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Game #4907

Aston Villa

Saturday, 11 November 2006

Won

4th (+2)

Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩

Premier League

Attendance: 36,376

Everton

Goodison Park

Villa make it successive Premier League wins under Martin O'Neill and now have just one defeat in twelve as they climb to 4th in the table.

Everton

0-1

Aston Villa

Assist(s) | Isaiah Osbourne | 42’ |

KEY MAN

Chris Sutton celebrates scoring the winner for Villa at Goodison Park to make it one defeat in twelve Premier League games under Martin O'Neill, Saturday, 11 November 2006.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 11 November 2006

🟨 | 5’ Booking, Gavin McCann
🟨 | 28’ Booking, Juan Pablo Ángel
⚽ | 42’ Goal, 1-0, Chris Sutton, Assist by Isaiah Osbourne
🕒 | HT Everton 0-1 Aston Villa
🔁 | 76’ Sub off, Juan Pablo Ángel, Sub on, Didier Agathe
🟨 | 87’ Booking, Olof Mellberg
🔁 | 90’+2 Sub off, Chris Sutton, Sub on, Steven Davis
🕒 | FT Everton 0-1 Aston Villa

ON THIS DAY

Villa bounce back from their League Cup disappointment as Chris Sutton scores his first goal to beat Everton at Goodison Park and leave Villa with one defeat in 12 Premier League matches as they rise to 4th in the early table under Martin O'Neill.

Aston Villa

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96

Everton

European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1994-95

FIXTURE HISTORY

Everton

Previous 5 vs. Everton: 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟥

FIXTURE DETAILS

Season | 2006-07 |
Matchday | #15 |
League Game | #12 |
Manager Game | #15 |
Saturday, 11 November 2006

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager: Martin O’Neill | 🇬🇧 | County Londonderry, 2006-2010
Referee: Phil Dowd | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Stoke on Trent, 1998-2016
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Phil Dowd | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Stoke on Trent, 1998-2016
Previous 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 14 Mar 06, Villa 1-2 Manchester City (a)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

CARDS

Villa

🟨 🟨 🟨

Everton

🟨 🟨

Phil Dowd

TEAM NEWS

Liam Ridgewell, Chris Sutton, Isaiah Osbourne and Gary Cahill (first start of the season) replace Martin Laursen, Steven Davis, Gareth Barry and Aaron Hughes.

TEAM STATS

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.49 |

Oldest Player |
CF Chris Sutton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 33.70 |

Youngest Player |
M Isaiah Osbourne | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.03 |

MANAGER

MANAGER

Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 |

David Moyes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

Aston Villa

GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 |
RB Wilfred Bouma | 🇳🇱 |
CB Liam Ridgewell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 | 🟨 |
CB Gary Cahill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 |
M Gavin McCann | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Isaiah Osbourne | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
CF Chris Sutton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Everton

GK Tim Howard | 🇺🇸 |
CB Joseph Yobo | 🇳🇬 |
CB Alan Stubbs | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Joleon Lescott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Phil Neville | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Mikel Arteta | 🇪🇸 |
M Simon Davies | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Tim Cahill | 🇦🇺 | 🔁 |
M Leon Osman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Lee Carsley | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
CF Andy Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 W Didier Agathe | 🇫🇷 | for CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 76’ |
🔁 M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 | for CF Chris Sutton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 90’+2 |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Tim Cahill | 🇦🇺 | (CF James Beattie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | M Leon Osman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Victor Anichebe | 🇳🇬 |)

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Stuart Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Patrik Berger | 🇨🇿 |
F Milan Baroš | 🇨🇿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Iain Turner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB David Weir | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Mark Hughes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SQUAD STATS

1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 4/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/16
Homegrown: 5/16

MATCHDAY SQUAD

SQUAD STATS

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

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

“Chris Sutton is a quality player and always has been.

“He proved it when Blackburn won the title. It didn’t happen for him at Chelsea, but I picked him up on the rebound and he was fantastic for me at Celtic, proving himself every single week.

“Sutton was a revelation for us in the Champions League and when we reached the Uefa Cup final

“I thought if he was fit he could be an asset to us. He is a really astute centre forward and he can only get better.”

Martin O’Neill.

*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 11 November 2006

*Chris Sutton opened his Aston Villa goal account to give Martin O’Neill’s side their first Premiership away win this season at Everton.*

He glanced home Isaiah Osbourne’s cross three minutes before half-time.

Everton endured a miserable afternoon, with midfielder Tim Cahill stretchered off early on after an accidental clash with team-mate Lee Carsley.

Andrew Johnson and Carsley missed easy chances, but Everton keeper Tim Howard twice saved from Stilian Petrov.

It was the perfect tonic for Villa after their Carling Cup thrashing at Chelsea, but Everton’s early-season optimism is swiftly evaporating.

Villa were without injured duo Gareth Barry and Martin Laursen, while Everton had Johnson alone up front with James McFadden suspended.

Johnson wasted an opportunity to give Everton the breakthrough after 13 minutes when he escaped the attentions of the Villa defence, but he hesitated rather than pass to the unmarked Simon Davies and the chance was lost.

Everton suffered a serious blow six minutes later when influential midfield man Cahill was stretchered off after he was accidentally caught by team-mate Carsley in a tackle.

He was replaced by James Beattie, but Everton’s problems increased when Villa took the lead three minutes before half-time.

Gabriel Agbonlahor found Osbourne, and his cross was headed beyond Everton keeper Howard by Sutton’s deft touch.

Johnson then somehow missed from point-blank range in first-half injury time as Everton searched desperately for a spark of inspiration.

Petrov then almost doubled Villa’s lead in the closing seconds of the half, but Howard saved well diving to his right.

Carsley was guilty of a miss every bit as bad as Johnson’s after 48 minutes, slicing hopelessly wide with only Thomas Sorensen to beat.

Everton pressed, but without any real quality, and it was Villa who almost doubled their lead after 71 minutes when Howard again saved well from Gavin McCann’s crisp 30-yard effort.

Beattie had endured a miserable afternoon, but he almost levelled for Everton seconds later when his volley was fumbled by Sorensen but flew wide.

Villa were actually creating the clearer chances despite Everton’s territorial domination, and Howard came to the rescue again with a fine block from Petrov.

*Aston Villa manager Martin O’Neill*

“Chris Sutton is a quality player and always has been.

“He proved it when Blackburn won the title. It didn’t happen for him at Chelsea, but I picked him up on the rebound and he was fantastic for me at Celtic, proving himself every single week.

“Sutton was a revelation for us in the Champions League and when we reached the Uefa Cup final

“I thought if he was fit he could be an asset to us. He is a really astute centre forward and he can only get better.”