Game #5189
Aston Villa
Saturday, 8 December 2012
Drew
17th (-2)
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟨
Premier League
Attendance: 30,110
Stoke
Villa Park
Villa extend their unbeaten run to four games but draw for the third time as the level of expectation under Paul Lambert is diminished to such a degree that a goalless home stalemate against Stoke City is seen as a 'result'.
Aston Villa
0-0
Stoke City
Assist(s) | None
KEY MAN
Christian Benteke can't break through against Stoke as Villa extend their unbeaten run to four, drawing three under Paul Lambert, Saturday, 8 December 2012.
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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 8 December 2012
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Stoke City
🔁 | 66’ Sub off, Brett Holman, Sub on, Stephen Ireland
🔁 | 66’ Sub off, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Sub on, Darren Bent
🔁 | 78’ Sub off, Barry Bannan, Sub on, Fabian Delph
🟥 | 90’+3 Sending off, (Stoke City), Ryan Shotton
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 0-0 Stoke City
ON THIS DAY
Paul Lambert's Villa's unbeaten run extends to a season best four games yet they have scored only two goals over the period and remain the League's lowest scorers, falling back to 17th place in the table and out of the relegation places on goal difference only.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Stoke
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1971-72
FIXTURE HISTORY
Stoke
Previous 5 vs. Stoke: 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟨
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2012-13 |
Matchday | #19 |
League Game | #16 |
Manager Game | #19 |
Saturday, 8 December 2012
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Paul Lambert | 🏴 | Glasgow, 2012-2015
Referee: Roger East | 🏴 | Wiltshire, 2006-2019
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟨
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Paul Lambert | 🏴 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 19 | 🟩 | 6 🟨 | 6 🟥 7 | 1.26
Career Form:
Mid Table
Paul Lambert | 🏴 |
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Roger East | 🏴 | Wiltshire, 2006-2019
Previous 5:
Last Match: None
Cards: 🟥 🟨
Assistants: Gary Beswick, Harry Lennard
Roger East
CARDS
Villa
None
Stoke
🟥 🟨
TEAM NEWS
Paul Lambert names an unchanged line up and retains Brad Guzan ahead of Shay Given.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 24.29 |
Oldest Player |
W Brett Holman | 🇦🇺 | 28.72 |
Youngest Player |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴 | 21.64 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
Paul Lambert | 🏴 |
Tony Pulis | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
RB Matt Lowton | 🏴 |
RB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 |
M Barry Bannan | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Ashley Westwood | 🏴 |
M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 |
W Brett Holman | 🇦🇺 | 🔁 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CF Christian Benteke | 🇧🇪 |
Stoke
GK Asmir Begović | 🇧🇦 |
CB Robert Huth | 🇩🇪 |
CB Ryan Shawcross | 🏴 |
CB Ryan Shotton | 🏴 | 🟨 | 🟨 | 🟥 |
M Geoff Cameron | 🇺🇸 |
M Glenn Whelan | 🇮🇪 |
M Steven N’Zonzi | 🇫🇷 |
M Dean Whitehead | 🏴 |
M Matthew Etherington | 🏴 | 🔁 |
W Jon Walters | 🇮🇪 |
CF Kenwyne Jones | 🇹🇹 | 🔁 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 | for W Brett Holman | 🇦🇺 | 66’ |
🔁 F Darren Bent | 🏴 | for F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 | 66’ |
🔁 M Fabian Delph | 🏴 | for M Barry Bannan | 🏴 | 78’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | M Matthew Etherington | 🏴 | (CF Cameron Jerome | 🏴 |)
🔁 | CF Kenwyne Jones | 🇹🇹 | (CF Peter Crouch (ex) | 🏴 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Shay Given | 🇮🇪 |
CB Derrick Williams | 🇮🇪 |
M Karim El Ahmadi | 🇲🇦 |
F Andreas Weimann | 🇦🇹 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Thomas Sørensen (ex) | 🇩🇰 |
CB Matthew Upson | 🏴 |
RB Andy Wilkinson | 🏴 |
M Wilson Palacios | 🇭🇳 |
W Michael Kightly | 🏴 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI: £51.08m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Homegrown: 5/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 7/18
Homegrown: 7/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
Team Cost: £49.40m
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 4/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Injury | 6 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
M Gary Gardner | 🏴 |
RB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 |
CB Ron Vlaar | 🇳🇱 |
M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 |
LB Enda Stevens | 🇮🇪 |
Illness | 1 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 |
Out on Loan | 4 |
M Jean Makoun | 🇨🇲 | Stade Rennais
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴 | Blackpool
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴 | Bolton
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 | Forest
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 | 64%
Possession A | 36%
Shots F | 9
Shots A | 1
Shots on Target F | 5
Shots on Target A | 0
Corners F | 3
Corners A | 2
Fouls F | 8
Fouls A | 13
TABLE
PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
“For 0-0 it was a decent spectacle. We played really well and had early dominance. I couldn’t ask for any more other than the goal.
“We had a lot of ball and dominated the game possession-wise. The young lads at the back coped well with Stoke’s physicality.
“Darren Bent did fine. Everybody played their part.”
Paul Lambert, Saturday, 8 December 2012.
*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 8 December 2012
*Aston Villa remain just two points clear of the Premier League relegation zone after an insipid goalless draw against in-form Stoke.*
Despite dominating possession, Villa created few chances and Christian Benteke tamely side-footed their best opportunity at Stoke’s Asmir Begovic.
Stoke, who knew they could move up to sixth with victory, failed to force Villa’s Brad Guzan into a single save.
Potters defender Ryan Shotton was sent off in injury-time for a second yellow.
Scoring has been a problem for both sides this season, with just 26 goals between them in their 30 Premier League games ahead of Saturday’s encounter.
So it was no surprise that Villa, the division’s lowest goalscorers, failed to break down their visitors.
Defensive strength has been the bedrock of Stoke’s success, with only Manchester City conceding fewer goals than the Potters.
However, Villa boss Paul Lambert once again opted to leave £24m striker Darren Bent on the bench with the England international finally appearing midway through the second half for his first appearance since the end of October.
Huge cheers greeted Bent’s arrival but he barely had a touch as he failed to provide the cutting edge sorely lacked by Villa.
Most of the home side’s best chances fell to Christian Benteke, who has been leading the line during Bent’s absence through injury and Lambert’s selection policy.
The Belgian met a loose ball in the Potters box with a venomous 12th-minute volley, but was denied by a brave block from Stoke skipper Ryan Shawcross.
And he wasted an even better chance less than a minute into the second half.
Barry Bannan lofted a diagonal pass into the Stoke box to allow Matthew Lowton to head back across goal to the waiting Benteke.
But the 22-year-old failed to connect properly and tamely volleyed straight into the hands of Begovic.
Tony Pulis’s men were unbeaten in five league matches and would have leapfrogged Stoke and Everton into the top six with their fourth consecutive win.
But they failed to muster a single opportunity in an impotent attacking display and the single point means they remain ninth in the table.
Tempers threatened to boil over on several occasions at Villa Park, most notably when Villa defender Ciaran Clark charged into Stoke midfielder Glenn Whelan just before half-time to spark a melee between both sets of players.
Referee Roger East managed to restore peace without resorting to bookings, but Shotton became the first player to receive a yellow card for chatting back to the official.
And 18 minutes later he was sent to the dressing room after an innocuous challenge on Villa substitute Fabian Delph.
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