🟥 16 May 2015, Villa 1-6 Southampton, St Mary's
Scorer(s) | Christian Benteke | 45’+3 |
Assist(s) | Leandro Bacuna | 45’+3 |
Fixture List
🟩 16 Aug 2014, Villa 1-0 Stoke, Britannia
Premier League
🟨 23 Aug 2014, Villa 0-0 Newcastle, Villa Park
Premier League
🟥 27 Aug 2014, Villa 0-1 Orient, Villa Park
League Cup
🟩 31 Aug 2014, Villa 2-1 Hull, Villa Park
Premier League
🟩 13 Sep 2014, Villa 1-0 Liverpool, Anfield
Premier League
🟥 20 Sep 2014, Villa 0-3 Arsenal, Villa Park
Premier League
🟥 27 Sep 2014, Villa 0-3 Chelsea, Stamford Bridge
Premier League
🟥 4 Oct 2014, Villa 0-2 Manchester City, Villa Park
Premier League
🟥 18 Oct 2014, Villa 0-3 Everton, Goodison
Premier League
🟥 27 Oct 2014, Villa 0-2 QPR, Loftus Road
Premier League
🟥 2 Nov 2014, Villa 1-2 Spurs, Villa Park
Premier League
🟨 8 Nov 2014, Villa 0-0 West Ham, Upton Park
Premier League
🟨 24 Nov 2014, Villa 1-1 Southampton, Villa Park
Premier League
🟨 29 Nov 2014, Villa 1-1 Burnley, Turf Moor
Premier League
🟩 2 Dec 2014, Villa 1-0 Palace, Selhurst
Premier League
🟩 7 Dec 2014, Villa 2-1 Leicester, Villa Park
Premier League
🟥 13 Dec 2014, Villa 0-1 Albion, Hawthorns
Premier League
🟨 20 Dec 2014, Villa 1-1 United, Villa Park
Premier League
🟥 26 Dec 2014, Villa 0-1 Swansea, Liberty
Premier League
🟨 28 Dec 2014, Villa 0-0 Sunderland, Villa Park
Premier League
🟨 1 Jan 2015, Villa 0-0 Palace, Villa Park
Premier League
🟩 4 Jan 2015, Villa 1-0 Blackpool, Villa Park
FA Cup
🟥 10 Jan 2015, Villa 0-1 Leicester, King Power
Premier League
🟥 17 Jan 2015, Villa 0-2 Liverpool, Villa Park
Premier League
🟩 25 Jan 2015, Villa 2-1 Bournemouth, Villa Park
FA Cup
🟥 1 Feb 2015, Villa 0-5 Arsenal, Emirates
Premier League
🟥 7 Feb 2015, Villa 1-2 Chelsea, Villa Park
Premier League
🟥 10 Feb 2015, Villa 0-2 Hull, KC
Premier League
🟩 15 Feb 2015, Villa 2-1 Leicester, Villa Park
FA Cup
🟥 21 Feb 2015, Villa 1-2 Stoke, Villa Park
Premier League
🟥 28 Feb 2015, Villa 0-1 Newcastle, St James'
Premier League
🟩 3 Mar 2015, Villa 2-1 Albion, Villa Park
Premier League
🟩 7 Mar 2015, Villa 2-0 Albion, Villa Park
FA Cup
🟩 14 Mar 2015, Villa 4-0 Sunderland, Stadium of Light
Premier League
🟥 21 Mar 2015, Villa 0-1 Swansea, Villa Park.
Premier League
🟥 4 Apr 2015, Villa 1-3 United, Old Trafford
Premier League
🟨 7 Apr 2015, Villa 3-3 QPR, Villa Park
Premier League
🟩 11 Apr 2015, Villa 1-0 Spurs, White Hart Lane
Premier League
🟩 19 Apr 2015, Villa 2-1 Liverpool, Wembley
FA Cup
🟥 25 Apr 2015, Villa 2-3 Manchester City, Etihad
Premier League
🟩 2 May 2015, Villa 3-2 Everton, Villa Park
Premier League
🟩 9 May 2015, Villa 1-0 West Ham, Villa Park
Premier League
🟥 16 May 2015, Villa 1-6 Southampton, St Mary's
Premier League
🟥 24 May 2015, Villa 0-1 Burnley, Villa Park
Premier League
🟥 30 May 2015, Villa 0-4 Arsenal, Wembley
FA Cup
On This Day
Saturday, 16 May 2015
Villa, needing just one win to secure Premier League safety after their revival under Tim Sherwood, are humiliated at St Mary's in a shambling performance but luck is on Villa's side as results elsewhere go their way to leave them safe ahead of another top flight season.
Tim Sherwood's Villa lose their sixth Premier League game in twelve and drop to 15th place in the table as they are ripped apart in the first 45' at St Mary's. The result itself however did not matter as courtesy of Hull's defeat, Villa had secured Premier League safety once again.
Christian Benteke contributes his 63rd goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 99th appearance (92 Starts) to make it W34 D18 L47, 49 Goals, 14 Assists, 13 Bookings and 2 Red Cards so far in his Villa career.
Gabriel Agbonlahor suffers his 125th defeat in a Villa shirt on his 351st appearance (317 Starts) to make it W125 D101 L125, 84 Goals, 42 Assists, 45 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.
Right back Matt Lowton makes his final appearance for Villa aged 25 before moving on to Burnley for a fee of £1,260,000 in July 2015. Lowton had joined Villa from Sheffield United for £3,380,000 in July 2012 and he went on to make 82 appearances (73 Starts) to make it W24 D14 L41, 2 Goals, 2 Assists and 16 Bookings.
Ashley Westwood make his 100th appearance in a Villa shirt (95 Starts) to make it W32 D20 L48, 3 Goals, 9 Assists and 14 Bookings so far in his Villa career.
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥
Tim Sherwood | 🏴 | 2015
🕒 14 | 🟩 | 7 🟨 | 1 🟥 6 | 1.57
Villa Career Form:
Top 8
Game #5300
Match Record
Season | 2014-15 |
Matchday | #43 |
League Game | #37 |
Manager Game | #14 |
Saturday, 16 May 2015
Game Record
Manager: Tim Sherwood | 🏴 | Borehamwood, 2015
Referee: Bobby Madley | 🏴 | Wakefield, 2014-2018
Kick off: 12.45pm
HT Score: 🟥 1-5
FT Score: 🟥 1-6
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥
Head to Head
Previous 5 vs. Southampton: 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟨
Total 🕒 73 | 🟩 28 | 🟨 21 | 🟥 24 | ⚽ 98 | 🥅 92 |
League 🕒 66 | 🟩 25 | 🟨 20 | 🟥 21 | ⚽ 86 | 🥅 84 |
FA Cup 🕒 5 | 🟩 2 | 🟨 2 | 🟥 1 | ⚽ 7 | 🥅 6 |
League Cup 🕒 2 | 🟩 1 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 1 | ⚽ 5 | 🥅 2 |
Home 🕒 37 | 🟩 19 | 🟨 11 | 🟥 7 | ⚽ 55 | 🥅 25 |
Away 🕒 36 | 🟩 9 | 🟨 11 | 🟥 16 | ⚽ 43 | 🥅 67 |
Trophy Cabinet
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Southampton
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1975-76
Squad News
Debut Appearances
None
Final Appearances
🔴 RB Matt Lowton | 🏴 | 2012-15 🕒 82 | 73 (9) | ⚽ 2 | 🔥 6 | 🇺 25 | #846 |
Match Timeline
🥅 | 13’ Goal, 1-0, (Southampton), Sadio Mané
🥅 | 14’ Goal, 2-0, (Southampton), Sadio Mané
🥅 | 16’ Goal, 3-0, (Southampton), Sadio Mané
🟨 | 21’ Booking, Ashley Westwood
🥅 | 26’ Goal, 4-0, (Southampton), Shane Long
🥅 | 38’ Goal, 5-0, (Southampton), Shane Long
⚽ | 45’+3 Goal, 1-5, Christian Benteke, Assist by Leandro Bacuna
🕒 | HT Southampton 5-1 Aston Villa
🔁 | 57’ Sub off, Charles N’Zogbia, Sub on, Gabriel Agbonlahor
🔁 | 67’ Sub off, Leandro Bacuna, Sub on, Matt Lowton 🔴
🥅 | 81’ Goal, 6-1, (Southampton), Graziano Pellè
🔁 | 82’ Sub off, Jack Grealish, Sub on, Scott Sinclair
🕒 | Southampton 6-1 Aston Villa
Officials
Referee: Bobby Madley | 🏴 | Wakefield, 2014-2018
Assistants: Peter Kirkup, Darren Cann
Officials
Referee Profile
VAR Profile (Post 2021)
Officials
Villa Bookings
🟨 Ashley Westwood (14)
Villa Sendings Off
None
Opposition Bookings
🟨 Victor Wanyama
Opposition Sendings Off
None
Match Stats
Possession F | 64%
Possession A | 36%
Shots F | 9
Shots A | 18
Shots on Target F | 4
Shots on Target A | 11
Corners F | 3
Corners A | 6
Fouls F | 7
Fouls A | 19
Line Up & Subs
Aston Villa
Tim Sherwood | 🏴 | 2015
GK Shay Given | 🇮🇪 |
CB Jores Okore | 🇩🇰 |
CB Ron Vlaar | 🇳🇱 |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 |
M Fabian Delph | 🏴 |
M Tom Cleverley | 🏴 |
M Jack Grealish | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Ashley Westwood | 🏴 | 🟨 |
W Charles N’Zogbia | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | 🔥 | 🔁 |
CF Christian Benteke | 🇧🇪 | ⚽ |
Substitutes
🔁 F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 | for W Charles N’Zogbia | 🇫🇷 | 57’ |
🔁 RB Matt Lowton | 🏴 | 🔴 | for M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | 67’ |
🔁 W Scott Sinclair | 🏴 | for M Jack Grealish | 🏴 | 82’ |
Unused Substitutes
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
CB Philippe Senderos |🇨🇭|
M Carlos Sánchez | 🇨🇴 |
F Andreas Weimann | 🏴 |
Southampton
Ronald Koeman | 🇳🇱 |
GK Paulo Gazzaniga | 🇦🇷 |
LB Ryan Bertrand (ex) | 🏴 |
CB José Fonte | 🇵🇹 |
CB Toby Alderweireld | 🇧🇪 |
RB Nathaniel Clyne | 🏴 |
M Steven Davis (ex) | 🇬🇧 | 🔁 |
M Victor Wanyama | 🇰🇪 | 🟨 |
M James Ward-Prowse | 🏴 | 🔁 |
W Sadio Mané | 🇸🇳 | ⚽ | ⚽ | ⚽ |
CF Graziano Pellè | 🇮🇹 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CF Shane Long | 🇮🇪 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
Substitutes
🔁 | M Filip Đuričić | 🇷🇸 | for M James Ward-Prowse | 🏴 |
🔁 | CB Maya Yoshida | 🇯🇵 | for M Steven Davis (ex) | 🇬🇧 |
🔁 | W Eljero Elia | 🇳🇱 | for CF Graziano Pellè | 🇮🇹 |
Unused Substitutes
GK Kelvin Davis | 🏴 |
CB Florin Gardoș | 🇧🇪 |
LB Matt Targett | 🏴 |
M Harrison Reed | 🏴 |
Team News
Aston Villa
Injury | 4 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 |
CB Nathan Baker | 🏴 |
LB Kieran Richardson | 🏴 |
CF Libor Kozák | 🇨🇿 |
Out on Loan | 5 |
CF Nicklas Helenius | 🇩🇰 | Aalborg BK
M Yacouba Sylla | 🇲🇱 | Kayseri Erciyesspor
W Aleksandar Tonev | 🇧🇬 | Celtic
LB Antonio Luna | 🇪🇸 | Spezia Calcio
RB Janoi Donacien | 🇱🇨 | Tranmere
Alan Hutton replaces Kieran Richardson (injury).
Southampton
Not Recorded
Matchday Squads
Aston Villa
GK Shay Given | 🇮🇪 | £3.38m |
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 | £0.90m |
RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 | £4.05m |
RB Matt Lowton | 🏴 | £3.38m |
CB Jores Okore | 🇩🇰 | £4.23m |
CB Ron Vlaar | 🇳🇱 | £3.42m |
CB Philippe Senderos |🇨🇭| Free |
M Fabian Delph | 🏴 | £8.55m |
M Carlos Sánchez | 🇨🇴 | £5.40m |
M Ashley Westwood | 🏴 | £2.25m |
M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | £1.26m |
M Jack Grealish | 🏴 | Youth |
M Tom Cleverley | 🏴 | Loan |
W Charles NZogbia | 🇫🇷 | £9.72m |
W Scott Sinclair | 🏴 | Loan |
CF Christian Benteke | 🇧🇪 | £7.92m |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 | Youth |
F Andreas Weimann | 🏴 | Free |
Southampton
Match Media
What they Said
“The first 45 minutes of football there was not good enough. Southampton punished every mistake we made and we made quite a few. Everyone at the club has to take responsibility and we do, it was not good enough.
“We’ve done brilliant over the past couple of months that’s why we can’t get too carried away. It’s a defeat and a heavy defeat It’s happened, we need to wipe our mouths and get on with it.
“I have always said it will go right down to the wire and I believe it will. It’s still in our hands. We had one foot in the Championship when I arrived and we have one foot in the Premier League now and we need to keep that foot in the Premier League.”
Tim Sherwood, Saturday, 16 May 2015.
*Sadio Mane scored the fastest hat-trick in Premier League history as Southampton demolished Aston Villa to keep their Europa League hopes alive.*
Mane’s three goals came in two minutes and 56 seconds with Saints 3-0 up inside 16 minutes.
They were 5-1 up at half-time with two strikes from Shane Long, while Christian Benteke headed home his 15th goal of the season for Villa before Graziano Pelle’s late volley.
The result means Southampton stay seventh with one game left and - despite the heavy defeat - Aston Villa sealed their Premier League safety after 18th-placed Hull lost.
Saints felt they had an early goal wrongly disallowed when Pelle was flagged offside but it mattered little after three stunning minutes at St Mary’s.
Mane side-footed home on 13 minutes after Shay Given’s initial save. He had his second when Long latched onto Ron Vlaar’s poor backpass and the Senegalese was on hand to stick it away into an empty net.
He created history with a fine first-time side foot from just inside the box to seal his hat-trick and also beat Robbie Fowler’s 21-year record of four minutes 33 seconds for Liverpool in 1994.
The goal prompted wild scenes at St Mary’s and there was more to come with Long curling home from 12 yards for 4-0.
His second and Southampton’s fifth was a stunning strike from 40 yards that flew over Given and into the net.
Villa had a consolation on the stroke of half time through Benteke’s header from close range in what was a breathless 45 minutes of football.
Mane turned provider with 10 minutes remaining sending in a fierce low cross which Pelle thumped home from close range for 6-1.
Saints end their season at Manchester City next weekend with Liverpool, Tottenham and Swansea also in the hunt for the two Europa League places. An Arsenal victory over Villa in the FA Cup final would also see seventh place earn entry into Europe.
Villa host already-relegated Burnley on the final day of the season and their own Premier League status was be confirmed after Hull lost 2-0 to Tottenham on Saturday afternoon.
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CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 | #820 |
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CB Philippe Senderos | 🇨🇭 | #869 |
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RB Aly Cissokho | 🇫🇷 | #867 |
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Goalkeeper
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CB Jores Okore | 🇩🇰 | #858 |
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CB Ron Vlaar | 🇳🇱 | #846 |
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LB Joe Bennett | 🏴 | #851 |
Full Back
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M Carlos Sánchez | 🇨🇴 | #870 |
Midfielder
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M Gary Gardner | 🏴 | #840 |
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CB Nathan Baker | 🏴 | #833 |
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RB Alan Hutton | 🏴 | #838 |
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LB Kieran Richardson | 🏴 | #868 |
Full Back
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Cardiff City 🏴 Retired
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DM Chris Herd | 🇦🇺 | #829 |
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AM Jack Grealish | 🏴 | #866 |
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M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | #857 |
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Igdir FK 🇹🇷
W Carles Gil | 🇪🇸 | #873 |
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CF Callum Robinson | 🇮🇪 | #863 |
Forward
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CF Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 | #790 |
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CF Rushian Hepburn-Murphy | 🏴 | #875 |
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