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Game #4615

Aston Villa

Saturday, 22 April 2000

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Drew

6th (-)

Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟨

Premier League

Leicester City

Villa Park

Attendance: 31,229

🟨 22 Apr 2000, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Villa Park

Aston Villa

2-2

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Leicester City

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Assist(s) | Dion Dublin | 31’ | Steve Watson | 48’ |

🟨 22 Apr 2000, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 22 April 2000

⚽ | 31’ Goal, 1-0, Alan Thompson, Assist by Dion Dublin
🥅 | 36’ Goal, 1-1, (Leicester City), Matt Elliott
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-1 Leicester City
⚽ | 48’ Goal, 2-1, Paul Merson, Assist by Steve Watson
🥅 | 67’ Goal, 2-2, (Leicester City), Neil Lennon
🔁 | 72’ Sub off, Alan Thompson, Sub on, Lee Hendrie
🔁 | 80’ Sub off, Dion Dublin, Sub on, Julian Joachim
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 2-2 Leicester City

🟨 | Booking, Lee Hendrie
🟨 | Booking, George Boateng
🟨 | Booking, Steve Watson

Match Statistics

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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

🟨 22 Apr 2000, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 22 April 2000

  • Villa extend their run to 1 defeat in 18 Premier League games under John Gregory but they are held at home by bogey side Leicester.

  • Full back Steve Watson, 26, makes his 53rd and final appearance in a Villa shirt (50 Starts) before moving on to Everton for £3,380,000 in July 2000. Villa had signed Watson 18 months earlier from Newcastle United for £5,400,000 but was soon deemed surplus to requirements by John Gregory leaving with a record of W24 D12 L17, 1 Goal, 6 Assists, 8 Bookings and 1 Red Card.

  • Paul Merson scores his 10th goal in a Villa shirt on his 67th appearance (52 Starts) to make it W30 D17 L20, 10 Goals, 11 Assists and 4 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one for every 3.19 games played so far in his Villa career.

  • Alan Thompson scores his 5th goal in a Villa shirt on his 53rd appearance to make it W23 D11 L19, 5 Goals, 5 Assists and 16 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

  • Lee Hendrie collects his 20th booking in a Villa shirt on his 105th appearance (76 Starts) to make it W50 D23 L32, 9 Goals, 9 Assists, 20 Bookings and 1 Red Card at a rate of a card every 5 games so far in his Villa career.

  • George Boateng collects his 10th booking in a Villa shirt on his 41st appearance (38 Starts) to make it W21 D12 L8, 3 Goals and 10 Bookings at a rate of a card every 4.10 games so far in his Villa career.

🟨 22 Apr 2000, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Villa Park

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

🔴 RB Steve Watson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-00 🕒 53 | 50 (3) | ⚽ 1 | 🔥 6 | 🇺 15 | #729 |

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

Leicester City

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1999-00

FIXTURE HISTORY

Leicester City

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Previous 5 vs. Leicester: 🟨 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟥

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

🟨 22 Apr 2000, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1999-00 |
Matchday | #48 |
League Game | #35 |
Manager Game | #105 |
Saturday, 22 April 2000

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🟨 22 Apr 2000, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: Graham Barber | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Tring, 1997-2002
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
FT Score: 🟨 2-2
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟨

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

🕒 105 | 🟩 | 53 🟨 | 23 🟥 29 | 1.75

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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

🟨 22 Apr 2000, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Villa Park

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Graham Barber | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Tring, 1997-2004

REFEREE PROFILE

Referee: Graham Barber | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Tring, 1997-2004
🕒 13 | 🟩 6 | 🟨 4 | 🟥 3 | 🆘 : 1
🕒 13 | 🟩 46% | 🟨 31% | 🟥 23% | 🆘 : 8%
Cards 🟨 20 | 🟥 0 | 1.54 |
Penalty ⚽ 1 | 🥅 0 |
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟨

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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🟨 Lee Hendrie
🟨 George Boateng
🟨 Steve Watson

CARDS

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🟨 Gerry Taggart
🟨 Neil Lennon

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

🟨 22 Apr 2000, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Villa name an unchanged line up.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.63 |

Oldest Player |
M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 32.11 |

Youngest Player |
FB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.08 |

Referee

🟨 22 Apr 2000, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Villa Park

MANAGER

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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Aston Villa

GK David James | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Steve Watson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🟨 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Alan Thompson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 | 🟨 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Benito Carbone | 🇮🇹 |
CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Martin O’Neill | 🇬🇧 | (ft)

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Leicester City

GK Tim Flowers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Phil Gilchrist | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Frank Sinclair | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Gerry Taggart | 🇬🇧 | 🟨 |
CB Matt Elliott | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Andy Impey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Muzzy Izzet | 🇹🇷 | 🔁 |
M Neil Lennon | 🇬🇧 | ⚽ | 🟨 |
M Robbie Savage | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
M Stefan Oakes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Tony Cottee | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟨 22 Apr 2000, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | for M Alan Thompson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 72’ |
🔁 | F Julian Joachim | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 80’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | M Muzzy Izzet | 🇹🇷 | (M Theo Zagorakis | 🇬🇷 |)
🔁 | M Stefan Oakes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Lawrie Dudfield | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

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Substitutes

🟨 22 Apr 2000, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
LB Najwan Ghrayib | 🇮🇱 |
D Jonathan Bewers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Pegguy Arphexad | 🇫🇷 |
CB Steve Walsh | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Ian Marshall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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

🟨 22 Apr 2000, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Villa Park

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/11

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

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/11

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

🟨 22 Apr 2000, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Villa Park

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

🟨 22 Apr 2000, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES

"If they played against everyone like they do against us then they would win the Premiership." John Gregory. "We don't get worked up more for games against Villa. Jinx? They can't beat us, that's the jinx." Martin O'Neill.
Quotes

🟨 22 Apr 2000, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Villa Park

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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*
Sunday, 23 April 2000

*Elliott tames Villa again* Aston Villa do not like playing Leicester - after all, they haven’t beaten them for 13 years. They were the better side for long stretches of yesterday’s encounter, but still Martin O’Neill’s side battled back twice to avoid defeat. ‘If Leicester played against everyone like they do against us then they would win the Premiership,’ said a disgruntled John Gregory after the game. ‘I don’t know why he says that,’ countered O’Neill, ‘because our record is very good against a lot of teams.’ Good, but not that good. The only great moment of controversy came in injury time, when Robbie Savage was clattered over by Villa’s substitute Lee Hendrie, who was booked. Leicester reacted with fury, and soon 12 players were arguing at the touchline, with Leicester’s assistant manager John Robertson joining in for good measure. O’Neill was still furious at the post-match press conference; Gregory was more philosophical. ‘These things happen,’ he said. ‘There is nothing to worry about.’ Indeed, just about the only thing Gregory did have to worry about was Leicester’s talismanic captain Matt Elliott, who scored one goal and claimed an assist for the other. Elliott started at centre-back, leaving the diminutive partnership of Tony Cottee and Muzzy Izzet up front. It didn’t go well, and Leicester rarely threatened before they fell behind. The only surprise was that it took the home side so long to score. They tested Tim Flowers several times before, just past the half-hour, Dublin back-heeled the ball neatly into the path of Alan Thompson, who drilled home his second goal in three starts. O’Neill swiftly reorganised, moving Elliott up front with Izzet moving back. The move paid almost immediate dividends, Gareth Barry failing to clear a right-wing cross which duly fell to Elliott’s feet for an emphatic finish. Villa regrouped at half-time and started the second period much as they had the first. This time it took them only three minutes to score, Merson’s late run timed perfectly to meet Steve Watson’s deep cross from the right. But while they threatened to extend their lead further , they were again caught out as Elliott nodded Izzet’s cross into the path of Neil Lennon, who scored. As Villa pushed for the winner Elliott returned to the defence to keep Leicester’s 13-year-old record intact, until next season at least. --- *The Guardian* Monday, 24 April 2000 *Jinxed Villa fail again to run Foxes to earth* Throw together two managers who rarely see eye to eye and two teams keen on winding each other up and what do you get? Four goals, a 12-man scrap and an unhealthy dose of petty bickering. Aston Villa last beat Leicester 13 years ago and twice passed up chances to end that run on Saturday. “If they played against everybody like they play against us, they’d win the Premiership,” grumbled Villa’s manager John Gregory. His opposite number Martin O’Neill retorted: “We don’t get worked up more for games against Villa. Jinx? They can’t beat us, that’s the jinx.” The melée which ensued seconds from the end was indicative of Villa’s lack of killer instinct. Even Lee Hendrie’s lunge at Robbie Savage, which prompted the handbags, failed to finish the Leicester man off. Such a finale seemed unlikely after a drab opening half-hour which failed to disturb a flock of pigeons inside the Leicester half. It took Alan Thompson to scatter them, his charge and exchange of passes with Dion Dublin ending in a thunderous shot which ripped past Tim Flowers. Leicester sent Matt Elliott up front and the man who ousted Villa from the Worthington Cup duly struck again. Stefan Oakes’ centre should have been cleared by Gareth Barry but the defender kicked air and Elliott pounced. “They feed off the scraps,” said Gregory, referring not to the pigeons but the Foxes. Paul Merson’s header from a Steve Watson cross suggested Villa had learned their lesson before Neil Lennon, profiting from another Elliott knockdown, turned inside Alan Wright to find the top corner. “If ever there was a day when Aston Villa should have beaten us, it was today,” added O’Neill. For once, his opposite number may just have agreed.
Reports

🟨 22 Apr 2000, Villa 2-2 Leicester, Villa Park

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