Game #4828
Aston Villa
Tuesday, 28 December 2004
Lost
11th (-1)
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥
Premier League
Manchester United
Villa Park
Attendance: 42,593
Aston Villa
0-1
Manchester United
Assist(s) | None
MANAGER
David O'Leary | 🇮🇪 | 2003-2006
Aston Villa
GK Thomas Sörensen | 🇩🇰 |
CB Liam Ridgewell | 🏴 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
RB Ulises de la Cruz | 🇪🇨 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴 |
M Steven Davis | 🇬🇧 |
M Mathieu Berson | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 | 🔁 |
W Nolberto Solano | 🇵🇪 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 |
CF Carlton Cole | 🏴 | 🔁 |
MANAGER
Alex Ferguson | 🏴 |
Manchester United
GK Roy Carroll | 🇬🇧 |
LB Mikaël Silvestre | 🇫🇷 |
CB Gabriel Heinze | 🇦🇷 | 🟨 |
CB Rio Ferdinand | 🏴 | 🟨 |
CB John O’Shea | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
RB Phil Neville | 🏴 |
M Darren Fletcher | 🏴 |
M Paul Scholes | 🏴 |
M Alan Smith | 🏴 |
W Ryan Giggs | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CF Wayne Rooney | 🏴 | 🔁 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | F Stefan Moore | 🏴 | 🔴 | for CF Carlton Cole | 🏴 | 54’ |
🔁 | W Peter Whittingham | 🏴 | for M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 | 67’ |
🔁 | F Luke Moore | 🏴 | for M Mathieu Berson | 🇫🇷 | 87’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | CB John O’Shea | 🇮🇪 | (M Roy Keane | 🇮🇪 |)
🔁 | CF Wayne Rooney | 🏴 | (W Cristiano Ronaldo | 🇵🇹 |)
🟥 28 December 2004, Villa 0-1 United, Villa Park.
ON THIS DAY
Tuesday, 28 December 2004
Villa end 2004 with a fifth defeat in six winless games to leave them eleventh in the table but the fact they put in an improved performance is overshadowed by David O'Leary taking the concept of damning with faint praise to a new level.
As a result Villa end 2004 moving in a very different trajectory than 2003 but one consistent is David O'Leary continuing to belittle his charges in post match interviews.
Stefan Moore, 21, makes his 30th and final appearance in a Villa shirt before moving on to Queens Park Rangers on a free transfer in July 2005 leaving with a record of W14 D6 L10, 2 Goals and 2 Bookings.
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