Game #5679
Aston Villa
Tuesday, 26 September 2023
Lost
3rd Round
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥
League Cup
Everton
Attendance: 23,851
Villa Park
Aston Villa
1-2
Everton
Assist(s): None
MATCH SUMMARY
KEY MAN
Unai Emery, team selection cost Villa again.
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MATCH TIMELINE
Tuesday, 26 September 2023
🥅 | 15’ Goal, 0-1 (Everton), James Garner
🔁 | 31’ Sub off, Leon Bailey (injury), Sub on Nicolò Zaniolo
🕒 | 45’+4 HT Aston Villa 0-1 Everton
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, John McGinn, Sub on, Boubacar Kamara
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Jhon Durán, Sub on, Ollie Watkins
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Leander Dendoncker, Sub on, Lucas Digne
🟨 | 46’ Booking, Ollie Watkins for time-wasting
🥅 | 50’ Goal, 0-2 (Everton), Dominic Calvert-Lewin
🟨 | 74’ Booking, Lucas Digne for a bad foul
🔁 | 78’ Sub off, Youri Tielemans, Sub on, Omari Kellyman
🟨 | 79’ Booking, Ezri Konsa for dissent
⚽ | 73’ Goal, 1-2, Boubacar Kamara
🟨 | 90’+4 Booking, Douglas Luiz for dissent
🕒 | 90’+6 FT Aston Villa 1-2 Everton
ON THIS DAY
Nothing but sheer, self inflicted misery.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Everton
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1994-95
FIXTURE HISTORY
Everton
Previous 5 vs. Everton: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2023-24 |
Matchday | #10 |
EFL Cup Game | #1 |
Manager Game | #37 |
Tuesday, 26 September 2023
Attendance | 23,851 |
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 | Hondarribia, 2022-
Referee: Tony Harrington | 🏴 | Cleveland, 2016-
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 1-2
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 37 | 🟩 | 21 🟨 | 4 🟥 12 | 1.81
Villa Career Form:
Top 4
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Tony Harrington | 🏴 | Cleveland, 2016-
Matches Officiated: 11
🟩 : 4
🟨 : 2
🟥 : 5
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟩
Last Match: 16 Sept 22, Villa 1-0 Southampton (h)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
TEAM NEWS
One of the worst team selections since, I don't know, last Thursday?
The question has to be why, why play Robin Olsen? What justification can playing a liability have? A Cup competition, a chance of progression, an outside chance of silverware (referee dependent h/t Phil Dowd). But why, why play Olsen? In desperate circumstances with no alternative there may be a self inflicted justification. But to risk progression is simply ridiculous.
Why play midfielder John McGinn at left back?
Why bring Leander Dendoncker and Youri Tielemans, both utterly underwhelming in their Villa careers, into midfield?
Why bench Emiliano Martínez, Ollie Watkins, a fit again Diego Carlos, Lucas Digne and Boubacar Kamara?
And so it is that Unai Emery, fresh from his first disaster in Poland, brings an unnecessary risk on proceedings.
It could be that Olsen, Dendoncker and Tielemans play their best games in a Villa shirt, but it probably won't be.
A gimme, routine victory against woeful Everton is risked by an unnecessarily weakened team.
Villa's second string is simply not strong enough to be a back up in anything but dire circumstances. That Unai Emery chooses to play them for the second time in three games shows either undue optimism or a careless disregard for the games fans are so passionate about.
Postscript: Manchester United (a), Stevenage (h), Legia (a) and now Everton (a). Four cup matches thrown away for no reason.
Unai, you're better than this.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age: | 26.77 |
Bench Average Age: | 26.03 |
Squad Average Age: | 26.39 |
Subs Average Age: | 24.82 |
Oldest Starter: GK Robin Olsen | 🇸🇪 | 33.18 |
Youngest Starter: CF Jhon Durán | 🇨🇴 | 19.80 |
Oldest Squad Player: GK Robin Olsen | 🇸🇪 | 33.18 |
Youngest Squad Player: F Omari Kellyman | 🇬🇧 | 18.02 |
Oldest Substitute: LB Lucas Digne | 🇫🇷 | 30.21 |
Youngest Substitute: F Omari Kellyman | 🇬🇧 | 18.02 |
MANAGER
Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 |
Aston Villa
GK Robin Olsen | 🇸🇪 |
M John McGinn | 🏴 | (Playing as LB) | 🔁 |
CB Ezri Konsa | 🏴 | 🟨 |
CB Pau Torres | 🇪🇸 |
RB Matty Cash | 🏴 🇵🇱 |
M Leander Dendoncker | 🇧🇪 | 🔁 |
M Douglas Luiz | 🇧🇷 | 🟨 |
W Leon Bailey | 🇯🇲 | 🔁 |
W Moussa Diaby | 🇫🇷 |
M Youri Tielemans | 🇧🇪 |
CF Jhon Durán | 🇨🇴 | 🔁 |
MANAGER
Sean Dyche | 🏴 |
Everton
GK Jordan Pickford | 🏴 |
LB Vitaliy Mykolenko | 🇺🇦 | 🔁 |
CB Michael Keane | 🏴 |
CB James Tarkowski | 🏴 | 🟨 |
CB Jarrad Branthwaite | 🏴 |
RB Nathan Patterson | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M James Garner | 🏴 | ⚽ |
M Amadou Onana | 🇧🇪 | 🔁 |
M Jack Harrison | 🏴 | 🔁 |
W Arnaut Danjuma | 🇳🇱 | 🔁 |
CF Dominic Calvert-Lewin | 🏴 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
Not necessarily indicative of the actual matchday formation
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | M Nicolò Zaniolo | 🇮🇹 | for W Leon Bailey | 🇯🇲 | 31’ |
🔁 | LB Lucas Digne | 🇫🇷 | 🟨 | for M Leander Dendoncker | 🇧🇪 | 46’ |
🔁 | M Boubacar Kamara | 🇫🇷 | ⚽ | for M John McGinn | 🏴 | 46’ |
🔁 | CF Ollie Watkins | 🏴 | 🟨 | for CF Jhon Durán | 🇨🇴 | 46’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | RB Ashley Young (ex) | 🏴 | for LB Vitaliy Mykolenko | 🇺🇦 | 46’ |
🔁 | W Dwight McNeil | 🏴 | 🟨 | for M Jack Harrison | 🏴 | 65’ |
🔁 | M Idrissa Gueye (ex) | 🇸🇳 | for W Arnaut Danjuma | 🇳🇱 | 72’ |
🔁 | CF Norberto Bercique Gomes Betuncal | 🇵🇹 | for CF Dominic Calvert-Lewin | 🏴 | 72’ |
🔁 | M Abdoulaye Doucouré | 🇲🇱 | for M Amadou Onana | 🇧🇪 | 79’ |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 |
GK Filip Marschall | 🏴 |
CB Diego Carlos | 🇧🇷 |
W Bertrand Traoré | 🇧🇫 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK João Virgínia | 🇵🇹 |
CB Ben Godfrey | 🏴 |
W Lewis Dobbin | 🏴 |
CF Youssef Ramalho Chermiti | 🇵🇹 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £179.28m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 2/11
Homegrown: ⭕/11
Subs Cost: £58.20m
Team Cost: £237.48
Matchday Squad Cost: £293.06m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/20
Homegrown: 1/20
Total Squad Cost: £380.20m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 16/35
Homegrown: 10/35
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 | £15.66m |
GK Robin Olsen | 🇸🇪 | £3.00m |
GK Filip Marschall | 🏴 | Youth |
LB Lucas Digne | 🇫🇷 | £27.00m |
RB Matty Cash | 🏴 🇵🇱 | £14.18m |
CB Pau Torres | 🇪🇸 | £28.60m |
CB Diego Carlos | 🇧🇷 | £27.90m |
CB Ezri Konsa | 🏴 | £11.97m |
M Douglas Luiz | 🇧🇷 | £15.12m |
M Leander Dendoncker | 🇧🇪 | £12.88m |
M John McGinn | 🏴 | £2.79m |
M Boubacar Kamara | 🇫🇷 | Free |
M Youri Tielemans | 🇧🇪 | Free |
M Nicolò Zaniolo | 🇮🇹 | Loan |
W Moussa Diaby | 🇫🇷 | £47.66m |
W Leon Bailey | 🇯🇲 | £28.80m |
W Bertrand Traoré | 🇧🇫 | £12.02m |
CF Ollie Watkins | 🏴 | £30.60m |
CF Jhon Durán | 🇨🇴 | £14.28m |
F Omari Kellyman | 🇬🇧 | Youth |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £128.95m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/11
Homegrown: ⭕/11
Subs Cost: £44.90m
Team Cost: £173.85m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 10/16
Homegrown: ⭕/16
Matchday Squad Cost: £209.01m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 12/20
Homegrown: 1/20
Total Squad Cost: £293.39m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/31
Homegrown: 6/31
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK Jordan Pickford | 🏴 | £25.65m |
GK João Virgínia | 🇵🇹 | Free |
LB Vitaliy Mykolenko | 🇺🇦 | £21.15m |
RB Nathan Patterson | 🏴 | £12.60m |
RB Ashley Young (ex) | 🏴 | Free |
CB Michael Keane | 🏴 | £25.65m |
CB Ben Godfrey | 🏴 | £24.34m |
CB Jarrad Branthwaite | 🏴 | £1.00m |
CB James Tarkowski | 🏴 | Free |
M Amadou Onana | 🇧🇪 | £32.40m |
M Abdoulaye Doucouré | 🇲🇱 | £19.89m |
M James Garner | 🏴 | £9.00m |
M Idrissa Gueye (ex) | 🇸🇳 | £3.50m |
M Jack Harrison | 🏴 | Loan |
W Lewis Dobbin | 🏴 | Youth |
W Dwight McNeil | 🏴 | Free |
W Arnaut Danjuma | 🇳🇱 | Loan |
CF Norberto Bercique Gomes Betuncal | 🇵🇹 | £21.51m |
CF Youssef Ramalho Chermiti | 🇵🇹 | £10.82m |
CF Dominic Calvert-Lewin | 🏴 | £1.50m |
UNAVAILABLE
Injury | 4 |
W Emiliano Buendía | 🇦🇷 | ACL
M Tim Iroegbunam | 🏴 | Unknown
CB Tyrone Mings | 🏴 | ACL
LB Álex Moreno | 🇪🇸 | Thigh
Out On Loan | 7 |
RB Kaine Kesler-Hayden | 🏴 | Plymouth
CF Louie Barry | 🏴 | Stockport
GK Viljami Sinisalo | 🇫🇮 | Exeter
M Morgan Sanson | 🇫🇷 | Nice
M Finn Azaz | 🏴 | Plymouth
CB Lamare Bogarde | 🇳🇱 | Bristol Rovers
M Philippe Coutinho | 🇧🇷 | Al-Duhail
UNAVAILABLE
Injury | 4 |
M Dele Alli | 🏴 |
RB Seamus Coleman | 🇮🇪 |
M Jack Harrison | 🏴 |
M André Gomes | 🇵🇹 |
Out on Loan | 3 |
CB Mason Holgate | 🏴 |
W Stanley Mills | 🏴 |
CF Neal Maupay | 🇫🇷 |
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 | 68%
Possession A | 32%
Shots F | 11
Shots A | 13
Shots on Target F | 3
Shots on Target A | 4
Corners F | 4
Corners A | 4
Fouls F | 10
Fouls A | 14
LEAGUE TABLE
MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
MATCH QUOTES
MATCH REPORT