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Game #4692

Aston Villa

Monday, 17 December 2001

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Won

8th (-1)

Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩

Premier League

Ipswich Town

Villa Park

Attendance: 29,320

🟩 17 Dec 2001, Villa 2-1 Ipswich, Villa Park.

Aston Villa

2-1

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Ipswich Town

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Assist(s) | Steve Staunton | 44’ | Steve Stone | 70’ |

🟩 17 Dec 2001, Villa 2-1 Ipswich, Villa Park.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Monday, 17 December 2001

🥅 | 18’ Goal, 0-1, (Ipswich Town), Finidi George
⚽ | 44’ Goal, 1-1, Juan Pablo Ángel, Assist by Steve Staunton
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-1 Ipswich Town
🔁 | 67’ Sub off, Lee Hendrie, Sub on, Dion Dublin
⚽ | 70’ Goal, 2-1, Juan Pablo Ángel, Assist by Steve Stone
🔁 | 84’ Sub off, Juan Pablo Ángel, Sub on, Darius Vassell
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 2-1 Ipswich Town

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟩 17 Dec 2001, Villa 2-1 Ipswich, Villa Park.

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ON THIS DAY

Monday, 17 December 2001

  • Villa record their first win in 7 league games under John Gregory as the Villa crowd's frustration with the parsimonious and counter productive Ellis regime was beginning to become all engrossing.

  • Steve Staunton contributes his 35th assist in a Villa shirt on his 294th appearance (282 Starts) to make it W126 D77 L91, 19 Goals, 35 Assists, 16 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

  • Paul Merson secures his 50th win in a Villa shirt on his 131st appearance (115 Starts) to make it W50 D42 L39, 18 Goals, 21 Assists, 7 Bookings and 1 Red Card at a goal involvement rate of one for every 3.36 games played so far in his Villa career.

  • Jlloyd Samuel secures his 10th win in a Villa shirt on his 24th appearance (12 Starts) to make it W10 D7 L7, 1 Assist and 2 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

  • Right back Jonathan Bewers, 21, makes his 6th and final squad appearance for Villa as an unused substitute before moving on to Notts County on a free transfer in June 2004.

🟩 17 Dec 2001, Villa 2-1 Ipswich, Villa Park.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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Aston Villa

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

Ipswich Town

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup / Europa League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1980-81

Aston Villa

Ipswich Town

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Ipswich Town

Previous 5 vs. Ipswich: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩

🟩 17 Dec 2001, Villa 2-1 Ipswich, Villa Park.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2001-02 |
Matchday | #27 |
League Game | #17 |
Manager Game | #183 |
Monday, 17 December 2001

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🟩 17 Dec 2001, Villa 2-1 Ipswich, Villa Park.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Scunthorpe, 1998-2002
Referee: Mike Dean | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Wirral, 1997-2022
Kick off: 8.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Score: 🟩 2-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
Last 5: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩

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Timeline
On This Day
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Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 182 | 🟩 | 81 🟨 | 48 🟥 53 | 1.60

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

🟩 17 Dec 2001, Villa 2-1 Ipswich, Villa Park.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Mike Dean | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Wirral, 1997-2022
Matches Officiated: 3
🟩 : 2
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟩 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 5 Dec 01, Villa 1-1 West Ham (a)
Cards: 🟨

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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None

🟨 Richard Naylor

🟩 17 Dec 2001, Villa 2-1 Ipswich, Villa Park.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Juan Pablo Ángel and Peter Schmeichel return for Peter Enckelman and Dion Dublin.

Starting XI Average Age
| 28.03 |

Oldest Player |
GK Peter Schmeichel | 🇩🇰 | 38.11 |

Youngest Player |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.73 |

Referee
Manager

🟩 17 Dec 2001, Villa 2-1 Ipswich, Villa Park.

MANAGER

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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Aston Villa

GK Peter Schmeichel | 🇩🇰 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 | 🔥 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Steve Stone | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🔁 |

MANAGER

George Burley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Ipswich Town

GK Matteo Sereni | 🇮🇹 |
LB Chris Makin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Hermann Hreiðarsson | 🇮🇸 |
CB Mark Venus | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Richard Naylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB John McGreal | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jim Magilton | 🇬🇧 |
M Matt Holland | 🇮🇪 |
M Jermaine Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Finidi George | 🇳🇬 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CF Alun Armstrong | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟩 17 Dec 2001, Villa 2-1 Ipswich, Villa Park.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 CF Dion Dublin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 67’ |
🔁 F Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | 84’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | W Finidi George | 🇳🇬 | (LB Jamie Clapham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | CF Alun Armstrong | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CF Darren Bent | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

Substitutes

🟩 17 Dec 2001, Villa 2-1 Ipswich, Villa Park.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Peter Enckelman | 🇫🇮 |
RB Jonathan Bewers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Boško Balaban | 🇭🇷 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Keith Branagan | 🇮🇪 |
CB Titus Bramble | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Pablo Counago | 🇪🇸 |

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

🟩 17 Dec 2001, Villa 2-1 Ipswich, Villa Park.

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 3/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/16
Homegrown: 5/16

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7/11

Squad:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 10/16

🟩 17 Dec 2001, Villa 2-1 Ipswich, 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

🟩 17 Dec 2001, Villa 2-1 Ipswich, Villa Park.

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MATCH QUOTES

“It’s been tough at home.” John Gregory.
Quotes

🟩 17 Dec 2001, Villa 2-1 Ipswich, Villa Park.

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MATCH REPORTS

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*The Daily Telegraph*
Monday, 17 December 2001

TWO goals from Juan Pablo Angel rescued Aston Villa last night but it was not enough to sweep away the doubts swirling around Villa Park. Dissent against the chairman Doug Ellis and, briefly, the manager John Gregory, made this another bizarre episode in the Villa soap opera. Villa’s football was largely poor and edgy and but for the touches of class from Paul Merson and the finishing of Angel, the Holte End would have been in even more fractious mood. Such is Angel’s popularity here that Gregory’s decision to remove him late on triggered an unbelievable outbreak of booing. Gregory stared at the Holte End, surprised by their reaction. But if it had not been for Angel’s brace, Villa would have been condemned to their seventh game without a victory. This was their first success since they had been top before going into free-fall. No wonder Angel was applauded down the touchline as he headed straight to the dressing-room. After Finidi George had put the Premiership’s bottom club ahead, Villa produced some of the worst football imaginable until the saving grace of Angel. The watching Sven-Goran Eriksson surely had something better to do on a cold Monday night than watch this. Villa are such a strange side, capable of good football, particularly when the ball is at the clever feet of Merson or when directed towards the darting figure of Angel, who made light of recent benching to drag Villa from 0-1 to 2-1. But until the Colombian’s intervention, Villa had been poor. Eriksson’s plan to watch two long-shots for his England World Cup squad, Lee Hendrie and Gareth Barry, had initially been altered as the national coach was forced to focus on a man who might terminate the Three Lions’ stay in Korea and Japan. George, the Nigerian international, struck after 17 minutes as Ipswich exploited some dreadful Villa play, though it was his only real contribution of the night. When George Boateng lost possession in midfield, Ipswich swiftly worked the ball via Hermann Hreidarsson and Richard Naylor back into George, who turned and swept a sweet and low 25-yarder past Peter Schmeichel. The Dane, returning after a calf injury, was unable to drop his body quickly enough to divert the surprise shot. As the delighted Ipswich fans voiced their song of praise to their Nigerian - surely the first time tractor has rhymed with Africa - their Villa counterparts stared in disbelief at their side’s incompetence. Ipswich’s first Premiership goal in 332 minutes was deserved reward for their own perseverance but it also stemmed from Villa’s hapless first-half nature. The Holte End, only two-thirds full, had already chorused its disapproval of Doug Ellis and as a calamity in claret threatened to unfold until Angel arrived it was easy to sympathise with the fans’ view that Villa’s chairman needs to spend. Merson, who was at least trying, attempted to drag Villa back into contention but his is a team of few natural leaders. Until Angel struck, the only thing Villa had passed successfully was the buck. After 25 minutes, Jermaine Wright rose unchallenged to head Chris Makin’s cross goalwards, only for Schmeichel to rescue Villa. Undeserved parity came Villa’s way two minutes from the break. After Matteo Sereni had flapped at a corner, the ball fell kindly to Steve Staunton on the right. Meeting it well with his left foot, Staunton planted the ball into the box where Angel, rising above John McGreal, took his chance. Sereni got a touch but Angel’s header was firm and well-placed. At last Villa had got people into the box. Hendrie attempted to get forward more in the second period but the most promising moment as the half opened was Merson’s wonderful chip which cleared Schmeichel but struck the bar. Gregory then sent on Dion Dublin, giving Villa another target, but it was Angel who pushed Villa ahead after 69 minutes. Steve Stone transferred possession to Angel, who moved down the inside-right corridor before unleashing a shot which caught McGreal and looped over Sereni. With Ipswich trapped at the bottom of the Premiership and losing here, Burley sent on Marcus Bent, his new signing from Blackburn Rovers, but it was another substitute, Jamie Clapham, who went close to an equaliser with a shot that flashed wide. Jermaine Wright also tried his luck as Villa’s jitters returned. Villa managed to hold on but this victory produced as many questions as answers. And when Angel was announced as man of the match, the Holte End chanted his name with added intensity. Strange club, strange times.
Reports

🟩 17 Dec 2001, Villa 2-1 Ipswich, Villa Park.

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