Game #5185
Aston Villa
Saturday, 17 November 2012
Lost
18th (-1)
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥
Premier League
Attendance: 47,072
Manchester City
Etihad Stadium
State of Abu Dhabi
5-0
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | None
MATCH SUMMARY
Villa's woeful campaign continues as they lose for the seventh time in twelve Premier League games under Paul Lambert yet there remains little sign of boardroom concern at the clear downward spiral Villa now find themselves in.
KEY MAN
Ashley Westwood, Ciaran Clark and Villa are humiliated under Paul Lambert once again as they fall to an eighth defeat in twelve a the Etihad, Saturday, 17 November 2012.
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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 17 November 2012
🥅 | 43’ Goal, 0-1, (Manchester City), David Silva
🕒 | HT Manchester City 1-0 Aston Villa
🥅 | 54’ Goal, 0-2, (Manchester City, pen), Sergio Agüero
🟨 | 55’ Booking, Barry Bannan
🔁 | 62’ Sub off, Stephen Ireland, Sub on, Marc Albrighton
🔁 | 62’ Sub off, Andreas Weimann, Sub on, Brett Holman
🥅 | 65’ Goal, 0-3, (Manchester City, pen), Carlos Tévez
🥅 | 67’ Goal, 0-4, (Manchester City), Sergio Agüero
🥅 | 74’ Goal, 0-5, (Manchester City), Carlos Tévez
🔁 | 83’ Sub off, Christian Benteke, Sub on, Jordan Bowery 🟢
🕒 | FT Manchester City 5-0 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Paul Lambert's Villa lose their seventh game in twelve Premier League matches and fall to 18th in the table as forward Jordan Bowery, 21, made his debut after joining from League Two side Chesterfield for a fee of £567,000 in August 2012. It had taken the much maligned Alex McLeish 20 matches of the 2011-12 season to lose as many games in a campaign where Villa had conceded three or more goals on just four occasions across 38 games. Lambert had conceded three or more goals on four occasions in just 12 matches.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Manchester City
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 2011-12
FIXTURE HISTORY
Manchester City
Previous 5 vs. Abu Dhabi: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2012-13 |
Matchday | #15 |
League Game | #12 |
Manager Game | #15 |
Saturday, 17 November 2012
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Paul Lambert | 🏴 | Glasgow, 2012-2015
Referee: Jonathan Moss | 🏴 | West Riding, 2005-2022
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Score: 🟥 0-5
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Paul Lambert | 🏴 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 15 | 🟩 | 5 🟨 | 3 🟥 7 | 1.20
Villa Career Form:
Bottom 8
ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Jonathan Moss | 🏴 | West Riding, 2005-2022 🆘
Previous 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 22 Sep 12, Villa 1-4 Southampton (a)
Cards: 🟨
Assistants: Adrian Holmes, Simon Beck
ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:
CARDS
Villa
🟨
Manchester City
None
TEAM NEWS
Paul Lambert names an unchanged line up for a second successive and retains Brad Guzan ahead of Shay Given despite shipping three goals to Manchester United having been two up.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 24.21 |
Oldest Player |
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 | 28.21 |
Youngest Player |
F Andreas Weimann | 🇦🇹 | 21.30 |
MANAGER
Paul Lambert | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
LB Enda Stevens | 🇮🇪 |
CB Ron Vlaar | 🇳🇱 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
RB Matt Lowton | 🏴 |
M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
M Barry Bannan | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Ashley Westwood | 🏴 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 |
F Andreas Weimann | 🇦🇹 | 🔁 |
CF Christian Benteke | 🇧🇪 | 🔁 |
MANAGER
Roberto Mancini | 🇮🇹 |
Manchester City
GK Joe Hart | 🏴 |
LB Gaël Clichy | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
CB Vincent Kompany | 🇧🇪 |
CB Matija Nastasić | 🇷🇸 |
RB Maicon | 🇧🇷 |
M Samir Nasri | 🇫🇷 |
M Gareth Barry (ex) | 🏴 |
M David Silva | 🇪🇸 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
M Yaya Touré | 🇨🇮 |
CF Sergio Agüero | 🇦🇷 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CF Carlos Tévez | 🇦🇷 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
Not necessarily indicative of the actual matchday formation
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 W Marc Albrighton | 🏴 | for M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 | 62’ |
🔁 W Brett Holman | 🇦🇺 | for F Andreas Weimann | 🇦🇹 | 62’ |
🔁 F Jordan Bowery | 🏴 | for CF Christian Benteke | 🇧🇪 | 83’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | LB Gaël Clichy | 🇫🇷 | (LB Aleksandar Kolarov | 🇷🇸 |)
🔁 | M David Silva | 🇪🇸 | (W Scott Sinclair | 🏴 |)
🔁 | CF Sergio Agüero | 🇦🇷 | (CF Edin Džeko | 🇧🇦 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Shay Given | 🇮🇪 |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴 |
M Karim El Ahmadi | 🇲🇦 |
M Fabian Delph | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Costel Pantilimon | 🇷🇴 |
RB Pablo Zabaleta | 🇦🇷 |
CB Joleon Lescott | 🏴 |
M Javi García | 🇪🇸 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI: £27.42m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 4/11
Homegrown: 4/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/18
Homegrown: 6/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
Abu Dhabi rock up with their tiny trophy cabinet and massive wheelbarrow of cash as questionable referee Jonathan Moss gives them a helping hand.
Team Cost: £246.53m
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 2/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 4/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Injury | 7 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
M Gary Gardner | 🏴 |
W Charles N’Zogbia | 🇫🇷 |
F Darren Bent | 🏴 |
M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 |
LB Joe Bennett | 🏴 |
RB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 |
Illness | 1 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 |
Bomb Squad | 1 |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 |
Out on Loan | 4 |
M Jean Makoun | 🇨🇲 | Stade Rennais
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴 | Blackpool
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴 | Bolton
F Daniel Johnson | 🇯🇲 | Yeovil
UNAVAILABLE
Not Reported
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
Possession F | 44%
Possession A | 56%
Shots F | 10
Shots A | 23
Shots on Target F | 8
Shots on Target A | 10
Corners F | 4
Corners A | 9
Fouls F | 4
Fouls A | 9
LEAGUE TABLE
MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
"Absolutely ridiculous"
Paul Lambert, Saturday, 17 November 2012.
*Sky Sports*
Saturday, 17 November 2012
Manchester City make light work of hapless Aston Villa
Manchester City maintained their unbeaten start to the season in some style on Saturday as they crushed Aston Villa 5-0.
David Silva opened the scoring for the Premier League champions, before two goals apiece from Argentine strike duo Sergio Aguero and Carlos Tevez put a rather lop-sided slant on the final scoreline.
A comprehensive victory was enough to take City back to the top of the table, for a few hours at least, while out-of-sorts Villa tumbled into the drop zone as a result of Reading’s victory over Everton.
Roberto Mancini’s men dominated possession throughout, but struggled to break a stubborn Villa defence down during a scrappy first half and left themselves open to counter.
Vincent Kompany almost put through his own net at one stage, but Joe Hart came to his rescue, but City’s pressure finally paid off two minutes before half-time when Villa failed to deal with a Samir Nasri corner and, after seeing the ball ricochet around the box, Silva was in the right place to bundle home.
Paul Lambert likely told his troops at the interval that there was still all to play for, but within nine minutes of the re-start City had doubled their lead in contentious circumstances.
Aguero calmly stroked home from the spot, but the awarding of a penalty for an apparent handball by Andreas Weimann left Villa incensed - with it their opinion that the forward did not make contact with the ball as it fizzed past him.
Villa’s mood went from bad to worse as the afternoon wore on, with seemingly everything going against them right now.
City, though, were now in complete control of the tie and netted twice in the space of as many minutes to wrap up the points.
Tevez rolled home the Blues’ second penalty of the game following a handball by Barry Bannan and Aguero made it four on 67 minutes as he led a swift counter and fired past Brad Guzan at his near post via the aid of a deflection.
The final act of a game bossed by City saw Tevez convert a low cross from Nasri, with the goal left gaping in front of him.
It has been suggested at times this season that City have been performing below their best, but such accusations could not be levelled at them on Saturday and they will be hoping to have ignited their title defence in front of their own supporters.