Game #5234
Aston Villa
Sunday, 15 December 2013
Lost
11th (-)
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥
Premier League
Attendance: 42,682
Manchester United
Villa Park
Aston Villa
0-3
Manchester United
Assist(s) | None
MATCH SUMMARY
Villa's troubles continue to mount and it's deja vu under Paul Lambert as they fall to a second consecutive defeat, fail to score for the ninth time in eighteen games and have just five wins in sixteen Premier League games with five defeats in eight at home.
KEY MAN
Marc Albrighton cannot create a goal as Villa fail to score for the ninth time in eighteen games under Paul Lambert and fall to a second successive defeat, Sunday, 15 December 2013.
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MATCH TIMELINE
Sunday, 15 December 2013
🥅 | 15’ Goal, 0-1, (Manchester United), Danny Welbeck
🥅 | 18’ Goal, 0-2, (Manchester United), Danny Welbeck
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-2 Manchester United
🟨 | 50’ Booking, Gabriel Agbonlahor
🥅 | 52’ Goal, 0-3, (Manchester United), Tom Cleverley
🔁 | 62’ Sub off, Yacouba Sylla, Sub on, Andreas Weimann
🟨 | 65’ Booking, Matt Lowton
🟨 | 73’ Booking, Ciaran Clark
🟨 | 78’ Booking, Nathan Baker
🔁 | 79’ Sub off, Christian Benteke, Sub on, Libor Kozák
🔁 | 86’ Sub off, Karim El Ahmadi, Sub on, Leandro Bacuna
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 0-3 Manchester United
ON THIS DAY
Paul Lambert’s Villa lose for the second game in succession and the seventh time in sixteen Premier League games.
Lambert’s Villa had now lost five of eight home games this season and failed to score in eight of their sixteen matches but remained in eleventh place in the table.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Manchester United
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆🏆🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 2012-13
FIXTURE HISTORY
Manchester United
Previous 5 vs. United: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2013-14 |
Matchday | #18 |
League Game | #16 |
Manager Game | #64 |
Sunday, 15 December 2013
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Paul Lambert | 🏴 | Glasgow, 2012-2015
Referee: Chris Foy | 🏴 | St. Helens, 1996-2015
Kick off: 1.30pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-2
FT Score: 🟥 0-3
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Paul Lambert | 🏴 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 64 | 🟩 | 22 🟨 | 15 🟥 27 | 1.27
Villa Career Form:
Mid Table
ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Chris Foy | 🏴 | St. Helens, 1996-2015
Previous 5: 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 21 Sep 13, Villa 1-0 Norwich (a)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Andy Garratt, Richard West
ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:
CARDS
Villa
🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Manchester United
🟨 🟨
TEAM NEWS
Matt Lowton, Yacouba Sylla, Antonio Luna and Marc Albrighton replace Leandro Bacuna, Andreas Weimann, Fabian Delph (injury) and Chris Herd (injury).
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 24.87 |
Oldest Player |
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 | 29.28 |
Youngest Player |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴 | 22.66 |
MANAGER
Paul Lambert | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
LB Antonio Luna | 🇪🇸 |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴 | 🟨 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
RB Matt Lowton | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Karim El Ahmadi | 🇲🇦 | 🔁 |
M Yacouba Sylla | 🇲🇱 | 🔁 |
M Ashley Westwood | 🏴 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 | 🟨 |
CF Christian Benteke | 🇧🇪 | 🔁 |
MANAGER
David Moyes | 🏴 |
Manchester United
GK David De Gea | 🇪🇸 | 🟨 |
LB Patrice Evra | 🇫🇷 |
CB Phil Jones | 🏴 |
CB Johnny Evans | 🇬🇧 |
RB Rafael | 🇧🇷 |
RB Antonio Valencia | 🇪🇨 |
M Tom Cleverley | 🏴 | ⚽ |
W Ryan Giggs | 🏴 | 🔁 |
W Adnan Januzaj | 🇧🇪 | 🔁 |
CF Wayne Rooney | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CF Danny Welbeck | 🏴 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🟨 |
Not necessarily indicative of the actual matchday formation
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 F Andreas Weimann | 🇦🇹 | for M Yacouba Sylla | 🇲🇱 | 62’ |
🔁 CF Libor Kozák | 🇨🇿 | for CF Christian Benteke | 🇧🇪 | 79’ |
🔁 M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | for M Karim El Ahmadi | 🇲🇦 | 86’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | W Ryan Giggs | 🏴 | (W Ashley Young (ex) | 🏴 |)
🔁 | W Adnan Januzaj | 🇧🇪 | (M Darren Fletcher | 🏴 |)
🔁 | CF Wayne Rooney | 🏴 | (W Wilfred Zaha | 🏴 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Jed Steer | 🏴 |
M Gary Gardner | 🏴 |
W Aleksandar Tonev | 🇧🇬 |
F Jordan Bowery | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Anders Lindegaard | 🇩🇰 |
CB Rio Ferdinand | 🏴 |
RB Fábio Da Silva | 🇧🇷 |
W Ashley Young (ex) | 🏴 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI: £28.04m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Homegrown: 4/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/18
Homegrown: 6/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
Team Cost: £127.11m
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Injury | 6 |
W Charles N’Zogbia | 🇫🇷 |
CB Jores Okore | 🇩🇰 |
LB Joe Bennett | 🏴 |
CB Ron Vlaar | 🇳🇱 |
M Fabian Delph | 🏴 |
M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 |
Bomb Squad | 1 |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 |
Out on Loan | 7 |
M Samir Carruthers | 🏴 | MK Dons
F Darren Bent | 🏴 | Fulham
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴 | Blackpool
M Stephen Ireland | 🇮🇪 | Stoke
M Jack Grealish | 🏴 | Notts County
GK Shay Given | 🇮🇪 | Middlesbrough
LB Enda Stevens | 🇮🇪 | Doncaster
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
Possession F | 45%
Possession A | 55%
Shots F | 15
Shots A | 9
Shots on Target F | 8
Shots on Target A | 4
Corners F | 3
Corners A | 4
Fouls F | 15
Fouls A | 9
LEAGUE TABLE
MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
“I thought we started as well as we have done for a number of weeks but the first goal was poor as we should have stopped the cross.
“The second and third goals, we were in possession before they scored.
“The pleasing thing is we never gave up. The disappointing thing for me is the manner of the goals.”
Paul Lambert, Sunday, 15 December 2013.
*BBC Sport*
Sunday, 15 December 2013
*Danny Welbeck scored twice as Manchester United avoided a third Premier League defeat in a row by overwhelming Aston Villa.*
Welbeck’s goals came in the space of three minutes - his opener coming when he slotted in after Adnan Januzaj’s header rebounded off the post.
The England striker then slid in to score from Antonio Valencia’s cross
Villa struggled to cope with the visitors and Wayne Rooney set up Tom Cleverley to drive in a third.
United had picked up just two points from their previous four league matches but the style with which they saw off Villa hinted at a return of form and confidence.
The Red Devils are still 10 points behind top-flight leaders Arsenal and seven points adrift of the top four, but they made sure they did not lose a third Premier League game in succession for the first time since December 2001.
Villa had not beaten United at home since 1995 and that record only ever looked like being extended as they lost for the fifth time in eight league outings at their Midlands base.
The home side were hoping to take capitalise on United’s poor form and applied some early pressure, with winger Marc Albrighton twice shooting from distance, only for his efforts to be comfortably saved by keeper David De Gea.
However, the visitors responded in emphatic fashion, with two goals from Welbeck putting them firmly in command by half-time.
Rafael’s determination helped him cross from the right and, after the unmarked Januzaj’s header came back off the inside of the post, Welbeck reacted quickest to side-foot in the rebound from six yards.
The home side barely had time to recover before falling further behind. Villa defender Nathan Baker gave the ball away and Welbeck laid a pass off to right-winger Valencia before charging into the area and beating Januzaj to slot in the Ecuadorian’s low cross.
The uplift in United’s demeanour from the two goals was palpable and they slickly scythed through Villa with a regularity and ease that threatened more goals.
The pace and trickery of Valencia was particularly potent, and he pulled the ball back for Rooney to drag a shot wide before threading a pass through to Welbeck, who angled his effort beyond Villa keeper Brad Guzan’s right-hand post.
Villa rarely troubled De Gea as striker Christian Benteke continued to look out of sorts and notched up a 10th game without scoring.
And United wrapped up the win when the impressive Rooney slid a lovely weighted ball into the path of Cleverley, who scored his first league goal a year to the day since his last one.
Another positive note for United was the 70th-minute introduction of midfielder Darren Fletcher, who returned to first-team action for the first time since Boxing Day last year as he continues his recovery after bowel surgery.