Game #4902
Saturday, 21 October 2006
Attendance: 30,919
Drew
Premier League
7th (-1)
Fulham
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟨
Villa Park
Villa are held at home for the second successive game and draw for the third consecutive match to extend their unbeaten run in all competitions under Martin O'Neill to ten games.
Aston Villa
1-1
Fulham
Assist(s) | None
KEY MAN
Gareth Barry, scored from spot
RELATED MATCHES
MATCH TIMELINE
⚽ | 25’ Goal, 1-0, Gareth Barry (pen)
🥅 | 45’+1 Goal, 1-1, (Fulham), Moritz Volz
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-1 Fulham
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Milan Baroš, Sub on, Didier Agathe
🔁 | 75’ Sub off, Juan Pablo Ángel, Sub on, Chris Sutton 🟢
🔁 | 83’ Sub off, Steven Davis, Sub on, Isaiah Osbourne 🟢
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-1 Fulham
ON THIS DAY
Villa were now unbeaten in Martin O’Neill’s first 10 games in charge - the first such run since John Gregory in May 2001 - and sat in 7th place in the Premier League having won 4 and drawn 6.
Meanwhile centre forward Chris Sutton, 33, and midfielder Isaiah Osbourne, 18, made their Villa debuts after joining on a free transfer and coming through the ranks as a schoolboy and signing professional forms with the club respectively in July 2006
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Fulham
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌
FIXTURE HISTORY
Previous 5 vs. Fulham: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟨
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2006-07 |
Matchday | #10 |
League Game | #9 |
Manager Game | #10 |
Saturday, 21 October 2006
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Martin O’Neill | 🇬🇧 | County Londonderry, 2006-2010
Referee: Chris Foy | 🏴 | St. Helens, 1996-2015
Kick off: 5.15pm
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟨
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Chris Foy | 🏴 | St. Helens, 1996-2015
Previous 5: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 25 Apr 06, Villa 0-1 Manchester City (h)
Cards: 🟨 🟨
CARDS
Villa
None
Fulham
🟨 🟨
TEAM NEWS
Thomas Sörensen and Martin Laursen replace Stuart Taylor and Gavin McCann.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 26.29 |
Oldest Player |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 31.01 |
Youngest Player |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 | 20.04 |
MANAGER
Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 |
MANAGER
Chris Coleman | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 |
LB Aaron Hughes | 🇬🇧 |
CB Martin Laursen | 🇩🇰 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
CB Liam Ridgewell | 🏴 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴 | ⚽ |
M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 | 🔁 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 🔁 |
F Milan Baroš | 🇨🇿 | 🔁 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 |
Fulham
GK Antti Niemi | 🇫🇮 |
LB Frank Queudrue | 🇫🇷 | 🟨 |
CB Carlos Bocanegra | 🇺🇸 |
CB Zat Knight | 🏴 | 🟨 |
CB Ian Pearce | 🏴 |
RB Moritz Volz | 🇩🇪 | ⚽ |
RB Liam Rosenior | 🏴 |
M Michael Brown | 🏴 |
M Claus Jensen | 🇩🇰 |
CF Tomasz Radzinski | 🇨🇦 |
CF Brian McBride | 🇺🇸 | 🔁 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 W Didier Agathe | 🇫🇷 | for F Milan Baroš | 🇨🇿 | 46’ |
🔁 CF Chris Sutton | 🏴 | 🟢 | for CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 75’ |
🔁 M Isaiah Osbourne | 🏴 | 🟢 | for M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 | 83’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | CF Brian McBride | 🇺🇸 | (CF Collins John | 🇳🇱 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Stuart Taylor | 🏴 |
RB Wilfred Bouma | 🇳🇱 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Jan Lastuvka | 🇨🇿 |
CB Gabriel Zakuani | 🇨🇩 |
W Wayne Routledge | 🏴 |
CF Heidar Helguson | 🇮🇸 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Homegrown: 4/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/16
Homegrown: 5/16
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 4/12
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
CF Chris Sutton | 🏴 |
M Isaiah Osbourne | 🏴 |
FINAL APPEARANCES
MATCH STATS
Not recorded
TABLE

PROGRAMME



MATCHDAY QUOTES
“We didn’t play well and we got what we deserved. We remain unbeaten and that’s as much as we could have taken out of it.
“The players know we didn’t play well. We should have done better, we were unable to capitalise on anything today. It wasn’t the best of games.
“I am very disappointed. We will have to do much much better.”
Martin O’Neill.
*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 21 October 2006
*Moritz Volz’s goal on the stroke of half time earned Fulham a deserved draw at Aston Villa.*
Gareth Barry slammed Villa ahead from the penalty spot after referee Chris Foy penalised Liam Rosenior for a foul on Stiliyan Petrov.
Barry, though, failed to track Volz who broke into the Villa box to volley home Tomasz Radzinski’s deep cross.
Fulham proved a tough nut to crack as they settled for a point against the last unbeaten team in England.
The early spotlight fell on referee Chris Foy who waved away Villa penalty appeals when Rosenior misjudged a cross and the ball clearly struck him on the arm - unintentionally in the referee’s view.
Referee Foy evened that up at the other end in an almost carbon-copy incident when the ball struck Gabriel Agbonlahor’s hand, but Fulham’s appeals were waved away.
Villa should have taken the lead when Petrov swung in a dangerous free-kick which Liam Ridgewell completely missed in front of goal.
As Villa turned the screw Agbonlahor’s low cross was missed by Juan Pablo Angel and fell at the feet of Milan Baros who was crowded out.
Having escaped earlier punishment, the law caught up with Rosenior on 25 minutes when Steven Davis’s pass put Petrov in behind the Fulham defender and referee Foy ruled the wrestling match warranted a penalty which Barry despatched with aplomb.
Fulham had their moments, with Zat Knight escaping some slack Villa marking at a corner only to power his header into the ground where it bounced over the bar.
Ridgewell’s failure to deal with a cross allowed Brian McBride to hammer a volley across the face of goal where Volz and Claus Jensen failed to make contact.
Fulham drew level just before half-time when Radzinski worked himself a yard of space to cross to the far post where Volz shocked Villa by escaping Barry’s attentions to volley home from six yards.
Villa boss Martin O’Neill shifted Agbonlahor into the centre of his attack but the initial effect was that his side stopped playing through midfield and lumped long balls forward to try and use the youngster’s pace.
The home side were a threat at set pieces and Barry delivered a wicked inswinging free-kick from the right flank, but it somehow eluded every lunging boot before going on to shave the outside of the post.
Villa’s increasingly desperate and ragged attacking efforts were meat and drink to Fulham’s central defenders Knight and Ian Pearce who simply stood firm and nodded long balls away.
*Aston Villa boss Martin O’Neill:*
“We didn’t play well and we got what we deserved. We remain unbeaten and that’s as much as we could have taken out of it.
“The players know we didn’t play well. We should have done better, we were unable to capitalise on anything today. It wasn’t the best of games.
“I am very disappointed. We will have to do much much better.”