Game #5257
Sunday, 11 May 2014
Attendance: 35,826
Lost
Premier League
15th (-)
Tottenham Hotspur
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥
White Hart Lane
Villa end the season with a second successive thrashing as they are ripped asunder at White Hart Lane to leave them with twenty defeats in thirty eight Premier League games having failed to score seventeen times in 2013-14.
That Paul Lambert was retained in post after recording Villa’s worst ever defeat just four months into the job was astounding.
That he remained in place for the 2013-14 campaign and throughout its unfolding misery was a devastating indictment on the incompetence and ill will that had infected the club.
That he should be relieved of his duties at the season end was unquestionable. Instead he was rewarded with a new contract.
Tottenham Hotspur
3-0
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | None
KEY MAN
Ryan Bertrand signs off his loan spell with a twentieth defeat in thirty eight Premier League games under the woeful Paul Lambert, Sunday, 11 May 2014
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MATCH TIMELINE
🥅 | 14’ Goal, 0-1, (Tottenham Hotspur), Paulinho
🥅 | 35’ Goal, 0-2, (Tottenham Hotspur), Nathan Baker o.g.
🥅 | 38’ Goal, 0-3, (Tottenham Hotspur, pen), Emmanuel Adebayor
🕒 | HT Tottenham Hotspur 3-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Jordan Bowery, Sub on, Karim El Ahmadi 🔴
🔁 | 83’ Sub off, Leandro Bacuna, Sub on, Callum Robinson
🕒 | FT Tottenham Hotspur 3-0 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Paul Lambert’s Villa lose for the twentieth time in thirty eight League games.
Paul Lambert’s Villa have a 53% loss rate across an entire season.
Paul Lambert’s Villa have won just 10 League games in thirty eight.
Paul Lambert’s Villa have a 26% win rate across an entire season.
Paul Lambert’s Villa have failed to score in seventeen of thirty eight Premier League fixtures.
Paul Lambert’s Villa have failed to score in 45% of their League fixtures.
Paul Lambert’s Villa have won six home League matches of nineteen played.
Paul Lambert’s Villa have a home win rate of 31% across an entire season.
Paul Lambert’s Villa had now lost 42 of the 87 games under which he had managed - the worst performance of any Villa manager.
Paul Lambert’s Villa had a 48% loss rate across this reign.
Paul Lambert’s Villa had scored just 43 goals at a rate of 1.05 per game.
Paul Lambert’s Villa won consecutive games just once throughout the season.
Paul Lambert’s Villa finished on their lowest points total for nearly 30 years.
Paul Lambert presided over Villa’s biggest ever loss in the club’s 140 year existence.
Just one of these statistics was enough for Lambert’s removal.
Yet for a second successive season Lambert was allowed to survive.
Unlike in 2012-13, however belatedly, the support had turned and saw the reality for what it was.
Needless to say Lambert’s reaction was to blame the support.
Already the squad looked like it would take years of investment to rebuild to anything resembling a side that could compete above the relegation places, Villa’s owner was playing with fire, it was just a matter of how big and how damaging the blaze would get.
Meanwhile, even Lambert’s signings were headed for the exit door.
A squad that Lambert built hadn’t survived even two seasons as Brett Holman, Antonio Luna and Aleksandar Tonev were gone, with Matt Lowton, Joe Bennett and Leandro Bacuna soon to be ostracised and Karim El Ahmadi and Jordan Bowery finished.
Midfielder Karim El Ahmadi made his final appearance for Villa aged 29 before returning to Feyenoord for a fee of £630,000 in September 2014. El Ahmadi joined from Feyenoord for £2,520,000 2 years earlier. In total El Ahmadi made 56 appearances, 13 as substitute and scored 3 goals.
Forward Jordan Bowery made his final appearance for Villa aged 22 before returning to lower league football with Rotherham United in July 2014 in return for £270,000. Villa had paid Rotherham £567,000 for his services 2 years earlier. Bowery made 22 appearances, 16 as substitute without scoring.
Left back Ryan Bertrand made the sixteenth and final appearance of his loan spell before returning to parent club Chelsea.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
UEFA Cup / Europa League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Tottenham Hotspur
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup / Europa League: 🏆🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 2007-08
FIXTURE HISTORY
Tottenham Hotspur
Previous 5 vs. Spurs: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2013-14 |
Matchday | #41 |
League Game | #38 |
Manager Game | #87 |
Sunday, 11 May 2014
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Paul Lambert | 🏴 | Glasgow, 2012-2015
Referee: Jonathan Moss | 🏴 | West Riding, 2005-2022
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-3
FT Score: 🟥 0-3
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Jonathan Moss | 🏴 | West Riding, 2005-2022
Previous 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 18 Jan 14, Villa 2-2 Liverpool (a) 🆘
Cards: 🟨
Assistants: Simon Long, Lee Betts
CARDS
TEAM NEWS
Leandro Bacuna and Gabriel Agbonlahor replace Ciaran Clark and Karim El Ahmadi.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 25.12 |
Oldest Player |
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 | 29.69 |
Youngest Player |
M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | 22.78 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
Paul Lambert | 🏴 |
André Villas-Boas | 🇵🇹 |
Aston Villa
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
LB Ryan Bertrand | 🏴 |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴 |
CB Ron Vlaar | 🇳🇱 |
RB Matt Lowton | 🏴 |
M Ashley Westwood | 🏴 |
M Fabian Delph | 🏴 |
M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | 🔁 |
F Jordan Bowery | 🏴 | 🔁 |
F Andreas Weimann | 🇦🇹 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 |
Tottenham Hotspur
GK Hugo Lloris | 🇫🇷 |
LB Danny Rose | 🏴 |
CB Vlad Chiricheş | 🇧🇪 |
CB Michael Dawson | 🏴 |
RB Kyle Naughton | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Paulinho | 🇧🇷 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
M Gylfi Sigurðsson | 🇮🇸 | 🔁 |
M Christian Eriksen | 🇩🇰 |
M Sandro | 🇧🇷 | 🔁 |
CF Emmanuel Adebayor | 🇹🇬 | ⚽ |
CF Harry Kane | 🏴 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 M Karim El Ahmadi | 🇲🇦 | 🔴 | for CF Jordan Bowery | 🏴 | 46’ |
🔁 CF Callum Robinson | 🇮🇪 | for M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | 83’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | M Paulinho | 🇧🇷 | (M Nabil Bentaleb | 🇩🇿 |)
🔁 | M Gylfi Sigurðsson | 🇮🇸 | (M Alex Pritchard | 🏴 |)
🔁 | M Sandro | 🇧🇷 | (CB Miloš Veljković | 🇷🇸 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Jed Steer | 🏴 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
M Yacouba Sylla | 🇲🇱 |
M Jack Grealish | 🏴 |
CF Grant Holt | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
LB Zeki Fryers | 🏴 |
M Etienne Capoue | 🇫🇷 |
CF Roberto Soldado | 🇪🇸 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI: £22.85m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 7/11
Homegrown: 4/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 10/18
Homegrown: 7/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
Team Cost: £86.85m
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 4/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Injury | 10 |
W Charles N’Zogbia | 🇫🇷 |
CB Jores Okore | 🇩🇰 |
M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 |
CF Libor Kozák | 🇨🇿 |
F Nicklas Helenius | 🇩🇰 |
M Karim El Ahmadi | 🇲🇦 |
CF Christian Benteke | 🇧🇪 |
M Gary Gardner | 🏴 |
LB Joe Bennett | 🏴 |
W Marc Albrighton | 🏴 |
Bomb Squad | 1 |
GK Shay Given | 🇮🇪 |
Out on Loan | 3 |
F Darren Bent | 🏴 | Fulham
LB Enda Stevens | 🇮🇪 | Doncaster
F Nathan Delfouneso | 🏴 | Coventry
UNAVAILABLE
Not Recorded
Player Abbreviations:
GK : Goalkeeper
LB, RB, FB : Left Back, Right Back, Full Back
CB, D : Centre Back, Defender
M, W : Midfielder. Winger
F, CF : Forward, Centre Forward
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game
Symbols:
⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution
🟨 | Booking
🟥 | Sending off
🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
DEBUT APPEARANCES
FINAL APPEARANCES
M Karim El Ahmadi | 🇲🇦 |
MATCH STATS
Possession F | 45%
Possession A | 55%
Shots F | 4
Shots A | 12
Shots on Target F | 1
Shots on Target A | 6
Corners F | 1
Corners A | 5
Fouls F | 11
Fouls A | 11
TABLE

PROGRAMME



MATCHDAY QUOTES
“[The negative reaction of fans] is never nice because the lads have given everything in their body to avoid relegation and get over the line.
“Supporters come a long, long way and pay good money to watch and try to see their team win. You’ve got to be big enough to take it.
“They’re a young group of players as it is and it’ll probably affect even the experienced ones.”
Paul Lambert, Sunday, 11 May 2014.
*BBC Sport*
Sunday, 11 May 2014
*Tottenham beat Manchester United to a place in next season’s Europa League after an easy win over Aston Villa.*
Paulinho cut through the heart of the Villa defence to shoot past Brad Guzan to put Spurs in early control.
Nathan Baker headed Danny Rose’s cross past his own goalkeeper before Emmanuel Adebayor scored from the spot.
Spurs finished the season in sixth place, three points shy of their total last term, in what could be boss Tim Sherwood’s last game in charge.
Despite finishing five points clear of Manchester United, uncertainty surrounds Sherwood’s future as the club has been linked with several replacements for next season.
That search comes after Spurs failed to make the Champions League following huge investment last summer and a season where Sherwood appeared to occasionally fall out with his players.
Sherwood has likened his status to that of a “supply teacher”, enhanced by claims from midfielder Sandro this week that his manager would depart in the summer.
Yet with the Brazilian player in the starting line-up, Spurs did not look like a side with a lack of respect for their manager, as Sherwood had stated, and the game was as good as over by half-time with all the goals coming before the break.
The result did little to enhance the prospects of Villa manager Paul Lambert, who also faces uncertainty after another inconsistent season where his side finished 15th, five points above the drop zone.
Villa only secured their Premier League status with two games left and with American owner Randy Lerner set to make an announcement about his role in the club, both clubs could be set for a summer of upheaval.
It took 20 minutes before Villa threatened the hosts’ goal and by that stage they could have been three goals behind.
Harry Kane had twice gone close before Paulinho opened the scoring after 14 minutes. The Brazilian, who unlike compatriot Sandro has been selected in his national team’s World Cup squad, strode through the Villa defence and collected Gylfi Sigursson’s pass before beating Guzan at a second attempt.
Shorn of the injured Christian Benteke, Villa lacked any purpose going forward and they went further behind when Baker headed into his own net.
It got worse before the interval. After a corner was cleared, Sandro’s shot caught Gabriel Agbonlahor’s arm and referee Jonathan Moss had no hesitation in pointing to the spot.
Adebayor dispatched his kick from 12 yards for his 14th goal of the season.
The second half was a damp squib in comparison but in a rare moment of action Fabian Delph fired wide after 57 minutes following Villa’s best move of the match.
Sherwood and Sandro exchanged a friendly hug after the midfielder was substituted and there was a scare for American goalkeeper Guzan after a collision with Kane.
Whether Sherwood will be smiling when his future is discussed with chairman Daniel Levy remains to be seen.
*Tottenham head coach Tim Sherwood:*
“If it is to be my last game, life goes on. There were no tears shed out there on the lap of honour.
“This club means a lot to me but if I’m not to continue here as manager I’ll be somewhere else.
“I’ve got a 59 per cent win ratio in the Premier League and I think if I had started the season in charge we’d be in the Champions League,”