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Game #4878

Saturday, 11 February 2006

Attendance: 37,140

Lost

Premier League

15th (-2)

Newcastle United

Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟥

Villa Park

Villa can't repeat their last two performances and are beaten by struggling Newcastle to leave them with seven wins in twenty six Premier League games as David O'Leary makes yet another new enemy.

Aston Villa

1-2

Newcastle United

Assist(s) | Craig Gardner | 16’ |

KEY MAN

Luke Moore scores his fourth in two games but Villa lose to Newcastle to leave David O'Leary with just seven wins in twenty six Premier League matches, Saturday, 11 February 2006.

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MATCH TIMELINE

🥅 | 2’ Goal, 0-1, (Newcastle United), Shola Ameobi
⚽ | 16’ Goal, 1-1, Luke Moore, Assist by Craig Gardner
🟨 | 18’ Booking, Mark Delaney
🥅 | 29’ Goal, 1-2, (Newcastle United), Charles N'Zogbia
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-2 Newcastle United
🟨 | 47’ Booking, Craig Gardner
🔁 | 55’ Sub off, Lee Hendrie, Sub on, Milan Baroš
🔁 | 55’ Sub off, Kevin Phillips, Sub on, Juan Pablo Ángel
🔁 | 59’ Sub off, Craig Gardner, Sub on, Liam Ridgewell
🟥 | 61’ Sending off, (Newcastle United), Celestine Babayaro
💥 | 61’ Missed Penalty, Milan Baroš
🟨 | 72’ Booking, Milan Baroš
🟨 | 87’ Booking, Peter Whittingham
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-2 Newcastle United

ON THIS DAY

Villa suffer their first defeat in five games in all competitions and only their second League defeat in 9 matches but David O'Leary now had a record of just seven wins in the last 31 Premier League fixtures.

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

Newcastle United

Previous 5 vs. Newcastle: 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟨

FIXTURE DETAILS

Season | 2005-06 |
Matchday | #31 |
League Game | #26 |
Manager Game | #117 |
Saturday, 11 February 2006

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager: David O’Leary | 🇮🇪 | Stoke Newington, 2003-2006
Referee: Mike Riley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Leeds, 1994-2009
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 1-2
FT Score: 🟥 1-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟥

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Mike Riley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Leeds, 1994-2009
Previous 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 26 Dec 05, Villa 4-0 Everton (h)
Cards: 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

CARDS

Villa

🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

Newcastle United

🟥 🟨 🟨

Mike Riley

TEAM NEWS

Lee Hendrie, Peter Whittingham (first start in 27) and Craig Gardner (first start) replace James Milner, Gavin McCann and Steven Davis.

TEAM STATS

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.01 |

Oldest Player |
F Kevin Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 32.65 |

Youngest Player |
M Craig Gardner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.23 |

MANAGER

MANAGER

David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 |

Glenn Roeder | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (Caretaker)

Aston Villa

GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 |
LB Aaron Hughes | 🇬🇧 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Craig Gardner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🔁 |
W Peter Whittingham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
F Kevin Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
F Luke Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |

Newcastle United

GK Shay Given | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
LB Celestine Babayaro | 🇳🇬 | 🟥 |
CB Jean-Alain Boumsong | 🇫🇷 |
CB Titus Bramble | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Peter Ramage | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Emre Belözoğlu | 🇹🇷 |
M Scott Parker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
W Charles N’Zogbia | 🇫🇷 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
W Nolberto Solano (ex) | 🇵🇪 | 🔁 |
CF Alan Shearer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Shola Ameobi | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 F Milan Baroš | 🇨🇿 | for M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 55’ |
🔁 CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | for F Kevin Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 55’ |
🔁 CB Liam Ridgewell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Craig Gardner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 59’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | W Charles N’Zogbia | 🇫🇷 | (M Lee Bowyer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | W Nolberto Solano (ex) | 🇵🇪 | (LB Robbie Elliott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Shola Ameobi | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (W Kieron Dyer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Stuart Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Steve Harper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Lee Clark | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SQUAD STATS

1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/11
Homegrown: 6/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/16
Homegrown: 7/16

MATCHDAY SQUAD

SQUAD STATS

1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 5/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/16

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

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PROGRAMME

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MATCHDAY QUOTES

“I don’t know how we lost that game. We gifted them two goals, but we dominated the second half.

“Our striker Milan Baros missed the penalty. People miss them, but penalties are there to put away.

“Good luck to Newcastle United but it was a lucky day for them at Villa Park on Saturday.”

David O’Leary.

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“I’ll say something controversial for once. What David O’Leary said is a bit spiteful.

“I thought Villa were very lucky to be only 2-1 down at half-time.

“In the second half we headed out their crosses and is it luck that Given saves the penalty? Our boys need some credit, this was an excellent victory.”

Glenn Roeder

*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 11 February 2006

Caretaker boss Glenn Roeder saw his Newcastle side make it two wins out of two with victory over Aston Villa.

The visitors took the lead when Shola Ameobi picked up Alan Shearer’s pass to slide the ball under Thomas Sorensen.

Villa equalised when Luke Moore nipped in to head home, but Charles N’Zogbia restored Newcastle’s advantage.

Celestine Babayaro was sent off in the second half for a tackle on Villa’s Milan Baros, but his subsequent penalty was kept out by Shay Given.

For Newcastle fans, the satisfaction gained from the performance, under Roeder’s temporary leadership, would have even outweighed that from getting the three points.

It took them just one minute and 14 seconds to open the scoring.

Ameobi, who put in an outstanding display alongside Shearer in attack, latched on to a first-time pass from his strike partner and calmly slotted the ball past former Sunderland keeper Sorensen.

Villa bounced back against the run of play when Moore grabbed his fourth goal in four games, sneaking in at the near post to glance home Barry’s whipped in free-kick.

But it was Newcastle rather than the home side who dominated the rest of the half.

N’Zogbia, their promising teenager, put his side back in front when he picked up the pieces after Solano’s shot was brilliantly saved by Sorensen.

Newcastle pressed for more, with Peter Ramage, Alain Boumsong, Solano and Shearer all spurning golden opportunities.

The second half was a different affair altogether however, with Villa dominating from the off and unlucky not to take at least one of their chances.

Baros wasted the best opportunity, sliding his penalty to Given’s left, but with little pace giving the Irish keeper all the time in the world to make a low save.

Liam Ridgewell headed fractionally wide and against the crossbar, while Baros again, Kevin Phillips and Juan Pablo Angel also wasted decent situations during a thrilling last 20 minutes.

*Villa boss David O’Leary:*

“I don’t know how we lost that game. We gifted them two goals, but we dominated the second half.

“Our striker Milan Baros missed the penalty. People miss them, but penalties are there to put away.

“Good luck to Newcastle United but it was a lucky day for them at Villa Park on Saturday.”

*Newcastle caretaker manager Glenn Roeder:*

“I’ll say something controversial for once. What David O’Leary said is a bit spiteful.

“I thought Villa were very lucky to be only 2-1 down at half-time.

“In the second half we headed out their crosses and is it luck that Given saves the penalty? Our boys need some credit, this was an excellent victory.”