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Game #4575

Aston Villa

Saturday, 11 September 1999

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Lost

4th= (-1)

Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥

Premier League

Arsenal

Highbury

Attendance: 38,098

🟥 11 September 1999, Villa 1-3 Arsenal, Highbury.

Arsenal

3-1

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Paul Merson | 44’ |

🟥 11 September 1999, Villa 1-3 Arsenal, Highbury.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 11 September 1999

⚽ | 44’ Goal, 1-0, Julian Joachim, Assist by Paul Merson
🥅 | 45’ Goal, 1-1, (Arsenal), Davor Šuker
🕒 | HT Arsenal 1-1 Aston Villa
🥅 | 49’ Goal, 1-2, (Arsenal), Davor Šuker
🔁 | 51’ Sub off, David James, Sub on, Peter Enckelman 🟢
🔁 | 62’ Sub off, Lee Hendrie, Sub on, Alan Thompson
🔁 | 71’ Sub off, Dion Dublin, Sub on, Darius Vassell
🥅 | 82’ Goal, 1-3, (Arsenal), Nwankwo Kanu
🕒 | FT Arsenal 3-1 Aston Villa

🟨 | Booking, Ugo Ehiogu
🟨 | Booking, Paul Merson
🟨 | Booking, Mark Delaney
🟨 | Booking, Ian Taylor

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟥 11 September 1999, Villa 1-3 Arsenal, Highbury.

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 11 September 1999

  • Villa lose for the second time in seven Premier League games under John Gregory as they are beaten at Highbury.

  • Peter Enckelman makes his debut in a Villa shirt as a 51’ substitute for David James after joining from TPS Turku for £513,000 in February 1999 to become the 739th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Paul Merson makes his 25th start in a Villa shirt (32 Appearances) to make it W12 D6 L14, 5 Goals, 3 Assists and 3 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one for every 4.00 games played so far in his Villa career.

  • Lee Hendrie suffers his 25th defeat in a Villa shirt on his 78th appearance (60 Starts) to make it W38 D15 L25, 6 Goals, 9 Assists, 14 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

🟥 11 September 1999, Villa 1-3 Arsenal, Highbury.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

🟢 GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 | #739 | £513,000 signing from TPS Turku

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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Aston Villa

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96

Arsenal

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1997–98

Aston Villa

Arsenal

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Arsenal

Previous 5 vs. Arsenal: 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟥

🟥 11 September 1999, Villa 1-3 Arsenal, Highbury.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1999-00 |
Matchday | #7 |
League Game | #7 |
Manager Game | #65 |
Saturday, 11 September 1999

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🟥 11 September 1999, Villa 1-3 Arsenal, Highbury.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: David Elleray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Harrow, 1986-2003
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 1-3
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 65 | 🟩 | 33 🟨 | 11 🟥 21 | 1.69

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

🟥 11 September 1999, Villa 1-3 Arsenal, Highbury.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: David Elleray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Harrow, 1986-2003
Matches Officiated: 24
🟩 : 9
🟨 : 4
🟥 : 11
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 23 January 1999, FA Cup, Villa 0-2 Fulham, Villa Park.
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟨 Ugo Ehiogu
🟨 Paul Merson
🟨 Mark Delaney
🟨 Ian Taylor

🟨 Nigel Winterburn
🟨 Gilles Grimandi

🟥 11 September 1999, Villa 1-3 Arsenal, Highbury.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Villa name an unchanged line up for the second consecutive game.

Starting XI Average Age
| 28.32 |

Oldest Player |
CB Colin Calderwood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 34.66 |

Youngest Player |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 22.33 |

Referee
Manager

🟥 11 September 1999, Villa 1-3 Arsenal, Highbury.

MANAGER

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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Aston Villa

GK David James | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Colin Calderwood | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Gareth Southgate | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🟨 |
F Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Arsène Wenger | 🇫🇷 |

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Arsenal

GK Alex Manninger | 🇦🇹 |
LB Nigel Winterburn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Martin Keown (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Tony Adams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Lee Dixon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gilles Grimandi | 🇫🇷 | 🟨 |
M Patrick Viera | 🇫🇷 |
M Ray Parlour | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Marc Overmars | 🇳🇱 | 🔁 |
CF Davor Šuker | 🇭🇷 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🔁 |
F Dennis Bergkamp | 🇳🇱 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟥 11 September 1999, Villa 1-3 Arsenal, Highbury.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 | 🟢 | for GK David James | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 51’ |
🔁 | M Alan Thompson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 62’ |
🔁 | CF Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 71’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | CF Davor Šuker | 🇭🇷 | (LB Sylvinho | 🇧🇷 |)
🔁 | F Dennis Bergkamp | 🇳🇱 | (CF Nwankwo Kanu | 🇳🇬 | ⚽ |)
🔁 | W Marc Overmars | 🇳🇱 | (CF Thierry Henry | 🇫🇷 |)

Substitutes

🟥 11 September 1999, Villa 1-3 Arsenal, Highbury.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK John Lukic | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Martin Keown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Nelson Vivas | 🇦🇷 |

Player Positions:

GK : Goalkeeper
CB, D, B : Centre Back, Defender, Back
FB, LB, RB, WH : Full Back, Left Back, Right Back, Wing Back, Wing Half


M, CH, LH, RH : Midfielder, Centre Half, Left Half, Right Half
W, OL, OR : Winger, Outside Left, Outside Right
F, IF, IL, IR : Forward, Inside Forward, Inside Left, Inside Right, Second Striker, False 9
CF : Centre Forward

Match Symbols:

⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution

🟨 | Booking

🟥 | Sending off

🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game

Squad Bios

🟥 11 September 1999, Villa 1-3 Arsenal, Highbury.

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 14/16

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 5/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7/16

🟥 11 September 1999, Villa 1-3 Arsenal, Highbury.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟥 11 September 1999, Villa 1-3 Arsenal, Highbury.

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MATCH QUOTES

Quotes

🟥 11 September 1999, Villa 1-3 Arsenal, Highbury.

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MATCH REPORTS

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🟥 11 September 1999, Villa 1-3 Arsenal, Highbury.

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