Game #5247
Aston Villa
Sunday, 2 March 2014
Won
11th (+1)
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩
Premier League
Attendance: 30,303
Norwich City
Villa Park
Aston Villa
4-1
Norwich City
Assist(s) | Ron Vlaar | 25’ | Ashley Westwood | 27’ | Andreas Weimann | 37’ |
MATCH SUMMARY
Having played four relegation sides in succession Villa finally score and win having lost two and drawn one against their fellow strugglers under Paul Lambert.
KEY MAN
Leandro Bacuna celebrates scoring Villa's third to secure a first win in five and third in fifteen under Paul Lambert, Sunday, 2 March 2014.
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MATCH TIMELINE
Sunday, 2 March 2014
🥅 | 3’ Goal, 0-1, (Norwich City), Wes Hoolahan
⚽ | 25’ Goal, 1-1, Christian Benteke, Assist by Ron Vlaar
⚽ | 27’ Goal, 2-1, Christian Benteke, Assist by Ashley Westwood
⚽ | 37’ Goal, 3-1, Christian Benteke, Assist by Andreas Weimann
⚽ | 41’ Goal, 4-1, Own Goal, Sébastien Bassong
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 4-1 Norwich City
🔁 | 81’ Sub off, Andreas Weimann, Sub on, Marc Albrighton
🔁 | 82’ Sub off, Christian Benteke, Sub on, Grant Holt
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 4-1 Norwich City
ON THIS DAY
Ten months on from his crucial hat-trick that effectively saved Paul Lambert’s Villa from relegation, Christian Benteke did it again to lift Villa to 11th place, seven points off the drop zone with ten to play.
Paul Lambert’s Villa had now won four of fourteen home games in 2013-14 and had eight victories in twenty eight with this just their third in the last fifteen.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Norwich City
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1984–85
FIXTURE HISTORY
Norwich City
Previous 5 vs. Norwich: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟩
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2013-14 |
Matchday | #31 |
League Game | #28 |
Manager Game | #77 |
Sunday, 2 March 2014
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Paul Lambert | 🏴 | Glasgow, 2012-2015
Referee: Anthony Taylor | 🏴 | Wythenshaw, 2006-
Kick off: 4.30pm
HT Score: 🟩 4-1
FT Score: 🟩 4-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Paul Lambert | 🏴 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 77 | 🟩 | 25 🟨 | 18 🟥 34 | 1.21
Villa Career Form:
Bottom 8
Paul Lambert | 🏴 |
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Anthony Taylor | 🏴 | Wythenshaw, 2006-
Previous 5: 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 26 Oct 13, Villa 0-2 Everton (h)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Mick McDonough, Matt Wilkes
Anthony Taylor
CARDS
Villa
None
Norwich City
🟨 🟨 🟨
TEAM NEWS
Paul Lambert names an unchanged line up meanwhile Shay Given returns from loan to be immediately deposited by Lambert into the infamous 'bomb squad' of first team players not to be considered for duty. Given will be a loan member as Lambert also chooses to send previous occupant Alan Hutton out on loan for the remainder of the season.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 25.38 |
Oldest Player |
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 | 29.50 |
Youngest Player |
M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | 22.55 |
MANAGER
Paul Lambert | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
LB Ryan Bertrand | 🏴 |
CB Ron Vlaar | 🇳🇱 | 🔥 |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴 |
M Karim El Ahmadi | 🇲🇦 |
M Ashley Westwood | 🏴 | 🔥 |
M Fabian Delph | 🏴 |
M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 |
CF Christian Benteke | 🇧🇪 | ⚽ | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CF Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 |
CF Andreas Weimann | 🇦🇹 | 🔥 | 🔁 |
MANAGER
Chris Hughton | 🇮🇪 |
Norwich City
GK John Ruddy | 🏴 |
LB Martin Olsson | 🇸🇪 |
CB Russell Martin | 🏴 |
CB Sébastien Bassong | 🇨🇲 |
CB Joseph Yobo | 🇳🇬 |
M Bradley Johnson | 🏴 |
W Robert Snodgrass | 🏴 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Wes Hoolahan | 🇮🇪 | ⚽ |
W Nathan Redmond | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Alexander Tettey | 🇳🇴 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
CF Gary Hooper | 🏴 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 W Marc Albrighton | 🏴 | for CF Andreas Weimann | 🇦🇹 | 81’ |
🔁 CF Grant Holt | 🏴 | for CF Christian Benteke | 🇧🇪 | 82’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | W Robert Snodgrass | 🏴 | (W Anthony Pilkington | 🇮🇪 |)
🔁 | W Nathan Redmond | 🏴 | (CF Johan Elmander | 🇸🇪 | 🟨 |)
🔁 | M Alexander Tettey | 🇳🇴 | (M Jonny Howson | 🏴 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Jed Steer | 🏴 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
LB Joe Bennett | 🏴 |
M Yacouba Sylla | 🇲🇱 |
F Callum Robinson | 🇮🇪 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Mark Bunn | 🏴 |
CB Ryan Bennett | 🏴 |
RB Steven Whittaker | 🏴 |
CF Luciano Becchio | 🇦🇷 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI: £26.82m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Homegrown: 3/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/18
Homegrown: 6/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
Team Cost: £21.18m
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 10/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Injury | 4 |
W Charles N’Zogbia | 🇫🇷 |
CB Jores Okore | 🇩🇰 |
M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 |
CF Libor Kozák | 🇨🇿 |
Bomb Squad | 1 |
GK Shay Given | 🇮🇪 |
Out on Loan | 7 |
F Darren Bent | 🏴 | Fulham
M Jack Grealish | 🏴 | Notts County
LB Enda Stevens | 🇮🇪 | Doncaster
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴 | Coventry
M Gary Gardner | 🏴 | Wednesday
F Jordan Bowery | 🏴 | Doncaster
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 | Bolton
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 | 49%
Possession A | 51%
Shots F | 4
Shots A | 4
Shots on Target F | 2
Shots on Target A | 2
Corners F | 6
Corners A | 2
Fouls F | 12
Fouls A | 10
LEAGUE TABLE
MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
“It wasn’t a great start for us but for that half an hour period I thought we were blistering.
“Christian’s first goal probably set the tone for what was going to happen.”
Paul Lambert, Sunday, 2 March 2014.
*BBC Sport*
Sunday, 2 March 2014
Aston Villa came from behind and eased their relegation worries with four goals in 15 minutes in a ruthless first-half display against Norwich.
Wes Hoolahan side-footed Norwich ahead but Christian Benteke struck twice in two minutes - a superb volley and a header - to put his side in front.
A clinical counter-attack ended with Leandro Bacuna’s curling effort.
Sebastien Bassong’s own goal added to Norwich’s woes and the Canaries remain close to the drop-zone.
Norwich, who would have hoped to capitalise on last week’s 1-0 victory over Tottenham are four points ahead of 18th placed Sunderland, but the League Cup finalists have played two fewer games.
The Canaries’ final four league matches of the season are against Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal.
But ahead of this clash, City manager Chris Hughton said his team should accept the game’s “ups and downs”, though he would not have expected to experience such a range of emotions in a mesmerising opening 45 minutes.
His team made the perfect start - Gary Hooper picking out recalled team-mate Hoolahan who calmly side-footed into the corner from 12 yards - but dramatically unravelled thereafter.
Such a handsome victory over his former employers will no doubt please Villa manager Paul Lambert, but he will mainly take delight in his side having opened a seven-point gap between themselves and the Black Cats.
It was a result few would have predicted when Norwich were breaking forward with ease in the first 10 minutes and murmurs of unrest could be heard rippling around the stadium.
But momentum swung Villa’s way in an astonishing 15-minute period and the boos were soon replaced by roars of approval.
Benteke inspired the revival and his first goal was breathtaking. With his back to goal the Belgian beautifully controlled Ron Vlaar’s hopeful ball into the box with his chest and, with a shuffle of the hips, volleyed beyond a helpless John Ruddy.
The striker’s second was a simple close-range header from an Ashley Westwood corner but equally as effective.
Norwich were shell-shocked and Villa took advantage as Gabriel Agbonlahor, Andreas Weimann and Bacuna counter-attacked with pace, with the latter curling his strike into the far post.
The visitors then struck a nail into their own coffin when Bassong, under pressure from Agbonlahor, directed Fabian Delph’s cross into his own net.
It was only the second time Aston Villa had scored four goals in the first half of a Premier League match. The last time they did so was in their 7-1 win against Wimbledon in February, 1995.
Villa had not scored in three league matches prior to this match so it was perhaps optimistic to expect them to repeat their free-scoring first-half exploits after the break.
Agbonlahor should have extended his team’s advantage but instead headed Delph’s cross straight at Ruddy. The former England forward was denied once more by Ruddy in the dying minutes as the onrushing goalkeeper saved with his legs.
But they were misses which had little impact on a game which ended Villa’s four-match winless run in the league and secured them just their third win in 15 matches.
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