Game #5242
Aston Villa
Wednesday, 29 January 2014
Won
10th (-)
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟩
Premier League
Attendance: 36,083
West Bromwich Albion
Villa Park
Aston Villa
4-3
West Brom
Assist(s) | Matt Lowton | 24’ | Christian Benteke | 37’ |
MATCH SUMMARY
Villa secured their second win in ten in all competitions as they recover from a two goal deficit to win by the odd goal in seven against Albion.
KEY MAN
Andreas Weimann celebrates his strike to reduce the deficit and set Villa on the way to a second win in ten under Paul Lambert, Wednesday, 29 January 2014.
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MATCH TIMELINE
Wednesday, 29 January 2014
🥅 | 4’ Goal, 0-1, (West Bromwich Albion), Chris Brunt
🥅 | 9’ Goal, 0-2, (West Bromwich Albion), Fabian Delph o.g.
⚽ | 12’ Goal, 1-2, Andreas Weimann
⚽ | 24’ Goal, 2-2, Leandro Bacuna, Assist by Matt Lowton
⚽ | 37’ Goal, 3-2, Fabian Delph, Assist by Christian Benteke
🥅 | 43’ Goal, 3-3, (West Bromwich Albion), Youssuf Mulumbu
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 3-3 West Bromwich Albion
⚽ | 64’ Goal, 4-3, Christian Benteke (pen)
🔁 | 65’ Sub off, Matt Lowton, Sub on, Grant Holt
🔁 | 76’ Sub off, Karim El Ahmadi, Sub on, Yacouba Sylla
🔁 | 80’ Sub off, Andreas Weimann, Sub on, Nathan Baker
🟨 | 89’ Booking, Grant Holt
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 4-3 West Bromwich Albion
ON THIS DAY
Paul Lambert’s Villa win for the first time in four games only their third home League match in twelve to remain tenth in the table despite having recorded just seven wins in twenty three.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
West Bromwich Albion
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1967-68
FIXTURE HISTORY
West Bromwich Albion
Previous 5 vs. Albion: 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2013-14 |
Matchday | #26 |
League Game | #23 |
Manager Game | #72 |
Wednesday, 29 January 2014
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Paul Lambert | 🏴 | Glasgow, 2012-2015
Referee: Mark Clattenburg | 🏴 | Durham, 2000-2017
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟨 3-3
FT Score: 🟩 4-3
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟩
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Paul Lambert | 🏴 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 72 | 🟩 | 24 🟨 | 17 🟥 31 | 1.24
Villa Career Form:
Mid Table
Paul Lambert | 🏴 |
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Mark Clattenburg | 🏴 | Durham, 2000-2017
Previous 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 5 Oct 13, Villa 0-0 Hull (a)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Simon Beck, Gary Beswick
Mark Clattenburg
CARDS
Villa
🟨
West Bromwich Albion
🟨 🟨 🟨
TEAM NEWS
Matt Lowton replaces Gabriel Agbonlahor (injury).
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 25.20 |
Oldest Player |
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 | 29.41 |
Youngest Player |
M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | 22.46 |
MANAGER
Paul Lambert | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
RB Matt Lowton | 🏴 | 🔥 | 🔁 |
LB Ryan Bertrand | 🏴 |
CB Ron Vlaar | 🇳🇱 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
M Karim El Ahmadi | 🇲🇦 | 🔁 |
M Ashley Westwood | 🏴 |
M Fabian Delph | 🏴 | ⚽ |
M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | ⚽ |
CF Christian Benteke | 🇧🇪 | ⚽ | 🔥 |
F Andreas Weimann | 🇦🇹 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
MANAGER
Pepe Mel | 🇪🇸 |
West Bromwich Albion
GK Ben Foster | 🏴 |
CB Jonas Olsson | 🇸🇪 | 🟨 |
CB Liam Ridgewell (ex) | 🏴 |
CB Diego Lugano | 🇺🇾 | 🟨 |
RB Steven Reid | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
M Claudio Yacob | 🇦🇷 |
M James Morrison | 🏴 |
M Chris Brunt | 🇬🇧 | ⚽ | 🟨 |
M Youssuf Mulumbu | 🇨🇩 | ⚽ |
CF Victor Anichebe | 🇳🇬 | 🔁 |
CF Nicolas Anelka | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
Not necessarily indicative of the actual matchday formation
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 CF Grant Holt | 🏴 | 🟨 | for RB Matt Lowton | 🏴 | 65’ |
🔁 M Yacouba Sylla | 🇲🇱 | for M Karim El Ahmadi | 🇲🇦 | 76’ |
🔁 CB Nathan Baker | 🏴 | for F Andreas Weimann | 🇦🇹 | 80’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | RB Steven Reid | 🇮🇪 | (CF Saido Berahino | 🏴 |)
🔁 | CF Victor Anichebe | 🇳🇬 | (CF Matěj Vydra | 🇨🇿 |)
🔁 | CF Nicolas Anelka | 🇫🇷 | (W Morgan Amalfitano | 🇫🇷 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Jed Steer | 🏴 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴 |
W Aleksandar Tonev | 🇧🇬 |
CF Nicklas Helenius | 🇩🇰 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Boaz Myhill | 🏴 |
LB Billy Jones | 🏴 |
CB Gareth McAuley | 🇬🇧 |
M Graeme Dorrans | 🏴 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI: £32.36m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 4/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/18
Homegrown: 3/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
Team Cost: £13.96m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/14
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Injury | 6 |
W Charles N’Zogbia | 🇫🇷 |
CB Jores Okore | 🇩🇰 |
LB Joe Bennett | 🏴 |
M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 |
CF Libor Kozák | 🇨🇿 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 |
Bomb Squad | 1 |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 |
Out on Loan | 5 |
M Samir Carruthers | 🏴 | MK Dons
F Darren Bent | 🏴 | Fulham
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 | 46%
Possession A | 54%
Shots F | 6
Shots A | 13
Shots on Target F | 2
Shots on Target A | 5
Corners F | 3
Corners A | 2
Fouls F | 17
Fouls A | 14
LEAGUE TABLE
MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
“It’s not great for the heart, to go down 2-0 in a derby. All credit to the team, the response was fantastic.
“With derby games, it doesn’t matter where you are in the table, they’re really unpredictable.
“He [Christian Benteke] did the same last season with the incredible scoring run. His general game is getting back to what it was.”
Paul Lambert, Wednesday, 29 January 2014.
*BBC Sport*
Wednesday, 29 January 2014
Aston Villa edged West Brom in a remarkable West Midlands derby.
The Baggies led 2-0 inside nine minutes through Chris Brunt’s 25-yard effort and Fabian Delph’s own goal.
Andreas Weimann lobbed in to pull one back, Leandro Bacuna levelled with a fortunate effort and Delph put Villa ahead with a fierce drive.
Youssouf Mulumbu shot through Brad Guzan’s legs to make it 3-3 at half-time but Christian Benteke scored a penalty to win it for Villa.
When the two teams met in November, West Brom took an early 2-0 lead before Villa rescued a 2-2 draw.But that was nothing compared to what happened at Villa Park.
Derbies are often tense occasions but it was a game with defensive errors, brilliant strikes and six first-half goals. And pleasingly for Villa fans, Benteke scored in a third consecutive game after almost four months without a goal.
Villa are up to 10th in the table while the Baggies remain 15th, but are now only three points above the relegation zone.
After a sloppy opening three minutes, the opener, while brilliant, came from a mistake. Benteke lost the ball 50 yards from goal and Liam Ridgewell found Brunt with a piercing ball from the left, allowing the Northern Ireland international to convert a brilliant half-volley from distance.
And five minutes later their lead was doubled. Brunt took a quick free-kick to James Morrison, who squared the ball only for Delph to divert it into his own net.
But Villa pulled one back, with only the second shot of the game. Goalkeeper Guzan played a long ball forward that Baggies defender Diego Lugano headed back to Weimann and the Austrian, who would have been offside had he been found by a team-mate, lobbed Ben Foster.
The hosts were starting to get on top and Weimann forced a save from Foster from a corner.
And the equaliser came when Matt Lowton played the ball across to Bacuna, whose fortunate shot hit his own shoulder and looped in - with Benteke touching the ball after it had crossed the line.
West Brom, in their second game under new boss Pepe Mel, lost Nicolas Anelka to an injury after a 50-50 tackle with Lowton, as the game started to calm down.
But that lull did not last long as Benteke flicked a long ball onto Delph, who beat Steven Reid with ease on the edge of the box before firing in off the underside of the crossbar from an angle.
Benteke almost made it 4-2 to Villa but Foster kept his close-range effort out with his foot.
And moments later the Belgian was made to pay when Victor Anichebe found Morrison, who slipped in Mulumbu to slot the ball through the legs of the onrushing Guzan.
The second half started slowly but West Brom were looking much improved. Morgan Amalfitano forced a save from Guzan before Lugano headed wide from six yards out, totally unmarked, from Brunt’s free-kick.
Lugano has been heavily criticised this season for a lack of pace, and surprisingly kept his place ahead of Gareth McAuley, who was on the bench after returning from injury.
And the 33-year-old’s night got even worse when he pulled down Benteke by the head in the box, with the striker stepping up to send Foster the wrong way.
Both sides made a host of substitutions and the match lost its momentum as it ended with just the seven goals.
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