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Game #4982

Aston Villa

Sunday, 31 August 2008

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Drew

7th (-)

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟨

Premier League

Liverpool

Villa Park

Attendance: 41,647

Aston Villa

0-0

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Liverpool

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Assist(s) | None

MANAGER

Martin O'Neill | 🇬🇧 | 2006-2010

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Aston Villa

GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
LB Nicky Shorey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CB Curtis Davies | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Martin Laursen | 🇩🇰 |
RB Luke Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Nigel Reo-Coker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Stiliyan Petrov | 🇧🇬 |
W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF John Carew | 🇳🇴 |

MANAGER

Rafa Benítez | 🇪🇸 |

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Liverpool

GK Pepe Reina | 🇪🇸 |
RB Álvaro Arbeloa | 🇪🇸 |
CB Jamie Carragher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Martin Škrtel | 🇷🇸 | 🟨 |
M Andrea Dossena | 🇮🇹 | 🟨 |
M Xabi Alonso | 🇪🇸 |
M Javier Mascherano | 🇦🇷 |
M Lucas Leiva | 🇧🇷 |
F Robbie Keane | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
CF Fernando Torres | 🇪🇸 | 🔁 |
CF Dirk Kuyt | 🇳🇱 | 🔁 |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 W James Milner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | for W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 64’ |
🔁 M Craig Gardner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for LB Nicky Shorey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 79’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | F Robbie Keane | 🇮🇪 | (W Yossi Benayoun | 🇮🇱 |)
🔁 | CF Fernando Torres | 🇪🇸 | (CF David N’Gog | 🇫🇷 |)
🔁 | CF Dirk Kuyt | 🇳🇱 | (LB Fábio Aurélio | 🇧🇷 |)

🟨 31 August 2008, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Villa Park.

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ON THIS DAY

Sunday, 31 August 2008

  • Villa are held by Liverpool as James Milner makes his debut following his permanent move to the club with Martin O'Neill's first XI looking Villa's strongest for well over a decade.

  • James Milner makes his debut after returning to the club following his loan season under David O'Leary in 2005-06. James Milner joined from Newcastle United for a fee of £13,500,000 earlier this month to finally continue his Villa career with his 34th appearance and first as substitute to make it W13 D9 L12, 3 Goals, 9 Assists and 4 Bookings.

  • Brad Friedel keeps his first clean sheet in a Villa shirt on his 5th appearance to make it W3 D2 L0, 7 Goals Conceded at a rate of 1.40 goals per game and 1 Clean Sheet (20%) so far in his Villa career.

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