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Game #4678

Aston Villa

Thursday, 27 September 2001

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Won

1st Round

Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟩

UEFA Cup

Varteks Varaždin

Gradski, Lovech

Attendance: 12,100

🟩 27 Sep 2001, Villa 1-0 Varteks, Gradski

Varteks Varaždin

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Aston Villa

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🟩 27 Sep 2001, Villa 1-0 Varteks, Gradski

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MATCH TIMELINE

Thursday, 27 September 2001

🕒 | HT Varteks Varaždin 0-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Boško Balaban, Sub on, Juan Pablo Ángel
🔁 | 49’ Sub off, Olof Mellberg (injury), Sub on, Steve Stone
🔁 | 63’ Sub off, Hassan Kachloul, Sub on, Dion Dublin
🟨 | 84’ Booking, David Ginola
⚽ | 90’+2 Goal, 1-0, Mustapha Hadji
🟨 | 90’+5 Booking, George Boateng
🕒 | FT Varteks Varaždin 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

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ON THIS DAY

Thursday, 27 September 2001

  • Despite Mustapha Hadji's injury time winner Villa are knocked out of the UEFA Cup on the away goals rule.

  • Mustapha Hadji makes his 10th appearance in a Villa shirt (4 Starts) to make it W5 D3 L2 and 2 Goals so far in his Villa career.

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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

Varteks Varaždin

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
Croatian Champions: ❌
Croatian Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌

FIXTURE HISTORY

Varteks Varaždin

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Previous 5 vs. Varteks: 🟥

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

Varteks Varaždin

PREVIOUS MATCH

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Varteks Varaždin

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

None

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FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2001-02 |
Matchday | #13 |
Manager Game | #169 |
Thursday, 27 September 2001

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🟩 27 Sep 2001, Villa 1-0 Varteks, Gradski

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: Nicolai Vollquartz | 🇩🇰 | Viborg, 1999–2010
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟩 1-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Aggregate Score: 🟨 3-3
🟥 Varteks Varaždin win on Away goals
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟩

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Timeline
On This Day
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Fixture
Manager

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

🕒 168 | 🟩 | 75 🟨 | 45 🟥 48 | 1.61

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Nicolai Vollquartz | 🇩🇰 | Viborg, 1999–2010
Matches Officiated: 1
🟩 : 1
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: None
Last Match: None
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS

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🟨 David Ginola
🟨 George Boateng

CARDS

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🟨 Veldin Karic

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

🟩 27 Sep 2001, Villa 1-0 Varteks, Gradski

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Villa recall David Ginola and hand a first start to Boško Balaban as Dion Dublin and Juan Pablo Ángel drop out.

Starting XI Average Age
| 28.40 |

Oldest Player |
GK Peter Schmeichel | 🇩🇰 | 37.88 |

Youngest Player |
F Boško Balaban | 🇭🇷 | 22.97 |

Referee

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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 George Boateng | 🇳🇱 | 🟨 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Hassan Kachloul | 🇲🇦 | 🔁 |
M Mustapha Hadji | 🇲🇦 | ⚽ |
W David Ginola | 🇫🇷 | 🟨 |
F Boško Balaban | 🇭🇷 | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Branko Janžek | 🇭🇷 |

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Varteks Varaždin

GK Danijel Mađarić | 🇭🇷 |
LB Danijel Hrman | 🇭🇷 | 🔁 |
CB Matjia Kristić | 🇭🇷 |
CB Zoran Kastel | 🇭🇷 |
RB Goran Granić | 🇭🇷 |
M Miljenko Mumlek | 🇭🇷 | 🔁 |
M Denis Mukaj | 🇦🇱 |
M Ivan Režić | 🇭🇷 |
W Silvester Sabolčki | 🇭🇷 |
CF Veldin Karic | 🇭🇷 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
CF Sasa Bjelanovic | 🇭🇷 |

Line Ups

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SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | for F Boško Balaban | 🇭🇷 | 46’ |
🔁 M Steve Stone | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 | 49’ |
🔁 CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Hassan Kachloul | 🇲🇦 | 63’ |

SUBSTITUTES

🔁 | LB Danijel Hrman | 🇭🇷 | (CB Antun Andričević | 🇭🇷 |)
🔁 | M Miljenko Mumlek | 🇭🇷 | (LB Andrija Balajić | 🇭🇷 |)
🔁 | CF Veldin Karic | 🇭🇷 | (CF Oskar Drobne | 🇸🇮 |)

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Substitutes

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Zeljko Rumbak | 🇭🇷 |
D Goran Borovic | 🇭🇷 |
M Hrvoje Sklepic | 🇭🇷 |
M Nikola Safaric | 🇭🇷 |

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

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SQUAD STATS

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

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7/18
Homegrown: 4/18

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🇭🇷 : 10/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🇭🇷 : 16/18

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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

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MATCH QUOTES

“We got what we came for, an away victory, but it was not a big enough margin.” John Gregory.
Quotes

🟩 27 Sep 2001, Villa 1-0 Varteks, Gradski

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Thursday, 27 September, 2001

*Villa leave it too late* Aston Villa slipped quietly out of the Uefa Cup after taking more than 90 minutes to make an impression in Croatia. Mustapha Hadji curled home a superb stoppage time shot to seal Villa victory on the night, but that was no consolation to John Gregory after a lame performance by his side. Villa needed to score at least twice to overturn Varteks’ shock first-leg lead but rarely looked like breaking their hosts down before Hadji’s late strike. Even a five minute injury-time period was not enough for Villa, who had survived the marathon of the InterToto Cup to reach this stage. Gregory had been positive enough in his team selection, David Ginola restored to the starting line-up and summer signing Bosko Balaban handed a full debut in his homeland. Dion Dublin and Juan Pablo Angel were both on the bench, ready to provide Gregory with more options in his search for goals. They did not come - and the first-leg shambles that saw Villa surrender meakly rarely looked like being banished to memory. In fact, it was the Croatians who looked the more dangerous on the counter-attack, with Veldin Karic looking menacing. Varteks’ first-leg hero Sasa Bjelanovic got on the end of a corner from Miljenko Mumlek but he directed his header off target. Then a low centre from Mukaj was only inches away from finding the onrushing Bjelanovic. Villa may have one of the strongest defences in the Premiership but for the second time in a week they were given plenty to think about by the Croatians. John Gregory looked far from happy with his side’s performance in the opening 45 minutes and the interval arrived with home keeper Danijel Madaric not having made a single save. Villa’s problems got worse in injury time when central defender Olaf Mellberg was stretchered off with an ankle injury and replaced by Steve Stone. That forced Villa into a defensive reshuffle with Stone moving to right back and Delaney into the centre of the back four. Gregory also decided on a change up front with Angel replacing Balaban, who had made little impression in the opening 45 minutes, but Villa still rarely threatened. Madaric made his first save after 50 minutes when he held on to a rising effort from Hadji, then Lee Hendrie was just off target with a rising drive. Villa finally enjoyed a spell of pressure as the game wore on, culminating in a superb Hadji strike as the game moved into stoppage time. But it was too little too late for Villa, who have battled long and hard in this competition, only to fall at the first hurdle.
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