Game #4651
Aston Villa
Saturday, 3 February 2001


Won
12th (+1)
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩
Premier League
Bradford City
Bradford and Bingley Stadium
Attendance: 19,591
Bradford City
0-3

Aston Villa

Assist(s) | Juan Pablo Ángel | 50’ | Lee Hendrie | 87’ |
MANAGER
John Gregory | 🏴 | 1998-2002

Aston Villa
GK David James | 🏴 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴 |
CB Alpay Özalan | 🇹🇷 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 | 🔥 |
M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 🔥 | 🔁 |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
MANAGER
Jim Jeffries | 🏴 |

Bradford City
GK Gary Walsh | 🏴 |
RB Peter Atherton | 🏴 |
D Andy O'Brien | 🇮🇪 |
CB Robert Molenaar | 🇳🇱 |
LB Wayne Jacobs | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Billy McKinlay | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Stuart McCall | 🏴 |
M David Hopkin | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Eoin Jess | 🏴 |
CF Dean Windass | 🏴 | 🟨 |
CF Robbie Blake | 🏴 |
SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Ian Taylor | 🏴 | for M Gareth Barry | 🏴 | 45’ |
🔁 | F Julian Joachim | 🏴 | ⚽ | for CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨 🇴 | 75’ |
🔁 | M John McGrath | 🇮🇪 | 🔴 | for M Paul Merson | 🏴 | 89’ |
SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | LB Wayne Jacobs | 🏴 | (W Peter Beagrie | 🏴 |)
🔁 | M David Hopkin | 🏴 | (CF Ashley Ward | 🏴 |)
🟩 3 Feb 2001, Villa 3-0 Bradford, Bradford & Bingley Stadium

ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 3 February 2001
Villa stop a run of five consecutive defeats against top six opposition to beat lowly Bradford convincingly but twelfth in the table is as good as it gets for John Gregory.
Villa win for the 1st time in 6 League games under John Gregory.
Midfielder John McGrath, 20, makes his 3rd and final appearance in a Villa shirt before moving on to Doncaster Rovers on a free transfer in June 2003. McGrath left with a record of W1 D0 L2 with all his appearances coming in the 2000-01 season.
George Boateng makes his 75th appearance in a Villa shirt (69 Starts) to make it W31 D23 L21, 4 Goals and 19 Bookings at a rate of a card every 3.95 games so far in his Villa career.
Darius Vassell scores a brace to collect his 5th goal in a Villa shirt and his 3rd in 5 games on his 48th appearance (5 Starts) to make it W22 D6 L20, 5 Goals, 4 Assists, 6 Bookings and 1 Red Card at a goal involvement rate of one for every 5.33 games played so far in his Villa career.
Juan Pablo Ángel contributes his 1st assist in a Villa shirt on his 4th appearance to make it W1 D0 L3 and 1 Assist so far in his Villa career.
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