Game #5291
Aston Villa
Saturday, 14 March 2015
Won
16th (+1)
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟩
Premier League
Sunderland
Stadium of Light
Attendance: 45,746
Sunderland
0-4
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | Leandro Bacuna | 16’ | 44’ | Ciaran Clark | 18’ | Charles N'Zogbia | 37’ |
MANAGER
Tim Sherwood | 🏴 | 2015
Aston Villa
GK Brad Guzan | 🇺🇸 |
CB Jores Okore | 🇩🇰 |
CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 | 🔥 | 🔁 |
RB Matt Lowton | 🏴 |
M Tom Cleverley | 🏴 |
M Fabian Delph | 🏴 |
M Leandro Bacuna | 🇨🇼 | 🟨 | 🔥 | 🔥 |
W Scott Sinclair | 🏴 |
W Charles N’Zogbia | 🇫🇷 | 🔥 | 🔁 |
F Gabriel Agbonlahor | 🏴 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
CF Christian Benteke | 🇧🇪 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🔁 |
MANAGER
Gustavo Poyet | 🇺🇾 |
Sunderland
GK Costel Pantilimon | 🇷🇴 |
LB Patrick van Aanholt | 🇳🇱 |
CB Wes Brown | 🏴 |
CB John O’Shea | 🇮🇪 |
RB Anthony Réveillère | 🇫🇷 |
M Liam Bridcutt | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Sebastian Larsson | 🇸🇪 |
M Jack Rodwell | 🏴 |
M Ricardo Álvarez | 🇦🇷 | 🔁 |
CF Steven Fletcher | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CF Jermaine Defoe | 🏴 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 M Carlos Sánchez | 🇨🇴 | for CB Ciaran Clark | 🇮🇪 | 64’ |
🔁 F Andreas Weimann | 🇦🇹 | for W Charles N’Zogbia | 🇫🇷 | 79’ |
🔁 F Rushian Hepburn-Murphy | 🏴 | 🟢 | for CF Christian Benteke | 🇧🇪 | 83’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | M Ricardo Álvarez | 🇦🇷 | (CF Connor Wickham | 🏴 |)
🔁 | CF Steven Fletcher | 🏴 | (CF Danny Graham | 🏴 |)
🟩 14 March 2015, Villa 4-0 Sunderland, Stadium of Light.
ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 14 March 2015
Villa record consecutive League victories for the first time this season as Tim Sherwood's reign delivers three successive wins in all competitions.
Villa score as many goals in the first half as they had managed in their previous 14 away league games under Paul Lambert.
Villa score four goals in an away game in the Premier League for the first time since October 2008 at Wigan Athletic under Martin O’Neill.
Forward Rushian Hepburn-Murphy makes his Villa debut aged 16 after coming through the youth ranks to become the 875th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football. Hepburn-Murphy became Villa’s youngest player in the Premier League, aged 16 years and 176 days and their second-youngest in all competitions to Jimmy Brown who was aged 15 years and 349 days were he made his debut on 17 September 1969 in a League Division Two game at Bolton Wanderers.
Christian Benteke scores his 40th goal and secures his 30th win in a Villa shirt on his 90th appearance (83 Starts) to make it W30 D17 L43, 41 Goals, 14 Assists, 12 Bookings and 2 Red Cards so far in his Villa career.
Gabriel Agbonlahor contributes his 125th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 345th appearance (313 Starts) to make it W123 D100 L122, 84 Goals, 41 Assists, 45 Bookings and 1 Red Card at a goal involvement rate of one for every 2.76 games he has played so far in his Villa career.
Carlos Sánchez makes his 25th appearance in a Villa shirt (19 Starts) to make it W8 D7 L10, 1 Assist and 4 Bookings so far in his Villa career.
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