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Game #4608

Aston Villa

Wednesday, 15 March 2000

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Drew

6th= (-)

Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟨

Premier League

Liverpool

Anfield

Attendance: 43,615

🟨 15 Mar 2000, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Anfield

Liverpool

0-0

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | None

🟨 15 Mar 2000, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Anfield

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MATCH TIMELINE

Wednesday, 15 March 2000

🕒 | HT Liverpool 0-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 52’ Sub off, Gareth Southgate, Sub on, Ian Taylor
🔁 | 59’ Sub off, Paul Merson, Sub on, Lee Hendrie
🔁 | 88’ Sub off, Julian Joachim, Sub on, Richard Walker
🕒 | FT Liverpool 0-0 Aston Villa

🟨 | Booking, Gareth Barry

Match Statistics

Not recorded

Goal ⚽, Assist 🔥, Goal Conceded 🥅, Injury 🚑, Booking 🟨, Sending off 🟥, Comment 🗒️, ❗ Villa Chance,❗❗Huge Villa Chance, 💥 Opposition action, 🎥 VAR, 🆘 Referee error, ❌ Missed pen, disallowed goal, player retires from field of play, 🟢 Debut, 🔴 Final appearance, 🕒 Half time, Full time, 🔁 Substitution

🟨 15 Mar 2000, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Anfield

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ON THIS DAY

Wednesday, 15 March 2000

  • Villa are held at Anfield by Liverpool but make it 12 Premier League games unbeaten under John Gregory as they consolidate 6th place in the table.

🟨 15 Mar 2000, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Anfield

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

Seasons | 🕒 Games | ✅ Starts (🔁 Subs) | ⚽ Goals | 🔥 Assists | 🇺 Unused | Player Number |

Aston Villa

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

Liverpool

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European Cup / Champions League: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
UEFA Cup / Europa League: 🏆🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1994-95

FIXTURE HISTORY

Liverpool

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Previous 5 vs. Liverpool: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟨

Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Goals Scored ⚽, Goals Conceded 🥅

🟨 15 Mar 2000, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Anfield

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1999-00 |
Matchday | #41 |
League Game | #29 |
Manager Game | #98 |
Wednesday, 15 March 2000

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🟨 15 Mar 2000, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Anfield

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: Steve Bennett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Kent, 1995-2010
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 0-0
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟨

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
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Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

🕒 98 | 🟩 | 49 🟨 | 21 🟥 28 | 1.71

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Points per Game

🟨 15 Mar 2000, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Anfield

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Steve Bennett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Kent, 1995-2010
Matches Officiated: 3
🟩 : 2
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟩 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 18 Dec 99, Villa 2-1 Wednesday (h)
Cards: 🟨

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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🟨 Gareth Barry

CARDS

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None

Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Notably poor performance 🆘, Cards 🟨 Booking, Cards 🟥 Sending off, Disallowed ❌ Goal disallowed, ⚽ Penalty for, 🥅 Penalty against, ❌ Penalty Disallowed

🟨 15 Mar 2000, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Anfield

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Steve Stone replaces Ian Taylor.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.42 |

Oldest Player |
M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 32.01 |

Youngest Player |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.07 |

Referee

🟨 15 Mar 2000, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Anfield

MANAGER

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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Aston Villa

GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Gareth Southgate | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Steve Stone | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
F Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
F Benito Carbone | 🇮🇹 |

MANAGER

Gérard Houllier | 🇫🇷 | (ft)

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Liverpool

GK Sander Westerveld | 🇳🇱 |
LB Dominic Matteo | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Stéphane Henchoz | 🇨🇭 |
CB Sami Hyypiä | 🇫🇮 |
CB Jamie Carragher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Patrik Berger | 🇨🇿 |
M Dietmar Hamann | 🇩🇪 |
M Steven Gerrard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M David Thompson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Emile Heskey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Michael Owen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟨 15 Mar 2000, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Anfield

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Ian Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CB Gareth Southgate | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 52’ |
🔁 | M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 59’ |
🔁 | F Richard Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for F Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 88’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Steven Gerrard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Jamie Redknapp | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | M David Thompson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Erik Meijer | 🇳🇱 |)
🔁 | CF Michael Owen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Titi Camara | 🇬🇳 |)

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Substitutes

🟨 15 Mar 2000, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Anfield

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Neil Cutler | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Steve Watson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Brad Friedel | 🇺🇸 |
LB Steve Staunton (ex) | 🇮🇪 |

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

🟨 15 Mar 2000, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Anfield

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 13/16

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 6/11

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

🟨 15 Mar 2000, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Anfield

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

🟨 15 Mar 2000, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Anfield

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MATCH QUOTES

"Not until the evening’s final quarter did Aston Villa show any interest in building upon the one point they held at kick-off."
Quotes

🟨 15 Mar 2000, Villa 0-0 Liverpool, Anfield

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MATCH REPORTS

Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. With thanks to Reach PLC. Digitised by Findmypast Newspaper Archive Limited. All rights reserved. Source: British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)

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*The Guardian*
Thursday, 16 March 2000

Michael Owen, starting his first game since returning from injury, missed a penalty last night as Liverpool dropped two home points. Having impressed so often since the turn of the year, the Anfield club appear to be working studiously towards ensuring that their season ends in anti-climax. While the solitary point they gathered from an untidy game was sufficient, just, to move them back into the Premiership’s top three they have lost their way somewhat. Blessed with a watertight defence, they are not losing - but it is wins they need as they seek the money pot of Champions League qualification. Had their finishing not been so wretched, a win they would certainly have had. Not until the evening’s final quarter did Aston Villa show any interest in building upon the one point they held at kick-off. Liverpool’s opportunity to collect a maximum return came and went just after the half-hour when they paid a high price for what many would see as a curious decision to allow Michael Owen to take a penalty awarded after Gareth Southgate had felled Patrik Berger. After just 15 minutes of senior football in eight hamstrung weeks Owen - not Berger, not Emile Heskey - stepped forwards to place the ball on the spot. His kick was ferocious but struck the underside of the crossbar before dropping down. Believing the ball had fallen behind the line, Owen, fleetingly, raised his arms in triumph; he was to be disappointed. It was not Owen’s night. The Boy Wonder missed several chances he would normally have been expected to take, most notably in the 13th minute when he latched on to Steven Gerrard’s fine pass only to steer his shot tamely into the legs of the Villa goalkeeper Peter Enckelman. The recovery of Owen welcome though it may have been for club and country, did no favours for Anfield’s latest cult figure, the Dutchman Erik Meijer, whose reward for a tireless display against Sunderland at the weekend was demotion to the substitutes’ bench. As the Liverpool manager Gérard Houllier embraces the system of squad rotation, many will be called upon but many more left disappointed in the years that lie ahead. Heskey was another young man who was to endure a less than satisfying night. The youngster tried manfully to suppress a natural instinct to drift out towards the touchline but, sadly, without too much success. Villa’s role was of a supporting nature but with Paul Merson and Steve Stone energetic and enthusiastic in central midfield their counter-attacks, rare though they were, did hold at least a measure of promise. They went close just once, Julian Joachim drifting around Stéphane Henchoz only to cross tamely into the area when the goal lay at his mercy. Owen should have won the game for Liverpool shortly before his inevitable withdrawal just after the hour. Having found himself on the end of Heskey’s nicely weighted and intelligent pass he should have done rather more than lift his shot over the crossbar from 10 or so yards. The impressive David Thompson was to go a little closer shortly afterwards but Enckelman was equal to the task, throwing himself down to block one of only a handful of shots which Liverpool were to land on what proved to be a most elusive target.
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