Game #4891
Aston Villa
Saturday, 29 April 2006
Lost
16th (-)
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥
Premier League
Attendance: 44,479
Liverpool
Anfield
Liverpool
3-1
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | Aaron Hughes | 58’ |
MATCH SUMMARY
Villa make it three consecutive defeats to leave them with just nine wins in thirty seven games under David O'Leary this season.
KEY MAN
Gareth Barry, equaliser
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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 29 April 2006
🥅 | 4’ Goal, 0-1, (Liverpool), Fernando Morientes
🕒 | HT Liverpool 1-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Milan Baroš, Sub on, Juan Pablo Ángel
⚽ | 58’ Goal, 1-1, Gareth Barry, Assist by Aaron Hughes
🥅 | 61’ Goal, 1-2, (Liverpool), Steven Gerrard
🥅 | 66’ Goal, 1-3, (Liverpool), Steven Gerrard
🔁 | 82’ Sub off, Gareth Barry, Sub on, Kevin Phillips
🔁 | 86’ Sub off, Steven Davis, Sub on, Craig Gardner
🕒 | FT Liverpool 3-1 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Villa lose a third successive game and David O'Leary uses his 19th defeat in 42 games during which time he had delivered nine wins - a win rate of 21% - to talk up his credentials for a fourth season in charge. Chutzpah and delusion make easy bedfellows it seems.
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 | #44 |
League Game | #37 |
Manager Game | #130 |
Saturday, 29 April 2006
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: David O’Leary | 🇮🇪 | Stoke Newington, 2003-2006
Referee: Mark Halsey | 🏴 | Hertfordshire, 1996-2013
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Score: 🟥 1-3
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥
MANAGERIAL RECORD
David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 130 | 🟩 | 46 🟨 | 35 🟥 49 | 1.33
Villa Career Form:
Mid Table
David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 |
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Mark Halsey | 🏴 | Hertfordshire, 1996-2013
Previous 5: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 9 Apr 06, Villa 0-0 Albion (h)
Cards: None
Mark Halsey
CARDS
Villa
None
Liverpool
None
TEAM NEWS
Steven Davis, Wilfred Bouma and Gabriel Agbonlahor replace Liam Ridgewell, Jlloyd Samuel and Juan Pablo Ángel.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 24.77 |
Oldest Player |
GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 | 29.82 |
Youngest Player |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 | 19.56 |
MANAGER
David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 |
Aston Villa
GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 |
LB Aaron Hughes | 🇬🇧 | 🔥 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
CB Gary Cahill | 🏴 |
RB Wilfred Bouma | 🇳🇱 |
M Gavin McCann | 🏴 |
M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 | 🔁 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
W James Milner | 🏴 |
F Milan Baroš | 🇨🇿 | 🔁 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 |
MANAGER
Rafa Benítez | 🇪🇸 |
Liverpool
GK Pepe Reina | 🇪🇸 |
LB John Arne Riise | 🇳🇴 | 🔁 |
CB Sami Hyypiä | 🇫🇮 |
CB Djimi Traoré | 🇲🇱 |
CB Jamie Carragher | 🏴 |
RB Jan Kromkamp | 🇳🇱 |
M Steven Gerrard | 🏴 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
M Xabi Alonso | 🇪🇸 |
CF Djibril Cissé | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
CF Fernando Morientes | 🇪🇸 | ⚽ |
CF Peter Crouch (ex) | 🏴 | 🔁 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | for CF Milan Baroš | 🇨🇿 | 46’ |
🔁 F Kevin Phillips | 🏴 | for M Gareth Barry | 🏴 | 82’ |
🔁 M Craig Gardner | 🏴 | for M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 | 86’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | LB John Arne Riise | 🇳🇴 | (LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴 |)
🔁 | CF Djibril Cissé | 🇫🇷 | (M Mohamed Sissoko | 🇲🇱 |)
🔁 | CF Peter Crouch (ex) | 🏴 | (F Robbie Fowler | 🏴 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Stuart Taylor | 🏴 |
CB Liam Ridgewell | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Jerzy Dudek | 🇨🇿 |
CB Daniel Agger | 🇩🇰 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 7/11
Homegrown: 4/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/16
Homegrown: 6/16
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/14
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
“You can bet that I will be manager next season.
“We budgeted for 10th or 12th place, and we have not done that so this has not been a good season - we’ve had to use the youngsters and dig in.
“If someone else comes into the club and has money and wants to change things, so be it. But I am not expecting it.”
David O’Leary.
*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 29 April 2006
Steven Gerrard scored twice as Liverpool moved level on points with second-placed Manchester United.
The visitors were behind after just four minutes when Fernando Morientes placed a shot past Thomas Sorensen.
But Villa gave Liverpool a huge shock on 58 minutes when Aaron Hughes’ cross reached Gareth Barry, who touched in.
Barry’s equaliser was the spark for Gerrard’s masterclass, the Liverpool captain scoring at the near post and then crashing a shot past Sorensen.
Villa were insipid in the first-half, but the introduction of Juan Pablo Angel after the interval gave Liverpool problems, who did not help themselves with some sloppy defending.
And even after falling 3-1 behind, Villa continued to trouble Liverpool, notably when Jose Reina quickly changed direction to save Barry’s shot after it had taken a deflection off Mohamed Sissoko.
Morientes’ fourth minute goal suggested Liverpool were as much concerned with improving their inferior goal difference to Manchester United as they were with winning the game.
Morientes took his goal in some style after Villa’s defence had been opened up by Xabi Alonso’s pinpoint pass.
Using his right foot Morientes turned inside Gary Cahill, before planting a left-footed shot past Sorensen.
But Liverpool failed to capitalise on that early goal and 10 minutes before the interval Villa wasted a great chance to equalise when in a James Milner-inspired attack the visitors outnumbered the home side by four to two.
Unfortunately for Villa, Gabriel Agbonlahor strayed offside when Milner crossed for Gareth Barry, whose header went over the bar.
At the start of the second half Villa replaced former Liverpool striker Milan Baros with Angel, who made an immediate impact.
The Colombian harried Sami Hyypia into a mistake to get in a shot and then almost embarrassed Reina who delayed too long in trying to kick clear the ball.
Angel also played an integral part in Villa’s equaliser, his clever pass releasing Aaron Hughes, who cross was sidefooted home by Barry.
More nervy Liverpool defending - this time a second Hyypia mistake - presented Agbonlahor with a great chance for Villa to take the lead, but the young striker’s shot was just wide.
Agbonlahor’s miss proved costly and just three minutes after Barry’s 58th minute goal, Gerrard restored Liverpool’s lead following an Alonso corner.
Darting from left to right, Gerrard’s intelligent run proved too sharp for the Villa defence, and the Liverpool captain got the the deftest of touches to send the ball past Sorensen.
Having got the better of Sorensen from close range, Gerrard then beat the Villa goalkeeper from well outside the box with a diagonal shot after substitute Robbie Fowler laid the ball into his captain’s path.
*Aston Villa manager David O’Leary:*
“You can bet that I will be manager next season.
“We budgeted for 10th or 12th place, and we have not done that so this has not been a good season - we’ve had to use the youngsters and dig in.
“If someone else comes into the club and has money and wants to change things, so be it. But I am not expecting it.”
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