Game #5697
Aston Villa
12-3-4, 39 PTS
Tuesday, 26 December 2023
Lost
3rd (-2)
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟥
Premier League
Manchester United
Attendance: 73,574
Old Trafford
10-1-8, 31 PTS
Manchester United
3-2
Aston Villa
Assist(s): Clément Lenglet | 26' |
MATCH SUMMARY
KEY MAN
John McGinn's first half performance alone earned him key man status.
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MATCH TIMELINE
Tuesday, 26 December 2023
⚽ | 21’ Goal, 1-0, John McGinn
🎥 | 21’ VAR checks for offside against a goal scored direct from a free kick, goal confirmed
⚽ | 26’ Goal, 2-0, Leander Dendoncker, Assist by Clément Lenglet
🟨 | 45’+2 Booking, Jacob Ramsey for a bad foul
🕒 | 45’+5 HT Manchester United 0-2 Aston Villa
🎥 | 49’ VAR disallows Manchester United a ‘goal’ for offside just after United make a last ditch header off the line to prevent Ollie Watkins putting Villa 3 up.
🔁 | 50’ Sub off, Lucas Digne (Injury), Sub on, Álex Moreno
🎥 | 55’ VAR reviews an inch perfect tackle from Emiliano Martínez, out of his box, clearing the ball.
💥 | 55’ Erik Ten Hag, Manchester United manager remonstrates for a red card for Emiliano Martínez
🥅 | 59’ Goal, 1-2, (Manchester United), Alejandro Garnacho
🎥 | 66’ VAR reviews for a Manchester United penalty for a Diego Carlos challenge on an offside player
🥅 | 71’ Goal, 2-2, (Manchester United), Alejandro Garnacho, deflected goal
🟨 | 74’ Booking, Diego Carlos for a bad foul
🔁 | 77’ Sub off, Jacob Ramsey, Sub on, Moussa Diaby
🔁 | 77’ Sub off, Leon Bailey, Sub on, Nicolò Zaniolo
🥅 | 82’ Goal, 2-3, (Manchester United), Rasmus Højlund
🔁 | 86’ Sub off, Leander Dendoncker, Sub on, Tim Iroegbunam
🔁 | 86’ Sub off, John McGinn, Sub on, Jhon Durán
🟨 | 87’ Booking, Ezri Konsa for a bad foul
🕒 | 90’+10 HT Manchester United 3-2 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Ezri Konsa makes his 165th appearance and 160th start since joining the club as a 21 year old in July 2019. Meanwhile, on loan Nicolò Zaniolo makes his 20th appearance for the club (10 starts) whilst Leander Dendoncker (33 appearances) scores his first Villa goal.
Also notable is that substitute Tim Iroegbunam made his first league appearance for the club in 20 months having last played as a sub in the 0-0 draw at Leicester in April 2022.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Manchester United
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆🏆🏆
UEFA Cup / Europa League: 🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 2015-16
FIXTURE HISTORY
Manchester United
Previous 5 vs. United: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟥
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 2023-24 |
Matchday | #28 |
League Game | #19 |
Manager Game | #55 |
Tuesday, 26 December 2023
Attendance | 73,574 |
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 | Hondarribia, 2022-
Referee: Craig Pawson | 🏴 | Sheffield & Hallam, 2008-
Kick off: 8.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 2-0
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 2-3
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟥
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 55 | 🟩 | 33 🟨 | 8 🟥 14 | 1.94
Villa Career Form:
Top 4
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Craig Pawson | 🏴 | Sheffield & Hallam, 2008-
Matches Officiated: 21
🟩 : 6
🟨 : 4
🟥 : 11
🆘 : 1
Previous 5: 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 4 March 2023, Villa 1-0 Palace, Villa Park
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Richard West, Steve Meredith.
Fourth official: Rob Jones.
VAR: Stuart Attwell.
Assistant VAR: Harry Lennard.
TEAM NEWS
With Boubacar Kamara and Matty Cash suspended and Pau Torres tentatively returning from injury, Clément Lenglet and Leander Dendoncker are handed league starts for the oft fruitless visit to Old Trafford.
TEAM STATS
Squad Average Age: | 26.12 |
Starting XI Average Age: | 27.99 |
Subs Average Age: | 24.17 |
Bench Average Age: | 23.83 |
Oldest Starter: GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 | 31.33 |
Youngest Starter: M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴 | 22.59 |
Oldest Squad Player: GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 | 31.33 |
Youngest Squad Player: GK Sam Proctor | 🏴 | 17.02 |
Oldest Substitute: LB Álex Moreno | 🇪🇸 | 30.41 |
Youngest Substitute: CF Jhon Durán | 🇨🇴 | 20.05 |
MANAGER
Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 |
Aston Villa
GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 |
CB Ezri Konsa | 🏴 | 🟨 |
CB Diego Carlos | 🇧🇷 | 🟨 |
CB Clément Lenglet | 🇫🇷 | 🔥 |
LB Lucas Digne | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
M Leander Dendoncker | 🇧🇪 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
M Douglas Luiz | 🇧🇷 |
M John McGinn | 🏴 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
W Leon Bailey | 🇯🇲 | 🔁 |
CF Ollie Watkins | 🏴 |
MANAGER
Erik ten Hag | 🇳🇱 |
Manchester United
GK André Onana | 🇨🇲 |
RB Aaron Wan-Bissaka | 🏴 |
CB Raphaël Varane | 🇫🇷 |
CB Jonny Evans | 🇬🇧 |
RB Diogo Dalot | 🇵🇹 |
M Kobbie Mainoo | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Christian Eriksen | 🇩🇰 | 🔁 |
M Bruno Fernandes | 🇵🇹 | 🟨 |
W Alejandro Garnacho | 🇦🇷 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🔁 |
F Marcus Rashford | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CF Rasmus Højlund | 🇩🇰 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
Not necessarily indicative of the actual matchday formation
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | Álex Moreno | 🇪🇸 | for LB Lucas Digne | 🇫🇷 | 50’ |
🔁 | M Nicolò Zaniolo | 🇮🇹 | for W Leon Bailey | 🇯🇲 | 77’ |
🔁 | W Moussa Diaby | 🇫🇷 | for M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴 | 77’ |
🔁 | M Tim Iroegbunam | 🏴 | for M Leander Dendoncker | 🇧🇪 | 86’ |
🔁 | CF Jhon Durán | 🇨🇴 | for M John McGinn | 🏴 | 86’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | W Antony | 🇧🇷 | for F Marcus Rashford | 🏴 | 80’ |
🔁 | M Scott McTominay | 🏴 | for M Kobbie Mainoo | 🏴 | 81’ |
🔁 | CB Willy Kambwala | 🇫🇷 | for CF Rasmus Højlund | 🇩🇰 | 89’ |
🔁 | M Daniel Gore | 🏴 | for M Christian Eriksen | 🇩🇰 | 90’+4 |
🔁 | M Hannibal Mejbri | 🇹🇳 | for W Alejandro Garnacho | 🇦🇷 | 90’+5 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Filip Marschall | 🏴 |
GK Sam Proctor | 🏴 |
CB Calum Chambers | 🏴 |
CB Pau Torres | 🇪🇸 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
GK Altay Bayindir | 🇹🇷 |
LB Sergio Reguilón | 🇪🇸 |
M Donny van de Beek | 🇳🇱 |
W Facundo Pellistri | 🇺🇾 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £172.72m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 4/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Subs Cost: £73.53m
Team Cost: £246.25m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/16
Homegrown: 2/16
Matchday Squad Cost: £274.85m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/20
Homegrown: 4/20
Total Squad Cost: £380.20m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 16/35
Homegrown: 10/35
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 | £15.66m |
GK Filip Marschall | 🏴 | Youth |
GK Sam Proctor | 🏴 | Youth |
CB Pau Torres | 🇪🇸 | £28.60m |
CB Diego Carlos | 🇧🇷 | £27.90m |
CB Ezri Konsa | 🏴 | £11.97m |
CB Calum Chambers | 🏴 | Free |
CB Clément Lenglet | 🇫🇷 | Loan |
LB Lucas Digne | 🇫🇷 | £27.00m |
LB Álex Moreno | 🇪🇸 | £11.59m |
M Douglas Luiz | 🇧🇷 | £15.12m |
M Leander Dendoncker | 🇧🇪 | £12.88m |
M John McGinn | 🏴 | £2.79m |
M Tim Iroegbunam | 🏴 | Youth |
M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴 | Youth |
M Nicolò Zaniolo | 🇮🇹 | Loan |
W Moussa Diaby | 🇫🇷 | £47.66m |
W Leon Bailey | 🇯🇲 | £28.80m |
CF Ollie Watkins | 🏴 | £30.60m |
CF Jhon Durán | 🇨🇴 | £14.28m |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI Cost: £268.97m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 4/11
Homegrown: 3/11
Subs Cost: £95.55m
Team Cost: £364.52m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/16
Homegrown: 4/16
Matchday Squad Cost: £412.40m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/20
Homegrown: 4/20
Total Squad Cost: £898.73m
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 12/35
Homegrown: 6/35
MATCHDAY SQUAD
GK André Onana | 🇨🇲 | £45.50m |
GK Altay Bayindir | 🇹🇷 | £4.28m |
CB Raphaël Varane | 🇫🇷 | £35.00m |
CB Willy Kambwala | 🇫🇷 | £3.47m |
CB Jonny Evans | 🇬🇧 | Free |
RB Aaron Wan-Bissaka | 🏴 | £48.29m |
RB Diogo Dalot | 🇵🇹 | £19.80m |
LB Sergio Reguilón | 🇪🇸 | Loan |
M Bruno Fernandes | 🇵🇹 | £56.70m |
M Donny van de Beek | 🇳🇱 | £35.10m |
M Hannibal Mejbri | 🇹🇳 | £8.67m |
M Kobbie Mainoo | 🏴 | Youth |
M Scott McTominay | 🏴 | Youth |
M Daniel Gore | 🏴 | Free |
M Christian Eriksen | 🇩🇰 | Free |
W Antony | 🇧🇷 | £83.41m |
W Facundo Pellistri | 🇺🇾 | £8.50m |
W Alejandro Garnacho | 🇦🇷 | Youth |
CF Rasmus Højlund | 🇩🇰 | £63.68m |
CF Marcus Rashford | 🏴 | Youth |
UNAVAILABLE
Injury | 5 |
W Emiliano Buendía | 🇦🇷 | ACL
CB Tyrone Mings | 🏴 | ACL
W Bertrand Traoré | 🇧🇫 | Muscular
M Youri Tielemans | 🇧🇪 | Calf
GK Robin Olsen | 🇸🇪 |
Suspension | 2 |
M Boubacar Kamara | 🇫🇷 |
RB Matty Cash | 🇵🇱 |
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 | 10 |
CB Lisandro Martínez | 🇦🇷 |
CB Victor Lindelöf | 🇸🇪 |
CB Harry Maguire | 🏴 |
LB Luke Shaw | 🏴 |
LB Tyrell Malacia | 🇳🇱 |
M Sofyan Amrabat | 🇲🇦 |
M Mason Mount | 🏴 |
M Casemiro | 🇧🇷 |
W Amad Diallo | 🇨🇮 |
CF Anthony Martial | 🇫🇷 |
Out on Loan | 2 |
LB Álvaro Fernandez | 🇪🇸 |
LB Brandon Williams | 🏴 |
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 | 54%
Possession A | 46%
Shots F | 10
Shots A | 13
Shots on Target F | 4
Shots on Target A | 7
Corners F | 6
Corners A | 3
Fouls F | 10
Fouls A | 10
LEAGUE TABLE
MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
MATCH REPORT