Game #4886
Aston Villa
Saturday, 1 April 2006
Lost
16th (-)
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥
Premier League
Attendance: 38,183
Arsenal
Highbury
Arsenal
5-0
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | None
MATCH SUMMARY
Villa make it four defeats in five as they are hammered at Highbury to leave them with just eight wins in thirty two Premier League games under David O'Leary.
KEY MAN
Juan Pablo Ángel, half time sub
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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 1 April 2006
🥅 | 19’ Goal, 0-1, (Arsenal), Emmanuel Adebayor
🥅 | 25’ Goal, 0-2, (Arsenal), Thierry Henry
🕒 | HT Arsenal 2-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Kevin Phillips, Sub on, Juan Pablo Ángel
🥅 | 46’ Goal, 0-3, (Arsenal), Thierry Henry
🔁 | 52’ Sub off, Ulises de la Cruz, Sub on, Gary Cahill
🔁 | 52’ Sub off, Gareth Barry, Sub on, Gabriel Agbonlahor
🟨 | 57’ Booking, Wilfred Bouma
🥅 | 71’ Goal, 0-4, (Arsenal), Robin van Persie
🥅 | 80’ Goal, 0-5, (Arsenal), Abou Diaby
🕒 | FT Arsenal 5-0 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Villa had now lost 16 of the last 37 Premier League matches under David O'Leary winning just 8 and taking just 37 of the 111 points available. The Villa boss however sprung his own April Fool's joke however, once again claiming that "our young players will learn from it [a 5-0 defeat]". O'Leary fielded a team aged, 29, 26, 25, 21, 28, 32, 28, 21, 20, 31 and 28. With his detachment from reality becoming ever more obvious the mutinous atmosphere amongst the away support was absolute and the concern within whose hands the club was in met crisis point.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Arsenal
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 2004-05
FIXTURE HISTORY
Arsenal
Previous 5 vs. Arsenal: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2005-06 |
Matchday | #39 |
League Game | #32 |
Manager Game | #125 |
Saturday, 1 April 2006
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: David O’Leary | 🇮🇪 | Stoke Newington, 2003-2006
Referee: Martin Atkinson | 🏴 | West Riding, 2003-2022
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Score: 🟥 0-5
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥
MANAGERIAL RECORD
David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 125 | 🟩 | 45 🟨 | 34 🟥 46 | 1.35
Villa Career Form:
Mid Table
ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Martin Atkinson | 🏴 | West Riding, 2003-2022
Previous 5:
Last Match: None
Cards: 🟨
ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:
CARDS
Villa
🟨
Arsenal
None
TEAM NEWS
David O'Leary names an unchanged line up for the second time in four games but only the fourth time in 39 games this season.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 26.71 |
Oldest Player |
F Kevin Phillips | 🏴 | 32.79 |
Youngest Player |
F Luke Moore | 🏴 | 20.14 |
MANAGER
David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 |
Aston Villa
GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 |
LB Aaron Hughes | 🇬🇧 |
CB Liam Ridgewell | 🏴 |
RB Wilfred Bouma | 🇳🇱 | 🟨 |
RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 | 🔁 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 |
M Gavin McCann | 🏴 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 |
F Luke Moore | 🏴 |
F Kevin Phillips | 🏴 | 🔁 |
MANAGER
Arsène Wenger | 🇫🇷 |
Arsenal
GK Lens Lehmann | 🇩🇪 |
CB Philippe Senderos |🇨🇭|
CB Kolo Touré | 🇨🇮 |
RB Emmanuel Eboué | 🇨🇮 | 🔁 |
M Cesc Fàbregas | 🇪🇸 | 🔁 |
M Matthieu Flamini | 🇫🇷 |
M Gilberto Silva | 🇧🇷 |
W José Antonio Reyes | 🇪🇸 |
W Robert Pirés | 🇫🇷 |
CF Thierry Henry | 🇫🇷 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CF Emmanuel Adebayor | 🇹🇬 | ⚽ |
Not necessarily indicative of the actual matchday formation
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | for CF Kevin Phillips | 🏴 | 46’ |
🔁 CB Gary Cahill | 🏴 | for RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 | 52’ |
🔁 CF Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 | for M Gareth Barry | 🏴 | 52’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | RB Emmanuel Eboué | 🇨🇮 | (CB Johan Djourou |🇨🇭|)
🔁 | M Cesc Fàbregas | 🇪🇸 | (M Abou Diaby | 🇫🇷 | ⚽ |)
🔁 | CF Thierry Henry | 🇫🇷 | (CF Robin van Persie | 🇳🇱 | ⚽ |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Stuart Taylor | 🏴 |
M Craig Gardner | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Manuel Almunia | 🇪🇸 |
M Aleksandr Hleb | 🇧🇾 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/11
Homegrown: 5/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 12/16
Homegrown: 8/16
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : ⭕/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : ⭕/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
“Arsenal were outstanding. Sometimes you just have to hold your hands up, we are looking at a team that could become the champions of Europe.
“When they are like this they can take anyone apart. It was not a very nice experience but our young players will learn from it.
“I’m disappointed, we should have scored a couple of goals early on, and that would have made it a different match.”
David O’Leary.
*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 1 April 2006
Arsenal produced a scintillating display to thrash a poor Aston Villa and keep up their charge for a place in next season’s Champions League.
Villa carved out two early chances but Arsenal took the lead on 19 minutes through Emmanuel Adebayor’s header.
Thierry Henry’s sublime lob made it two six minutes later before adding a third with a curling effort after half-time.
Robin Van Persie fired in a fourth from an acute angle while Abou Diaby struck late on to round off a fine win.
The only worries for Arsenal were the injuries to midfielder Cesc Fabregas and defender Emmanuel Eboue.
Fabregas, basking in the glow of his display in the Champions League quarter-final against Juventus, came off on 16 minutes with a foot injury and must now be a doubt for Wednesday’s return leg in Italy.
Eboue was forced off in the second half with a groin problem.
The early Fabregas setback did not bother the home side however, and the Gunners had no trouble in securing their fourth straight league win.
Out-of-form Villa, who have now only picked up one point out of a possible 12, are still in relegation trouble and manager David O’Leary will be concerned that his side offered very little after Arsenal took the lead.
Villa started well enough and with Arsenal struggling to find their rhythm in the opening stages, the Midlanders carved out two opportunities for Kevin Phillips.
But three minutes after Fabregas departed, Arsenal took the lead.
A well-timed pass released Henry on the left and although his attempted lob was headed off the line by Aaron Hughes, the clearance fell to Adebayor - who just managed to squeeze the ball underneath the bar.
With Arsenal starting to exert their dominance, a second goal always looked likely and skipper Henry obliged on 25 minutes.
He latched onto Reyes’ ball over the top of the defence, and after pulling the ball down expertly, he produced a sublime lob over the outcoming Thomas Sorensen for his 20th Premiership goal of the season.
Villa brought on Juan Pablo Angel for Phillips at half-time but the visitors had little chance to try to get back into the game as Henry put the result beyond doubt in the first minute of the second half.
Another long ball was not dealt with by the Villa defence, Adebayor back heeled it into the path of Henry who produced a wonderful curling shot into the top corner from 20 yards out.
It was all Arsenal in the second half and Sorensen was the busiest man on the field keeping out efforts from Adebayor and Kolo Toure.
Villa did have a superb chance to get back into the game midway through the half but with just the keeper to beat, Luke Moore fired straight at Jens Lehmann.
But Arsenal never really looked in any trouble and substitute Van Persie piled on the misery when he kept the ball away from a scrambling Sorensen to fire into the roof of the net.
The scoring was rounded off with just 10 minutes left when Diaby fired home after a trademark counter attack to heap more pressure on the beleaguered O’Leary.
*Aston Villa manager David O’Leary*
“Arsenal were outstanding. Sometimes you just have to hold your hands up, we are looking at a team that could become the champions of Europe.
“When they are like this they can take anyone apart. It was not a very nice experience but our young players will learn from it.
“I’m disappointed, we should have scored a couple of goals early on, and that would have made it a different match.”