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Villa vs.

Celtic

🟩 29 Jan 2025, Villa 4-2 Celtic, Villa Park

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Game #5759

Manager: Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 | Hondarribia, 2022-
Referee: Clément Turpin | 🇫🇷 | Oullins, 2010-
Kick off: 8.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 2-2
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 4-2
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟩

Season: 2024-25
Matchday: #34
European Game: #8
Manager Game: #117
Date: Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Attendance: 42,824

Scorer(s): Morgan Rogers | 3’ | 5’ | 90’+1 | Ollie Watkins | 60’ |

Assist(s): Jacob Ramsey | 3’ | 60’ | Ollie Watkins | 5’ |

Match Timeline

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Starting XI

GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 |
RB Matty Cash | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇵🇱 | 🔁 |
CB Ezri Konsa | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Boubacar Kamara | 🇫🇷 |
LB Lucas Digne | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
M Lamare Bogarde | 🇳🇱 |
M Youri Tielemans | 🇧🇪 |
M Morgan Rogers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ | ⚽ |
M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🔥 |
W Leon Bailey | 🇯🇲 |
CF Ollie Watkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | ⚽ |🔥 |

Substitutes

🔁 | M John McGinn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | for RB Matty Cash | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇵🇱 | 30’ |
🔁 | LB Ian Maatsen | 🇳🇱 | for LB Lucas Digne | 🇫🇷 | 74’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Robin Olsen | 🇸🇪 |
GK Oliwier Zych | 🇵🇱
CB Sil Swinkels | 🇳🇱 |
RB Kosta Nedeljkovic | 🇷🇸 |
W Kadan Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Jhon Durán | 🇨🇴 |
F Travis Patterson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Starting XI

GK Kasper Schmeichel | 🇩🇰 |
RB Alistair Johnston | 🇨🇦 |
CB Auston Trusty | 🇺🇸 |
CB Liam Scales | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
LB Greg Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Arne Engels | 🇧🇪 | 🔁 |
M Callum McGregor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Reo Hatate | 🇯🇵 | 🔁 |
W Nicolas Kühn | 🇩🇪 |
W Hyun-jun Yang | 🇰🇷 | 🔁 |
CF Adam Idah | 🇮🇪 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 | M Paulo Bernardo | 🇵🇹 | for M Arne Engels | 🇧🇪 | 73’ |
🔁 | W Luis Palma | 🇭🇳 | for W Hyun-jun Yang | 🇰🇷 | 73’ |
🔁 | CF Daniel Cummings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | for CF Adam Idah | 🇮🇪 | 79’ |
🔁 | CB Dane Murray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | for CB Liam Scales | 🇮🇪 | 83’ |
🔁 | M Luke McCowan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | for M Reo Hatate | 🇯🇵 | 83’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Viljami Sinisalo (ex) | 🇫🇮 |
GK Scott Bain | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Maik Nawrocki | 🇵🇱 |
LB Adam Montgomery | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
RB Anthony Ralston | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

Match Timeline

⚽ | 3’ Goal!, 1-0, Morgan Rogers, Assist by Jacob Ramsey
⚽ | 5’ Goal!, 2-0, Morgan Rogers, Assist by Ollie Watkins
❗ | Chance! Matty Cash shot from Morgan Rogers pass is blocked
❗ | Chance! Matty Cash long range shot is blocked
💥 | Backpass let’s in Celtic for a weak shot
❗ | Huge Chance!! Jacob Ramsey hits the post, hits the ‘keeper, bounces kindly for Celtic
🚑 | Player injured on field of play, Matty Cash
🔁 | 30’ Sub off, Matty Cash, Sub on, John McGinn
❗ | Huge Chance!! Ollie Watkins shot from Leon Bailey pass cleared off the line
🥅 | 36’ Goal, 2-1, (Celtic), Adam Idah
🗒️ | First attack, goal
🥅 | 38’ Goal, 2-2, (Celtic), Adam Idah
🗒️ | Second attack, goal
🕒 | 45’+5 HT Aston Villa 2-2 Celtic
❗ | 51’ Chance! Morgan Rogers & Jacob Ramsey combination cleared
❗ | 54’ Chance! Ollie Watkins snuffed out in the box
❗ | 54’ Chance! Morgan Rogers just wide from range
⚽ | 60’ Goal!, 3-2, Ollie Watkins, Assist by Jacob Ramsey
❗ | 64’ Huge Chance!! Ollie Watkins shot from John McGinn pass, huge save by Schmeichel
❗ | 64’ Ollie Watkins fouled in box, referee awards a pen
🎥 | 66’ Pen confirmed by VAR
❌ | 67’ Missed penalty, Ollie Watkins 28
❗ | 71’ Huge Chance!! Ollie Watkins, huge save by Schmeichel foot
💥 | Celtic wide
🗒️ | Third attack
❗ | 54’ Chance! Ollie Watkins snuffed out in the box
❗ | 77’ Chance! Ollie Watkins wide
❗ | 81’ Huge Chance!! Morgan Rogers from Leon Bailey throughball, huge save from Schmeichel
⚽ | 90’+1 Goal!, 4-2, Morgan Rogers, Assist by Ollie Watkins
🕒 | 90’+4 FT Aston Villa 4-2 Celtic

On This Day

  • Villa face Celtic | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | for the first time in competitive football, Celtic | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | become the 174th team that the Villa first team has played in League or Cup football.

  • Celtic | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | are the fourth Scottish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | club Villa have faced after Hibs | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | in 2023, Rangers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | in 1887 & Queen’s Park | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | in 1899 and 1884

  • Celtic | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | are the second Scottish club to face Villa at Villa Park.

  • Villa’s only other game at home to Scottish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | opposition ended in a 3-0 victory over Hibs | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | in 2023.

  • Villa have scored 16 goals in 6 games against Scottish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | opposition and conceded 9, 6 of those goals came in a single match - Villa’s FA Cup defeat to Queen’s Park | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | in 1884.

  • Ollie Watkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | makes his 20th appearance in European competition for Villa 

  • John McGinn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | makes his 20th appearance in European competition for Villa

  • Both are 3rd in the all time list behind Gordon Cowans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (28) & Dennis Mortimer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (27) for outfield players

  • Boubacar Kamara | 🇫🇷 | plays at centre back on his 70th start in a Villa shirt

  • Lamare Bogarde | 🇳🇱 | plays in midfield on his 10th start in a Villa shirt

  • Morgan Rogers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | scores Villa’s first hat-trick in the European Cup / Champions League since Gary Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | in 1982

  • Jacob Ramsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | contributes 2 assists in a game for the first time since May 2023 vs. Brighton and for the first time ever in European competition

  • Morgan Rogers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | contributes his 20th goal involvement - 13 ⚽ Goals and 🔥 7 Assists - on his 47th appearance in a Villa shirt. Doing so at a goal contribution rate of one for every 2.35 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

  • Morgan Rogers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | becomes the 5th Villa player to score a hat-trick in Europe after Gary Shaw | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | vs. Dinamo in 1982, Peter Withe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | vs. Vitória in 1983, Stan Collymore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | vs. Strømsgodset in 1998 and Ollie Watkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | v Hibs in 2023

  • Ollie Watkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | scores his first goal in the Champions League on his 8th appearance.

  • Ollie Watkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | contributes his 116th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 201st appearance at a rate of one for every 1.73 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

  • Ollie Watkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | contributes his 12th goal involvement (9 ⚽ Goals and 🔥 3 Assists) in European competition on his 20th European appearance at a rate of one for every 1.67 games he has played in European so far in his Villa career.

  • Matty Cash | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇵🇱 | secures his 70th win on his 163rd appearance

  • Boubacar Kamara | 🇫🇷 | makes his 70th appearance under Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 |

  • Jacob Ramsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | secures his 40th win under Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 |

  • Ollie Watkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | makes his 100th start under Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 |

  • Ollie Watkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | contributes his 80th goal involvement in 111 appearances under Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 |

  • After 117 Games Unai Emery has rhe best record of any Villa manager in history:   🥇 Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 | 2022- 1.76 PPG

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