Game #4912
Aston Villa
Monday, 11 December 2006
Drew
8th (-)
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟨
Premier League
Attendance: 30,957
Sheffield United
Bramall Lane
Sheffield United
2-2
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | Chris Sutton | 64’ |
MATCH SUMMARY
Villa draw for the second successive game to extend their run to two defeats in seventeen Premier League games under Martin O'Neill.
KEY MAN
Stiliyan Petrov celebrates scoring his first goal for Villa after 76 seconds but Martin O'Neill's side are held at Bramall Lane as they make it two defeats in seventeen Premier League games, Monday, 11 December 2006.
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MATCH TIMELINE
Monday, 11 December 2006
⚽ | 2’ Goal, 1-0, Stiliyan Petrov, Assist by Chris Sutton (76 seconds)
🕒 | HT Sheffield United 0-1 Aston Villa
🥅 | 50’ Goal, 1-1, (Sheffield United), Stephen Quinn
🥅 | 64’ Goal, 1-2, (Sheffield United), Danny Webber
⚽ | 64’ Goal, 2-2, Milan Baroš, Assist by Chris Sutton
🟨 | 64’ Booking, Gary Cahill
🔁 | 67’ Sub off, Wilfred Bouma, Sub on, Aaron Hughes
🔁 | 75’ Sub off, Steven Davis, Sub on, Isaiah Osbourne
🔁 | 83’ Sub off, Chris Sutton, Sub on, Juan Pablo Ángel
🕒 | FT Sheffield United 2-2 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Despite Stiliyan's first goal for the club after 76 seconds, Villa record their tenth draw in seventeen Premier League games under Martin O'Neill.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Sheffield United
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1924–25
FIXTURE HISTORY
Sheffield United
Previous 5 vs. Sheffield United: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2006-07 |
Matchday | #20 |
League Game | #17 |
Manager Game | #20 |
Monday, 11 December 2006
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Martin O’Neill | 🇬🇧 | County Londonderry, 2006-2010
Referee: Mark Halsey | 🏴 | Hertfordshire, 1996-2013
Kick off: 8.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Score: 🟨 2-2
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟨
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 20 | 🟩 | 7 🟨 | 10 🟥 3 | 1.55
Villa Career Form:
Top 8
ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Mark Halsey | 🏴 | Hertfordshire, 1996-2013
Previous 5: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 8 Nov 06, Villa 0-4 Chelsea (a)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨
ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:
CARDS
Villa
🟨
Sheffield United
🟨 🟨
TEAM NEWS
Wilfred Bouma and Chris Sutton replace Isaiah Osbourne and Gareth Barry.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 25.88 |
Oldest Player |
CF Chris Sutton | 🏴 | 33.78 |
Youngest Player |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 | 20.18 |
MANAGER
Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 |
Aston Villa
GK Stuart Taylor | 🏴 |
RB Wilfred Bouma | 🇳🇱 | 🔁 |
CB Liam Ridgewell | 🏴 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
CB Gary Cahill | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 | 🔁 |
M Gavin McCann | 🏴 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 | ⚽ |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 |
F Milan Baroš | 🇨🇿 | ⚽ |
CF Chris Sutton | 🏴 | 🔥 | 🔥 | 🔁 |
MANAGER
Neil Warnock | 🏴 |
Sheffield United
GK Paddy Kenny | 🇮🇪 |
CB Chris Morgan | 🏴 |
CB Phil Jagielka | 🏴 |
RB Leigh Bromby | 🏴 | 🟨 |
RB Rob Kozluk | 🏴 | 🟨 |
RB David Geary | 🇮🇪 |
M Nick Montgomery | 🏴 |
M Alan Quinn | 🇮🇪 | ⚽ |
W Keith Gillespie | 🇬🇧 |
CF Rob Hulse | 🏴 |
CF Danny Webber | 🏴 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
Not necessarily indicative of the actual matchday formation
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 LB Aaron Hughes | 🇬🇧 | for RB Wilfred Bouma | 🇳🇱 | 67’ |
🔁 M Isaiah Osbourne | 🏴 | for M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 | 75’ |
🔁 CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | for CF Chris Sutton | 🏴 | 83’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | CF Danny Webber | 🏴 | (CF Christian Nadé | 🇫🇷 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Bobby Olejnik | 🇦🇹 |
M Craig Gardner | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
CB Claude Davis | 🇯🇲 |
LB Chris Armstrong | 🏴 |
M Alan Quinn | 🇮🇪 |
CF Colin Kâzım-Richards | 🇹🇷 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 7/11
Homegrown: 4/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 10/16
Homegrown: 7/16
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/16
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
“We got ourselves a goal in front and could have been two, three, four up and out of sight. But we weren’t able to nail it.
“We were absolutely in control, but then had to rely on another brilliant goal to get something from the game.
“Creatively we were excellent and there were many great things to take out of the game, but obviously we’ll have to do better defending the set-pieces.”
Martin O’Neill.
*BBC Sport*
Monday, 11 December 2006
*Sheffield United and Aston Villa each climbed a place in the Premiership table after an entertaining draw.*
Villa came out of the blocks fast with Stiliyan Petrov slamming in a first goal for the club within two minutes.
Chris Sutton also hit the bar but Villa failed to take advantage of lacklustre hosts who bounced back after the break.
Stephen Quinn’s volley from a long throw drew the Blades level and Danny Webber hooked in a second, but within seconds Milan Baros pounced to level.
It was a fair result in a match that epitomised the cliche of a game of two halves after a remarkable turnaround from the hosts.
They fell behind on 76 seconds when the recalled Sutton linked up on the edge of the area with Petrov, and after the striker’s initial shot was blocked by Leigh Bromby, the Bulgarian struck.
More than a quarter of the game had gone before United found their feet and belatedly pushed forward with anything approaching menace.
But that only buoyed Villa and the verve of their play suggested a first win in a month was there for the taking.
Sutton, back from a calf injury, headed a floated Petrov free-kick on to the crossbar and but for a fine double save by Paddy Kenny from Gary Cahill, Villa would have doubled their lead following a teasing Petrov cross.
Having failed to muster a shot on goal of any significance in the first half, United took a leaf out of Villa’s book and took the game to their visitors from the off after the interval.
Quinn’s first senior goal for United, after Liam Ridgewell mis-directed a header from a long Rob Kozluk throw into his path in the box, signalled a change in momentum.
Suddenly the Blades had found a cutting edge and looked the more likely victors.
Rob Hulse headed powerfully straight at Villa goalkeeper Stuart Taylor from Keith Gillespie’s corner before Webber put the hosts ahead.
United worked a short corner before sending in a deep cross, Chris Morgan climbed above Gavin McCann and Webber hooked the captain’s header in.
But Bramall Lane was still celebrating when Baros thundered a shot beyond Kenny from close range 44 seconds later.
Steven Davis clipped a ball into the box, Sutton drew two defenders and Baros found himself in an ocean of space to pick his spot and crack in the flick-on from his strike partner for a first goal in eight months.
That lack of concentration at the back ultimately cost United a third successive Premiership victory.
The tempo of the game continued to increase and both teams had chances to find a winner, but there was to be no fifth goal in a topsy-turvy, end-to-end match.
Hulse and substitute Christian Nade saw efforts blocked in an almighty goalmouth scramble after Taylor had initially saved well low to his left.
And Quinn forced a fine block from Taylor, who ended the game limping, with a rasping shot from the angle.
At the other end Gabriel Agbonlahor wasted a chance before Petrov had Kenny scrambling across his goalmouth with an injury-time free-kick which whistled wide.
However, an enthralling encounter ended on a sour note when Villa substitute Juan Pablo Angel blatantly elbowed Morgan in the box.
Villa’s seventh draw in nine away games meant they missed out on the chance to climb into the top five, while the Blades are now three points above the relegation zone.
*Aston Villa manager Martin O’Neill:*
“We got ourselves a goal in front and could have been two, three, four up and out of sight. But we weren’t able to nail it.
“We were absolutely in control, but then had to rely on another brilliant goal to get something from the game.
“Creatively we were excellent and there were many great things to take out of the game, but obviously we’ll have to do better defending the set-pieces.”