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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

Utter stupidity from Unai Emery for the second time in three games costs Villa the match. For the third time in three domestic cup games, Unai Emery has played a weakened team and defeat has resulted. For all the positives Emery has brought to the club this is simply unacceptable.

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

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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: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

CARDS

Villa

🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

Everton

🟨 🟨 🟨

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 | 🇪🇸 |

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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 | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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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 | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |

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Not necessarily indicative of the actual matchday formation

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | 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

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🔁 | 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’ |

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 |
GK Filip Marschall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Diego Carlos | 🇧🇷 |
W Bertrand Traoré | 🇧🇫 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK João Virgínia | 🇵🇹 |
CB Ben Godfrey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Lewis Dobbin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Youssef Ramalho Chermiti | 🇵🇹 |

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SQUAD STATS

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

MATCH QUOTES

"We are disappointed with the result, disappointed with some mistakes we made tonight. We didn’t want. We are trying to go forward building the team. We have to use some players and getting them chances, opportunities and as well minutes to take confidence. That is the way we have to build trying to get our best performance. "We tried, but we lost today the Carabao Cup. Of course, we have to face the first Premier League. It is 100 per cent the most important competition for us. Today we lost and it’s completely out for us. We are going to face now Brighton on Saturday trying to recover quickly because we need our best performances and effort. "Today in 90 minutes, we were sometimes well on the pitch and trying to keep playing like we were doing. Trying to play in good positioning, progress and get into the box. We started well. They were strong and were waiting for our mistakes. We had the injury of Leon Bailey which changed it a little bit and when they scored we were nervous. "In the dressing room we spoke about taking control of the game like we were doing and try to take a challenge in the second half to come back. We made very quick the second mistake, they scored and it was more difficult to come back. Our reaction and our idea to continue building our style and our combination, we did it. It wasn’t enough to win, but we were close and we have to accept it. "I don’t think it’s being tired. I don’t want to use all our effort with the players each match, Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday. That’s the reason why we wanted to keep a balance with other players. Trying to be competitive and win the match. That is the reason I did some change and I tried to manage 90 minutes trying to reduce the effort with some players. "We needed to give Lucas Digne some rest. We did it as well because Alex Moreno was not ready to play, hopefully he is close to coming back but not yet. We had to use different players and John McGinn played well there and did good work there. "Not disappointed, but I am demanding myself and have to be demanding with the players, they know it. For example, this is the first match Leander Dendoncker played, he was out of the pre-season and it’s not easy to recover and play in the idea we want to create. It’s necessary to give him chances and minutes to take it. He will need more. "Then, Jhon Duran is young and must take experiences, he is playing and scoring goals. I think he is doing the process like I planned for him. Another substitution was John McGinn, it was a plan to play 45 minutes with McGinn and Lucas Digne. I tried to reduce minutes with other players, but in the end they played 90 minutes as we tried to come back the result." Unai Emery post-match. "I hadn't played there since I was 17, but, we've obviously got a lot of injuries. I think that's kind of went under the radar. "Alex Moreno is struggling at the moment to come back. If we lose Lucas [Digne] we lose a big part of the team so the manager asked if I can fill in. I know the role. I know the responsibility and I was happy to just play wherever. "It went alright. I think I played decent apart for the near-own goal but it was strange and I think the manager trusts me in different positions so as long as the park, I'm happy.” John McGinn on playing at left back.

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