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Game #4612

Aston Villa

Wednesday, 5 April 2000

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Won

6th= (-)

Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟩

Premier League

Sheffield Wednesday

Hillsborough

Attendance: 18,136

🟩 5 Apr 2000, Villa 1-0 Wednesday, Hillsborough

Sheffield Wednesday

0-1

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Steve Stone | 90’ |

🟩 5 Apr 2000, Villa 1-0 Wednesday, Hillsborough

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MATCH TIMELINE
Wednesday, 5 April 2000

🕒 | HT Sheffield Wednesday 0-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Mark Delaney, Sub on, Steve Stone
🔁 | 55’ Sub off, Richard Walker, Sub on, Julian Joachim
🔁 | 64’ Sub off, Alan Wright, Sub on, Najwan Ghrayib
⚽ | 90’ Goal, 1-0, Alan Thompson, Assist by Steve Stone
🕒 | FT Sheffield Wednesday 0-1 Aston Villa

🟨 | Booking, Lee Hendrie

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

🟩 5 Apr 2000, Villa 1-0 Wednesday, Hillsborough

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ON THIS DAY
Wednesday, 5 April 2000
  • Villa make it 1 defeat in 15 Premier League games under John Gregory winning 8 as they beat Wednesday to further consolidate 6th place in the table.

  • Villa field an all home nation XI for the final time in top flight football. Villa's line up featured 10 Englishmen and a Welshman. 

  • Dion Dublin makes his first start since his neck injury against the team against whom he broke a vertebra in December as Villa hit a last minute winner to consolidate 6th place in the Premier League table.

  • Lee Hendrie makes his 75th start in a Villa shirt (103 appearances) to make it W49 D22 L32, 9 Goals, 9 Assists, 19 Bookings and 1 Red Card at a goal involvement rate of one for every 6.05 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

  • Alan Thompson makes his 50th appearance in a Villa shirt (39 Starts) to make it W21 D10 L19, 4 Goals, 5 Assists and 15 Bookings at a rate of a card every 3.33 games so far in his Villa career.

  • Right back Jonathan Bewers, 17, makes his first squad appearance for Villa after coming through the youth ranks.

🟩 5 Apr 2000, Villa 1-0 Wednesday, Hillsborough

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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

Sheffield Wednesday

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1990–91

FIXTURE HISTORY
Sheffield Wednesday
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Previous 5 vs. Wednesday: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩

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

🟩 5 Apr 2000, Villa 1-0 Wednesday, Hillsborough

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1999-00 |
Matchday | #45 |
League Game | #32 |
Manager Game | #102 |
Wednesday, 5 April 2000

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🟩 5 Apr 2000, Villa 1-0 Wednesday, Hillsborough

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: Graham Poll | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Hertfordshire, 1994-2006
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

🕒 102 | 🟩 | 51 🟨 | 22 🟥 29 | 1.72

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Graham Poll | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Hertfordshire, 1994-2006

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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🟨 Lee Hendrie

CARDS
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🟨 Alan Quinn

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

🟩 5 Apr 2000, Villa 1-0 Wednesday, Hillsborough

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Gareth Southgate, George Boateng, Ian Taylor, Julian Joachim, Paul Merson and Benito Carbone drop out as Richard Walker, Steve Watson, Lee Hendrie, Alan Thompson (first start in 22) and Dion Dublin (first start in 20) are recalled.

Starting XI Average Age
| 25.12 |

Oldest Player |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 30.98 |

Youngest Player |
FB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.03 |

Referee

🟩 5 Apr 2000, Villa 1-0 Wednesday, Hillsborough

MANAGER

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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Aston Villa

GK David James | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Steve Watson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🔁 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Alan Thompson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Richard Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Peter Shreeves | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Sheffield Wednesday

GK Kevin Pressman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Ian Nolan | 🇬🇧 |
LB Andy Hinchcliffe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Des Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Peter Atherton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Lee Briscoe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Niclas Alexandersson | 🇸🇪 |
M Wim Jonk | 🇳🇱 |
M Alan Quinn | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
F Gilles De Bilde | 🇧🇪 |
CF Andy Booth | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟩 5 Apr 2000, Villa 1-0 Wednesday, Hillsborough

SUBSTITUTES
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🔁 | M Steve Stone | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | for FB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 46’ |
🔁 | F Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for F Richard Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 55’ |
🔁 | LB Najwan Ghrayib | 🇮🇱 | for LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 64’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Lee Briscoe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (M Danny Sonner | 🇬🇧 |)
🔁 | CF Andy Booth | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Richard Cresswell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟩 5 Apr 2000, Villa 1-0 Wednesday, Hillsborough

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
D Jonathan Bewers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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GK Barry Richardson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Steve Haslam | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Barry Horne | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |

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

🟩 5 Apr 2000, Villa 1-0 Wednesday, Hillsborough

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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 12/16

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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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🟩 5 Apr 2000, Villa 1-0 Wednesday, Hillsborough

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MATCH QUOTES
“Sunday took a lot out of us and I am just glad to get this game out of the way. It was a good result and a great three points.” John Gregory.
Quotes

🟩 5 Apr 2000, Villa 1-0 Wednesday, Hillsborough

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MATCH REPORTS

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*The Guardian*
Thursday, 6 April 2000
*Thompson leaves it late to stun Owls* These are terribly bleak days at Hillsborough as Sheffield Wednesday’s second lowest Premiership crowd of the season, just over 18,000, left for home last night with nothing to comfort them from this barren performance against a make-do and mend Villa side who won the match in injury time with a headed goal by Alan Thompson from Steve Stone’s cross. Watford’s manager Graham Taylor remarked last weekend that, with relegation a virtual certainty, there were times when he wishes it could be over and done with and the new season begun. Wednesday would surely agree now, and welcome the hangman’s rope as a friend. Wednesday had every reason to fancy their chances with Villa’s team much changed from their FA Cup semi-final on Sunday. No Gareth Southgate, no George Boateng, no Paul Merson - and, above all, for the sake of spice and perhaps spite, no Benito Carbone. But although Villa were not exactly brimming with confidence for much of the time against Bolton, trusting more to caution than flair for fear of losing a second semi-final, they were generally quicker to the ball and considerably more poised than Wednesday. Dion Dublin, making his first start since his neck operation, had an early chance to underline Villa’s general dominance, latching on to a ball from Mark Delaney, but the England striker knocked the chance wide. Even before that Alan Wright had picked out Thompson, only for Kevin Pressman to take his shot comfortably. Wednesday’s main threat coming from Gilles de Bilde via the left, the Belgian beating David James with a low shot from Andy Hinchcliffe’s swift cross but hitting the outside of the post. Dublin made more solid contact with the woodwork three minutes before half-time when his carefully controlled header from Lee Hendrie’s floated cross just lacked the angle to slip inside Pressman’s right-hand post with the Wednesday goalkeeper comprehensively beaten. John Gregory continued to shuffle his side around in the second half, as if anxious to give everyone a kick rather than the result of any coherent thought process. And for a while Wednesday seemed as if they might profit from Villa’s understandable lack of cohesion. The small amount of half decent football on display in the first half fast disappeared into the clear skies, although there was just a chance that Wednesday’s sense of urgency, befitting their parlous position, might break the mediocre deadlock. But it was Thompson who managed this as the match drifted towards its conclusion and it was hardly a surprise.
Reports

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