (W Ricardo Vaz Tê | 🇵🇹 |)
🔁 | CF Kevin Davies | 🏴 | (M Jay-Jay Okocha | 🇳🇬 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Stuart Taylor | 🏴 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Ian Walker | 🏴 |
CB Radhi Jaïdi | 🇹🇳 |
M Hidetoshi Nakata | 🇯🇵 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 3/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 10/16
Homegrown: 6/16
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 3/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 4/16
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Not recorded
UNAVAILABLE
Not Recorded
Player 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
“This is one of the hardest place you can come to because you have to be resilient and strong.
“We bounced back well after going a goal behind and took the game to them and got our just reward.
“Since our defeat against Doncaster we have come back strongly and are now on a good run in the League.”
David O’Leary.
*The Guardian*
Monday, 12 December 2005
*Angel appears devilishly late to stall Bolton’s momentum*
Caught between the euphoria of comprehensively defeating Arsenal in their previous Premiership match and the decidedly awkward psychological preparation before Wednesday’s Uefa Cup match against Seville, with Bolton needing only a draw to make certain of progress, Sam Allardyce had stressed the necessity of maintaining momentum against Villa. But, lo, an Angel appeared and Wanderers were sore distressed.
When any team are punching above their weight, as Bolton most gratifyingly have been doing for several seasons now, there is always the danger that a temporary dip in form will have a markedly greater effect on a season than it might on clubs with altogether more resources.
Allardyce has picked and mixed to startling effect - a mere 16 years ago the club was congratulating itself on having won the Sherpa Van Trophy - to lift Bolton to undreamed heights but on Saturday he could not stop himself fretting slightly at the thought of perhaps losing to the Spaniards in midweek and then missing out against Wigan in the Carling Cup quarter-finals.
This was a tired performance, not physically so much as mentally. Villa offered little more than hard graft for the majority of a generally anodyne confrontation of the sort that is depressingly prevalent in the Premiership. But at least when El Hadji Diouf scored
in the 82nd minute there was the feeling that, despite playing well below their best, Bolton had finally made their class tell.
Given that they had conceded only once in the Premiership at the Reebok this season, losing 1-0 at home to Everton in August, there seemed no reason to suppose that Villa, for whom Milan Baros had been singularly ineffective, would equalise. However, Juan Pablo Angel and Luke Moore, both late substitutes, combined two minutes from time to silence starkly the home fans’ merriment.
For all their defensive excellence, Bolton have yet to score more than two goals in any match this season, and Allardyce admitted that “you can’t keep expecting our defence to bail out the attack”. It was Diouf’s first goal since mid-September and Kevin Davies has not scored since the opening match of the season. And now Kevin Nolan has hit a lean spell. Hence Allardyce’s criticism of his back four over Angel’s goal - the Colombian being conspicuously unmarked - was tempered.
Bolton, as a unit, work exceptionally at closing down space and nipping trouble in the bud. Most fans may have raged against the absence of marking for Villa’s equaliser; Allardyce’s greater concern was the “lack of professionalism” at a throw-in before the goal was scored when Villa were allowed undue time on the ball. It is this attention to detail, imbued and instilled in midweek training, that has made Bolton such formidable opponents.
Having lost to Middlesbrough in the Carling Cup final in 2004, Bolton now badly need something to show for all their efforts. What has been achieved is remarkable and hence the obvious annoyance, as in this match, when standards temporarily drop and momentum stalls. Allardyce will be hoping that Seville catch the backlash.
As for Villa, the horror of their Carling Cup defeat by Doncaster has been ameliorated a little, although in David O’Leary they have a manager more likely to apportion blame on to anyone - his own players or the opposition - other than himself, as was true when he was at Leeds. The style is a lot of huff and puff but no genuine substance.
For once none of the Premiership teams from the Midlands lost on Saturday, although these days they are pretty much an irrelevance anyway.
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