Game #4689
Aston Villa
Saturday, 1 December 2001


Lost
6th (-1)
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟥
Premier League
Leicester City
Villa Park
Attendance: 30,711
Aston Villa
0-2

Leicester City

Assist(s) | None
MANAGER
John Gregory | 🏴 | 1998-2002

Aston Villa
GK Peter Schmeichel | 🇩🇰 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
CB Alpay Özalan | 🇹🇷 | 🔁 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴 |
M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴 |
M Steve Stone | 🏴 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴 | 🔁 |
MANAGER
Dave Bassett | 🏴 |

Leicester City
GK Ian Walker | 🏴 |
LB Callum Davidson | 🏴 |
LB Alan Rogers | 🏴 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
CB Frank Sinclair | 🏴 |
CB Matt Elliott | 🏴 |
M Lee Marshall | 🏴 |
M Andy Impey | 🏴 |
M Dennis Wise | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Robbie Savage | 🏴 | 🟨 |
CF Ade Akinbiyi | 🏴 | ⚽ | 🟨 | 🔁 |
CF James Scowcroft | 🏴 | ⚽ |
SUBSTITUTES

🔁 LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 | for CB Alpay Özalan | 🇹🇷 | 60’ |
🔁 W David Ginola | 🇫🇷 | 🟥 | 🔴 | for M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 | 61’ |
🔁 CF Dion Dublin | 🏴 | for F Darius Vassell | 🏴 | 72’ |
SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | LB Alan Rogers | 🏴 | (LB Jordan Stewart | 🏴 |)
🔁 | CF Ade Akinbiyi | 🏴 | (CF Trevor Benjamin | 🏴 |)
🟥 1 December 2001, Villa 0-2 Leicester, Villa Park.

ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 1 December 2001
Villa lose successive games in all competitions for the first time this season as Villa make it four Premier League games without a win under John Gregory after their fine start to the campaign.
Villa fail to score for the 4th time in 5 matches under John Gregory as they lose at home to second from bottom Leicester.
Embarrassing as the result was, the match also, fittingly, featured the end of another wretched and embarrassing episode with the utterly ill-fitting and ill-disciplined David Ginola, 34, making his 41st and final appearance in a Villa shirt (19 Starts). Ginola had brought his melodrama to the club for a scarcely believable £3m and was as unwelcome and unwanted as his attitude was bad. Ginola, a classic example of the Herbert Douglas Ellis strategy of making a single ‘marquee’ signing, regardless of team fit, despite more pressing needs elsewhere in the squad, was released on a free transfer to Everton in February 2002. Ginola left with a record of W13 D14 L14, 5 Goals, 8 Assists, 9 Bookings and 1 Red Card at a goal involvement rate of one for every 3.15 games played so far in his Villa career.
Steve Stone makes his 75th start in a Villa shirt (102 Appearances) to make it W39 D31 L32, 6 Goals, 9 Assists and 13 Bookings so far in his Villa career.
Alpay Özalan makes his 60th and final appearance under John Gregory as injury puts paid to his season having made it W24 D18 L18 and 15 Bookings so far in his Villa career. Gregory would walk out on the club in February 2002 and his successor Graham Taylor would take a very different approach to the always combustible Özalan.
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