Game #5202
Aston Villa
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Lost
19th (-2)
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥
Premier League
Attendance: 30,334
Newcastle United
Villa Park
Aston Villa
1-2
Newcastle United
Assist(s) | None
MATCH SUMMARY
Villa make it seven Premier League games without a win under Paul Lambert to leave them with four wins in twenty four League games as this most torrid of seasons continues with defeat to relegation rivals Newcastle.
KEY MAN
Fabian Delph loses with Villa once again as Paul Lambert has now led them to 19th place after four wins in 24 Premier League games and a goal difference of -26 yet still there is not action from the boardroom, Tuesday, 29 January 2013.
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MATCH TIMELINE
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
🥅 | 19’ Goal, 0-1, (Newcastle United), Papiss Demba Cissé
🥅 | 31’ Goal, 0-2, (Newcastle United), Yohan Cabaye
🟨 | 42’ Booking, Charles N’Zogbia
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-2 Newcastle United
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Joe Bennett, Sub on, Gabriel Agbonlahor
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Darren Bent, Sub on, Andreas Weimann
⚽ | 49’ Goal, 1-2, Christian Benteke (pen)
🟨 | 61’ Booking, Christian Benteke
🟨 | 67’ Booking, Nathan Baker
🟨 | 76’ Booking, Matt Lowton
🟨 | 78’ Booking, Gabriel Agbonlahor
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-2 Newcastle United
ON THIS DAY
Paul Lambert's Villa return to League action after being dumped out of both Cups by lower League opposition and promptly lose their twelfth match in twenty four Premier League games under Lambert. As a result of losing to 16th placed Newcastle - who sat just a place above Villa at the start of the game - they fall back into the relegation places and sit in 19th place with a goal difference significantly inferior to the clubs around them.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Newcastle United
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1954-55
FIXTURE HISTORY
Newcastle United
Previous 5 vs. Newcastle: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟨
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2012-13 |
Matchday | #32 |
League Game | #24 |
Manager Game | #32 |
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Paul Lambert | 🏴 | Glasgow, 2012-2015
Referee: Mike Dean | 🏴 | Wirral, 1997-2022
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Score: 🟥 1-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Paul Lambert | 🏴 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 32 | 🟩 | 10 🟨 | 8 🟥 14 | 1.19
Villa Career Form:
Bottom 8
ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Mike Dean | 🏴 | Wirral, 1997-2022
Previous 5: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 18 Aug 12, Villa 0-1 West Ham (a)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Jake Collin, Lee Betts
ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:
CARDS
Villa
🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Newcastle United
🟨 🟨
TEAM NEWS
Brad Guzan replaces Shay Given as Christian Benteke Nathan Baker, and Barry Bannan return in place of Andreas Weimann, Fabian Delph and Eric Lichaj.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 24.73 |
Oldest Player |
F Darren Bent | 🏴 | 29.00 |
Youngest Player |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴 | 21.79 |
MANAGER
Paul Lambert | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
LB Joe Bennett | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴 | 🟨 |
CB Ron Vlaar | 🇳🇱 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
RB Matt Lowton | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Ashley Westwood | 🏴 |
M Barry Bannan | 🏴 |
W Charles NZogbia | 🇫🇷 | 🟨 |
F Darren Bent | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CF Christian Benteke | 🇧🇪 | ⚽ | 🟨 |
MANAGER
Alan Pardew | 🏴 |
Newcastle United
GK Tim Krul | 🇳🇱 |
LB Davide Santon | 🇮🇹 |
CB Fabricio Coloccini | 🇦🇷 |
CB Steven Taylor | 🏴 |
CB Mathieu Debuchy | 🇫🇷 |
M James Perch | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Yohan Cabaye | 🇫🇷 | ⚽ |
M Moussa Sissoko | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
M Jonás Gutiérrez | 🇦🇷 | 🟨 |
W Yoan Gouffran | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
CF Papiss Demba Cissé | 🇸🇳 | ⚽ |
Not necessarily indicative of the actual matchday formation
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 | 🟨 | for LB Joe Bennett | 🏴 | 46’ |
🔁 F Andreas Weimann | 🇦🇹 | for F Darren Bent | 🏴 | 46’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | M James Perch | 🏴 | (F Shola Ameobi | 🏴 | 🟨 |)
🔁 | M Moussa Sissoko | 🇫🇷 | (CB Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa | 🇫🇷 |)
🔁 | W Yoan Gouffran | 🇫🇷 | (M Vurnon Anita | 🇨🇼 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Shay Given | 🇮🇪 |
RB Eric Lichaj | 🇺🇸 |
M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 |
W Brett Holman | 🇦🇺 |
F Jordan Bowery | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Steve Harper | 🏴 |
CB Mike Williamson | 🏴 |
M Gaël Bigirimana | 🇧🇮 |
W Sammy Ameobi | 🏴 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI: £52.30m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 3/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/18
Homegrown: 6/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
Team Cost: £62.62m
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 211
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Injury | 4 |
CB Richard Dunne | 🇮🇪 |
M Gary Gardner | 🏴 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴 |
M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 |
Illness | 1 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 |
Bomb Squad | 1 |
LB Stephen Warnock | 🏴 |
Out on Loan | 3 |
M Jean Makoun | 🇨🇲 | Stade Rennais
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴 | Blackpool
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 | Mallorca
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 | 52%
Possession A | 48%
Shots F | 11
Shots A | 10
Shots on Target F | 5
Shots on Target A | 6
Corners F | 3
Corners A | 4
Fouls F | 15
Fouls A | 10
LEAGUE TABLE
MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
“Paul Lambert is in a situation where he’s got to work with the players that he’s got.
“He’s got to get out onto that training pitch and develop a team, and get the best from these players.
“You can’t give up on it, you don’t sit around hoping for the right result, you get out there and put things together. That is the strength of a good quality coach.
“But at the moment the manager doesn’t believe in the message he is giving to his players, because he keeps switching formations from one game to another.
“Keep it simple, and then the players might show a level of confidence and they might come through. There is still a chance for Villa. It is not over my any means.”
Martin Keown, Tuesday, 29 January 2013.
*BBC Sport*
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
*Newcastle United won the battle of the Premier League strugglers to deepen Aston Villa’s misery and plunge them into the relegation places.*
Paul Lambert’s side - knocked out of the Capital One Cup and FA Cup by lower league opposition in the last week - paid the price for a dreadful first-half performance that allowed Newcastle to take control.
Papiss Cisse and Yohan Cabaye gave them a two-goal lead at half-time that proved too much for Villa to turn around, even with a vastly improved effort after the break.
Christian Benteke’s penalty just after half-time established the platform for a Villa rally, but Alan Pardew’s side held out for their first league win since mid-December.
Pardew will hope this win finally helps Newcastle find the sort of form that took them into the top five last season - but Villa are now deep in trouble and in desperate need of points and new faces to rejuvenate a side lacking confidence and inspiration.
This latest defeat means Villa have lost their last three home games in the league to fellow strugglers Wigan Athletic, Southampton and Newcastle - completing a sequence of only two points from their last seven league games since winning at Liverpool.
Villa owner Randy Lerner has issued a public message of support for Lambert, but a more constructive course of action might be to try to make a breakthrough in the transfer market before Thursday’s deadline.
Darren Bent was given a rare start alongside Benteke, but it was to prove another fruitless and frustrating evening for the England striker, who was removed after only 45 minutes.
Pardew started with two of his new signings, Moussa Sissoko and Yoan Gouffran, and the injection of fresh impetus was in evidence as Newcastle dominated the opening half.
Sissoko, in particular, was a major influence and produced a flash of creativity as Newcastle took the lead in the 19th minute. He split the centre of Villa’s defence with precision and Cisse raced into the area to beat Brad Guzan with a clinical finish.
The best Villa response was a thunderous rising drive from Charles N’Zogbia that rattled the woodwork with keeper Tim Krul well beaten - but it was a rare moment of encouragement in a desperate 45 minutes.
And Newcastle doubled their lead just after the half-hour, Cabaye this time the scorer. He collected Ron Vlaar’s poor headed clearance before sending a measured finish high past the stretching Guzan into the top corner.
Villa’s supporters responded angrily to the half-time whistle - and Lambert reacted by removing Bent and Joe Bennett to introduce Andreas Weimann and Gabriel Agbonlahor.
The effect was instant, as Weimann brought a fine save from Krul and Agbonlahor was brought down by Mathieu Debuchy in the area.
Newcastle clearly felt it was a harsh decision by referee Mike Dean, but he ignored their protests and Benteke sent Krul the wrong way with the resulting spot-kick.
Krul then saved well from Weimann as the momentum shifted back towards Villa in a manner that seemed barely possible at half-time.
Gouffran was replaced by Vurnon Anita, after a quiet debut, with 17 minutes left and Sissoko, who had faded after a fine start, was substituted by another new boy Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa six minutes later.
Villa thought they had got the equaliser as the game entered its last 10 minutes, but a combination of Krul and Jonas Gutierrez swept away Nathan Baker’s downward header.
It was the last moment of real anxiety for Newcastle and the celebrations of their supporters at the final whistle illustrated the significance of this result.