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Game #4671

Aston Villa

Saturday, 18 August 2001

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Drew

11th=

Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟨

Premier League

Tottenham Hotspur

White Hart Lane

Attendance: 36,059

🟨 18 Aug 2001, Villa 0-0 Spurs, White Hart Lane

Tottenham Hotspur

0-0

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | None

🟨 18 Aug 2001, Villa 0-0 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 18 August 2001

🟢 | 1’ Debut, Olof Mellberg
🟨 | 36’ Booking, George Boateng
🕒 | HT Tottenham Hotspur 0-0 Aston Villa
🟨 | 48’ Booking, Mark Delaney
🔁 | 63’ Sub off, Juan Pablo Ángel, Sub on, David Ginola
🔁 | 74’ Sub off, Darius Vassell, Sub on, Mustapha Hadji
🔁 | 81’ Sub off, Hassan Kachloul, Sub on, Steve Stone
🕒 | FT Tottenham Hotspur 0-0 Aston Villa

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

🟨 18 Aug 2001, Villa 0-0 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 18 August 2001

  • Having started the season over a month earlier and already having played five competitive matches, Villa open the Premier League season with a goalless draw at White Hart Line.

  • Swedish international centre back and future Villa legend Olof Mellberg, 23, makes his debut in a Villa shirt after joining from Racing Santander earlier this month for a fee of £6,120,000 to become the 756th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Darius Vassell makes his 10th start in a Villa shirt on his 62nd appearance to make it W26 D13 L23, 8 Goals, 4 Assists, 7 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career at a goal involvement rate of one for every 5.17 games played so far in his Villa career.

🟨 18 Aug 2001, Villa 0-0 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

🟢 CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 | #756 | £6,120,000 signing from Racing Santander

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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

Aston Villa

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

Tottenham Hotspur

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup / Europa League: 🏆🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1998-99

FIXTURE HISTORY

Tottenham Hotspur

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Previous 5 vs. Spurs: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟨

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

🟨 18 Aug 2001, Villa 0-0 Spurs, White Hart Lane

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2001-02 |
Matchday | #6 |
League Game | #1 |
Manager Game | #162 |
Saturday, 18 August 2001

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🟨 18 Aug 2001, Villa 0-0 Spurs, White Hart Lane

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: Dermot Gallagher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Oxfordshire, 1990-2007
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟨

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MANAGERIAL RECORD

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John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

🕒 161 | 🟩 | 71 🟨 | 43 🟥 47 | 1.59

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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

🟨 18 Aug 2001, Villa 0-0 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Dermot Gallagher | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Oxfordshire, 1990-2007
Matches Officiated: 14
🟩 : 7
🟨 : 2
🟥 : 5
🆘 : 2
Previous 5: 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 3 February 2001, Villa 3-0 Bradford, Bradford and Bingley Stadium.
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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🟨 George Boateng
🟨 Mark Delaney

CARDS

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🟨 Gary Doherty
🟨 Stephen Clemence
🟨 Christian Ziege

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

🟨 18 Aug 2001, Villa 0-0 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Villa hand a debut to Olof Mellberg and recall Juan Pablo Ángel, Peter Schmeichel and Darius Vassell as Peter Enckelman, Dion Dublin, Gareth Barry and Mustapha Hadji.

Starting XI Average Age
| 27.67 |

Oldest Player |
GK Peter Schmeichel | 🇩🇰 | 37.78 |

Youngest Player |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 21.19 |

Referee

🟨 18 Aug 2001, Villa 0-0 Spurs, White Hart Lane

MANAGER

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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Aston Villa

GK Peter Schmeichel | 🇩🇰 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 | 🟢 |
CB Alpay Özalan | 🇹🇷 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Hassan Kachloul | 🇲🇦 | 🔁 |
M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 | 🟨 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 🔁 |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Glenn Hoddle | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Tottenham Hotspur

GK Neil Sullivan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
LB Mauricio Taricco | 🇦🇷 | 🔁 |
CB Goran Bunjevčević | 🇸🇰 |
CB Gary Doherty | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
CB Ledley King | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Stephen Clemence | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
M Steffen Freund | 🇩🇪 | 🔁 |
M Gustavo Poyet | 🇺🇾 |
M Christian Ziege | 🇩🇪 | 🟨 |
CF Les Ferdinand | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
F Sergiy Rebrov | 🇺🇦 |

Line Ups

🟨 18 Aug 2001, Villa 0-0 Spurs, White Hart Lane

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 W David Ginola | 🇫🇷 | for CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 63’ |
🔁 M Mustapha Hadji | 🇲🇦 | for CF Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 74’ |
🔁 M Steve Stone | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Hassan Kachloul | 🇲🇦 | 81’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | LB Mauricio Taricco | 🇦🇷 | (CB Chris Perry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | M Steffen Freund | 🇩🇪 | (W Darren Anderton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Les Ferdinand | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (F Steffen Iversen | 🇳🇴 |)

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Substitutes

🟨 18 Aug 2001, Villa 0-0 Spurs, White Hart Lane

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Kasey Keller | 🇺🇸 |
M Simon Davies | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |

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

🟨 18 Aug 2001, Villa 0-0 Spurs, White Hart Lane

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Homegrown: 2/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7/16
Homegrown: 3/16

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 4/11

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

🟨 18 Aug 2001, Villa 0-0 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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

🟨 18 Aug 2001, Villa 0-0 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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MATCH QUOTES

“Ginola still has a future at the club. “I don’t want to lose people who can help us win games.” John Gregory.
Quotes

🟨 18 Aug 2001, Villa 0-0 Spurs, White Hart Lane

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MATCH REPORTS

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*The Guardian*
Monday Aug 20, 2001

*Ginola ready to weigh in with his side of story* David Ginola is due to hold a press conference some time this week to share his latest thoughts on the relationship between body fat and the scales of justice. His agent Chantal Stanley refused to explain what would be said. But it is bound to be more entertaining than this game between a very average Tottenham side and an Aston Villa team who look incapable of ever rising above the ploddingly competent. To be fair, it would have taken one hell of a game to upstage the story of Ginola’s threat to sue his manager John Gregory for calling him overweight. Especially with the added spice of the involvement of Cherie Blair in her role as a top employment-law barrister. To match that plot Tottenham would probably have had to play like the Double-winning side of the 60s before Villa overhauled a six-goal deficit despite having three players sent off. But in his mazy dribble towards the law courts dear old Ginola appears to have overlooked a rather strong defence. By all accounts he gave one of his best Villa performances after Gregory’s presumably calculated jibe and, at the time, Ginola was reported as saying he held nothing against the manager for his comments. In assessing how much weight to attach to this wobbly tale, the likes-to-be-loved Ginola will no doubt also be worried that when he came on as a substitute here, he was booed by Villa fans who once adored him. It was the nostalgia-obsessed supporters of his old club Spurs who applauded, even though their hero’s arrival could have harmed their cause. It did not because Ginola did not play that well. Perhaps he needs to be goaded more often. Either way, Gregory was conciliatory afterwards. “Ginola still has a future at the club,” he said. “I don’t want to lose people who can help us win games.” The same goes for Villa’s £6m Croatian striker Bosko Balaban, who should learn on Thursday whether he has been granted a work permit. Gregory’s forward crisis was evident here when for a time Ginola and Moustapha Hadji played up front. A new midfielder is also on Gregory’s shopping list to add to the purchase of the central defender Olof Mellberg, whose impressive Premiership debut kept Peter Schmeichel largely unemployed. As for Tottenham’s new intake, Gus Poyet was behind much of Spurs’ domination of the first half before he tired and Goran Bunjecevic was competent at the back. But Christian Ziege struggled to impose himself. Glenn Hoddle confirmed he will make a second offer for the Southampton defender Dean Richards this week as Spurs try to cope with the loss of Sol Campbell. Meanwhile Les Ferdinand joined a long injury list on Saturday. Perhaps this partly explained the sort of unprogressive performance for which George Graham was often criticised. The closest Spurs came to scoring was Gary Doherty’s late volley against the bar while Villa’s Hassan Kachloul, making an otherwise disappointing debut, headed against the post in a second half dominated by the visitors. That should put them in good heart for tomorrow’s Intertoto Cup return against Basle. A place in the Uefa Cup beckons and to compete at home and abroad Gregory needs a quality squad, Ginola included. *Man of the match* Olof Mellberg (Aston Villa).
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