Game #5283
Sunday, 1 February 2015
Attendance: 59,958
Lost
Premier League
16th (-1)
Arsenal
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟥
Emirates Stadium
Villa's woeful form for two and a half seasons under Paul Lambert continues as they fail to score for the sixth consecutive League game and record their fourth defeat over the period.
Arsenal
5-0
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | None
KEY MAN
Carles Gil can't repeat his FA Cup heroics on the bigger stage as Villa are hammered once again under Paul Lambert, Sunday, 1 February 2015.
RELATED MATCHES
MATCH TIMELINE
🥅 | 8’ Goal, 0-1, (Arsenal), Olivier Giroud
🕒 | HT Arsenal 1-0 Aston Villa
🟨 | 57’ Booking, Ciaran Clark
🥅 | 58’ Goal, 0-2, (Arsenal), Mesut Özil
🥅 | 63’ Goal, 0-3, (Arsenal), Theo Walcott
🔁 | 66’ Sub off, Andreas Weimann, Sub on, Scott Sinclair 🟢
🔁 | 66’ Sub off, Tom Cleverley , Sub on, Gabriel Agbonlahor
🟨 | 68’ Booking, Carles Gil
🥅 | 75’ Goal, 0-4, (Arsenal, pen), Santi Carzola
🔁 | 76’ Sub off, Carlos Sánchez, Sub on, Ashley Westwood
🥅 | 90’+2 Goal, 0-5, (Arsenal), Héctor Bellerín
🕒 | FT Arsenal 5-0 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Paul Lambert’s Villa lose their eleventh game in twenty three Premier League matches and have now failed to score in fourteen.
Since the start of 2013-14 Paul Lambert had led Villa to thirty one defeats in sixty one League matches.
Of his total of 113 games in charge, Lambert had lost 54.
As a result Lambert breaks new records of failure as for the first time in Villa’s history they have now failed to score in six consecutive league games.
Meanwhile, their tally of 11 league goals scored this season was the lowest in the top nine tiers of English football’s pyramid of 649 teams.
Villa had gone eight Premier League games without a win and scored only once in that sequence.
Lambert’s Villa had secured 12 points from a possible 57, scoring just 7 goals in those 19 matches whilst conceding 29.
The 0-5 reverse at Arsenal was Villa’s biggest defeat since the 0-8 loss at Chelsea in the Premier League on 23 December 2012 - which is the heaviest league defeat in their history - and was also masterminded by Lambert.
In moderately less depressing news, winger Scott Sinclair made his Villa debut aged 25 after joining from Manchester City on loan to the end of the season.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Arsenal
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 2013-14
FIXTURE HISTORY
Previous 5 vs. Arsenal: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2014-15 |
Matchday | #26 |
League Game | #23 |
Manager Game | #113 |
Sunday, 1 February 2015
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Paul Lambert | 🏴 | Glasgow, 2012-2015
Referee: Anthony Taylor | 🏴 | Wythenshaw, 2006-
Kick off: 1.30pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Score: 🟥 0-5
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟥
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Anthony Taylor | 🏴 | Wythenshaw, 2006-
Previous 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 18 Oct 14, Villa 0-3 Everton (a)
Cards: 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Gary Beswick, Dave Bryan
CARDS
Villa
🟨 🟨
Arsenal
None
TEAM NEWS
Brad Guzan and Fabian Delph replace Shay Given and Leandro Bacuna.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 26.22 |
Oldest Player |
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 | 30.42 |
Youngest Player |
W Carles Gil | 🇪🇸 | 22.21 |
MANAGER
Paul Lambert | 🏴 |
MANAGER
Arsène Wenger | 🇫🇷 |
Aston Villa
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
LB Kieran Richardson | 🏴 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
CB Jores Okore | 🇩🇰 |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 |
M Carlos Sánchez | 🇨🇴 | 🔁 |
M Fabian Delph | 🏴 |
M Tom Cleverley | 🏴 | 🔁 |
W Carles Gil | 🇪🇸 | 🟨 |
CF Christian Benteke | 🇧🇪 |
F Andreas Weimann | 🇦🇹 | 🔁 |
Arsenal
GK David Ospina | 🇨🇴 |
LB Nacho Monreal | 🇪🇸 |
CB Per Mertesacker | 🇩🇪 |
CB Laurent Koscielny | 🇫🇷 |
RB Héctor Bellerín | 🇪🇸 | ⚽ |
M Mesut Özil | 🇩🇪 | ⚽ |
M Aaron Ramsey | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Santi Carzola | 🇪🇸 | ⚽ |
M Francis Coquelin | 🇫🇷 |
W Theo Walcott | 🏴 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CF Olivier Giroud | 🇫🇷 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 W Scott Sinclair | 🏴 | 🟢 | for F Andreas Weimann | 🇦🇹 | 66’ |
🔁 F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 | for M Tom Cleverley | 🏴 | 66’ |
🔁 M Ashley Westwood | 🏴 | for M Carlos Sánchez | 🇨🇴 | 76’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | M Aaron Ramsey | 🏴 | (M Matthew Flamini | 🇫🇷 |)
🔁 | W Theo Walcott | 🏴 | (CF Chuba Akpom | 🏴 |)
🔁 | CF Olivier Giroud | 🇫🇷 | (M Tomáš Rosický | 🇨🇿 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Shay Given | 🇮🇪 |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴 |
RB Aly Cissokho | 🇫🇷 |
M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Wojciech Szczęsny | 🇵🇱 |
CB Gabriel Paulista | 🇧🇷 |
CB Calum Chambers | 🏴 |
LB Kieran Gibbs | 🏴 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI: £37.75m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 4/11
Homegrown: 2/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/18
Homegrown: 4/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
Team Cost: £129.78m
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 2/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/18
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Injury | 4 |
CF Libor Kozák | 🇨🇿 |
CB Philippe Senderos | 🇨🇭 |
CB Ron Vlaar | 🇳🇱 |
M Joe Cole | 🏴 |
Out on Loan | 10 |
CF Nicklas Helenius | 🇩🇰 | Aalborg BK
M Yacouba Sylla | 🇲🇱 | Kayseri Erciyesspor
LB Antonio Luna | 🇪🇸 | Hellas Verona
W Aleksandar Tonev | 🇧🇬 | Celtic
LB Joe Bennett | 🏴 | Brighton
GK Jed Steer | 🏴 | Yeovil
LB Enda Stevens | 🇮🇪 | Doncaster
F Darren Bent | 🏴 | Derby
M Gary Gardner | 🏴 | Forest
M Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 | Wigan
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
W Scott Sinclair | 🏴 |
FINAL APPEARANCES
MATCH STATS
Possession F | 53%
Possession A | 47%
Shots F | 4
Shots A | 5
Shots on Target F | 3
Shots on Target A | 4
Corners F | 7
Corners A | 7
Fouls F | 9
Fouls A | 7
TABLE

PROGRAMME



MATCHDAY QUOTES
“You can’t print what I’m feeling at the moment.
“We don’t want to be in this position – we’ve been in it for too long. All we can do is keep persevering and working hard. There are still twists and turns to come this season.”
Paul Lambert, Sunday, 1 February 2015.
*Sky Sports*
Sunday, 1 February 2015
Arsenal compounded more misery on goal-shy Aston Villa as they registered a 5-0 win at Emirates Stadium to move back up to fifth in the Premier League.
Olivier Giroud fired home as he latched on to Mesut Ozil’s superb flick, before Ozil doubled the lead early in the second half with a cool finish.
Theo Walcott finished off a sweeping counter to make it 3-0, and Santi Cazorla added a fourth from the spot, before Hector Bellerin capped it off with a fine strike in stoppage time.
Andreas Weimann saw a header brilliantly saved by David Ospina at the other end, while Ashley Westwood was denied late on as Villa desperately tried to avoid the unwanted club record of six straight Premier League games without scoring. But they couldn’t breach the Gunners’ defence and have now gone over 10 hours in the league without finding the net, while Arsenal registered their third win in a row - the first time they have done so this season.
Villa played a high line early on and were given a warning when Walcott raced in behind only to be tackled by Jores Okore, but their defence was split open again just a few minutes later.
The ball was fired forward by Bellerin, and Ozil produced a stunning first-time volleyed flick off the side of his boot, playing it beyond the defence for Giroud to chase. The Frenchman eventually got it under control and dinked the ball past Brad Guzan to put the hosts in front inside eight minutes.
The visitors’ tactics seemed to change as they started to enjoy more possession, but the Arsenal chances kept coming as Cazorla held off Carlos Sanchez before smashing a low effort against the upright.
Villa’s best chance of the half came a few minutes before the break, as the lively Carles Gil whipped in a cross from the right and Weimann rose high to nod down towards goal, drawing an excellent stop from Ospina.
Christian Benteke drilled a shot wide of the target as the visitors started the second half brightly, but the lead was doubled 10 minutes into the second period as Giroud played the ball beyond Villa’s high line, and Ozil latched on to it before slotting a low shot right into the bottom corner.
The hosts soon added a third as they broke forward from a Villa corner, and Cazorla played the ball into Walcott, who took an excellent touch before curling a right-footed shot into the bottom corner.
Substitute Chuba Akpom made an immediate impact when introduced soon after, racing into the box and taking the ball away from Guzan, who took out the defender to concede a penalty.
Cazorla stepped up and fired it down the middle, and Guzan got a huge hand on it only to see it fly into the corner of the net, much to his frustration.
As 10 hours since Aston Villa’s last Premier League goal passed, the visitors looked down and out and unlikely to get on the scoresheet.
Arsenal rounded off a superb afternoon in stoppage time as Cazorla squared the ball to Bellerin, who caught the ball perfectly with the side of his foot to steer it in off the post from the edge of the box.
Substitute Westwood nearly gave the visiting fans something to cheer, testing Ospina with an excellent long-range effort, but the goalkeeper stood firm to keep a clean sheet and make it six Premier League games without scoring.