Game #5194
Aston Villa
Saturday, 29 December 2012
Lost
17th (-1)
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥
Premier League
Attendance: 33,374
Wigan Athletic
Villa Park
Aston Villa
0-3
Wigan Athletic
Assist(s) | None
MATCH SUMMARY
Villa are destroyed for the third consecutive game and have now conceded fifteen without scoring as Paul Lambert continues to plumb new depths without mitigation and with no reaction from an incompetent boardroom.
KEY MAN
Brett Holman is left chasing shadows as Villa concede for the fifteenth time in three games under Paul Lambert without scoring yet he inexplicably remains in post for the New Year, Saturday, 29 December 2012.
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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 29 December 2012
🥅 | 3’ Goal, 0-1, (Wigan Athletic), Iván Ramis
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-1 Wigan Athletic
🥅 | 52’ Goal, 0-2, (Wigan Athletic), Emmerson Boyce
🟨 | 55’ Booking, Barry Bannan
🥅 | 56’ Goal, 0-3, (Wigan Athletic), Arouna Koné
🔁 | 63’ Sub off, Brett Holman, Sub on Jordan Bowery
🔁 | 63’ Sub off, Stephen Ireland, Sub on, Karim El Ahmadi
🔁 | 64’ Sub off, Eric Lichaj, Sub on, Marc Albrighton
🟨 | 80’ Booking, Matt Lowton
🟨 | 90’ Booking, Andreas Weimann
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 0-3 Wigan Athletic
ON THIS DAY
Paul Lambert's Villa conceded their thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth goal in the last three games without reply.
Villa had now lost ten of their twenty Premier League matches under Lambert conceding three or more goals on seven occasions as they fell to 17th in the table, one point above the relegation zone with a goal difference that was significantly worse than the three teams below them in the table.
The much maligned Alex McLeish whom Lambert had replaced had been summarily dismissed at the end of the previous season for presiding over fourteen Premier League defeats in a 38 game campaign, conceding three or more goals on four occasions.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Wigan Athletic
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌
FIXTURE HISTORY
Wigan Athletic
Previous 5 vs. Wigan: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟨
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2012-13 |
Matchday | #24 |
League Game | #20 |
Manager Game | #24 |
Saturday, 29 December 2012
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Paul Lambert | 🏴 | Glasgow, 2012-2015
Referee: Kevin Friend | 🏴 | Leicester, 2003-2022
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Score: 🟥 0-3
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Paul Lambert | 🏴 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 24 | 🟩 | 8 🟨 | 6 🟥 9 | 1.25
Villa Career Form:
Mid Table
Paul Lambert | 🏴 |
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Kevin Friend | 🏴 | Leicester, 2003-2022
Previous 5: 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 10 Nov 12, Villa 2-3 United (h)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Darren England, John Flynn
Kevin Friend
CARDS
Villa
🟨 🟨 🟨
Wigan Athletic
🟨 🟨
TEAM NEWS
Paul Lambert retains Brad Guzan ahead of Shay Given despite conceding twelve in the previous two games.
Meanwhile, Stephen Ireland, Barry Bannan, Andreas Weimann and Eric Lichaj replace Karim El Ahmadi, Fabian Delph, Ashley Westwood and Nathan Baker.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 24.33 |
Oldest Player |
W Brett Holman | 🇦🇺 | 28.78 |
Youngest Player |
F Andreas Weimann | 🇦🇹 | 21.42 |
MANAGER
Paul Lambert | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
LB Joe Bennett | 🏴 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
RB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 | 🔁 |
RB Matt Lowton | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Barry Bannan | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 |
W Brett Holman | 🇦🇺 | 🔁 |
CF Christian Benteke | 🇧🇪 |
F Andreas Weimann | 🇦🇹 | 🟨 |
MANAGER
Roberto Martínez | 🇪🇸 |
Wigan Athletic
GK Al Habsi | 🇴🇲 |
LB Maynor Figueroa | 🇭🇳 |
LB Jean Beausejour | 🇨🇱 | 🔁 |
CB Gary Caldwell | 🏴 |
CB Iván Ramis | 🇪🇸 | ⚽ |
RB Emmerson Boyce | 🇧🇧 | ⚽ | 🟨 |
M James McCarthy | 🇮🇪 |
M David Jones | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Shaun Maloney (ex) | 🏴 | 🟨 |
CF Arouna Koné | 🇨🇮 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CF Franco Di Santo | 🇦🇷 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 F Jordan Bowery | 🏴 | for W Brett Holman | 🇦🇺 | 63’ |
🔁 M Karim El Ahmadi | 🇲🇦 | for M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 | 63’ |
🔁 W Marc Albrighton | 🏴 | for LB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 | 64’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | LB Jean Beausejour | 🇨🇱 | (M Jordi Gómez | 🇪🇸 |)
🔁 | M David Jones | 🏴 | (M James McArthur | 🏴 |)
🔁 | CF Arouna Koné | 🇨🇮 | (W Callum McManaman | 🏴 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Shay Given | 🇮🇪 |
LB Enda Stevens | 🇮🇪 |
M Samir Carruthers | 🇮🇪 |
M Ashley Westwood | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Mike Pollitt | 🏴 |
CB Roman Golobart | 🇪🇸 |
RB Ronnie Stam | 🇳🇱 |
CF Mauro Boselli | 🇦🇷 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI: £37.66m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 3/11
Homegrown: 4/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/18
Homegrown: 6/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
Team Cost: £29.77m
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 3/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Injury | 9 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
M Gary Gardner | 🏴 |
RB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 |
CB Ron Vlaar | 🇳🇱 |
F Darren Bent | 🏴 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 |
W Charles N’Zogbia | 🇫🇷 |
M Fabian Delph | 🏴 |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴 |
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 | 40%
Possession A | 60%
Shots F | 11
Shots A | 9
Shots on Target F | 4
Shots on Target A | 6
Corners F | 4
Corners A | 3
Fouls F | 16
Fouls A | 8
LEAGUE TABLE
MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
"Hordes of frustrated Villa supporters headed for the exits immediately after Kone completed a routine win that lifts the Latics above Villa into 16th place."
*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 29 December 2012
*Wigan Athletic moved out of the Premier League relegation zone and above Aston Villa with an emphatic victory over their struggling hosts.*
Wigan made the perfect start when Ivan Ramis escaped his marker to meet Jean Beausejour’s corner with a firm header.
Brett Holman smashed a half-volley against the crossbar as Villa briefly threatened before the interval.
Emmerson Boyce calmly slotted in after a superb one-two with Arouna Kone, who added the third from a tight angle.
Hordes of frustrated Villa supporters headed for the exits immediately after Kone completed a routine win that lifts the Latics above Villa into 16th place.
It was another difficult afternoon for Paul Lambert’s men, who have endured a nightmare Christmas period with heavy defeats against Chelsea and Tottenham.
Most of the pre-match talk centred on how their young side, with an average age of 23, would react to conceding 12 goals in their previous two matches.
But they made the worst possible start by conceding their 13th goal in just 183 minutes - after being let down by basic defensive errors at a Wigan set-piece.
The visitors’ central defender Ramis, making his first start since late November following a hamstring injury, easily escaped his marker Christian Benteke and took advantage with a powerful eight-yard header from Beausejour’s left-wing corner.
The Latics grew in confidence, stroking the ball around as a leaderless-looking Villa chased after their visitors, but Wigan failed to stretch home keeper Brad Guzan again before half-time, despite creating a number of decent opportunities to double their lead.
Wigan midfielder Shaun Maloney appealed for a penalty after he felt he was impeded by Villa’s Stephen Ireland and also fired over from Beausejour’s pull-back following the Chilean winger’s clever run down the left.
The hosts finally managed to build some sustained pressure as half-time loomed, Benteke drilling low into the net with the flag already raised against an offside Andreas Weimann.
And they should have been level at the break when Joe Bennett’s deep free-kick was nodded down by Benteke to the far post where Holman’s effort beat Al Habsi but hit the crossbar.
Villa started the second half by creating another opportunity which Benteke headed over but within six minutes they were further behind, Latics defender Boyce bursting through the Villa midfield before stylishly finishing past Guzan after exchanging one-touch passes with Kone.
It was killer blow for an already demoralised Villa and Wigan, who had not won in their previous six matches, capitalised on the hosts’ fragile confidence with a third goal.
Kone, recently called up by Ivory Coast for their Africa Cup of Nations squad having missed the past two tournaments, brushed aside a weak challenge from Matthew Lowton to race on to Franco Di Santo’s pass and round Guzan before converting.
Villa’s dismal day ended with those home fans still inside the half-empty Villa Park ironically cheering substitute Jordan Bowery’s late shot on target - though there was some solace as Stoke’s late equaliser against Southampton at least stopped them sliding into the bottom three.
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