Game #4781

Aston Villa

Wednesday, 17 December 2003

Won

Quarter Final

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩

League Cup

Chelsea

Villa Park

Attendance: 30,414

Aston Villa

2-1

Chelsea

Scorer(s) | Juan Pablo Ángel | 16’ | Gavin McCann | 78’ |

Assist(s) | Juan Pablo Ángel | 78' |

MANAGER

David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006

Aston Villa

GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 | 🟨 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
CB Ronny Johnsen | 🇳🇴 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Gavin McCann | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
W Peter Whittingham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | ⚽ | 🔥 | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Claudio Ranieri | 🇮🇹 |

Chelsea

GK Neil Sullivan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
LB Celestine Babayaro | 🇳🇬 |
CB William Gallas | 🇫🇷 | 🟨 |
CB John Terry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
RB Glen Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
RB Mario Melchiot | 🇳🇱 |
M Claude Makélélé | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
M Joe Cole | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Njitap Geremi | 🇨🇲 |
W Damien Duff | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
CF Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink | 🇳🇱 |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 CF Stefan Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 52’ |
🔁 M Thomas Hitzlsperger | 🇩🇪 | for M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 69’ |
🔁 CF Peter Crouch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 83’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | RB Glen Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Hernán Crespo | 🇦🇷 |)
🔁 | M Claude Makélélé | 🇫🇷 | (M Frank Lampard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | W Damien Duff | 🇮🇪 | (W Jesper Grønkjær | 🇩🇰 |)

🟩 17 December 2003, Villa 2-1 Chelsea, Villa Park.

ON THIS DAY

Wednesday, 17 December 2003

Juan Pablo Ángel inspires Villa once again to deliver a 5th consecutive home win under David O’Leary and a secure a place in the League Cup semi finals for the first time since 2000.
Juan Pablo Ángel contributes his 40th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 66th start (83 Appearances) to make it W33 D19 L31, 31 Goals, 9 Assists and 7 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one for every 1.65 starts so far in his Villa career.
Peter Crouch comes off the bench to play his first game in 4 months under David O’Leary to make it 27 appearances (18 Starts), W7 D6 L14, 2 Goals, 4 Assists and 1 Booking so far in his Villa career.

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