Game #4673
Aston Villa
Sunday, 26 August 2001


Drew
14th (-3)
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟨
Premier League
Manchester United
Villa Park
Attendance: 42,632
🟨 26 Aug 2001, Villa 1-1 United, Villa Park
Aston Villa
1-1

Manchester United

Assist(s) | Hassan Kachloul | 4’ |
🟨 26 Aug 2001, Villa 1-1 United, Villa Park


MATCH TIMELINE
Sunday, 26 August 2001
⚽ | 4’ Goal, 1-0, Darius Vassell, Assist by Hassan Kachloul
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-0 Manchester United
🔁 | 64’ Sub off, Paul Merson, Sub on, Mustapha Hadji
🔁 | 79’ Sub off, Juan Pablo Ángel, Sub on, Boško Balaban 🟢
🥅 | 90’+3 Goal, 1-1, (Manchester United), Alpay Özalan o.g.
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-1 Manchester United
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
🟨 26 Aug 2001, Villa 1-1 United, Villa Park

ON THIS DAY
Sunday, 26 August 2001
Villa make it consecutive Premier League draws to open the season as they sit 14th in the early table under John Gregory.
An injury time own goal by Alpay Özalan costs Villa a first win since 1995 against Manchester United.
Croatian Forward Boško Balaban, 22, makes his debut in a Villa shirt after joining from Dinamo Zagreb for an eye-watering fee of £7,020,000 in July and becomes the 757th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.
Darius Vassell scores his 10th goal in a Villa shirt on his 64th appearance (12 Starts) to make it W27 D14 L23, 10 Goals, 4 Assists, 7 Bookings and 1 Red Card at a goal involvement rate of one for every 4.57 games played so far in his Villa career.
🟨 26 Aug 2001, Villa 1-1 United, Villa Park

DEBUT APPEARANCES
🟢 F Boško Balaban | 🇭🇷 | #757 | £7,020,000 signing from Dinamo Zagreb
FINAL APPEARANCES
None
Seasons | 🕒 Games | ✅ Starts (🔁 Subs) | ⚽ Goals | 🔥 Assists | 🇺 Unused | Player Number |
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96
Manchester United


European Cup / Champions League: 🏆🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 2000-01
🟨 26 Aug 2001, Villa 1-1 United, Villa Park
FIXTURE DETAILS


Season | 2001-02 |
Matchday | #8 |
League Game | #2 |
Manager Game | #164 |
Sunday, 26 August 2001
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🟨 26 Aug 2001, Villa 1-1 United, Villa Park
MATCH SUMMARY


Manager: John Gregory | 🏴 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: Graham Barber | 🏴 | Tring, 1997-2002
Kick off: 1.00pm
HT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟨 Drew
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟨
MANAGERIAL RECORD

John Gregory | 🏴 | 1998-2002
🕒 163 | 🟩 | 72 🟨 | 44 🟥 47 | 1.60
Villa Career Form:
Top 6
Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Points per Game
🟨 26 Aug 2001, Villa 1-1 United, Villa Park

MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Graham Barber | 🏴 | Tring, 1997-2004
VAR PROFILE (from 2021)
CARDS

None
CARDS

🟨 Juan Sebastián Verón
🟨 Paul Scholes
Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Notably poor performance 🆘, Cards 🟨 Booking, Cards 🟥 Sending off, Disallowed ❌ Goal disallowed, ⚽ Penalty for, 🥅 Penalty against, ❌ Penalty Disallowed
🟨 26 Aug 2001, Villa 1-1 United, Villa Park

TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS
Steve Staunton, Gareth Barry, Steve Stone and David Ginola drop out as Olof Mellberg, Hassan Kachloul, Paul Merson and Alan Wright return.
Starting XI Average Age
| 27.69 |
Oldest Player |
GK Peter Schmeichel | 🇩🇰 | 37.80 |
Youngest Player |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴 | 21.22 |
🟨 26 Aug 2001, Villa 1-1 United, Villa Park
MANAGER
John Gregory | 🏴 | 1998-2002

Aston Villa
GK Peter Schmeichel | 🇩🇰 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
CB Alpay Özalan | 🇹🇷 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴 |
M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Hassan Kachloul | 🇲🇦 | 🔥 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 🔁 |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴 | ⚽ |
MANAGER
Alex Ferguson | 🏴 | (🤡)

Manchester United
GK Roy Carroll | 🇬🇧 |
LB Mikaël Silvestre | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
CB Wes Brown | 🏴 |
CB Ronny Johnsen | 🇳🇴 |
RB Gary Neville | 🏴 |
M Juan Sebastián Verón | 🇦🇷 | 🟨 |
M Roy Keane | 🇮🇪 |
M Paul Scholes | 🏴 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
W David Beckham | 🏴 | 🔁 |
W Ryan Giggs | 🏴 |
CF Ruud van Nistelrooy | 🇳🇱 |
🟨 26 Aug 2001, Villa 1-1 United, Villa Park
SUBSTITUTES

🔁 M Mustapha Hadji | 🇲🇦 | for M Paul Merson | 🏴 | 64’ |
🔁 CF Boško Balaban | 🇭🇷 | 🟢 | for CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 79’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | LB Mikaël Silvestre | 🇫🇷 | (RB Phil Neville | 🏴 |)
🔁 | W David Beckham | 🏴 | (CF Andrew Cole | 🏴 |)
🔁 | M Paul Scholes | 🏴 | (CF Ole Gunnar Solskjær | 🇳🇴 |)

🟨 26 Aug 2001, Villa 1-1 United, Villa Park
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴 |
W David Ginola | 🇫🇷 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

GK Raimond Van Der Gouw | 🇳🇱 |
CF Dwight Yorke (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

🟨 26 Aug 2001, Villa 1-1 United, Villa Park
MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES
STARTING XI
SUBSTITUTES
Player | 🕒 | 🔁 | ⚽ | 🔥 | 🟩 | 🟨 | 🟥 | 🥅 | ⛔ | Yellow | Red |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
M Mustapha Hadji | 🇲🇦 | | 6 | 5* | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3* | 1 | - | - | 0 | 0 |
UNUSED
Player | 🇺 |
---|---|
GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 | | 72* |
Games 🕒, Starts ✅, Substitute 🔁, Goals ⚽, Assists 🔥, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Conceded 🥅, Clean Sheets ⛔, Unused Substitute 🇺
🟨 26 Aug 2001, Villa 1-1 United, Villa Park
SQUAD STATS

1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Homegrown: 2/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/16
Homegrown: 3/16
SQUAD STATS

1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/16
🟨 26 Aug 2001, Villa 1-1 United, Villa Park
MATCHDAY SQUAD

MATCHDAY SQUAD

🟨 26 Aug 2001, Villa 1-1 United, Villa Park
UNAVAILABLE

Not recorded
UNAVAILABLE

Not Recorded
LEAGUE TABLE



MATCHDAY PROGRAMME



🟨 26 Aug 2001, Villa 1-1 United, Villa Park


MATCH QUOTES
🟨 26 Aug 2001, Villa 1-1 United, Villa Park


MATCH REPORTS






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