Game #5576
Aston Villa
Friday, 12 March 2021
Drew
9th (-)
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟨
Premier League
Attendance: Behind closed doors
(COVID-19)
Newcastle United
St James' Park
Villa take a late lead and conceded it even later to leave them with one win in six.
Newcastle United
1-1
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | None
KEY MAN
Ollie Watkins and Morgan Sanson celebrate Villa going ahead, 12 March 2021
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MATCH TIMELINE
Friday, 12 March 2021
🔁 | 21’ Sub off, Bertrand Traoré, Sub on, Anwar El Ghazi
🕒 | HT Newcastle United 0-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 59’ Sub off, Jacob Ramsey, Sub on, Morgan Sanson
🔁 | 68’ Sub off, Trézéguet, Sub on, Ross Barkley
🟨 | 74’ Booking, John McGinn for a bad foul
🟨 | 77’ Booking, Morgan Sanson for a bad foul
🟨 | 78’ Booking, Tyrone Mings for a bad foul
⚽ | 84’ Goal, 1-0, Ciaran Clark o.g.
🥅 | 90’+4 Goal, 1-1, (Newcastle United), Jamal Lascelles
🕒 | FT Newcastle United 1-1 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Midfielder John McGinn makes his 100th appearance for Villa since joining the club from Hibernian FC for a fee of £2,790,000 in August 2018.
Right Back Ahmed Elmohamady makes his 125th appearance for Villa since joining the club from Hull City for a fee of £990,000 in July 2017.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Newcastle United
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1954-55
FIXTURE HISTORY
Newcastle United
Previous 5 vs. Newcastle: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟩
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2020-21 |
Matchday | #31 |
League Match | #27 |
Manager Game | #114 |
Friday, 12 March 2021
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Dean Smith | 🏴 | West Bromwich, 2018-2021
Referee: Paul Tierney | 🏴 | Wigan, 2009-
Kick off: 8.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟨 1-1
FT Score: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟨
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Dean Smith | 🏴 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 114 | 🟩 | 47 🟨 | 24 🟥 43 | 1.45
Career Form:
Top 8
Dean Smith | 🏴 |
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Paul Tierney | 🏴 | Wigan, 2009-
Previous 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 27 Jan 21, Villa 2-3 Burnley (a)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Daniel Cook, Ian Hussin
Paul Tierney
CARDS
Villa
🟨 🟨 🟨
Newcastle United
🟨 🟨
TEAM NEWS
Jacob Ramsey replaces Morgan Sanson as Matty Cash returns to the squad after injury,
Captain Jack Grealish is once again ruled out through injury however his midfield partner John McGinn makes his 100th appearance for the club since joining in August 2018.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age: | 25.93 |
Oldest Player: RB Ahmed Elmohamady | 🇪🇬 | 33.53 |
Youngest Player: M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴 | 19.80 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
Dean Smith | 🏴 |
Steve Bruce | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 |
RB Ahmed Elmohamady | 🇪🇬 |
CB Ezri Konsa | 🏴 |
CB Tyrone Mings | 🏴 | 🟨 |
LB Matt Targett | 🏴 |
M Douglas Luiz | 🇧🇷 |
M John McGinn | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴 | 🔁 |
W Bertrand Traoré | 🇧🇫 | 🔁 |
W Trézéguet | 🇪🇬 | 🔁 |
CF Ollie Watkins | 🏴 |
Newcastle United
GK Martin Dúbravka | 🇸🇰 |
LB Paul Dummett | 🏴 |
CB Ciaran Clark (ex) | 🇮🇪 |
CB Jamaal Lascelles | 🏴 | ⚽ | 🟨 |
RB Emil Krath | 🇸🇪 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Jonjo Shelvey | 🏴 |
M Isaac Hayden | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Joe Willock | 🏴 |
W Ryan Fraser | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CF Joelinton | 🇧🇷 |
CF Dwight Gayle | 🏴 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 W Anwar El Ghazi | 🇳🇱 | for W Bertrand Traoré | 🇧🇫 | 21' |
🔁 M Morgan Sanson | 🇫🇷 | 🟨 | for M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴 | 59' |
🔁 M Ross Barkley | 🏴 | for W Trézéguet | 🇪🇬 | 68' |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | W Jacob Murphy | 🏴 | for W Ryan Fraser | 🏴 | 79’ |
🔁 | RB Javier Manquillo | 🇪🇸 | for RB Emil Krath | 🇸🇪 | 83’ |
🔁 | CF Andy Carroll | 🏴 | for M Isaac Hayden | 🏴 | 88’ |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Tom Heaton | 🏴 |
LB Neil Taylor | 🏴 |
RB Matty Cash | 🏴 |
CB Björn Engels | 🇧🇪 |
M Marvelous Nakamba | 🇿🇼 |
CF Keinan Davis | 🏴 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Karl Darlow | 🏴 |
CB Frederico Fernández | 🇦🇷 |
LB Jamal Lewis | 🇬🇧 |
LB Matt Ritchie | 🏴 |
M Sean Longstaff | 🏴 |
M Jeff Hendrick | 🇮🇪 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £138.37m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Subs Cost: £22.32m
Team Cost: £160.69m
Squad Cost: £200.79m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/20
Homegrown: 1/20
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 | £19.58m |
GK Tom Heaton | 🏴 | £7.92m |
RB Matty Cash | 🏴 | £14.18m |
LB Matt Targett | 🏴 | £14.04m |
RB Ahmed Elmohamady | 🇪🇬 | £0.99m |
LB Neil Taylor | 🏴 | Exchange |
CB Tyrone Mings | 🏴 | £20.60m |
CB Ezri Konsa | 🏴 | £11.97m |
CB Björn Engels | 🇧🇪 | £7.20m |
M Douglas Luiz | 🇧🇷 | £15.12m |
M Morgan Sanson | 🇫🇷 | £14.22m |
M Marvelous Nakamba | 🇿🇼 | £10.80m |
M John McGinn | 🏴 | £2.79m |
M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴 | Youth |
M Ross Barkley | 🏴 | Loan |
W Bertrand Traoré | 🇧🇫 | £16.56m |
W Trézéguet | 🇪🇬 | £9.00m |
W Anwar El Ghazi | 🇳🇱 | £8.10m |
CF Ollie Watkins | 🏴 | £27.72m |
CF Keinan Davis | 🏴 | Free |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £112.23m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 7/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Subs Cost: £4.50m
Team Cost: £116.73m
Squad Cost: £152.70m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/20
Homegrown: 2/20
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK Karl Darlow | 🏴 | £4.29m |
GK Martin Dubravka | 🇸🇰 | £3.60m |
LB Jamal Lewis | 🇬🇧 | £14.85m |
LB Matt Ritchie | 🏴 | £10.80m |
RB Emil Krafth | 🇸🇪 | £4.86m |
RB Javier Manquillo | 🇪🇸 | £4.50m |
LB Paul Dummett | 🏴 | Youth |
CB Frederico Fernández | 🇦🇷 | £6.03m |
CB Ciaran Clark (ex) | 🇮🇪 | £5.40m |
CB Jamal Lascelles | 🏴 | £4.50m |
M Joe Willock | 🏴 | £26.46m |
M Jonjo Shelvey | 🏴 | £14.40m |
M Isaac Hayden | 🏴 | £2.61m |
M Sean Longstaff | 🏴 | Youth |
M Jeff Hendrick | 🇮🇪 | Free |
W Jacob Murphy | 🏴 | £10.17m |
W Ryan Fraser | 🏴 | Free |
CF Joelinton 🇧🇷 | £39.60m |
CF Dwight Gayle | 🏴 | £10.80m |
CF Andy Carroll | 🏴 | Free |
UNAVAILABLE
Injury | 3 |
CF Wesley | 🇧🇷 | Knee, ACL
CB Kortney Hause | 🏴 | Foot
M Jack Grealish | 🏴 | Leg
Out on Loan | 3 |
M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 | Swansea
RB Frédéric Guilbert | 🇫🇷 | Strasbourg
GK Lovre Kalinić | 🇭🇷 | Hajduk Split
Not Selected | 1 |
GK Jed Steer | 🏴 |
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 | 51%
Possession A | 49%
Shots F | 15
Shots A | 12
Shots on Target F | 6
Shots on Target A | 3
Corners F | 1
Corners A | 1
Fouls F | 10
Fouls A | 10
TABLE
PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
Post Match
*Friday, 12 March 2021*
*Villa manager Dean Smith*
"When you're a goal up with four minutes to go you're disappointed naturally.
"We didn't deserve to win the game. It wasn't a game for the purists, I thought it was a bit of an ugly game. They probably had the best chances but we should see it out.
"We could have gone and got a goal to make it 2-0 with the counter-attacking opportunities we had but we didn't make the most of the opportunities and it allows them to stick a ball into the box.
"It's always a concern when you're not creating chances. Tonight it was a very scrappy game. We've got good enough players to go and score goals, we have a few short of confidence but that seems to be the league at the moment."
On losing Bertrand Traore early on:
"He has a whack on the hip and the ribs, it was a blow to lose his creativity. I thought we started well and it probably shook us when he went off.
"We had an opportunity to go above the champions and that should have been enough for the players to go and get a result today."
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*BBC Sport*
*Friday, 12 March 2021*
Jamaal Lascelles scored in stoppage time to rescue a point for relegation-threatened Newcastle following a dramatic finale against Aston Villa at St James' Park.
A largely dull encounter had looked destined to end goalless before Ollie Watkins' header deflected off Ciaran Clark and went in off the underside of the bar to put Villa ahead with just minutes remaining.
But Newcastle snatched a point when Lascelles headed in Jacob Murphy's cross in the last action of the game.
It was arguably a deserved equaliser for the hosts, who had been the better side for much of the game but just lacked quality in the final third.
They had also hit the bar through Murphy moments before Villa had taken the lead.
The point does little to ease Newcastle's relegation concerns - they are two points above the bottom three and could drop into the relegation zone if results go against them this weekend.
But the fight shown to battle back after going behind so late on will give Newcastle fans some hope that their side can pull away from danger in the remaining games.
The point for Aston Villa, meanwhile, means they remain ninth, five points off the top six.
"I thought it was going to be one of those cruel nights where you don't get something you deserved out of the game," Newcastle boss Steve Bruce told BBC Radio 5 Live.
"The one thing I have to say is that the resilience of the players and their effort and endeavour I can't question. We are going to need it, every single ounce of it."
A lack of goals has played a large part in Newcastle's slide down the table, with Bruce's side having won just two of their 16 games prior to the visit of Villa.
A dull, goalless draw with relegation rivals West Brom last time out did little to provide hope that Newcastle had the fight to move back up the table, particularly with a much-improved Fulham side clawing back a 10-point deficit to give them hope of survival.
Against Villa, they again lacked a spark in the final third and a last-minute equaliser will not erase concerns over how little they troubled the opposition goalkeeper for much of the game.
But there were elements of the performance that will provide some hope. Joelinton had his best game in a while, tormenting Tyrone Mings much of the time but just missing the belief in himself to put away the couple of good opportunities he created, while Paul Dummett provided some excellent deliveries into the box.
Most pleasing of all for Newcastle fans, however, is that their side showed some fight in the final few minutes that many perhaps feared was absent from their players. Supporters will now hope they can show more of that spirit in the remaining games.
"We missed the final cross but we had so many good opportunities in the game," added Bruce.
"That little bit of quality at times is something we talk about but for the effort, the desire and the way they went about their job there was nothing between the two teams."
This time last season Aston Villa were very much in Newcastle's position as they found themselves fighting for Premier League survival.
A superb first half of this campaign ensured they would not be in the same situation this time and instead they are looking up the table, with securing a place in Europe next term a very real possibility.
But their recent form risks seeing their season drift towards a mid-table finish as they continue to struggle in the absence of injured captain Jack Grealish.
Villa have won just one of their five games since Grealish picked up a leg injury, but while the talismanic forward is undoubtedly a big loss, their inability to finish the chances they do create will be of frustration to boss Dean Smith.
Against Newcastle they had 15 attempts on goal but only managed to score when Watkins' header took a sizeable deflection.
In their first 13 games of the season Villa scored 27 goals but they have managed just 12 in their last 14 and Smith needs to find a way to get his side firing again if they are to finish in the top six.
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